2018 trading, drafting and list management: players and personnel

[Auntie.Gerald]

Official AFL Website of the GWS GIANTS

Very good midfield recruiting by gws

All 3 strong midfielders

[aardvark]

Gotta love Kinnear. I think I heard Eddies head explode.

The melts on BF priceless!!!!

[707]

When’s round 2 kick off?

Midday EDST. We have all night to now work through our selections, third pick tomorrow, WCE Ian Hill? and Crows Valente? before us. Harley said we'll take best available with all three picks.

Fox analysed our pick ytrading with WCE, thoughts that it shouldn't be allowed to happen but it's up to the AFL to put up the rules and that we were "ahead of the curve" in manipulating them to our clubs advantage. Might pop over to BF where there will be a few posters spewing, particularly Norf's Snake Baker!

A massive well done to the guys in the room tonight to get that outcome.

[AB Swannie]

Best guess is West Coast takes Hill, Adelaide takes Valente. According to phantom drafts and form guides, that leaves Curtis Taylor, Jez McLennan, or Tom McKenzie.

[Bloody Hell]

Best guess is West Coast takes Hill, Adelaide takes Valente. According to phantom drafts and form guides, that leaves Curtis Taylor, Jez McLennan, or Tom McKenzie.

West Coast should take Hill.

Could probably do with another ruckman. Phantoms have the 1st ruckman being picked around 25.

[AB Swannie]

West Coast should take Hill.

Could probably do with another ruckman. Phantoms have the 1st ruckman being picked around 25.

No chance we get a ruckman. The phantoms have Kieran Briggs as that ruck at 25 and he will be a GWS player via their academy.

[troyjones2525]

No chance we get a ruckman. The phantoms have Kieran Briggs as that ruck at 25 and he will be a GWS player via their academy.

Well we should at least pick him to make them match it as payback for them picking Blakey! Lol

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[Ludwig]

Bailey Williams would be an interesting selection. He's played a lot in the ruck. He has an enormous leap. He could sew up our KPP deficiencies in one pick. Then we can take a couple of midfielders with our last 2 picks. There will still be a good selection of players available later in the draft, but KPPs thin out after the 1st round.

Bailey Williams (VIC)
Height, Weight: 198cm, 95kg
Profile: Ultra athletic key forward who is difficult to stop when he can jump and fully extend his arms up towards the ball. Through the ruck he leaps so high his torso is often higher than his opponent's shoulders.

Clubs will have to think about how they are going to defend against these very tall forwards coming into the game, like Mason Cox, the King brothers, Daniher and Hipwood.

[ugg]

Been thinking more about our trade and I’m not sure it’s as good as some are making out. Yes we traded back into the second round but at the expense of our second rounder next year which you would imagine would be around the same mark.

The team that won the trade is clearly West Coast who upgrade their third round pick to a second for practically nothing (dropping 2 picks this year).

[barry]

I've had a few drinks, but if I understand this correctly.... Brilliant!

[mcs]

Can someone confirm what picks we actually have left:
This article (Swans move up order in live picks trade - sydneyswans.com.au) plus the draft tracker suggests 25,40,45,80,95,98, but then goes on to say we traded 34,39 and 40 in effect for Blakey to get Blakey, 47 and 97..... I'm easily confused at the best of times but still confused haha!

[Aprilbr]

I'm feeling pretty good about how tonight went for us. The fact that others are talking about us and what we did saids a lot. Blakey at 10 seems a very reasonable price. The trade swap looks good too although I agree that the WCE are no fools so they ensured that they received value too. Fact is if we had not traded out that first pick we would have lost it on Blakey. What we did was smart.

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[mcs]

Been thinking more about our trade and I’m not sure it’s as good as some are making out. Yes we traded back into the second round but at the expense of our second rounder next year which you would imagine would be around the same mark.

The team that won the trade is clearly West Coast who upgrade their third round pick to a second for practically nothing (dropping 2 picks this year).

We have clearly given something reasonable up - but may well feel we can claw a bit back with further trading, or substantially rate this years draft depth above that of next years and see a closer equivalence between the two picks. Who knows what it all means.

[Markwebbos]

Bailey Williams would be an interesting selection. He's played a lot in the ruck. He has an enormous leap. He could sew up our KPP deficiencies in one pick. Then we can take a couple of midfielders with our last 2 picks. There will still be a good selection of players available later in the draft, but KPPs thin out after the 1st round.

Bailey Williams (VIC)
Height, Weight: 198cm, 95kg
Profile: Ultra athletic key forward who is difficult to stop when he can jump and fully extend his arms up towards the ball. Through the ruck he leaps so high his torso is often higher than his opponent's shoulders.

Clubs will have to think about how they are going to defend against these very tall forwards coming into the game, like Mason Cox, the King brothers, Daniher and Hipwood.

I think we need midfielders more than KPPs

[mcs]

I think we need midfielders more than KPPs

Tend to agree. Would not surprise me to see us take 3 midfielders (Assuming we have 3 live picks of course) tomorrow night. We need to rebuild in the centre as a priority. While we need KPP too, I think we would be more comfortable to tie up what we hope to be our next bunch in the ilk of hannebrey/parker etc for the next gen midfield.


It would also be a surprise for us to take a potential ruck player so early. I think we are still scarred by the Ryan Fitzgerald experience many a moon ago now.