Would like to see Archie May, Mutaz and Lefau get a chance.
Are there any U18s left worth looking at?
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2023 Draft Thread.
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Would like to see Archie May, Mutaz and Lefau get a chance.
Are there any U18s left worth looking at?
I was hoping for Koen Sanchez or Jack Callinan so either of those would be good. Riley Weatherill might also be worth a look. We can take 2 to have a look at so it will be interesting to see which way we go.
Yeah you can add Rudd and Gawith who''s still available,l guess it depends what area they are looking at.
I thought the SSP could only add players to the main list - can this be used for rookie list as well or do we need to make some moves first?
It may be a stretch, but maybe Richmond did this to get the AFL to change the rules. We never had a big draft hand this year so our ability to trade in a pile of junk picks for next year was not costly for us, and we clearly telegraphed what we were up to, we made it very very obvious, even the morons at AFL House would have been capable of reading our moves with a little bit of assistance from those with an IQ greater than their (British) shoe size.
Anyway, just a bit of speculation on my part.
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We can only list one as an AFL player but we can take 2 per list spot to take a look at in the PSSD.
Anything Richmond. I'm starting to wonder how Bash's academy works for us to recruit. Are these pricks going to audit every little thing?
Of course they'll screw us over. Nothing like Richmond using the system to our advantage to get things changed. The system is a farce & needs to be changed so well done to us.Seems a decent haul from our draft hand. Looks like loading up for next year, clearly wanting to trade up to better picks, hope it works, but the suspicion that the AFL will somehow screw us is more than justified given their form.
I'm not a big draft watcher, but I did notice the pic from the AFL web site of the first round:
Ok, so that's the first round is it?
There are 18 teams in the AFL, I see 19 players who will end up at 11 teams. How is that not contrived? How do you end up with the first 19 and 7 teams miss out? What a farce. By the way, shouldn't there be more North Melbourne jumpers there, I thought they got 15 picks in the top 10. I suppose some of the picks were interstate, but it still strikes me as a rigged system. Drafts are supposed to equalise the competition, I figure some are more equal than the rest.
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I'd not really thought of it as we didn't have much of a hand to begin with, i was hoping we'd package the 2 60's picks for a future pick but overall we have done much better than that. We have plenty of options next yr, we can be involved with Trade & also be able to invest in the draft. 2 birds 1 stone.
He can take Ablett with him, would have liked $1 for everytime he told us GC were paying fair value for rorting the draft.
The AFL coverage with Twomey and Beverdige is 1000 times better than Foxtel.
I would take them in a heartbeat over Shifter and Ablett. At least Cal and Bev do their homework.
Given the clubs have an issue with the system and rightly so, i just wish they'd stop trading with them to give them the picks, they are outnumbered 14-4 so nothing they can do about it. As for Norf bidding at 3 instead of 2, seriously....
Given our draft hand next yr, we could well end up with another 5 inside 30 scenario (pending trade of course) which would give us the chance to finish off the core group we started in the '21 draft. At least we'll be able to see the full picture this time next yr & essentially rate what we have done over 3-4 yrs.
Each to his own I suppose. I find the constant checking and big noting about the accuracy of CT phantom draft very hard to take. So self indulgent and unprofessional. If they got rid of that it would be OK.
AFL. com actually posted a story on it! My headline would have been 'Man paid 250K to analyze and monitor the AFL draft by the AFL does a decent job'
(I didn't see the Foxtel coverage so can't compare, must have been bad!)
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I'd scrap the discount altogether, being able to jump the que is more than enough already. For mine it's wrong when 1 Club can match 4 1st rd bids for 2nd/3rd rd picks yet another Club can't match at 28 as it's under 40. That system is a farce. Make no mistake if it was the other way around the noise from up Nth would be so loud we'd hear it like we were sitting in the same room. Let's not forget how the NGA's academy's became basically useless under the current rules & where the noise came from that made sure of that.
Ablett in particular doesn’t have a great general knowledge of AFL. I had a giggle when he said we had to replace Caddy in the midfield..
