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Hopefully Issy Grant will get a debut this season.

We still have a very young list and with the loss of McCarthy I'm worried about our midfield mix. Blackburn and Lamb are stars but have a very...

This makes me very happy. With some fitness behind him he can make a big impact for us.

It's already been recorded in November, which I think was prior to him being employed with us, and I'm sure the club were aware of it. I don't have any issues with it.

The key to me is the stability they have had in their squad. Yes they unexpectedly lost Rance, but they also have 14 3x premiership players (9 of them 28+, offering a lot of experience and setting...

Travis is a really solid appointment.

I work in special education and we often have AFL players visit, and he interacted so wonderfully with our students when he came. Kind, respectful and...

What I never understood is why it mattered what each club was doing - don't we have 3 million to structure over 5 years, and they have 1.5 million to structure over 5 years? They're separate...

64 games across 9 seasons, time on the rookie list - yeh he's an Eker. Loses points for being a one club player and never being delisted.

Roarke gets ahead by never being on the main list, being...

His leap definitely surprised his opponents a bit in that clip, like he got an extra few centimetres even when jumping on the lead.

You can definitely see the Howe comparisons (he started as a...

How has the AFL allowed this to happen? How can a trade be approved, with players starting training and doing media appearances, without the actual details of the trade being confirmed?

What...

It's an insane change. At AFL level, it will be frustrating and as others have said will likely result in huge penalties at important times for players doing a) something instinctive that they've...

A lot of people are putting JUH in their round one teams. Assuming that he isn't ready to step straight in to our senior squad, I see Schache as the perfect replacement for him in the short term.
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I think that's part of the reason. We have a real glut of players in the 15-30 range who are not discernibly better or worse than one another, and we also have a lot of players with similar skillsets...

Stats insider has a great shot charting tool link

Naughton is going at 59% from 77 set shots. He is around 2 goals less accurate than an average footballer taking shots from the same positions...

I disagree, for reasons others have stated. Most importantly that dunks is a 23 year old leader of our club with two years to run on his contract, and we did not want him to leave.

The offer would...

And Josh Bruce. Haha. Okay. So not the second....still yuck.

Thankfully he left in 2015 before things really heated up in that rivalry.

Does this make Adam the second ex-GWS player to play for us? Yuck.

There have also been suggestions that Essendon should now trade 6 + 7 for 2, so that they can ABSOLUTELY OWN US by bidding on Jamarra. It would really teach us a lesson, as we match with a bunch of...

We came into the trade period with one of the most unique positions of all sides. We had immense bargaining power across all negotiations, due to the fact that high picks meant nothing - I think...

I am pretty sure that if they take two first round picks this year, they don't need to take one next year.

So out of their four (6,7,8 2020; pick 1 2021 ;) ) they can trade two.

We really need one of Cordy (24yo), Le Young (21yo), Gardner (23yo) or Trengrove (30yo, if he's around) to have a cracking pre season. Get as fit as they've ever been, work on their positioning and...

Depending on where the JUH bid comes, we will need 5 picks worth of points - and you can only use picks for points, if you have a list spot open for it.

If we don't cut 5, we would definitely go...

Twomey saying 14 and future 2nd for Treloar and 26, 33, 42 - and they're paying 300k each year!!!!

If it's a straight swap of Treloar for future 2nd, there is no denying that is an excellent value trade.

Aker had played 248 games for Brisbane

and Treloar has played 173.....

There are definitely a lot of ifs, I guess that's half the point of the discussion. I would be worried if our list management team weren't considering scenarios like that, planning at least 3-5 years...

650k is a far more palatable salary and would make me a lot more comfortable with a trade.

If it is being completed separate to any Dunkley trade, then I would assume it is involving 2021 picks...

What about if the size of Treloar's contract means we can't offer Bailey Smith what he deserves in a couple of years, and he leaves?

It's all well and good to say 'only the next two years matters...

Both Young and Martin could have been picked up as free agents.

Our choice with Young was either offer him a spot on the main list, or let him go. I assume our preferred option was to give him...

Trengrove was brought across as a 26yo key defender. In the one game he did play this year he moved like a truck and showed no sign that he should have been given more games. Just because they were...

Let's say the trade was Dunkley for pick 7 and Mcdonald-Tipungwuti, and we on-traded 7 for Treloar and a hefty percentage of his salary, are we happy with that?

Dunkley for AMT and Treloar makes...

It's almost like we had a long-term plan for the ruck position which was unexpectedly terminated.

Boyd and English was our long-term ruck tag team, with Sweet rookied, which had the potential to...

They also had nobody of any quality to pay money to, and could offer ample opportunities across the park to incoming players. Neither of those are so simple for a side that has a number of...

FWIW my answers are:
Hannan > Gowers
Trengrove = Martin (slow, lacking mobility, good in physical contests, old - maybe a slight edge to Martin for his years as a ruckman)
Treloar is a very...

If Hannan has replaced Gowers on the list, has the list improved?

If Stef Martin replaces Trengove on the list, has the list improved?

If Treloar replaces Dunkley on the list, has the list...

One thing that is very important to me is that Essendon have to pay big for Dunkley. I don't want them to get away with giving us a couple of picks in 20s because we can use them for points. I want...

I worry we have been blinded a bit by being able to get him on the cheap. Is he better than Trengrove?

I was keen on Casboult, who offers more as a forward/around the ground, and would have been...

He has a genetic heart condition requiring multiple daily medications to manage arrythmia. How much impact this has on his endurance, I don't know.

I would want Dunkley, Treloar, Cox, Stephenson...

There was talk a few days ago that they would take a pick in the 20s if someone was willing to take enough of his salary. I guess that's what we would need to weigh up - how much can we afford in the...

Welcome back BT. This thread in particular has had far too many short posts, and not enough 10 paragraph deep dives into the worth of pick 46 in a 4-team trade.

I'll be disappointed if the trade...

Surely the Saints ditch any bid for Crouch, with Crows demanding their first pick, and shift their attention to Treloar - gets as much of the ball, has equally suspect disposal, but has a point of...