Re: VFL Rd 7: Northern Blues vs Coburg
Reply #24 –
Again who survives on our list at the end of the season will have more to do with what is available to come in, vs what we have to part with to get the appropriate draft picks (and free up list spots) to get our targets from the draft.
At the moment, we are on track to finish somewhere between 10th and 16th.
Ive done the ladder predictor and we will finish roughly 8-11 wins depending on form and fitness of both us and our opposition. Best case 10th, worst case 16th (losing some we dont expect to).
That means a draft pick between 3-9 and 20-26 before free agency changes the order.
If we decide our draft targets will be there for these picks, then it wont matter, as the decision will be Dylan Buckely, or pick 50 something odd, and I would have money on Buckley surviving that choice. Id say the club is more likely to trade something else to get us back another shot at a second rounder, in which case it all depends on how many selections we can get in the first round vs how many spots we have to free up on our senior list, vs which other players get the chop ahead of him.
This is what we did last year, and this is what I anticipate SOS will aim to do this year. It maybe that the draft is full of the sort of players we decide we dont need much of, and we might decide to trade for future picks rather than current picks.
Any of our players futures are not set in stone. It all depends on what happens at the draft table, and free agency accordingly.