Colm

We will probably turnover 5/6 players this year and the same next year. That’s about 25% of our list. We have holes in every part of our list imo. We currently have picks 9, 38,42,48 & 65 in this year’s draft and a full hand next year. Houston would 100% improve our best 22 year but I can’t see how we could give up 2 first rounders and improve the rest of the list enough.

I’m hoping we win every game. I don’t think anybody is actually hoping we lose games for a better draft pick. Even is they say that come Saturday night I’m sure everybody will be cheering us to win. But in the overall picture I won’t be gutted if we miss finals. I get what you’re saying about getting the monkey off our backs but I don’t see us winning the GF. So if we win one final we probably then travel interstate to a top four team. Another belting by Freo would create an even bigger monkey on our backs. Two weeks of finals gives us the same amount of time off as we have had the past two years. A longer off season will allow us to get any surgeries out of the way early and give everybody the best chance at a good preseason. We have seen recently that the deeper teams go in September it has a knock on effect to the start of the next season

Here Bigfoot’s Davo’s top 30 for next year. Has Ah-Mu at 19 Top 30 update 2025 1. Archie Ludowyke - Sand - 195cm 2. Dyson Sharp - Cent Dist - 188cm 3. Oliver Greeves - Eastern - 191cm 4. Fred Rodriguez - Sth Freo - 185cm 5. Blake Kelly - Swan Dist - 182cm 6. Riley Onley - Murray - 194cm 7. Louis Emmett - Oakleigh - 198cm 8. Lachlan Dovaston - Eastern - 176cm 9. Blake Oudshoorn-Bennier - Nth Adel - 182cm 10. Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves - Dand - 185cm 11. Basil Hart - Peel - 185cm 12. Zeke Uwland - Gold Coast A - 177cm 13. Cody Curtin - Clarem - 197cm 14. Daniel Annable - Brisbane A - 183cm 15. Thomas McGuane - Western - 177cm 16. Noah Roberts-Thompson - Sturt - 180cm 17. Jack Dalton - Sand - 177cm 18. Cooper Duff-Tytler - Cald - 199cm 19. Tairon Ah-Mu - Dand - 198cm 20. Willem Duursma - Gipps - 191cm 21. Marcus Cassidy - East Perth - 187cm 22. Xavier Bamert - Sand - 184cm 23. Dylan Patterson - Gold Coast A - 183cm 24. Jadd Hill - Perth - 178cm 25. Jobe Scapin - Gipps - 186cm 26. Sam Grij - Oakleigh - 182cm 27. Toby Whan - Sth Freo - 182cm 28. Zach O'Keefe - Gipps - 177cm 29. Raphael Geesu - Bris A - 175cm 30. Harry Morphett - Geel - 180cm

Funny leading up to the last draft I was hoping we would pick Curtin or O’Sullivan at our first pick. Partly due to the fact that Petty had tried to push through a trade to the Crows and I thought with their mature bodies they both could have a good impact in the seniors in their first year. Fast forward to now Petty has resigned and Windsor has had a far greater impact in his first year than either Curtin or O’Sullivan.

Two great signings. I voted for Petty. I was worried that he might have been gone this trade window and he would have been very difficult to replace. Despite not playing his best footy this year I still rate him very highly. I never had any fear of Windsor leaving.

Got him signed up very early. He would have been on a 3 year contact already as top 10 pick. Great news. Has been a great pick up. A perfect draft pick really- filled a need for us, has been able to have an instant impact and has potential to be one of the best players in the league. Well done to all involved.

When you have a list manager from another club refusing to deny that they are interested it strongly suggest that they in the race. Very easy and a lot more respectful for him to say “ he’s not one we are currently looking at”.

He didn’t want to play at Casey( when they were a top VFL side) but was happy to play for Box Hill? We were able to sell the idea to Grundy I’m sure we could have sold it to him. Blake Acres also left Freo for a packet of chips and would have been a much better get than Hunter.

His job is to improve the list.( our list not Sydney’s )Giving the ins and outs last year he failed badly. We got a lot less for Grundy than we paid to move up 3 places in the draft. And take the kolt instead of Billy Wilson who went at our original pick. Our trading since 21 has been really poor. This will be the 3rd year we will attempt to get a second ruck in to can give Max a chop out. Not good enough even worse when we were right in the prem window.

