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8 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

I’d be disgusted with the club if it planned out that way.

Couldn't agree more

Not the best not anywhere near what we need

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3 different phantom drafts out today all have us taking Pickett. It’s not the way I hope we go but it’s starting to look very likely. I had hoped if we were going to take Pickett then we would split again and take him with a lower pick but when you look at the quality of players getting to picks 15/16 am not sure it would make sense for cats,port or suns to split with us. 

Also if it pans out the way the phantoms predict it will then lots of teams will do far better than us out of this draft. Of course we won’t know who the real winners are for a few years but I’m still hoping come Friday morning there’s a bit more to get excited about. 

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I don’t see the appeal of Pickett or Weightman at 10. Hell, I’m not convinced on Jackson at 3, but we have a tendency to try and draft by position instead of best talent.

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Seems highly unlikely that Sydney wouldn't bid for Green, knowing that GWS would take him regardless. 

Surely Robertson and Kemp won't slide that far.

Still hoping we take Kemp.

 

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I still think we're in for a few surprises.

There is every chance someone like Serong makes it through to us, and then we have a choice to make, one in which I'd be inclined to believe is to take Serong.  Then we could potentially looked to 'trade up', using pick 28, to land Pickett who also has the potential to slide a bit.

While I get the feeling we're pretty much locked into Jackson at 3, I think there are still a variety of options that could play out at 10.

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Kemp has all the pitfalls of a tweener (up and down impact, inconsistency), the ACL tear and some suspect kicking as well. I don't think he was ever as highly rated by clubs as he has been on here.

Dev Robertson is a good player and I'd still be surprised that Freo don't lock him in as a high character and no fuss selection given their current midfield is Fyfe and not much more in terms of locked in pieces. He'd be a bit of a culture changer there. But it's hard to watch Melbourne and think what we really need is an inside mid with a suspect kicking action.

It's Stephens, Serong, Young (all gone) and maybe Bergman who I'd be more surprised we aren't or wouldn't be picking.

If 2 of the better drafting sides in recent history in the Bulldogs and the Hawks are after Pickett then we aren't exactly in poor company.

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2 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

I still think we're in for a few surprises.

There is every chance someone like Serong makes it through to us, and then we have a choice to make, one in which I'd be inclined to believe is to take Serong.  Then we could potentially looked to 'trade up', using pick 28, to land Pickett who also has the potential to slide a bit.

While I get the feeling we're pretty much locked into Jackson at 3, I think there are still a variety of options that could play out at 10.

The only thing we have to trade up with is a future 4th round pick. 

And my guess is the best we could do by offering pick 28 and a future 4th round pick is pick 26, maybe pick 25 if we get very lucky.

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10 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

The only thing we have to trade up with is a future 4th round pick. 

And my guess is the best we could do by offering pick 28 and a future 4th round pick is pick 26, maybe pick 25 if we get very lucky.

Agree, we have nothing to trade up with outside of trading down from 10


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34 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

I’d be disgusted with the club if it panned out that way.

I can't say i'm overly thrilled with the prospect either LT.  I'm still not convinced in the benefit of trading away pick 8 either.

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One thing for certain is that, no matter who we pick, it won't please everybody.

Some posters bemoan that we always take the "safe" option while others are complaining that we might be taking a risk.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.  I'll leave it up to the professionals who are paid to make these decisions.

 

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10 minutes ago, demonstone said:

One thing for certain is that, no matter who we pick, it won't please everybody.

Some posters bemoan that we always take the "safe" option while others are complaining that we might be taking a risk.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.  I'll leave it up to the professionals who are paid to make these decisions.

 

How could you do that? Wouldn't it be more prudent to take players that demonlanders have only seen 2 minute  highlight tapes of?

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2 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

The only thing we have to trade up with is a future 4th round pick. 

And my guess is the best we could do by offering pick 28 and a future 4th round pick is pick 26, maybe pick 25 if we get very lucky.

if that could get us trent bianco, jeremy sharp that would be worthwhile..

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18 minutes ago, Rocky said:

if that could get us trent bianco, jeremy sharp that would be worthwhile..

Bianco, Taylor or Schoenburg (if any are still there) could work out quite nicely for pick 28.

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6 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

When there's smoke there's fire.

In regards to Jackson/Pickett?


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I love the Jackson / Pickett double that appears to be looming. Two wild card players with huge upside, x-factor and, to my mind, both have the critical factor for success application magic and hunger. Some have it, some don’t. 
our failed high picks of years past, lacked it, these two boys appear to have it in spades. Pickett, it’s in the family, but his accelerating into a physical shepherd is IT. With Jackson, he rucks and then relentlessly involves himself as a mid might, while many rucks wouldn’t or couldn’t...

Bringing them in just as our group matures means they are the cream. 
pumped! 

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14 minutes ago, demonstone said:

Just how excited are you, Paul?

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Nothing surer than us taking Jackson and Pickett, then receiving a C+ draft assessment in the Herald Sun On Friday.

”with two high first round draft selections the Demons chose to go with need rather than best available. Will it pay off? Time will tell...”

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11 minutes ago, Beetle said:

Nothing surer than us taking Jackson and Pickett, then receiving a C+ draft assessment in the Herald Sun On Friday.

”with two high first round draft selections the Demons chose to go with need rather than best available. Will it pay off? Time will tell...”

They’d be correct!

Posted
4 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

They’d be correct!

I thought the argument against him was that we don’t need a ruckman, but we do need a half back flanker?

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Did Freo punk us?

Trade us pick 8, we'll take Dev Robertson, you don't want or need him anyway. Ok done.

Drafts Serong/Stephens, with Carlton taking the other and then leaves us out of the better midfielders?

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