List Building - More than one way to skin a cat

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Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat

Reply #105 – Today at 08:12:37 pm

Quote from: Thryleon – on Today at 07:08:54 pm

I guarantee there was a list of players they were interested in. At one point on the video they said someone was off the board before they made the decision to trade with Brisbane.

I'm guessing that was Emmett

https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1932520/2025-telstra-afl-draft-pick-27-louis-emmett

There was talk on some forums earlier in the night that our targets were Dean, Ison, Byrne and Emmett
Three out of four ain't bad...but he would probably have been a good pick-up.

Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat

Reply #106 – Today at 08:23:18 pm

Quote from: Lods – on Today at 08:12:37 pm

Quote from: Thryleon – on Today at 07:08:54 pm
I guarantee there was a list of players they were interested in. At one point on the video they said someone was off the board before they made the decision to trade with Brisbane.

I'm guessing that was Emmett

https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1932520/2025-telstra-afl-draft-pick-27-louis-emmett

There was talk on some forums earlier in the night that our targets were Dean, Ison, Byrne and Emmett
Three out of four ain't bad...but he would probably have been a good pick-up.

Some might remember me saying before night 2 that we should trade up with the kangas to get the 1st pick of the night to....
a) Guarantee us a pick before Ison was bid on.
b) Get whichever player we wanted from what was left without having to worry about another team taking him

Lucky for us Ison wasn't bid on anyway.
Unlucky (or poor planning??) that 'our guy' was taken right before we had the chance to take him.

All these things are easy in hindsight, sure, but let the record show i called it at the time. I just was unaware that we were targetting Emmett over my preference of Ludowycke,

Re: List Building - More than one way to skin a cat

Reply #107 – Today at 09:44:56 pm

Quote from: kruddler – on Today at 08:23:18 pm

Quote from: Lods – on Today at 08:12:37 pm

I'm guessing that was Emmett

https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1932520/2025-telstra-afl-draft-pick-27-louis-emmett

There was talk on some forums earlier in the night that our targets were Dean, Ison, Byrne and Emmett
Three out of four ain't bad...but he would probably have been a good pick-up.

Some might remember me saying before night 2 that we should trade up with the kangas to get the 1st pick of the night to....
a) Guarantee us a pick before Ison was bid on.
b) Get whichever player we wanted from what was left without having to worry about another team taking him

Lucky for us Ison wasn't bid on anyway.
Unlucky (or poor planning??) that 'our guy' was taken right before we had the chance to take him.

All these things are easy in hindsight, sure, but let the record show i called it at the time. I just was unaware that we were targetting Emmett over my preference of Ludowycke,

Do you really think that Austin and co hadn’t considered that scenario and rejected it in favour of better options?

All list managers, ours included, are formulating their strategies and making decisions based on a hell of lot more information than the most well-informed supporter has access to.

Yes, it would have been good to have been able to draft another Harry McKay, but all that were available were more Harry Lemmeys … and we scored the best KPP by a considerable margin.