Agree with most of that Claw.
Q: why do you have our concession pick around 35? It will be lower than our second round pick as it comes straight after ports second rounder. Should be closer to the 25 mark you are looking for.
If we could use our first two picks on mids (I like Ben kennedy), pick up Chaplin and Cloke free agency, grab Lee and a ruck in the ND, Hartigan PSD, and top up with some mature mids like Cook and Cockie in the rookie draft, plus maybe another indigenous small I'd be moonwalking across the nullabor to yours with a few cases
Might even stop by FJ's...
yep we are close on the process a little different on the players themselves.not too different though.
yeah for some reason put the cp after our second rounder.
my understanding is there are 6 first rnd and mid first rnd picks being activated. effectively making the first rnd 24 picks.
if port and tiges finish where they are now their second rounder is pick 29 our cp is 30 and our second rounder would be 32.
would dearly love another pick around 20-25 cant see how we can trade into that sort of pick though. maybe some one can come up with a realistic scenario.
imo we must get 4 mids this draft/trade period. first two picks should go onto mids.
ben kennedy is just too small for me i would never use a top 10 pick on such a small player regardless of how much he shows and he shows a fair bit and i could be really wrong, nothing new there.
in being highly optimistic and hoping we got pick 20 somehow. id be dreaming if we got stringer 10 and nick vlastuin 20 atkins at 30 and depending which way we were to go lee or tanner smith 32. three mids and either a 22 yo kpp or 18 yo kpd.
would be over the moon with that scenario.
from there a young ruckman late nd, moloney or some other suitable mature mid psd, chaplin free agency, 19yo duffy late nd hes a kid still, hartigan and maybe a mature mid or two like dwyer sundberg etc on the rookie list. that would be a balance of 6 or 7 18yo taken with mainly decent picks , plus 5 or 6 older types aged 19 thru to moloney the oldest at 29 all dirt cheap.
again these are just some of the players i like there are others and needless to say the club may not like any of them. theres a few west aussie kids and mature types i really like but will keep it to myself for now.
important point is i sure would hope the club is planning to go thru a similar type process regardless of who the players are we end up with.
we have already lost/cut 5 players to achieve the above it would mean 8 from the list proper another 5 to go to go, and 4 rookies another one or two its not a big ask when you consider the quality of the list.
we would be well and truly looking after our long term with quality. we would fix two areas of the list in one go.
in doing the above two we also manage to look to the now and give ourselves a chance to push on to finals next yr with slightly older players who can improve our team and depth immediately.