Rating our draft period - so far

[picket fence 17,056]

Pick 3 for Frawley - Massive win. Not a chance of getting a pick that good at the trade table.

Stretch for pick 42 - Win. Was nominated at pick 29 so that's a bargain.

Garlett for pick 61 - Win. Capable goal kicker when inform.

Lumumba for Clark - Win. Lumumba get out on the park unlike Clark, could be a loss if Clark can actually get out on the park.

Frost, pick 40 and 53 for pick 23 - Loss. We paid overs for a player that's played a major part of his football at NEAFL level and pick 40 and 53 aren't great picks by any stretch of the imagination.

Pick 12 for Trengove and pick 23 falling through - Loss. A pick upgrade was a bargain for this injury prone spud, now we can't even get pick 112 for him.

4 wins out of 6 ain't too bad. I'd give us a C+

Brisbane are the only team that deserve an A. Picking up Beams and Christensen and basically only losing pick 5 and Patfull is a bargain. The rest did so so or did nothing.

We have to get an A on draft night, can't afford to stuff that up, we've done it too often.

Agree with all you have said, but I reckon a solid "B" is a fair assessment

[rpfc 28,263]

I didnt realize i wrote for afl.com and the herald sun

sweet

I was talking about 'you' in the abstract. And there was also about 4 lines between my response to your post and my general response to the thread.

And I can really see you writing for the Herald Sun...

[nutbean 8,838]

Funny how some DL posters think we had a woeful trade period and some dispassionate objective observers think we did well. Jay Clark rated us a distinction (using a fail, pass, distinction scale)

The HS is giving us a reasonable pass mark as well.

It's more the "woe is us" on Demonland who can't see it.

[John Crow Batty 8,861]

It's disapointing that we could not have lured a big name star in the trade period. Would have given the club great momentum for membership and anticipation for next season. Just shows where we are at. A bucket load of cash and premium picks for trading are not enough. A very poor finish to the season may have damaged our desirability and if the stillborn Trengove deal was for a big name trade then that is rotten bad lack. Still I am happy with our pick ups. They will provide the next small step forward.

As for the draft as far as I am concerned It is just a lottery. The fancied big names on everyone's lips IMO are just names to me. I'm not going to waste my time discussing them. Still very disapointed with the lacklustre progress of our recent high picks. Our latest hopes have made very little progress. The best hope so far appears to be Salem but he is still neither here or there. Hogan has the potential to be a dream come true if he can get and stay on the park. I just hope its our turn to get lucky and the recruiters make the right decisions.

Edited October 16, 2014 by america de cali