cecil89 wrote:
Disagree with this section. No matter what happens in this draft I think we need to continue to seek early draft picks in 2016 and 2017. Our 2014 class is unproven at this point and outside of Cripps we have nothing to show for 2013. Our recent trading has bolstered our playing stocks from the 2011 & 2012 classes, but Jed Lamb is all we have from the 2010 group.
To me we still have a lot of holes and won't be ready to trade for established players, hit free agency hard or move away from the draft for another 3 years. Trade into early picks in 16 & 17 to complement the talent we get this year, develop cripps and the boys from the 11 & 12 drafts (Docherty, Sumner, Kerridge, Buckley, Plowman, Jaksch, Graham) and we might then have a core that we can add to through other means and move away from the draft.
The issue is how do we get into each of the next couple of drafts. It's easy to say we trade away any talent over 25, but we need to be mindful of developing a strong culture too. Casboult, Murphy, Kreuzer, Tuohy, Gibbs, Curnow, Everitt etc can be turned in to early picks, but we have to trade the right ones and keep the ones who will truly lead a young group and improve their development.
It will be interesting times ahead. I actually agree we will need to be aggressive for a while yet, but that aggression will be tempered by our success in the draft (or actually increase if we fail). Incremental or slow change is not going to build a premiership list.
Who to or not trade is going to very interesting and one that will keep these boards busy for a while.
We need to be careful not to judge these moves post event either. People will judge what SOS has done on whether we draft well or if the likes of Menzel or Yarran are great at their new teams. This is incorrect as this information is not available to us and we can only judge it's correctness on the information available at the time and the logic behind the moves.
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