It’s interesting the academy bids we made and got. Brisbane and Saints have been developing the kids for years but didn’t rate them highly enough to match our bids. We’ve obviously seen something they haven’t. Happy to back our guys over theirs.
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Draft picks 2019
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Lemme just type a list of players off the top of my head that no one gave 2 sheizens about. Lambert. Pickett. Baker. Soldo. Grimes. Broad. George. The runs are on the board guys. No choice but to back our team in.
I am so glad we didn't pick Bianco. Short, Higgins, Baker - we are already one of the shortest teams running around. We needed to share the short players around.
Understand Western.
Why didnt at least the Lions match?
Both picks?
They didnt rate them but we did ?
Who knows W. Did they have the points? Did they have the space? The important point is WE rate them.
Maybe not as high or there was someone still on the board they rated higher. They only took a minute or two with pick 59.
Meh. The Lions still don't know why we smashed them in the final
Thats whats baffled me, more so now.
3 players in other clubs Academy's , we bid, they didnt match, we take .
Will be following these kids with interest in the coming years.
We back our team of recruiters and developers to bring their talents out.
I'm not totally up on the points system but Brisbane matched a bid by Essendon at 37 so maybe they didn't have the points left to match our bids. Or maybe they just had a higher priority player. Their next pick was a defender.
Upside folks, this draft was all about taking a punt on perceived upside of players who possess the core traits we look for.
Here’s something that I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere, but I think is right and is pleasing - the round 2 pick we took from Collingwood isn’t the one tied to their finishing position (they’ve already traded that out). It’s one tied to St Kilda, which means it may well move us about 10 spots up the order.
We got mabs from Bris academy, the fella they matched, forget his name, didn't make it
Edit, reuben William, remembered. Also did we bid on hipwood? Bit of history there.
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He almost qualifies for the hyphen club but as Tony Braxton Hicks previously pointed out, it’s not an easy club to get into
Yep, i don't give a stuff about ranking points or draft points, if there is a player that have Richmond Man traits or needs as in Bigoa Nyuon, (who is hail Mary key defender which is glaring future deficiency), then I am all for it, we can afford to take risks on potential no need to stock up on dime a dozen midfielders if they are not top end.
