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Dees considering big trade plays

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53 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Great insight. Cal Twomey really putting himself out there as one of the best journo's in the land when it comes to the draft.

Couldn't agree more, he really is the new Shifter as far as research and prep goes. 

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    It wasn't in this article, but I found it interesting that Cal said we were trying to trade up higher than pick 13, to make sure we got Jefferson. He was clearly one of our main targets.

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    3 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    An excellent insight into the wheeling and dealing of the first round draft night.  While not much happened there was a lot happening behind the scene.  trades-that-didn-t-come-off and unsurprisingly we were in the thick of it!  I wonder who we had in mind for GWS's (initial) pick #19?

    There are few unknowns between the clubs at draft time.

    Sydney's bids and trades were the only interesting aspect of the whole draft.  .

    While Twomey had a fair bit of the info before the draft, I'm guessing the finer details have been provided to him in the last week.

    Fascinating reading.

    I suspect it would have been Barnett we were targeting. There were multiple articles highlighting our interest in him and we obviously felt ruck depth was a need with Verrall eventually selected in the Rookie draft. I wonder who we would have selected though if Allan happened to somehow still be available, another player we were strongly linked to.

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    10 minutes ago, Nascent said:

    I suspect it would have been Barnett we were targeting. There were multiple articles highlighting our interest in him and we obviously felt ruck depth was a need with Verrall eventually selected in the Rookie draft. I wonder who we would have selected though if Allan happened to somehow still be available, another player we were strongly linked to.

    Had Sydney not done their nonsense Allan would’ve been available. Fairly safe to assume given Cal and others reporting that it would’ve come down to Allan or Barnett. 

    I wonder if it would’ve been the Freo pick or our own to get the deal done. Guess we’ll have to wait 12 months to see where those picks end up and the talent available 

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    I have a sneaking suspicion Hewett might’ve been our best case result at pick 15 and the player we’d have traded up for to picks 11-13 to get ahead of the eagles.

    He’s such a Melbourne type player - aggressive, physical, great agility - and interest had cooled in him for a top 12 pick. Eagles were leaking interest in Jefferson, we were leaking interest in Allan. 

    What if both sides were just trying to throw each other off the scent of their number 1 target in that range all along?

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