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For most of the early part of last night’s first round of the draft, things were going as planned with the exception of some brief disruptions when a couple of the pick trades were announced. The surp

Demonstone
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Looks like Rooey, Howey and Woey.  Goody should be happy.  

Nascent
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You're getting too caught up in the number of the picks. We will take Woewodin as our last selection (rightly or wrongly). So we either use 51 on Woewodin and be done for the night, or we ga

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Why would we do that? Best case is saints finish last and that pick would only give us 55 without any fs or nga bids. Doesn’t make sense

Agree makes no sense whatsoever🤯 plus dont we have to take 3 players??

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Why would we do that? Best case is saints finish last and that pick would only give us 55 without any fs or nga bids. Doesn’t make sense

We simply don't rate anyone remaining, and would rather push the pick to next year, even at the expensive of a few spots, than waste it this year

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We simply don't rate anyone remaining, and would rather push the pick to next year, even at the expensive of a few spots, than waste it this year

So we dont rate Woewodin then??? Still believe we have to take 3 players dont we???

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5 minutes ago, CYB said:

Why would we do that? Best case is saints finish last and that pick would only give us 55 without any fs or nga bids. Doesn’t make sense

Taj will be our last player selected tonight so we are turning picks we wont use into more currency to play with next year.

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27 minutes ago, Redleg said:

We could have taken Williams with the pick we traded, giving us a Hawkins type who can ruck a bit as well as key forward.

Andy M-W looking likely rookie and If no one picks Taj he could then be another. Are we looking at a ruck forward type in maybe Caminitti, or however you spell his name?

Interesting to see the plan.

The draft is saying Williams might be more a Pederson or Sellar than a Hawkins.

I think we’ll add Woey to the main list, AMW to the cat b and still take another rookie. Be it at the draft or after a summer training session 

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1 minute ago, Nascent said:

Taj will be our last player selected tonight so we are turning picks we wont use into more currency to play with next year.

But why do you give away a higher pick this year for a known lower pick next year?

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Taj will be our last player selected tonight so we are turning picks we wont use into more currency to play with next year.

But we dont have anymore picks do we??

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But why do you give away a higher pick this year for a known lower pick next year?

Because we know we have him already. We don't have the list spots so may as well trade the picks into next year, which may or may not be useful. I'm sure Adelaide's future 3rd will be ok.

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1 minute ago, Daniel Dee Demon said:

We don't need a pick. You have to draft 3 players. He has nominated Melbourne. He will automatically be a Melbourne player at the end of the draft.

Im totally confused🥴😬🤯😵

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Our 5th rounder, it’s back from the dead after we traded our 3rd and 4th 

5th round?????? We have no 5th round pick??😱 what pick number??

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Think WC disagree. Would have seen a bit of him. 

The Eagles love loading up on talls. I remember similar disappointment when they took big Bailey Williams. He’s handy, but not big enough to really ruck at AFL level and I’m not sure the athleticism is there to make a quality forward. 

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But why do you give away a higher pick this year for a known lower pick next year?

You're getting too caught up in the number of the picks.

We will take Woewodin as our last selection (rightly or wrongly).

So we either use 51 on Woewodin and be done for the night, or we gain future capital for next year and pick Woewodin up at the end of the draft.

We now own 2x 3rd rounders and 2x 4th rounders for next year. Should help facilitate more trades or draft movement in 2022

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You're getting too caught up in the number of the picks.

We will take Woewodin as our last selection (rightly or wrongly).

So we either use 51 on Woewodin and be done for the night, or we gain future capital for next year and pick Woewodin up at the end of the draft.

We now own 2x 3rd rounders and 2x 4th rounders for next year. Should help facilitate more trades or draft movement in 2022

Fair enough but it can be confusing. I thought if no one nominated Taj and Andy M-W we could take them as Rookies saving money and keeping a senior list spot.

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