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Offline Andyy

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Re: Keep, Trade, Retire or Delist?
« Reply #75 on: September 16, 2025, 10:33:42 AM »
That’s the danger with loading up on picks for a single draft, your bound to get a couple of busts

Yep and sometimes teams get lucky (or pick well) and bail every pick

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Re: Keep, Trade, Retire or Delist?
« Reply #76 on: Today at 10:34:24 AM »
Been saying list turnover is crucial since this time last year.

We are not going to get that needed turnover and we are not going to have many nd picks. This has been an area they have had all year to come up with a plan to get if not back into the draft then target Out of contract players state league types and F/A's.

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Re: Keep, Trade, Retire or Delist?
« Reply #77 on: Today at 10:39:38 AM »
Been saying list turnover is crucial since this time last year.

We are not going to get that needed turnover and we are not going to have many nd picks. This has been an area they have had all year to come up with a plan to get if not back into the draft then target Out of contract players state league types and F/A's.

Why do you think Sonsie, Dow and Smith haven’t received contracts ? Club is leaving those spots open in case we make deals whether it be more picks or players


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Re: Keep, Trade, Retire or Delist?
« Reply #78 on: Today at 01:34:42 PM »
Providing we have 2 picks in this year’s draft it means 18 picks since 2021. Add maybe a rookie or 2 this year we have averaged 5 kids per year in 5 years which I think is about right.
11 first rounders in that list with 5 top 10 picks.
If we can emerge with 10-12 as our core in 3-4 years time then we will have successfully reengineered the list we previously built through 2006-2012 that delivered the last set of flags.
That part of the list rebuild will have been done so the next 3 years will be critical to finding the nuggets in the rookie drafts, discards from other clubs that can fill our list needs and then hopefully put the icing on the cake with a marquee free agents going into 2028 or 2029

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