Trade Jamar + another player to Port for Pick 9.

Select Majak Daw with Pick 34.

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

We can persist with Spencer, Meesen, Johnson and even Stef Martin until Daw comes on.

Except Daw isn't tall enough and probably not good enough to be an AFL ruckman...

Port get - Pick 9, Pick 11, Jamar

Hawks get - Burgoyne

Melbourne get - Pick 8, Thorp

bumps our pick 11 up to pick 8, enables us to get butcher, plus we gain another KPF chance

Also lets us concentrate the rest of the week on a ruckman trade/PSD chance

That actually isn't a terrible suggestion and quite equitable all around, although not too keen on Thorp at the Dees.

Port get - Pick 9, Pick 11, Jamar

Hawks get - Burgoyne

Melbourne get - Pick 8, Thorp

bumps our pick 11 up to pick 8, enables us to get butcher, plus we gain another KPF chance

Also lets us concentrate the rest of the week on a ruckman trade/PSD chance

How good is Thorpe, seriously ? I think I'd prefer just pick 8 in that deal. Alone.

tim harrington said more likely than not the big deals will get done before we become a player again. so once te burgoyne deal goes though and port then have picks 8 and 9 or watever it is, here's the scenarios that bring us into it

scenario 1.

port get jamar buckley and 34

melbourne receive pick 8 and 40

scenario 2

port get jamar bell and 34

melbourne receive pick 8 and 40

scenario 3

port get jamar bell and buckley and 34

melbourne get pick 8 and 24

or some other combination of those players and an exchange of picks.

reckon its pretty equitable and it falls in line with what Tim Harriongton ha said regarding a tightening up of picks, whilst making room on our list to accomodate our picks

The thing about Bell and Buckley is that they've drawn interest from Carlton, not Port Adelaide. Why would Port want either of them? Don't say, 'because they're South Aussies'.

Port get - Pick 9, Pick 11, Jamar

Hawks get - Burgoyne

Melbourne get - Pick 8, Thorp

bumps our pick 11 up to pick 8, enables us to get butcher, plus we gain another KPF chance

Also lets us concentrate the rest of the week on a ruckman trade/PSD chance

Any club that trades for Mitch Thorp will be the laughing stock of the league.

He's got a reputation within footbally circles - and despite Pelchen's face saving "we're open to offers for Mitch" - no club will go near him without extensive medical (and possibly psychological) screenings first