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3-4 years sounds about right. It's contend or rebuild as far as I'm concerned with fantasy sports and sports in general. No prizes for being mid table...
Yeh I enjoy the rebuild tbh. It's kind of more fun in a way than having a settled contending team though obviously building such a team is the goal. It's fun trying to build a list mostly from scratch though and watching your picks develop.
WERE PREMIERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! 
Honourable mention to my tanking ahem I mean rebuild partner. Though there's a bunch of others who joined in but we were doing it before it was coolLove the part where you say you've turned over the most players in the league then say but haven't turned over the most
Due an updateHaven't updated this in a few years but now seems like a nice time to do so with me having just finished my draft for the year. Looking back at previous posts, there's been a ridiculous amount of turnover on my list, probably more than any other list in the comp over the past 4 years with the exception possibly of Zim's Puppies. This post is a summary of my draft & trading for the Summer and ill follow it up with a post about my current list.
Anyways, there's no doubt that my list now is in a much better place than the trainwreck I took over, having said that my Wombats are still a couple of years off and are unlikely to even make finals this year which sucks due to me trading out my first-round pick next year for pick 11 this year. A pick that netted me Josh Goater whom I'm very high on. My focus on this year's draft was to get in a number of guys I felt could develop into high-quality fantasy defenders as I felt i was really lacking in that department. Was also lacking in goal scoring and depending on how things play out could use another ruck and another high production mid or two.
Now i started the draft with picks 4,18,32 in the top 40 so there was much trading to be done. I started by making the trade that netted me pick 11 and brought in Eric Hipwood (also Jermaine Jones, Winder and James Madden) to address the goalscoring need albeit at a very high cost in my future 1st, Jai Newcombe & Sparrow, some pretty big outs, time will tell if i made a huge blunder there, it could go either way. I also flipped pick 4 into picks 12 and 14, a move im happy with as i had to get in more early picks somehow and ive had a lot of success with picks in the 10-15 range. Then i traded RR future 1st, which I acquired by trading out Berry and Setterfield to get pick 20, this one is the move im least happy with, early on im really regretting trading Jarrod Berry, i think this was horrendous but again time will tell. Lastly i traded out RR future 3rd to net me a pick to acquire a slider in Dees first-round tall Jacob Van Rooyen and i traded Bailey Laurie a year after drafting him to get pick 46 which i used on a guy who is a high risk but also has a much higher ceiling than Laurie in Jace Burgoyne.
So with that said here's how my 2021/2022 draft panned out.
pick 11 - Josh Goater (C/DEF) - I narrowly missed Ben Hobbs here but got Goater whom i was always taking with one of these two picks, he should get games early for the rebuilding North and should hopefully start out across half-back which is where he's played his best footy to date. He may end up a mid but im hopeful that isnt the case and he ends up as a Ridley type which my team badly needs.
pick 12 - Darcy Wilmot (DEF) - I perhaps reached a little here, Wilmot is the youngest player in the AFL and thus should have a year of extra potential. He's going to be a very good back IRL, that's not even a question at this point but whether he develops the offensive game to be a good fantasy back that merits this high a pick we shall see. But im hopeful. I strongly considered M Johnson here and having acquired a number of backs later, perhaps i should've gone Johnson here. Amiss was also considered but considering i got JVR at pick 41 as a 1st round key fwd im happy i didnt take Amiss here, passing on Johnson im not too sure on though.
pick 14 - Connor Macdonald (C )- I wasn't sure if this was a reach at the time but I don't think it was. A fantasy beast with one of the best fantasy games in the draft, he should play from day 1 and i think he'll make a good 7th or 8th midfielder. Getting him here made me fine with trading pick 4 as i think he should hopefully have similar fantasy games to the likes of Ward and Erasmus though im not sure if he'll be as good IRL.
pick 18 - Toby Conway ( R )- I wasnt really planning on taking him here but given i had some back options later in the draft and the uncertainty surrounding my GWS rucks and S Hayes who is in a make or break year, i kept my tradition of drafting a ruck every year and went with a guy who aT worst is a decent trade chip if my other rucks establish themselves. If not he may be needed to be my 2nd ruck long term.
pick 20 - Sam Butler (FWD/C) - Should be a good mid/fwd from day one and get opportunity at Hawthorn, will have to be very good to make me feel okay about trading Berry.
pick 32 - Sam Banks (DEF)- A high upside half-back flanker, hopefully, a long term back for me, really liked this kid and he was always my target here, i was very close to doing a deal that would've traded out C Macdonald for an extra pick in the early 20s just so i could draft him, so to get him at 32 was both a surprise and a relief. Now he just has to break into a Rich side with a million half-backs.
pick 41 - Jacob Van Rooyen (FWD/DEF) - Love this guy, he's the type of key forward that has a nice fantasy game, getting up the ground for a few extra possessions and marks while also hitting the scoreboard. Was the clear 2nd best key fwd in the draft though he apparently plays quite well down back too. Given his team, he won't be getting a game any time in the next 2 years but I think in year 3 he will be very much on the radar which syncs up with the Wombats timeline well. His also being a Demon means makes me feel a lil better about trading out Sparrow and Laurie. Go deees wooot we are premiers!!!
pick 46 - Jase Burgoyne (DEF/C) - A controversial one, i traded out a guy who was a pick 20 IRL with a year of development for a guy who was picked 60 IRL who's a project. Not sure about this, but I do have a number of half forwards, L Bailey is also stuck behind a bunch of players and probably will look for more opportunity elsewhere next year. Wouldnt be surprised if I regret this one but I couldn't find a player i was ok with trading who TW would want, my list is very much now filled with players who need time to see if they'll make it and Laurie was the unlucky one who i was kinda ok with trading and who TW wanted so. Anyways on to Burgoyne, from the start of the draft, both he and Banks were my main two long-term half-back targets. Burgoyne needs to put on weight and needs his body to hold up, if this happens and he's getting regular games he projects as the exact kind of player you want filling your Def. He's an absolute pig at times and can rack up getting the ball all over the park and is very damaging from an offensive standpoint. He def has more upside than Laurie but Laurie is miles ahead from a floor stand point, anyways if it works out ill have gotten an incredible accumulating back.
So a total of 1-2 mids, 2 fwds, 1 ruck, and 3-4 defenders for this draft which is about right though obv positions can change. I sought to add some exciting half-back talent which i did with Goater, Wilmot, Banks, Burgoyne. I got 1 lock gun mid, 1 accumulating fwd/mid, 1 project key forward and 1 ruck. A fairly diverse draft while also filling a number of needs. Very happy with the draft if not the cost i had to pay, but you have to trade quality to get quality and hopefully my list will be in a better place and i haven't gone backward. The next post will be my list summary going into to 2022, assuming i don't forget about this thread and move on to other things.
wombats to get another top 4 pick, gee this rebuild has not gone to plan lol I mean I'm what 4 yrs in or 5? 
You take that back!
You take that back!
Yeh lol, so glad I didn't do it especially given my def is looking way better now and I really need mids going forward. So hopefully I can get a gun mid or 2 in the draft or even if I trade a pick it's the main weakness of my team atm.
After next draft i think
