Originally Posted by
707
The GWS draft situation is fascinating and could backfire on them.
For the first time in their history, they are going into a draft without a squillion high picks, it has happened rather quickly. Now it's common belief that Green is a top 5 pick. Melbourne at pick 3 have a history of bidding on academy players, so do Adelaide at pick 4, we of course hold pick 5 and Green is perfect for our needs plus he's a NSW boy.
GWS knowing this are trying to get a player before a bid comes for Green thereby getting two top 5 players in a draft when they don't have top 5 picks, they started with "just" picks 12 & 18 but amazingly trade away these two picks worth 2253 points for pick 6 worth 1751 points, they gave away 502 points in getting themselves up to pick 6.
This strategy only works for them if they can get Melbourne's pick 3 thereby guaranteeing a player before a Green bid. If I'm Melbourne, it's pick 3 for pick 6 and GWS 2020 first as a minimum, Dees have them over a barrel :-)
If GWS don't manage to get Dees pick 3, it could be Green gets a bid there, discounted points 1787 which swallows all of GWS pick 6 and a nibble from their pick 40'ish, or Adelaide at pick 4, discounted points 1627 which takes most of pick 6 with a 60s junk pick coming back.
So pressure on GWS, if they can't get a pick swap done with Melbourne, they get Green only burning pick 6 in a match, unless their real target is someone like Jackson at pick 6 and due to their overflowing numbers of mids they bypass Green?
Interesting four weeks coming up, Green not out of the picture for us IMO.
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