Half Way Through The Trade Period - Where Are We Headed?

[Eastdog]

Only that he may attract interest and it is the silly season. Strange things happen this time of the year.

Hopefully nothing too out of the ordinary for us especially as we are all on a high now.

[Eastdog]

Why do you keep bringing up Honeychurch? He is contracted and there has been no indication he wants to leave or be traded.

Would still rather we hang on to Mitch. We haven't seen enough of him at AFL level yet. Someone like Declan Hamilton we could offer up for trade but we wouldn't be getting anything significant in return.

[anfo27]

Hearing a whisper that Essendon are chasing Josh Kelly who is apparently getable & we are sniffing around to. Then heard 'the bont' & Kelly are on holidays together or in the same place as there has been posted photos of them together in Italy. Would be doing cartwheels if we could pull this off.

[lemmon]

Hearing a whisper that Essendon are chasing Josh Kelly who is apparently getable & we are sniffing around to. Then heard 'the bont' & Kelly are on holidays together or in the same place as there has been posted photos of them together in Italy. Would be doing cartwheels if we could pull this off.

He's a star, I rate him far more highly than Prestia, Mitchell and even O'Meara with his injuries. I've got no idea how we'd get the deal done.

I'd be tempted to offer similar to what Collingwood did with Treloar. Pick 18 isn't prime real estate

[bornadog]

Hearing a whisper that Essendon are chasing Josh Kelly who is apparently getable & we are sniffing around to. Then heard 'the bont' & Kelly are on holidays together or in the same place as there has been posted photos of them together in Italy. Would be doing cartwheels if we could pull this off.

[anfo27]

Get it done Bont!

Maybe i'm reading too much into it but is the bont indicating in that photo that we're going back to back or Kelly a former pick 2 is coming to Whitten Oval? Seems pretty obvious to me.

[bulldogtragic]

Hearing a whisper that Essendon are chasing Josh Kelly who is apparently getable & we are sniffing around to. Then heard 'the bont' & Kelly are on holidays together or in the same place as there has been posted photos of them together in Italy. Would be doing cartwheels if we could pull this off.

Posted this in another thread, the boys are in Italy together seemingly having one hell of a time. Bonts, Boyd & Kelly are easily the best three players from their draft, having them together would be awesome.

GWS are looking at trading with Carlton; Marchbank, Pickett &/or Stewart. --- Hrovat is happy to go to Carlton for the best offer for the club. I'm thinking a mega trade that delivers GWS multiple first rounders that involves Carlton getting who they want and Kelly coming to us.

If we got 35 for Hamling, and then trading Stevens & 35 for St Kilda's 23. --- We send 18, 23 & Hrovat to Carlton. --- Carlton then have picks 5, 13 (Gibbs? & Lyons?), 18, 23, 25 & 45 at their discretion to facilitate Kelly, Marchbank & Pickett/Stewart being traded and then SOS getting their best return picks as well as having Hrovat.

Carlton don't want to give up pick 5. If we can get into that trade to give them trade currency and a player they are targeting, and put on the table a first rounder, a high second rounder and a first round drafted player (& a future pick if needed) that may see all three clubs getting a win.

Dogs: Give 18, 23 & Hrovat (& a future round pick possibly) - Get Kelly
Blues: Give 13, 18, 25 - Get to keep pick 5, Get picks 23 & 37, Get Marchbank, Pickett, Lyons & Hrovat
GWS: Give Kelly, Marchbank & Pickett and Pick 37 - Get 13, 18, 25 (on trade picks 13, 15, 18, 25 & 31 for more top 10 picks)

[comrade]

I refuse to entertain the idea of Kelly coming to us, I'll only get let down. Rate him massively.

[soupman]

Yep Kelly is awesome. No idea how we would get him here though

[1eyedog]

GWS would piss themselves at that scenario. It's a good crack at it BT but all it shows me is just how far we away. Would need to send a best 22 player up there IMO.

[LostDoggy]

We obviously had money in our cap to offer Hurley a pretty substantial deal.

Our offer would have been atleast 550-600k I would assume?

With a few others since leaving we have cash to spend it seems. I still think something big is brewing.

[bornadog]

GWS would piss themselves at that scenario. It's a good crack at it BT but all it shows me is just how far we away. Would need to send a best 22 player up there IMO.

What are GWS looking for and do we have that player?

A lot of their players now are reaching 100 games plus, so I doubt they need established players.

[1eyedog]

What are GWS looking for and do we have that player?

A lot of their players now are reaching 100 games plus, so I doubt they need established players.

They're strong everywhere but my thoughts would be a player who works through the middle of the ground. We've got a few options but none I would be prepared to part with.

[Sedat]

They're strong everywhere but my thoughts would be a player who works through the middle of the ground. We've got a few options but none I would be prepared to part with.

Key defence is their only real area of weakness. Phil Davis is quality but Patfull was on his last legs in 2016 and has now retired. Not sure how good any of their ruck depth behind Mummy is either.

[1eyedog]

Its Lobb and that's about it. They don't need another big guy down back plus they've got Haynes at 6'4 who is a gun, Tomlinson too. They'd be after an industrious link player like Hunter I reckon.