2018 trading, drafting and list management: players and personnel

[Mark26]

Watch for the outroar from the AFL and subsequent banning of such things in future years...

That's the point of live trading isn't it? Isn't this what the AFL wanted? A bit of excitement with pick swapping. Will there be backlash? I'd say so, only because it was the Swans who did it first. If it was Hawthorn or the Pies, the commentators would be lauding their genius recruiters right now.

[AB Swannie]

Wonder if there’s any chance RCD could slip to our new pick. Probably not but he was linked to the Giants with the picks they’ve now used on other players. They do still have a pick at 19, or there are plenty of other picks still to be made before we get to pick.

Oops. Beat me to it.

[goswannies]

LoL Gil the Dil thwarted again (and did he say we matched Adelaide’s bid??). I’ll bet the recruiters watched the movie Draft Day some time recently. I can see another trade ban on the horizon

[tlock]

I reckon we'll go for a ruckman at pick 24

[Auntie.Gerald]

We would have confirmed this trading move with the afl before hand in the draft IT practice sessions etc

[707]

Not sure what we've given up in 2019 but we've now got 25, 40 & 46 on the trade tracker! and got Nick Blakey :-)

[mcs]

That's the point of live trading isn't it? Isn't this what the AFL wanted? A bit of excitement with pick swapping. Will there be backlash? I'd say so, only because it was the Swans who did it first. If it was Hawthorn or the Pies, the commentators would be lauding their genius recruiters right now.

We all know the AFL only like it if as you say its from certain clubs.... but we know how the AFL loves to punish us for ever even contemplating using a competitive advantage we may have spotted that others haven't.

[tlock]

how the heck did we lose a placing from 24 to 25

[mcs]

how the heck did we lose a placing from 24 to 25

Matching bid for the Collingwood Academy player.

[Markwebbos]

Genius by KB. They’ll close that loophole next year you’d think.

No ruckman in this years draft other than Briggs. Hoping we’ll get a decent midfielder with pick 24 or whatever it now is?

[mcs]

I reckon we'll go for a ruckman at pick 24

I would be exceptionally surprised if we do. I think its more likely we will take one in the rookie draft than the main draft.

[liz]

I reckon we'll go for a ruckman at pick 24

Pretty confident we won’t. There’s only one worthy of that pick and he’s tied to GWS. And it’s not really a great need, especially if we have that potential cat B rookie lined up. (His name escapes me at the moment. Must be all the excitement of the draft!)

[ugg]

Pretty confident we won’t. There’s only one worthy of that pick and he’s tied to GWS. And it’s not really a great need, especially if we have that potential cat B rookie lined up. (His name escapes me at the moment. Must be all the excitement of the draft!)

Jack Blair

[S.S. Bleeder]

Tell me if I'm wrong, but swapping out our 1st pick to WC before Blakey was bid on ensured that the brunt of matching the points for Blakey came from our subsequent ones. Then swapping with WC again ensured our 1st pick remained pretty strong. I think our recruiting staff are amazing!

It's starting to become clear what happened now. We're lucky that West Coast didn't screw us over.

[Markwebbos]

It's starting to become clear what happened now. We're lucky that West Coast didn't screw us over.

I think recruiters reputations are based on their fairness, other than Essendon of course.