ianh wrote:
Pick 1 should be dangled to see how much Adelaide want Lukosius, you just never know. Whilst I appreciate the desire for elite talent that only comes either at the top of the draft (then you wait), free agency (but not too many elite free agents will be wanting to come to the bottom side), getting lucky in the draft with the gem others overlook (can't rely on luck) or trading (and if the incoming is a known elite you have to give value back) we have so many list fillers that even without injury our bottom 4 or so are well below par. One gun kid won't turn that around, but a handful of solid firsts quality players could. Get us a bit more competitive in the short term, fill that age/experience void we have, move up the ladder a bit, all the young talent we already have maturing a bit, another reasonably early draft pick next year, suddenly we are a destination club and a chance to pick up top-end free agents to go the next step to finals contention, which in turn heightens the perception that we are a club on the rise, our youngsters mature more, gun free agents consider us an option ...
Not saying I would be unhappy with keeping pick 1 and getting the gun, just that at some point an offer could be too good to refuse, no sense in not finding out.
I might agree if we still were in the first year or two of our rebuild to build that core of soldiers and then add the cream but not anymore, we need to keep adding elite talent, especially when someone like a Walsh is sitting right there to address our biggest need.
The above logic is what Melbourne used when they downtraded from Pick 2 to Pick 9 + Dom Tyson...sound logic until Pick 2 turned out to be Josh Kelly.
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