In the past we have bid on the best ranked player according to our rankings. We have done it on successive players.
No reason what ever for Essendon to not bid on first Cochrane and then Walker if they rank them one and two.
The only reason they won't bid at all is so whoever they take at pick one gets all those benefits that they get for being taken there.
Imo with pick 19 at stake they will bid on Cochrane and if they do i can see no reason why they won't bid on Walker as well.
They don't owe us a thing its in their interests to deny us another pick.
correct me if im wrong, if they bid on even one (cochrane) then our pick slides to 3 and therefore we are eligible for the compo pick as are the next 3 teams after us?
if they bid on walker also we still get the compo?
If we move back from position two via either Essendon or us bidding , then we get compo
As do the other three teams
Yup just takes 1 bid and all bottom 5 teams who have retained their natural pick will be given the compo as a result of their pick sliding.
Hope bombers go bang bang Cochrane, Walker only because that’s what it would likely be in an uncomptomised draft but I get the sense it will more likely be 1. Cochrane (Essendon bid), 2. Essendon pick, 3. Walker (Richmond bid), 4. Richmond pick.
