Ugle-Hagan
MacDonald
Hollands
Thilthorpe
Phillips
Other: Please specify
There is a key defender projected to be top 10 (Grainger-Barrass - I don't think he's a great pick) - but there is actually a 4th KP forward who could be better/as good as the others, but has done both ACL's and not played much football post U16's, so total roll of the dice, both medically and in terms of ability/development.
I've seen other clubs fans dreaming that he'll fall to their pick at 40 something, but I'm sure someone will take a punt on him inside #25. His vision looks OK - Kaine Baldwin.
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I think this could be a good draft night strategy. If McDonald and Thilthorpe go before pick 3, then we could trade down to get into a position to take a 'lower rated' KPF plus enough points to cover the Campbell bid. This strategy, like everything else on draft night, will depend on who we get in the trade period.
Who teaches kids these days to kick set shots for goal? So many of them shuffle, stumble, stutter and skip their way towards goal, it’s a wonder they done trip over their own feet before they get boot to ball! I just watched footage of Lockett, Coventry (could only find 1) Dunstall, Wade and Ablett Snr. Apart from one shot by Ablett that had a couple of tiny skips, the thing that the 5 greatest goal kickers of all time have in common is they the have a deliberate, measured and steady approach for set shots. We won’t easily see another 100 goal a season forward or 1000 career goal player because too many players today because whoever teaches them (or whoever they emulate during their formative developmental years seem to want to teach them to approach their set shots a baby giraffe learning to walk.
I have a hunch that we will end up splitting pick 3 for two lower first-round picks. If we could get picks 11 and 16 from Geelong (perhaps for pick 3 and 2021 3rd round pick) we would be well placed to match an early bid on Campbell.
Suppose we have picks 11, 16 and 22. Pick 11 can match a bid at pick 7, pick 16 can match a bid at pick 12, and pick 22 can match a bid at pick 17. In all cases, there would be some points left over. We would have the entire range from pick 7 to pick 22 covered and this would give us a lot of draft flexibility. Two of these picks would be used to match bids (or we draft them ourselves if they are available) and the other pick is used to draft as normal.
Only if Campbell is drafted before pick 7 would this strategy not work as intended, but we would still end up with both players.
Because this strategy would be so effective, I doubt that Geelong would make that pick swap, but you never know. Geelong may want to get extra future picks because without them, they will be going into a serious rebuild soon. The average age of their best 22 is over 28 - about 2 years older than any other club.
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I don’t understand why we would use pick 3 to pay for a bid on Campbell by splitting it. It is normal to try to use late picks rather than early ones to pay for academy picks. Look at how GWS moved heaven and earth to get a pick before Green last year and how we played the system to pay for Blakey using late picks.
More likely is that we’ll split pick 22 for two or three later picks to gain more points.
Don’t overthink it. Pick best available at pick 3, Campbell, and Gulden and walk away with our best draft haul in 20+ years.
Yeah it’s puzzling to me. I take it to mean we should split the pick 3 and we end up with a spare pick in the teens, whilst matching bids for Campbell and Gulden? Why would we do that we can take a pick 3 and still match bids for those two ( albeit with a Points deficit potentially ) . Seems crazy
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The old KISS principle. Pick 3, Campbell, Gulden. What if we play funny buggers with splitting picks etc. and the pick 3 we could have got turns out a gun and goes to Geelong. Common sense says a pick 3 will be always be a highly rated player, so why pass it up or worse stuff it up with fancy foot work. He who hesitates is an old time waltzer.
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