Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

[chef]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

Why would Addison be worth as much as Wood?

He might be worth more.

[Mofra]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

Perhaps Addison but would want to hang on to Wood. He will be a linebreaker and just about to hit his straps.

Wood doesn't get enough of it though - pick 6 + Wood for Martin, if Martin is all his cracked up to be - I'd jump at it.


Pearce & JJ have shown they have the potential to be rebounders

[stefoid]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

I thought Pearce showed something today - hes warming to the task.

Not that I particularly want to get rid of Easton.

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

Wood is definitely one player I don't want to see traded.

[Sedat]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

Do the permutations change at all if we end up with picks 4 and 5 instead of 5 and 6? Melbourne are some show to catch us before the season is out.

[jeemak]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

I'd prefer us to use pick 4 and 5 in this year's draft, if we ended up with thos picks and get as much senior experience in to the players we select as possible.

Though, I just can't see us getting the deal done for only pick five or six, and we're not in a position to allow any genuine talent to be removed from our list. While we may have a couple of good ruck prospects, at this stage we only have one ruck that is proven AFL standard.

[Drunken Bum]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

Do the permutations change at all if we end up with picks 4 and 5 instead of 5 and 6? Melbourne are some show to catch us before the season is out.

If Melbourne catch us we will have picks 3 and 4 i believe which would most definitely change things.
Also if GC finish on the bottom, which is a possibility, that changes the landscape again, they aren't going to give up pick 1 for the mini draft whereas there is some chance they might bid pick 2

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

Do the permutations change at all if we end up with picks 4 and 5 instead of 5 and 6? Melbourne are some show to catch us before the season is out.

I don't think Melbourne are much of a chance to overtake us on the ladder. They will likely only win one more game, at best, against GWS.
Their remaining games are: Saints, GWS (ACT), Adelaide, Fremantle (Perth).

[The Pie Man]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

I don't think Melbourne are much of a chance to overtake us on the ladder. They will likely only win one more game, at best, against GWS.
Their remaining games are: Saints, GWS (ACT), Adelaide, Fremantle (Perth).

They're % is a little better than ours as well - though if they did win 2 more games it would be a close run thing.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

Wood is definitely one player I don't want to see traded.

Neither do I, but to get the pick we'd have to give up somebody decent.

[Sedat]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

I don't think Melbourne are much of a chance to overtake us on the ladder. They will likely only win one more game, at best, against GWS.
Their remaining games are: Saints, GWS (ACT), Adelaide, Fremantle (Perth).

They would be some small chance against St Kilda now that their finals aspirations are now shot. They did push the Saints hard earlier in the season.

[Bornadog]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

They would be some small chance against St Kilda now that their finals aspirations are now shot. They did push the Saints hard earlier in the season.

Sedat, can't see this happening.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

I don't want to spend a 1st and second round pick in a "superdraft" year drafting a WA player who may well choose to go home at a later date. Happy to take the two best available with picks 5 and 6. We need to rebuild quickly and I'm sick of trying to be clever based on the failure of our drafting since the 1999 draft which was awe-sooome. Can we just get some more quality midfielder in the mould of Wallis and Dahlhaus? Keep it simple - lets not muck around. Alternately I'm happy to trade one of those for a mini draft slot but that's about it.

[westdog54]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

I don't want to spend a 1st and second round pick in a "superdraft" year drafting a WA player who may well choose to go home at a later date. Happy to take the two best available with picks 5 and 6. We need to rebuild quickly and I'm sick of trying to be clever based on the failure of our drafting since the 1999 draft which was awe-sooome. Can we just get some more quality midfielder in the mould of Wallis and Dahlhaus? Keep it simple - lets not muck around. Alternately I'm happy to trade one of those for a mini draft slot but that's about it.

Personally I want to see us rebuild properly rather than trying to climb too far too quickly, even if that means some short term pain.

At the moment we have 5 picks active in the first 3 rounds and a number of fringe players who may attract interest from other clubs. If we do things properly I think we're in a good position to have our cake and eat it too.

[mjp]

Re: Dogs Keen on Jack Martin in Mini Draft

I don't want to spend a 1st and second round pick in a "superdraft" year drafting a WA player who may well choose to go home at a later date.

Is this a serious concern?

We took Cooney and Griffen from SA...that has worked out fine. We took Ward from Spotswood and he went to GWS.

I hate this mentality. If the club does everything right then why would the players want to leave? Particularly with Martin who would be moving from Broome via Geraldton...it is not like Perth is home for him.