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Coming around to Philippou. Pairing him with Cumming, Dovaston, Lindsay or Grjl would be great. There was a comment earlier in this thread questioning his character because he backed himself as the best prospect in the draft. I don’t see it at all; Mattaes was the exact same in his draft year, and you can hardly claim he’s a cancer to his club’s culture. It’s just confidence in his ability. It’s on the nose for me, but he’d know from day 1 of preseason that it’s time to keep his head down and get to work.

So Pickett definitely won’t be reaching pick 37

Would be very very low on my list of who I want. Would be lengths behind his SA teammate Mitch Marsh, who himself isn’t particularly high

I think Lindsay would be a good pick without being married to the idea. An elite kick is one skill that transfers very well from juniors to the AFL, unlike sometimes speed/agility (look at Josh Sinn) and ball winning/explosiveness (tsatas). It’s not to say he will be elite, or that the speedy and powerful mids in this draft won’t be but it’s a good trait to have

Twomey reporting it’s unlikely that there’s much or any movement in the top 10 draft picks. Only mentioned Essendon as having a crack to move up the board.

Potentially. Tbf tho Sparrow in 2021 was tracking to be a future gun and definite member of the leadership team. If he progressed as anticipated it would’ve been great. His stagnation has confused me more than just about anyone else’s in recent times, deadset plodder these days.

Someone who hasn’t been mentioned much, but Sam Cumming from highlights looks quite exciting.

There probably is in Arki Butler. That said, there are probably better midfielders in next year’s drafts than who we will be targeting this year, it doesn’t mean you pass on them because of a prospective talent. In many ways each draft is a lottery and you can’t win without buying a ticket

I’m also fairly confident Dovaston will be a Dee, but am also (like others) keen to stress that, although he is the best small forward in this draft, he isn’t of the Nick Watson ilk. The Papley comparison I think was spot on.

B: Salem Petty Lever HB: Jiath Turner Bowey C: Windsor Viney Lindsay HF: Langford Mihocek Chandler FF: Fritsch JvR Melksham FOL: Gawn Rivers Pickett INT: Langdon Culley Steele Tholstrup Heath Adams, Jefferson, Kentfield, Howes, McAdam*, AMW, and our 2 draft picks right on the fringe of best 23 for me. Time to move past May and Sparrow imo. *He was looking very good last preseason prior to the Achilles tear. I know a lot have written him off but I’m hoping against hope that he can become a decent half forward

Would be surprised if Lindsay isn’t right in the frame for one of these picks. Dovaston probably a reach at 8 (I know it becomes 12) but I think as it stands those two would be my preference. Again it’s not the greatest draft we’ve ever seen but hopefully we can snag a couple.

I’d be playing May at Casey based on his end of season form FB: Lever Petty Salem HB: Bowey Turner Jiath C: Windsor Viney Lindsay HF: Fritsch Mihocek Culley FF: Melksham JVR Chandler Foll: Gawn Kozzy Langford Int: Rivers Steele Langdon AMW Tholstrup with potential for one or both of Picks 7 and 8 to come in I was quick to criticise lamb but overall I think he did a pretty good job - 8/10 for the trade period

If it’s a 2026 first rounder that’d actually be a reasonable deal. 2027 🥴

If it’s true we’re giving Trac, 24 and 28 for 7+8 and a future Suns’ pick, that’d better bloody be their future first or Tim Lamb can hand his resignation in at 7:31pm

The calibre of this draft is the real shame. If in any other draft Gold Coast just needed points for academy players so were willing to trade out 2 top 10 picks this would be a massive win-win. They even gave up pick 6 last year for Dan Rioli. Unfortunately timing couldn’t be worse.

We knew it was coming but it’s now confirmed. Humphrey is not going to be traded.

Yes because the medical certainly didn’t happen

Demon4Life joined last Wednesday. Very likely a troll

When Gold Coast hoist the premiership cup in September next year, I do hope they acknowledge us for helping in their list build.

If it ends up being picks 7 and 8 for Trac, [censored] sending Gold Coast back pick 24 to assist with their academy products. If they’re not going to pony up and give trade Humphrey who clearly wants out, why should we have to help them secure their neatly packaged path to a premiership. It’s more the principle than thinking pick 24 is a future superstar, I am so sick of this club just rolling over.

I don’t hate the Suns but I don’t like being bent over by them and pleasing their every wish. I know it’s just the way the system works at the moment but we’re being used as their dumping ground so they can offload two draft picks that they don’t want or need so they can accumulate points with second and third rounders so they can take a superstar of the competition and 2 of the top 5 players in the draft crop (which only bats about 6 deep). Woe is me but I hate it

Can anyone in this camp explain how losing a future 250 gamer in McVee and Petracca for what will be picks 10 and 11 in a weak draft is actually a good result? Or is it just the (justified) pessimism where we expect to be shafted at the trade table?

Yes, but they’re good prospects in the same sense that the mid-late second rounders in last year’s draft were good prospects. They’re still not the calibre of drafted that picks in that range normally are. They could still turn into great AFL players, but so good a random kid plucked from pick 47. It’s just that the likelihood of drafting a future superstar in this draft is far lower than last year.

Yes, but they’re good prospects in the same sense that the mid-late second rounders in last year’s draft were good prospects. They’re still not the calibre of drafted that picks in that range normally are

We need to stop consoling ourselves with the ‘two top 10 picks for a 30 year old myth.’ If it ends up being the two first rounders then we have to live with it and move on. But 2 top 10 picks in the 2025 draft is not the same as 2 top 10 picks last year, in 2023, 2022 or even 2021. Notwithstanding that 7 & 8 becomes either 10 & 11 or 11 & 12, the draft is frighteningly shallow. I’m no twomey but I do keep an interest in draft crops, and the only one this is comparable to in recentish years is 2020. We would be victims of a robbery if that is how the trade unfolds, no point pretending otherwise.