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

Reply #105 –
Quote from: Thryleon – on
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 –
Quote from: Lods – on
Quote from: Thryleon – on
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 –
Quote from: kruddler – on
Quote from: Lods – on


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.

"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

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

Reply #108 –
Austin has been our list manager now for 6 drafts.

Who are the top 5 players he has drafted?
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

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

Reply #109 –
Dean, Ison, Smith…

To be fair I think his first 4 drafts he was trading rather than drafting.
Let’s go BIG !

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

Reply #111 –
Cowan
O. Hollands
Hof
Smith
Dean

We wont know how good these guys are for a while yet and we wont know how much better or worse we could have drafted out of those.
"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

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

Reply #112 –
Quote from: northernblue – on
Dean, Ison, Smith…

To be fair I think his first 4 drafts he was trading rather than drafting.

Despite the emphasis on trades and free agents, Austin still drafted some pretty handy players in his first four drafts; Motlop, Ollie Hollands, Cowan, Moir and Wilson.

At the same time, he brought in Williams, Saad, Boyd, Hewett, Lewis Young, Cerra, Acres, O'Keeffe and Matt Carroll and, apart from Oscar McDonald, not one delisted player among them :)
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball