AFL Draft 2016: Collingwood trade could prove costly as future draft picks shake out
COLLINGWOOD could miss out on its highest draft pick in more than a decade after trading for Adam Treloar last year. WHICH TEAMS TRADED FUTURE PICKS?
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COLLINGWOOD will have traded away its highest draft pick in more than a decade in November’s draft unless it can arrest its dramatic form slump.
The Pies’ current first-round pick is an enticing pick 5, but it belongs to Greater Western Sydney because of the Adam Treloar trade.
If a resurgent Fremantle leaps over Collingwood on the ladder with a victory on Friday night that pick will be sitting at four, the best selection the Pies have had since they took Dale Thomas (two) and Scott Pendlebury (five) in the 2005 national draft.
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Richmond will go November’s national draft with a single selection inside the top 40 as a result of the Chris Yarran trade.
The Tigers and Collingwood are among 11 clubs to have traded away crucial selections in the first three rounds of the 2016 national draft using new future pick trading rules.
Expansion sides GWS and the Suns will boast an extraordinary 11 out of the first 36 selections in November’s draft.
Gold Coast snared Richmond’s second-round pick and last year’s No.31 selection for pick 19, which Richmond then gave to Carlton.
The Suns gambled correctly that the Tigers would slide down the ladder with Yarran, battling personal issues, not expected to play a senior game this year.
Richmond’s lack of a second-round pick will impact their ability to either secure Gold Coast star Dion Prestia or continue restocking their list with elite talent.
The Suns also cashed in last year by handing over a second-round pick for Fremantle’s 2016 second-round pick, which on ladder position is now pick 22.
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Melbourne and Geelong both handed over first-round picks as part of trades that secured them Sam Weideman and Lachlan Henderson respectively.
Gold Coast secured Fremantle’s second round pick, Port Adelaide’s second round pick, Richmond’s second-round pick and Melbourne’s first-round pick.
Given it has its own first and second-round picks, it will have six picks inside the top 30 in this year’s national draft.
GWS will be armed with three first-round picks and two second-rounders, having traded Curtly Hampton for Adelaide’s 2016 second-round selections.
It gives them the perfect platform to assemble enough points to bid for three GWS Academy selections expected to be in the top 15 in the national draft.
Collingwood received pick 28 back from GWS in the Treloar trade and drafted Marcellin College surprise packet Brayden Sier, who was slowly improving in the VFL before an arm injury.
Melbourne’s first-round selection went to Gold Coast as they traded up for star recruit Clayton Oliver and also received another 2015 top-10 pick.
That selection was used to take 196cm power forward Weideman at pick nine, and looks an astute choice given the lack of key position forwards in the upcoming national draft.
But Collingwood will be challenged to sell a message of hope ahead of this year’s draft given it cannot secure another star talent.
Treloar could be leading the Collingwood best-and-fairest but the Pies will need to rely on improvement from Sier, James Aish and their band of existing kids.
The Pies traded a 2016 second-round selection to Brisbane for James Aish, but it was a selection they had just received from St Kilda for Nathan Freeman.
It means they retain all their picks in this year’s draft except their first-round selection.
St Kilda will also go into the national draft without a second round pick but hoping Freeman and Jake Carlisle will make an instant impact.
DID YOUR CLUB TRADE ITS DRAFT PICK AWAY?
ROUND ONE
MELBOURNE traded its first-round pick (currently No.9) to GOLD COAST for the pick that secured them key forward Sam Weideman
COLLINGWOOD traded its first-round pick (currently No.5) to GWS GIANTS as part of the Adam Treloar deal
GEELONG’S first-round pick (currently No.18) was on-traded by CARLTON to GWS GIANTS as part of the Lachie Henderson deal
ROUND TWO
ST KILDA’S second-round pick (currently No.25) was on-traded by COLLINGWOOD to BRISBANE as part of the Nathan Freeman-James Aish trades
FREMANTLE gave its second-round pick (currently No.22) to GOLD COAST for a second-round pick last year
PORT ADELAIDE traded its second-round pick (currently No.28) to GOLD COAST as part of the Charlie Dixon trade
RICHMOND gave its second-round pick (currently No.24) to GOLD COAST to get the pick they used to acquire Chris Yarran
ADELAIDE traded its second-round pick (currently No.29) to GWS GIANTS for Curtly Hampton
ROUND THREE
NORTH MELBOURNE gave BRISBANE its third-round selection as part of the Ryan Bastinac-James Aish deal.
WESTERN BULLDOGS traded a third-round selection to CARLTON as part of a pick swap.
BRISBANE gave its third-round selection to GEELONG for Josh Walker and Jarrad Jansen.
ROUND FOUR
CARLTON gave the WESTERN BULLDOGS its fourth-round selection as part of a pick swap
SYDNEY traded its fourth-round selection to the WESTERN BULLDOGS for Michael Talia.
ROUND FIVE
GWS GIANTS gave GEELONG a fifth-round selection for Steve Johnson
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