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The Blair "Which?" Project
- Thread starter Tony Braxton-Hicks
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After this season the club should 100% be over the "yay, look at all of our recent Premierships" mode and into the... "holy crap, our list is in bloody terrible shape" stage. If they are stuck on Step 3, denial, we are in trouble BUT I highly doubt that will be the case.
2024 is certainly shaping up as a very interesting and very important trade/ draft period for the club.
Thinking the club is well aware of the list structure issues. They saw the gapping hole in the midfield and went and got Taranto and Hopper. One could argue the merits of those two trades but if they didn't do that we would be in a whole more world of hurt.
Then they spent the last two years building the large 2024 draft hand
The key is what they do now (and what the AFL does in its usual changing rules on the run)
Some big contracts will be coming off the books in the next little while (not to mention those veterans that have already moved on and their dollars shifted to the likes of Taranto and Hopper). To make up the salary cap spending requirements I hope we're not going to be throwing big money at some of the spuds we have on our list. Blair has to have a few decent trade / free agent targets in mind surely.
AFL talking about trading salary cap for draft picks so if that comes in it would work for us in managing our salary cap
If Baker goes(More than likely)i like Garcia from the Dogs.Getting plenty of the ball at vfl level but just can't crack the dogs side on a regular basis.
Is tough at it similar too Bakes.
Yeah I think there are way too many people not giving the club enough, indicating that we've had our eye off the ball etc.
The TT trade talk is nonsense, the trade was a very good one for us. Hopper I get the angst a bit more, but worst case we missed 1 top pick, thats not going to make or break our rebuild.
People have short mindspans unfortunately, got back to 2022 and we were a poor ARC decision away from going deep into finals. Last year we were ok, and potentially would have made finals again had Lynch remained fit. Similar to this year, injuries have crippled us, and we have dropped far below where our list should be finishing if fully fit.
Anyway, I think the club has been well aware of this, and having said repeatedly on here they have gone about the list build / rebuild in a different way to our premiership build, largely due to circumstance and the picks we've had available to us. Some would make us believe that we have recruited purely duds over the last 5 years but thats falsehood, mostly from posters trying to push a belief that they are smarter than all list managers. In reality we have recruited some of those players who are the "support crew" who we largely recruited later in our premiership list build, we've done that 1st this time around and now looking at the guns. We should have at least 4 picks inside 30 this year, with 2 inside 10, potentially more inside 30 depending on how many players are traded, so we have a great chance to rebuild the list starting this year with the GUNS that everyone looks at our list, and goes "but where are they" without looking at the lack of top picks we've had available to us.
Given the evenness of the draft at the top end the eagles may well look at splitting pick 3 but of course it works both ways. Is there a team willing to provide 2 first round picks for pick 3?
Only Freo and the suns have multiple first round picks to trade.
West coast could also dangle Liam Ryan and Barrass for draft picks, they also have future picks
It does not need to use pick 3 to get Baker
I think we would be able to trade that future pick into this years if we wanted to. Quite a few options
I think they will go hard this year..
They picked only 2 kids last year with the idea to attack this year's draft.
Okay. Just got off the Eagles forum.
I was Really pumping Bakers tyres up.
Told them that Bakes would catapult them into finals.
Hope that’s enough to get 1st round pick from them
He supported them as a kid. Wouldn't you have loved to pull on a tigers jumper?
It is logical that they let Barrass go, niko. Therfore they will do that.
That's the Baker pick.
You knew they had one in the bank, @Little Ziggyadee
Sorry to disagree young fella.
But who takes M.Barass?
Maybe GC. They could do with a classy FB. But they'd probably rather take 3 for their two firsts. Doubt they trade for Bareassed.
Freo dont need key backs, neither do melbin and gws. Essindun dont need anything but footballers. Saints and Crows need everything.
Maybe Brions who would appreciate a cultured fellow. But have a young ashcroft and need points.
And by now the pick is getting late and not worthy of a freewheelin Bakes.
For Wet toast to get Baker they'll trade 3 to GC (booo dont like)
or give us their 2nd this year and next (roughly 23 and f20)
We could then use our future 2nd and WCE future 2nd to get a Suns 1st.