2023 AFL Draft

[one-eyed]

Callum Twomey on the AFL website explicitly mentions Melbourne, Adelaide, Hawthorn, Norf, Essendon, GWS and Dogs as having the best hands to trade for Gold Coast's first pick. No mention of us although he adds everyone is after it.

[pmac21]

We don't have enough draft capital to get it done.  Unless we trade players out. 
Maybe we get special compensation for losing Dimma.

[one-eyed]

TIGERS SLIDE GOOD FOR SOME

Richmond’s late-season slide down the ladder has been good news for GWS, which currently holds two of the first 11 picks in this year’s draft.

The Tigers sat ninth on the ladder after round 14 and were still 10th after round 19, but have slipped to 13th on the back of consecutive losses.

The Giants hold Richmond’s first-round pick in this year’s draft, which has become pick 6 as a result of the Tigers’ fall.

FULL INDICATIVE DRAFT ORDER AFTER ROUND 21

Richmond: 25, 44, 62, 80, 98

Adelaide: 8, 20, 24, 82, 100

Brisbane: 29, 48, 54, 60, 90

Carlton: 14, 63, 70, 88

Collingwood: 18, 31, 74, 92

Essendon: 7, 26, 45, 65, 81

Fremantle: 21, 40, 52, 58, 78, 96

Geelong: 10, 84

Gold Coast: 5, 27, 30, 43, 46, 56, 61, 64, 68, 79, 97

GWS: 6, 11, 49, 67, 72, 85

Hawthorn: 3, 32, 51, 77, 95

Melbourne: 4, 17, 23, 36, 91

North Melbourne: 2, 15, 39, 55, 59, 76, 94

Port Adelaide: 37, 42, 71, 89

St Kilda: 12, 31, 50, 86

Sydney: 9, 22, 28, 41, 47, 83

West Coast: 1, 19, 34, 38, 53, 57, 75, 93

Western Bulldogs: 13, 16, 35, 66, 69, 73, 87

https://www.codesports.com.au/afl/draft-intel-all-the-latest-afl-draft-news-from-around-australia/news-story/9c8762d2f83488daa8c0382cda57d26c

[pmac21]

Pick 5 for 25 and 44 doesn't seem like a likely proposition. 

[georgies31]

Pick 6 and 31 for Hooper got our 👖 pulled down.

[pmac21]

Pick 6 and 31 for Hooper got our 👖 pulled down.

We sure did, yet again but were a good club to deal with remember.  What a calamity. 

[Gigantor]

I don’t understand how a call can be made that the trade was not good for us after barely one , injury interrupted season. Surely the time to assess the merits of this trade is at the end of Jacobs career.

[georgies31]

I don’t understand how a call can be made that the trade was not good for us after barely one , injury interrupted season. Surely the time to assess the merits of this trade is at the end of Jacobs career.

He will be never worth a pick 6 and 31 let's stop sugarcoating it. He isn't even in the league of Prestia, which we gave pick 6 for at his prime.

[rogerd3]

Dees are 

[Willy]

I don’t understand how a call can be made that the trade was not good for us after barely one , injury interrupted season. Surely the time to assess the merits of this trade is at the end of Jacobs career.

He will be never worth a pick 6 and 31 let's stop sugarcoating it. He isn't even in the league of Prestia, which we gave pick 6 for at his prime.

Sadly, I tend to agree.

Don’t begrudge the club for it necessarily but maybe we should have just gone with TT and kept some picks for young mids.

[Francois Jackson]

I don’t understand how a call can be made that the trade was not good for us after barely one , injury interrupted season. Surely the time to assess the merits of this trade is at the end of Jacobs career.

He will be never worth a pick 6 and 31 let's stop sugarcoating it. He isn't even in the league of Prestia, which we gave pick 6 for at his prime.

this year injured, last year he was injured at the GWS.

I personally didnt think he was all that special at the giants.

[camboon]

Some bad recruiting with our early picks in the last few years , so our recruiters may have wasted on a dud back flanker anyway

[Diocletian]

Imagine we trade back in to the first round or top 10 even and grab another flanker...with blokes like Caddy & Sanders still on the board...

[MintOnLamb]

Unless we get a top 10 pick our record is generally abysmal in the draft.

Most of our wins seem to come from mature age recruits or outliers we somehow latch onto.

Trading our top players for draft picks is even worse than the opposite.

Personally I would stay on our current track, develop players in the VFL and play them instead of ignoring them over favourites.

Whoever is picking up these players that everyone else discounts is doing a good job. Is it the same person who makes trade decisions? Because whoever is making the National draft trade picks is poohouse.

[Andyy]

I don’t understand how a call can be made that the trade was not good for us after barely one , injury interrupted season. Surely the time to assess the merits of this trade is at the end of Jacobs career.

He will be never worth a pick 6 and 31 let's stop sugarcoating it. He isn't even in the league of Prestia, which we gave pick 6 for at his prime.

Sadly, I tend to agree.

Don’t begrudge the club for it necessarily but maybe we should have just gone with TT and kept some picks for young mids.

I think the gamble was that we'd finish top 8 and be trading pick 11-14 which might have slid due to bids anyway so pick 13-16.

Gambled and lost.

Personally I think we'd have done a lot better this year if Lynch wasn't injured and would be top 8 at the pointy end.

As for Hopper, I rated him highly at GWS. Still hoping and think it's possible he gets his body right and returns to his good form but 2023 hasn't been a good year for him.