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Yes I think GWS best strategy: We bid on Green, they trade 6 to GC for 2020 mid 1st round priority pick and say 15 this year and cover the bid with 15 and their later picks. We don't bid on Green, they trade 6 and next year's 1st for 4 and select ahead of the bid.

Cochrane is unpredictable and he extracted maximum value for O'Meara when he got obsessed with it. He could easily do the same here and take a stand and redraft Martin.

Que? I doubt he'll be better than any of Oliver, Brayshaw, Viney, Harmes in R1 2020. But as you say it gets thin after that so I think he would be a good addition to the list.

OK Only players like Martin who are out of contract and have delisted themselves need to go in the PSD

AFAIK, the PSD is open to uncontracted AFL players and players who were not selected in the ND or RD. So Sokol has to register for the ND or RD first. Uncontracted delisted AFL players can be picked up in DFA or SSP so they don't need to go into the PSD like they used to, e.g. Bennell, Murray. Only players like Martin who are out of contract but not delisted can go in the PSD. So I think this pool is small to non existent. Therefore no-one. I could be wrong ...

No-one

Agree, the scenario af GWS trading 6 for 15 and 20 gives them 2024 points. They need 1787 to match a bid from us at pick 3, so they get 237pts change or pick 53. So it's 6 for 15 and 20 for Green and 53.

Interesting that GWS pick 6 (1751) is almost exactly 80% (1787) of our pick 3 (2234). If we bid Green at 3 and GWS try to trade down to later picks to match they will need to strike a deal heavily in their favour to get any benefit. I don't think it's worth it and they wasted their time and points trading up to 6 from 12 and 18. They'd be better off with those picks now. They clealy failed to offer us a decent trade involving a player for 3 and it has backfired.

Maybe. You're going to walk out of an interview with Kinnear Beatson, Simon Dalrymple and John Longmire because you know better.

That this would make you walk out of the interview is pretty revealing. It's worth including just for that.

Correct. A club can go into points deficit for the next year up to the value of pick 18 the last 1st round pick.

I liked his game against Sydney, he kept it simple and found a way to get involved with his 9 tackles which generally stuck.

I'd like to see him at half back. He has good speed and can run to break lines, is a decent height and strong enough in the air to be able to zone. He is a nice left foot kick. I'd like to see him playing Hibberd's role but it probably won't happen.

No, not really, but it's absolutely no surprise you're sure of that.

Totally agree.

Yes indeed, I believe any sensible person with experience of the varying and unreliable outcomes of draft predictions would be hesitant to make definitive statements. Even more so when they have never seen the players live. You don't seem to have this type of prudence.

How many times have you seen him live in action @Rusty Nails ?

Yes so it's pretty rash to say: "Young is a lock at 3 with a fair margin between him and the rest. "

In the Chandler thread you're saying you can't understand why we gifted him a game and in this thread you're saying you can't understand why we kept playing Lockhart. Maybe the fact that half our list was unavailable might help understanding?

Past failure shouldn't scare us off. We need to learn from mistakes and try again. Taylor did OK with Oliver at these picks. If I could time travel, fixing MFC drafting would be down my list of priorities.

So you're absolutely guaranteeing Young will be the best player in this draft after Rowell and Anderson? Big early call.

I'm not sure. We can get exactly who we want at 3 after Rowell and Anderson and that has appeal.

Old mate Kane is really going to be staggered when Harmes, Lever and May are all MFC premiership players.

Are you sure that would be better than 3, 10 and 22?

Angus Brayshaw spotted training hard solo at TBO this morning. Get on.