What scares me is that Hotton relies on his agility, an as someone whose torn his right acl, twists and turns, sharp pivots and spins, are hellacious for an ACL.
It creates an insane strain on the knee, and for the way he plays, and the highlights I've seen, his agility, pivots, turns, sudden...
Felt like 2024 wasn't rock bottom until post trade period.
Now the healing can begin, so although we were at the bottom of the ladder, we were feeling the effects of poor decisions made by Dimma the prior few years.
IMO, 2025 is the first year, with 2023 and 2024 real wasted ones.
2025
Smillie, Hotton, Lalor, Faull, Alger, Armstrong, Sims & Trainer all make debuts.
Do you expect 8 rising star nominations next year?
Lefau, Gibcus, Young, Lynch all returning from long term injuries, the first three won't start the season ready.
Sonsie, Dow, Ralphsmith, Ross, MRJ, Ryan...
Sounds like he could be the 'Nat Fyfe' of this draft- not actually Nat Fyfe, but someone whose actually a top end pick, that slid, in this case, due to injury.
Very interested to see how this goes, what I like about Taj, and the remaining players, is that they're all so familiar with one...
How aren't there 22 or younger players on our list who can beat 'shoestring hamstrings' Dion 😳
What is Thomson Dow doing or Hugo, it goes to show how void of young talent we are
In a few years,
28 year old Daniel Rioli for Josh Smillie and Harry Armstrong could genuinely be the best trading places moment of the decade for any afl team
I dunno this fascination with Cadman
Just reckon we're at rock bottom, need to invest in the draft and continue to attack it aggressively rather than trade picks for talent.
We need to focus on player development and giving a core group of youth 100 games together with experienced heads.
I...
How compromised will next years draft be?
North's future 1st is going to be top 4, we won't leave the bottom 4 ourselves
That's two drafts; you gotta do it
2024
Pick 1
Pick 2
Pick 10
Pick 18
Pick 20
Pick 23
pick 24
2025
Picks 1-4
Picks 1-4
From reading comments - I think we overestimate the value of paying a portion of any departing players salary.
From what I've seen this year. It's not really a factor.
Salary cap us increasing significantly in the coming years and I think longer term contracts can be attributed to this...
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