2025 AFL Draft

[WilliamPowell]

Reid and now Butters ... cannot see it happening

TBBH I can't see either at Richmond

I'll be honest I don't get the "obsession" with trying to get Reid. Yes very good player but I've got no doubt if WC decide to trade him this year (and I don't think they will) he will only agree to go to the team he wants to go to and right now IMHO that ain't us

[one-eyed]

1. Richmond used their draft picks wisely last year and can do so again this year, but not in choosing the next best rookies but using picks 2 (a pick they have from North) and 3 to have a huge crack at getting Harley Reid.

Matthew Richardson
The Nightly
29 May 2025

Surely picks 2 and 3 will entice the Eagles to trade the star before his contract ends at the end of next year. He is exactly what the Tigers don’t have. A quick midfielder that can take the ball from inside to outside and kick goals. He would complement the tough and hard inside midfielders the Tigers already have in Tim Taranto and Jacob Hopper perfectly. With the Tigers taking three talls in last year’s draft in Harry Armstrong, Tom Sims and Jonty Faull and three midfielders in Sam Lalor and the unseen as yet Josh Smillie and Taj Hotton they can afford to trade out the picks this year for Reid. And if West Coast were open to trading Reid, given strong speculation he will likely return to Melbourne in 2027 anyway with Hawthorn, Geelong, Collingwood and Essendon all interested in him, the Eagles could secure the top three picks by trading with Richmond. Get it done Tigers.

https://thenightly.com.au/opinion/sport/richos-top-10-richmond-tigers-should-trade-afl-draft-picks-2-and-3-for-west-coast-eagles-star-harley-reid-c-18853638

[Diocletian]

Richo knows what's going down - preparing the fanbase for the trade. 

[Diocletian]

Reid and now Butters ... cannot see it happening

TBBH I can't see either at Richmond

I'll be honest I don't get the "obsession" with trying to get Reid. Yes very good player but I've got no doubt if WC decide to trade him this year (and I don't think they will) he will only agree to go to the team he wants to go to and right now IMHO that ain't us

Reid just wants to come home. Don't care about Butters - overrated & injury prone.

[Tiger Khosh]

Reid and now Butters ... cannot see it happening

TBBH I can't see either at Richmond

I'll be honest I don't get the "obsession" with trying to get Reid. Yes very good player but I've got no doubt if WC decide to trade him this year (and I don't think they will) he will only agree to go to the team he wants to go to and right now IMHO that ain't us

Reid just wants to come home. Don't care about Butters - overrated & injury prone.

Yeah I get the same sense with Reid. He’s 20 years old I don’t really think he cares which team it is as long as it’s in VIC. Butters on the other hand (disagree I think he’s a gun), I’d suggest wouldn’t be interested in coming to a team that isn’t currently or on the cusp of contending. Think he may end up staying at port anyway.

[Andyy]

Been saying it for weeks.

We have 2&3.

A steak knife like blight.

Just need a modest pick back for Kellaway.

And no we're not giving the F1 that their fans want. 2+3 is a good deal IMO before Tas.

[georgies31]

Pick 2 and 3 for Reid your selling the farm bigtime considering we're in a rebuild. His a good player,  but not worth that and his firm warrants it . We're paying on his season in 2024. Not sure we're journalist's and experts saying his quick he aren't a player who breaks the lines

[Andyy]

Pick 2 and 3 for Reid your selling the farm bigtime considering we're in a rebuild. His a good player,  but not worth that and his firm warrants it . We're paying on his season in 2024. Not sure we're journalist's and experts saying his quick he aren't a player who breaks the lines

Firstly, he is absolutely a line breaker lol. Watched him at all dude? Far out.

Some guys go P1 and are still hit and miss, or just end up decent players like Walsh & McGrath. Reid is a player who has shown he has massive potential to be a proper superstar like Dusty. Personally I'd trade picks 2+3 (could end up 3+4 at least) to know that we're getting pretty much a guaranteed superstar with 12+ years of footy in him.

Form at this age always oscillates but you can see the extraordinary talent and ability for sure. He also looks like he doesn't want to be in WA, just like how JHF didn't want to be in VIC > Port won that trade hands down.