Don’t want Clarry to go and don’t think a move would be good for him. I haven’t bothered with this thread too much as Cornes comments that were the starting point for it were rubbish. Given up Clarry AND a good pick is just nuts. But weather we like it or not( and I don’t) this is starting to get a bit of substance to it with the Crows list manager more or less saying they were interested in Clarry and their first round pick reportedly up for grabs. We also know that despite what the majority of fans seem to think about trading him it was the club who first put it out there last year that we were open to trading him.

Thanks. He has Lindsay much higher than others. Also has Langford much lower. Very even pool is making for some very different ratings.

That’s 6 talls gone. Not sure there’s much point in keeping Fullarton on the list either if he’s not able to get a game when Max is out. He’s 23 and been in the system a while. I’m hoping Tmac will go around again for another year but we have some serious recruiting to do.

Awesome news. Much bigger story than our loss. Huge result for us. Put him back in defence. Get a proper ruck forward and leave JVR up front will go along way to sorting us out for next year. I’m stoked he’s resigned.

Hmmmm. Third soft tissue injury this year. As a RSA not sure we would get him too cheap. Would you pay him more than Rivers or McVee? We would probably have to pay him more to get him to sign. If he continues to have soft tissue issues then it could be problematic.

There will be plenty of options to trade up or into this year’s draft I think. the Suns currently have picks 8,9, 20 & 28 and will be open to offers. The Lions will want to split pick 15 but will need picks in this year’s draft in return. Freo have 3 first rounders this year and are hoping to trade for Chad Warner next year so you would think they would be open to moving one or two picks into nexts years drafts. Even if we don’t get involved directly for these picks there will be a lot of other picks being split as a result. Example let’s say Suns trade pick 9 and get a late first round pick this year as part of the deal- they would probably split that later pick as well. I don’t think we did a great job in trading picks last year but clubs will probably look at us as a club in decline and be more open to trading with us this year so hopefully we can do better.

Agree 100%. I really hope he stays and I’d be happy to hold him to his last year even if he wants out but the offer isn’t good enough from our perspective. However history would suggest if he wants out he will probably leave this year and I was just pointing out that the Crows would be able to get it done without using pick 5.

They could offer a future first if they are serious. Or they could do a deal using their FF to get a first round pick off Suns or Brisbane this year.

It’s a very exciting draft. Touted as a midfielders draft but now has many key position players rated in the top 30. Depth that means some gems could be found as late as the third round. Im hoping we trade into this draft and have a real crack at it.

Cal’s phantom has dropped. For some reason( my fault I’m sure) I can’t add links. If somebody else would put it up that would be great. His top 30 is a fair bit different from anything else I seen. Showing just how even and deep this years draft is.

It might be smart to get a larger portion of Brayshaw’s contract off the books next year if we have the space to do so. Otherwise it will continue to be a factor for years to come as the AFL pays less and less. Gus maybe open to renegotiating if he gets a lumps some next year.

I really hope we hold onto Petty- key position player of his quality and age are extremely difficult to come by. Should be one of the best defenders in the comp in the coming years. But the longer we go without him signing a contract the less likely it is that he resigns. An argument could be made that it would be foolish for him to sign now after we have lowered his wage value by playing him out of position. But given how keen he was to leave last year I’d be very nervous come trade period if he hasn’t resigned.

Read somewhere the Crows would love to get Draper at pick 5 if he’s still there. Local lad who’s very highly rated. Not sure they will be keen to let pick 5 go if they think he will still be there.

I haven’t been Tim Lambs greatest fan of late but credit where credits due- I do remember him saying in an interview about the time all the mouse pack was drafted that we internally recruit groups of talented young players in burst over a two year period to bring them through together.

Jed Adams with 6 disposals today. Which is his average over the past 4 weeks. In a defence that seeing a lot of the ball. For those that watch Casey closely is he carrying an injury or just struggling to make it?

We do tend to dwell on that draft quite a bit. Just had a look at Cal top 30 draft ratings a couple of weeks before the draft. He had Curnow one spot ahead of Sam at 8&9. This was a week before Curnow was done for drink driving and I think there was question marks over his attitude. Hipwood was 14 and Harry and Ben were 21&24. He also had Clayton Oliver at 11. We took him at pick 4. Cal had another tall in Josh Schache rated as the 4th best in the draft. Of course we with hindsight we would have been better taking one of those other talls before Sam but we also could have taken Schache instead of Oliver. In 2017 we picked Spargo at pick 29. Tom De Koning went the pick after. You can always look back and say we could have picked player x instead of player y, can’t always get them right and picking Sam seems to be in line with the player ratings at the time.