4 hours ago, Lil_red_fire_engine said:

It sounds great but also sounds like that deal likely has more $$ sitting in that last year than we would likely afford. I can see other teams as mentioned above having much more ease to accommodate and more want for the pick. I just like him as a player and would fit a 22 need in my view. 

No we have the want for pick 7, absolutely.

Delist Melk, Hibbo and Baker and we would be well ahead on salary cap space taking Bowes ,

Hunt and Tomlinson could leave and that's a heap more.

I hope we are in this up to our eyeballs.

My stuff of fantasies trade:

Go after GC pick 7,  trade Future first and Bedford for Pick 7.

Then trade Pick 7 And Jackson to WC for Pick 2, Future First and Pick 20

Out: late first rounder, Bedford, Jackson

In: Pick 2(use on Cadmann?), an early 2023 Pick and pick 20

It won't happen as I think the dees will try get Jackson to Freo. And I think Pick 7 is only on the table with Bowes.

1 minute ago, Redleg said:

No we have the want for pick 7, absolutely.

Delist Melk, Hibbo and Baker and we would be well ahead on salary cap space taking Bowes ,

Hunt and Tomlinson could leave and that's a heap more.

I hope we are in this up to our eyeballs.

We've offered Melksham and Hibberd deals though. You don't renege on those now.

5 minutes ago, A F said:

We've offered Melksham and Hibberd deals though. You don't renege on those now.

Well, they should have waited to see the landscape. If Melk and Hibbo got better offers, then so be it.

IMO a mistake.

8 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

My stuff of fantasies trade:

Go after GC pick 7,  trade Future first and Bedford for Pick 7.

Then trade Pick 7 And Jackson to WC for Pick 2, Future First and Pick 20

Out: late first rounder, Bedford, Jackson

In: Pick 2(use on Cadmann?), an early 2023 Pick and pick 20

It won't happen as I think the dees will try get Jackson to Freo. And I think Pick 7 is only on the table with Bowes.

Apparently WC interested in Hunt, so maybe him instead of Bedford and ask for an additional future third round pick too

7 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Well, they should have waited to see the landscape. If Melk and Hibbo got better offers, then so be it.

IMO a mistake.

Who is playing on Papley and Cameron next year if it's not Hibberd?

15 hours ago, BW511 said:

Saw Rendell mentioned Cam Rayner as a possible trade, in my opinion he’s a type of player we lack. 

I love Spargo as much as anyone but Rayner on his flank would be a serious upgrade

I also acknowledge it won’t happen

Yup,  he would be great on the HFF swapping with Petracca.  IMO he has the tools to be alot like Petracca,  and maybe a big off season following trac could do it.

But also agree it's stuff of fantasies to get that deal done

Edited September 22, 20223 yr by Travy14

3 minutes ago, A F said:

We've offered Melksham and Hibberd deals though. You don't renege on those now.

And that seems to suggest we are not really in play for anyone other than Grundy. 

GNF was saying that we were in discussion with a big name contracted player. I doubt that's the case, or the discussions went nowhere.

9 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Well, they should have waited to see the landscape. If Melk and Hibbo got better offers, then so be it.

IMO a mistake.

Have the offered contracts??  Like surely those deals get done and announced straight away.  Unless they are waiting to see player movement's and if they are required!

13 minutes ago, A F said:

We've offered Melksham and Hibberd deals though. You don't renege on those now.

I’m not sure we have yet. It has been reported repeatedly that we WILL offer them one year deals but there has been no official announcement that it has happened. TBH there has been very little in the way of actual announcements. My sense is that there are a lot of possibilities in the wind and we are keeping our power dry until we can see hire this might play out.

1 minute ago, mo64 said:

And that seems to suggest we are not really in play for anyone other than Grundy. 

GNF was saying that we were in discussion with a big name contracted player. I doubt that's the case, or the discussions went nowhere.

I disagree. I reckon we'll have cap space for an FA or a big fish, but GNF literally takes what he's heard on Demonland and repackages it as his own inside intel. He's been doing it for years.

Where did the Melksham and Hibberd contract extension rumour start? Cant see anything official.

Would suggest Melk and Hibbo deals are lower than before, bringing more cap space anyway. If hunt goes it will be as anFA not a trade deal, so we would get compo back (maybe 2nd round at best).  Bowes then an option for us, taking 7 and his contract.  
 

Same logic applies to Grundy = what do they give us to take him off their books?  Reckon they have a heap of pressure on their cap and 3 new contracts at least to include.

 

11 minutes ago, Travy14 said:

Apparently WC interested in Hunt, so maybe him instead of Bedford and ask for an additional future third round pick too

He's a UFA

7 minutes ago, Mickey said:

He's a UFA

Ahh ok,  yeh we will take the compo then I guess

13 minutes ago, SFebes said:

Where did the Melksham and Hibberd contract extension rumour start? Cant see anything official.

There is nothing official. All the media sites just report each other’s rumours so take everything with a grain of salt. Both afl site and SEN have reported that we will extend hibbo and Melksham by 1 year. No source given in either case.

43 minutes ago, FlashInThePan said:

I’m not sure we have yet. It has been reported repeatedly that we WILL offer them one year deals but there has been no official announcement that it has happened. TBH there has been very little in the way of actual announcements. My sense is that there are a lot of possibilities in the wind and we are keeping our power dry until we can see hire this might play out.

FITP it's "powder dry" typo error obviously! 
Hope you are right I can't see one reason for us to be quiet We need SIX new AFL standard players thanks to highly conservative selection policy. ( that's being nice really) 

Hibberd deserves an extension, Melksham not so much. 

We definetly have cap room just by the nature of the fact that we got a number of players who in the next 12 months could be out the door and wouldn't be a big miss.

26 minutes ago, MurDoc516 said:

Hibberd deserves an extension, Melksham not so much. 

We definetly have cap room just by the nature of the fact that we got a number of players who in the next 12 months could be out the door and wouldn't be a big miss.

Time perhaps to really be hard team and probably both off the list for you get talent.

2 hours ago, A F said:

Who is playing on Papley and Cameron next year if it's not Hibberd?

Perhaps the same bloke we use if he is injured and in the years to follow.

6 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Perhaps the same bloke we use if he is injured and in the years to follow.

That's J.Smith if J.Hunt is gone.  Hopefully he's not injured too ...

On 9/21/2022 at 11:09 AM, JimmyGadson said:

Wouldn't mind at the club making an offer to Jack Bowes, he has a lot of what we're missing and he's in a great age bracket.

I think there's a position for him to play wing with his ball use, composure and clean hands being a strength and he's got good height and is strong above his head so folding back to intercept ala Gus is no issue.

These are the moves I wish the club would make.

Harmes and Jordon on a wing just does my head in. We just simply need to add some other components to our midfield mix.

 

What's wrong with JJ in our midfield and Harmesy tagging  

I would love to have seen Toby tried on a hbf, with his pace and line breaking, like the highly successful Daniel Rioli move.

31 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Perhaps the same bloke we use if he is injured and in the years to follow.

Who  are you referring to ? Hibbo was not injured IMO at the end of the season. Plenty of other defenders had injury riddled seasons  or did notrecover from injury properly or were played too early ie Salem Rivers Lever for example. 

2 minutes ago, Redleg said:

I would love to have seen Toby tried on a hbf, with his pace and line breaking, like the highly successful Daniel Rioli move.

Nice idea, worth a try,,  we certainly need more run off half back.