[Damo]

Pick 2 and 3 for Reid your selling the farm bigtime considering we're in a rebuild. His a good player,  but not worth that and his firm warrants it . We're paying on his season in 2024. Not sure we're journalist's and experts saying his quick he aren't a player who breaks the lines

Selling the farm big time?

Huge exaggeration

As for being a player that doesn’t break lines

 

https://youtu.be/hxcPoA0VakM?si=yM7yZ5saPxvLtxdU

And lastly .. would you take picks 2 and 3 for Lalor? Because by your logic it’s selling the farm, meaning you most definitely would.

I wouldn’t

And by that logic I’d give up 2 and 3 for Reid in a heartbeat

[Diocletian]

Not sure we're journalist's and experts saying his quick he aren't a player who breaks the lines

Lmao.....

[georgies31]

Pick 2 and 3 for Reid your selling the farm bigtime considering we're in a rebuild. His a good player,  but not worth that and his firm warrants it . We're paying on his season in 2024. Not sure we're journalist's and experts saying his quick he aren't a player who breaks the lines

Selling the farm big time?

Huge exaggeration

As for being a player that doesn’t break lines

 

https://youtu.be/hxcPoA0VakM?si=yM7yZ5saPxvLtxdU

And lastly .. would you take picks 2 and 3 for Lalor? Because by your logic it’s selling the farm, meaning you most definitely would.

I wouldn’t

And by that logic I’d give up 2 and 3 for Reid in a heartbeat

Like I said your going on 2024 form and he hasn't shown quarter of that this season speed and breaking the lines im doubtful, and I'm not buying its because he wants out.

[Tiger Khosh]

Well he hasn’t just lost his speed and line breaking ability at the tender age of 20 years old lol.

Combination of eagles playing him in defence and him not giving a damn (very poor quality I know) has contributed to you not seeing it as much. However you could see it clear as day when they played us and mini finally moved him back into the middle, he was tearing our mid to shreds.

Anyway I’m still of the favour of taking our picks to the draft and getting the two best mids. Just with where our list is atm I think 2 players even with a lower ceiling than Reid is better than 1. Im just not as opposed to the idea as I was earlier this year.

[Diocletian]

Harley Reid would've gone #1 in last year's draft and the 2022 draft as a 16 year-old. Murphy Reid (and nearly everyone drafted before him)would've gone #1 in this year's draft.

[Andyy]

I'm on the Harley train. Would give up 2+3 in a heartbeat.

Midfield of Reid, Lalor, Smillie
Complimented by Taranto, Hopper
Possible additions or depth of Alger, McAuliffe, Hotton, Sonsie, Ross

We are golden.

Selling the farm big time?

Huge exaggeration

As for being a player that doesn’t break lines

 

https://youtu.be/hxcPoA0VakM?si=yM7yZ5saPxvLtxdU

And lastly .. would you take picks 2 and 3 for Lalor? Because by your logic it’s selling the farm, meaning you most definitely would.

I wouldn’t

And by that logic I’d give up 2 and 3 for Reid in a heartbeat

 

Well he hasn’t just lost his speed and line breaking ability at the tender age of 20 years old lol.

Combination of eagles playing him in defence and him not giving a damn (very poor quality I know) has contributed to you not seeing it as much. However you could see it clear as day when they played us and mini finally moved him back into the middle, he was tearing our mid to shreds.

Anyway I’m still of the favour of taking our picks to the draft and getting the two best mids. Just with where our list is atm I think 2 players even with a lower ceiling than Reid is better than 1. Im just not as opposed to the idea as I was earlier this year.

Middle sentence is bang on. Look at JHF. Couldn't have given a flying F playing for the Roos but is clearly deliverying at Port.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Reality is we cannot build a team by just loading up on draft picks. However you want to look at it, we must get players from other clubs. Butters might be injury prone but delivers exactly what we need, is at the perfect age profile and would cost us nothing.
Reid and Lalor look like generational talents - much like Anderson and Rowell at the Gold Coast.
It’s the perfect play going into Tassie’s entry in 2028 and profiles exactly as it did for us in 2011 when we had Rance, Jack, Cotch and Dusty as Goldie and GWS came into the comp.