matrix wrote:can someone explain why they use a later pick and not their first?
i heard that port called them and the bombers out saying we'll take viney or daniher with our first pick which forced the bombers to use 10 on daniher but how come melb can nominate to use 26 and not their earlier pick??
im sure theres some simple reason with 15 subclauses that im missing
As I understand it - and I could be very wrong - If a team nominates to take a F/S player, the club wanting to pick him as F/S must use their next available pick after that which was nominated by the bidding club. So if a team had pick 1,2 or 3, and bid Melbourne would need to use pick 4 but teams with picks after 4 but before 20, who bid in this range would force them to use pick 20. It is a case of letting the bidding team determine the value of the F/S player and the original team then matching it with their next pick. If no-one rates the player, or bids on them, it is then up to the club to use their last live pick to select the F/S player.
It makes you think before bidding, if GWS had bid pick 3, and Melb said too steep, GWS would have been stuck with Viney for pick 3, most commentators believe he was a 5-10 player. So Melb get a bargain because he was not good enough to risk a pick 3 on and I guess Port thought Daniher was the better player so bid their 7 for him forcing the Dons to use their 10 to take him.
As it stands, we could not have influenced this decision at all, not having a live pick below 24 at present.
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