4 hours ago, Davos said:

Draft day!

My order of preferred outcomes, based on the rumoured candidates for our picks - 

1. Langford and Tauru

2. Langford and Allan 

3. Tauru and Allan

4a. Langford and Lindsey

4b. Tauru and Lindsey

Go Dees.

 

agreed - dialogue and rumour mill has Dees selections as… (depending on availability) 

At 5: Langford … if already picked… then Tauru

At 9: Tauru … if already picked by MFC or another club …  look at either Allan or Lindsay

1 hour ago, BLWNBA said:

In my initial post I also forgot to reference Kenterfield, though he's far more speculative than the previous group (including Jefferson). 

Let's hope he can saddle up for some good performances this year.

I'd be happy with any of the top 5 picks leaving out (Ashcroft) for our first pick

Lalor, Smith, Draper, Langford, FOS

2nd pick:

Allan, Hotton, Tauru, Hynes, Berry preferred ahead of;

Lindsey, Smillie, Reid but really happy with any of them TBH

Pick 83 NFI: Cochrane, Dennis, Salzburg, Andrew, a JT Special

 

Berry looks a better prospect than a number of the other ones talked about.

 

Wish you could do the ‘NBA style draft and then trade an hour later for value’ - you could turn Allan into Berry and Hynes.

Whose lives are we going to ruin tonight?

I just hope whoever we get, give us something 

Just now, dees189227 said:

Whose lives are we going to ruin tonight?

I just hope whoever we get, give us something 

You must be such fun at parties.

9 minutes ago, rpfc said:

Berry looks a better prospect than a number of the other ones talked about.

 

Wish you could do the ‘NBA style draft and then trade an hour later for value’ - you could turn Allan into Berry and Hynes.

Can be brutal though. This Kobe guy looks rubbish, lets trade him to the Lakers

4 hours ago, BLWNBA said:

Moving onto Oliver and Petracca, we don't exactly know where they'll be in 12 months time, both from an on-field perspective and from an output perspective (personally, I'm confident Oliver will be a the Dees as it stands; I'm no where near as certain on Petracca)

Hopefully Pickett, Clarry and Petracca go nowhere.
Already read far too many Phantom Drafts and threads this year, couldn't handle even more first round picks this time next year.

1 minute ago, DubDee said:

Can be brutal though. This Kobe guy looks rubbish, lets trade him to the Lakers

and as for the fat serbian blonde dude... he'll never amount to much

Fox coverages starts at 7pm

So pick 6 by...... 8:30pm are we thinking?

1 hour ago, DubDee said:

Fox coverages starts at 7pm

So pick 6 by...... 8:30pm are we thinking?

Ambitious

2 hours ago, binman said:

You must be such fun at parties.

Obviously my tounge was planted in my cheek.

I'm just thinking back to our picks like Lucas cook, Morton & toumpas

Assuming Jagga does not slide to us Langford and Allan my preferred. but wont be unhappy if Tauru or Travaglia in the combo.

Edited November 20, 2024Nov 20 by Lil_red_fire_engine

13 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Obviously my tounge was planted in my cheek.

I'm just thinking back to our picks like Lucas cook, Morton & toumpas

If you really want to feel bad how about jarman sitting out the a dra so he didn't have to go to us and instead landed at Hawthorn the following year.

I've often thought we would have won the flag if jarman played with us in 1987. 

Still rankles.

Edited November 20, 2024Nov 20 by binman

6 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

agreed - dialogue and rumour mill has Dees selections as… (depending on availability) 

At 5: Langford … if already picked… then Tauru

At 9: Tauru … if already picked by MFC or another club …  look at either Allan or Lindsay

Step 1. 👍🏻pick 5 Langford 

On 12/11/2024 at 07:14, binman said:

I dont have any knowledge about the juniors, and not much to offer in terms of which players we should pick.

But in terms of needs I'd go:

Pick 5:

- Tallish hard at it mid with elite foot skills, great tank, reasonable leg speed, can get forward and kick goals (not necessarily a hybrid in the tracc mold, like say kolt) and is ready to play AFL footy in 2025

Comparison players: Zac Bailey, Bont, Jarrod Berry.

Pick 9:

- Outside mid, half back flanker, wing with proven super elite foot skills, speed and x factor. Left footer a bonus.

Comparison players: Warner, Nick Daicos, Judd McVee, Gulden, Kiddy Coleman.

IMHO, we don't need another tall forward - and i don't think we'll use 5 or 9 on one.

Elite ball users who can open up zones and not turn the pill over are the priority.

Langford and Lindsay both tick off the attributes I was hoping we'd target.

Fantastic result.

Langford looks big enough to play AFL footy next season.

And I just love we picked up two quality left footers. 

On 09/11/2024 at 13:13, Colm said:

I’ll also assume Tauru is gone by our first pick. 
 

Pick 5- Langford. Good left peg and great contested mark. I think we will draft for right now as much as the future and I think Langford makes most sense to have an impact next year. Very versatile, could interchange with trac, play mobile half forward or take Sparrows spot. Could even play a game or two instead of fritter if he refuses to work hard enough again this year. 
 

Pick 9- Lindsay will play half back and is a great kick of the ball. Can play outside mid in few years. 
 

There’s heaps of others I like but I think these two would improve us significantly next year. 
If not them I’d still like a pair that combine ability to play forward and back as well as in the middle with contested marking and kicking skills. 

Would you trade up with a future pick and our last pick to get Dodson?

2 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Would you trade up with a future pick and our last pick to get Dodson?

The only thing we can trade is downgrading our future 2nd for someone else’s future 2nd, but even if we could, no. He’s a basketballer whose strength is racking up touches. But without the skills to really do a lot of with it or the elite movement of Luke Jackson. He’s very Stef Martin. Useful, but the not the kind of ruck I really value 

19 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Would you trade up with a future pick and our last pick to get Dodson?

No

Lots of people will be pretty pleased with how that worked out.

I suspect most disappointment will be with St Kilda's Battle compensation taking Alix Tauru from us. I'm going to hope that it works out a bit like getting Van Rooyen after missing out on Mac Andrew. 

56 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

Lots of people will be pretty pleased with how that worked out.

I suspect most disappointment will be with St Kilda's Battle compensation taking Alix Tauru from us. I'm going to hope that it works out a bit like getting Van Rooyen after missing out on Mac Andrew. 

I was thinking about this last night actually Little Goffy after jumping on the Tauru bandwagon.

The only comfort is that I'm still thankful the Saints had a red hot crack in the last game of the year not only defeating the scum but also seeing them leap frog us on the ladder.

If they lost that match and picked up Langford and Tauru I would have been filthy.

Jason Taylor looks quite pleased with the picks of Harvey Langford and Xavier Lindsay for the Demons.

Here is his brief interview on YouTube:

 

On 09/11/2024 at 15:56, DubDee said:

5 - Langford

9 - Reid

83 - Surprising mature VFL pick up

Not so humble brag

Great little summary in this video from Jason Taylor.

Here is the video link on YouTube:

Jason Taylor has done a fantastic job as always! He deserves a much needed rest!