Norths 1st Round Pick - 2025 Hate Watch

[OneEyedRichmond]

Don't care about where we finish or how many games we win. If we win games though it has to be with as many kids playing as possible.

No more Short Dow, McIntosh and a few others.

Win with this side or a close variation of it when all are fit and while waiting to get em all fit build toward it.

Vlastuin  - Balta - Trainor
Brown - Gibcus/Gray - Smith. Gray while Gibcus is out. Smith is only one of about three who has the attributes for the D Rioli gig imo.

Campbell - Taranto - Clarke. We need pace and ball use on the wings desperately. HRS/Banks until Clarke is ready Seth a no brainer imo.
Nankervis - Smillie - McAuliffe. Rest Toby play Ryan if we want to see how he is travelling. Can't play both imo.

Algar - Faull - Hotton. Oh look lively classy small forwards who can rotate midfield if need be.. Faull looks like he can handle the level Physically.
Mansell - Lynch - Sims/Armstrong/Fawcett. Just rotate young  talls thru this role. Tom and Nigel provide experience and toughness.

Lalor - Hopper - Broad - Prestia - Lefau. Bench is full of experience and can be thrown into areas where we struggle. Sam Lalor by seasons end hopefully is a starting mid.

Call me crazy i think there is enough experience spread thru that team with seniors on the bench,
Imo it is the team with the most potential going forward and they fit into roles suited to them.
It at least endeavors to address serious team shortcomings as well.

We are missing a trick by not aiming for something like this team. We are missing a trick by not trying younger blokes in midfield roles.
Pick players with the right attributes for the roles we want them to play.

Great post… nailed it

[Andyy]

Although I rarely read all of those long clawski posts I have to agree mate

[one-eyed]

Since North Melbourne have started their rebuild, Richmond have won 3 flags, started a rebuild, and already progressed further through their rebuild than North. On top of this, they have our first round pick for this season. We are an absolute stuffing disgrace.

https://x.com/BazNMFC/status/1913569821163393339

[Andyy]

Since North Melbourne have started their rebuild, Richmond have won 3 flags, started a rebuild, and already progressed further through their rebuild than North. On top of this, they have our first round pick for this season. We are an absolute stuffing disgrace.

https://x.com/BazNMFC/status/1913569821163393339

Haha.

Funny because it appears to be true.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

The same bloke said that “they will beat Carlton bookmark it” 4 days prior

[mat073]

There is a silver lining if we lose to the Dees on Thursday.

We will hold picks 2 and 3 in the draft.

[Diocletian]

There is a silver lining if we lose to the Dees on Thursday.

We will hold picks 2 and 3 in the draft.

3&4 after the AFL give the Cokeheads pick 2 as compo for Allen.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

I think the win last night draws a line under what we can do. We play the 3 teams currently below us on the ladder over the next month before we hit dreamtime

[one-eyed]

Talking Pts

Ben Waterworth, Catherine Healey, Will Faulkner and Tyler Lewis
Fox Sports
April 21st, 2025

But there’s a ... 2024 trade involving a future pick to track closely this year.

And, as it stands, Richmond is in Position A … after a bonkers draft haul late last year.

Just over 24 hours after North Melbourne’s horror 82-point Good Friday loss to Carlton, Richmond pulled off a massive boilover, hanging on to hand Gold Coast its first loss of the season in a thrilling 11-point win.

Five months earlier, the two clubs completed a blockbuster live trade on night one of the 2024 national draft. The Kangaroos secured the final selection of the first round of the draft (Pick 27), along with a future second-round pick from the Tigers, who received North’s 2025 first-round selection in return.

After Round 6, the Kangaroos sit 16th on the ladder with a 1-5 record – a spot ahead of Richmond (sic - they're a spot behind us).

It means the Tigers, currently, hold Picks 3 and 4.

That Roos future first-rounder had been on the table for some time prior to the Tigers trade, with the Roos asking several rivals whether they would be willing to trade out of the 2024 draft.

When Richmond agreed to a trade, Murray Bushrangers key-position player Matt Whitlock was the player North Melbourne eventually landed at Pick 27. And the versatile and talented Whitlock, no doubt, has all the makings of an exciting AFL player in the future.

But after the weekend’s results – which saw the Kangaroos drop their fourth straight game by at least six goals – the short-term optics on the trade aren’t ideal, considering how patient North Melbourne fans have had to be.

Meanwhile, the Tigers are six games in to one of the most ruthless and aggressive rebuilds we’ve seen in recent times – and they’ve already notched two shock wins over Carlton and the Suns.

“There’s no timeline. No one says ‘you can’t win at this stage of their journey’. But I marvel at what this club has been able to do,” King said of Richmond.

“We’ve seen clubs stuck in rebuilds for eight to 10 years and not have opportunities to perform like this.”

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-news-2025-round-6-talking-points-afl-analysis-and-reaction-north-melbourne-trade-for-matt-whitlock-oscar-allen-dropped-collingwood-flag-favourites-kysaiah-pickett-fremantle/news-story/e7474ec5768d1db66c8f42584389cc32

[one-eyed]

"It's one of the more bizarre trade outs that I've seen." - Matthew Lloyd

With the club currently in 16th, will North regret moving on their first round pick at this year's draft?

#9FootyClassified

VIDEO: https://x.com/FootyonNine/status/1914287751261757902

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Imagine how hard Richmond fans are laughing at us now. We used to own them 10 years ago. 😕 😞

https://x.com/SimonJediLeon/status/1914291319473885688

[Andyy]

Thanks Norf

[one-eyed]

Norf 1-6  .

We currently hold both picks 2 & 3.

[Diocletian]

Port did their level best to make it 2-5.

[Hard Roar Tiger]

It was a perfect outcome.
Allows norf to think they are on track again, avoid media scrutiny and then get exposed for their limitations in the next few months

[mightytiges]

LOL lost by 3 pts 

Norf now 1-7