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He’s 100% a Dee at 8 Guessing the play is whoever falls out of Cumming or Taylor goes at 7, then Farrow if neither fall Then try and snag an earlier pick to take Pickett

Lock it in Eddie

I don’t think that’s correct - I think it was that if Richmond don’t pick him he’s likely to slide past us and Essendon to around the Hawks pick or later

Why the [censored] are we playing Essendon in Gather Round AGAIN? At least we’ll likely get an MCG matchup against them in the return matchup later next year

That’s the pathway I think Cal also said on Gettable this morning that Essendon might not be as interested in him / might prioritise midfielders (someone may have to fact check that for me though) So if Richmond take Grij the pathway for Taylor to fall to us really opens up

Would love to see our draft boards compared to GWS over the years We both have great taste 😅

Cal said on Gettable this morning that apparently multiple clubs have Nairn in that 12-15 pick range, so it seems that clubs may be rating him higher than the phantom drafts are If so, we may have to bite the bullet at 8 if we want to snag him

We need to pray Richmond take Grij As much as I like him it’s clear we’re not interested and that Richmond is the only club somewhat likely to pick him In that scenario I think Taylor or Cummings slips to us (Robey wouldn’t get past Essendon, and hopefully Essendon rates Sharp above Cumming) Then we could take one of those two and then Farrow

Doesn’t tell us much more than we already knew From a very quick look we seem to be linked to Robey and Taylor (if they slide) and then Cumming, Farrow, Dovaston, Pickett and Nairn

Snap him up if he slips Think it relies on Richmond taking Grij and Essendon going for the SA midfield double of Sharp and Cumming

This We’ve always valued bringing in more talent sooner to allow for more development time The faster we bring in high quality talent - even if they don’t become stars - the faster we’ll begin to improve and attract FAs Besides, we have two firsts next year, so we’re well set from a trade and draft perspective anyway

This is why I’m so big on Grij None of the players who are likely to be available at our picks looks like a “sure thing” So with that in mind, I’d be picking for players who have traits we need and significant upside Grij isn’t the finished product but you can so clearly see the type of player he could become

I could maybe get around this when we move to 20 teams, but having more than half the teams in the comp play finals next year is ridiculous

Because there’s a good chance you could get both of them later while still using one of those picks on a higher rated player JT and the team will have a good idea of where other teams rate those two and that will inform the strategy around trading/not trading picks

I think West Coast would want another pick in that scenario - perhaps GC future first I would do that to get Robey though