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4 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

'Now would be a great time for Franklin to settle the Swans' I thought to myself.

Any further psychic power requests let me know in DMs.

How many goals will he kick in his final game on Steven May ? 

 

 
 

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3 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Do we have the Dockers 1st and 2nd round picks? 

Yes and yes

 

 

Thanks Swannies.!!!

23 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Do we have the Dockers 1st and 2nd round picks? 

The newsbreaker!

6 minutes ago, adonski said:

Oh my GOD, they have Jeelong in Jeelong next week

See my post above. They have Geelong, Port and Brisbane still to come 

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1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

See my post above. They have Geelong, Port and Brisbane still to come 

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They're genuinely lucky that Norf + WCE are as bad as they are


6 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

See my post above. They have Geelong, Port and Brisbane still to come 

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Logically they will beat the Eagles but maybe no one else with Hawks the only other chance.

Suns play Roos in last game and have better %, so it should be pick 4 for us and a good second rounder too.

Freo will get 2 wins at best for the rest of the season, probably only 1. With their percentage I'd say 15th is now a certainty. Picks 4 & 23 are coming out way! 

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typo

Got a bit ahead of myself there. The  AFL will find a way of giving North a first round free agency compensation pick for Ben McKay and there'll be at least 1 Gold Coast Academy selection ahead of us in Round 1, with likely 3 in the first 20, so Picks 6 & 27 are coming our way 🙁  

1 hour ago, Sydney_Demon said:

Got a bit ahead of myself there. The  AFL will find a way of giving North a first round free agency compensation pick for Ben McKay and there'll be at least 1 Gold Coast Academy selection ahead of us in Round 1, with likely 3 in the first 20, so Picks 6 & 27 are coming our way 🙁  

It's this sort of uncertainty around what will happen with compensation picks/priority picks/bid matching inside the top 10 which makes me lean toward trading up for pick 1.  All picks below pick 2 look like they'll be diluted.  Only one way to avoid all of that - trade to the top.

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13 minutes ago, ChaserJ said:

It's this sort of uncertainty around what will happen with compensation picks/priority picks/bid matching inside the top 10 which makes me lean toward trading up for pick 1.  All picks below pick 2 look like they'll be diluted.  Only one way to avoid all of that and trade to the top.

Yep.

Project get Reid.

We would have some forward line in five years, with JVR, who will he be a best by then, Jefferson hitting his straps and Reid on the rise.

The Eagles need to inject  mutiple first round picks to jump start their development.

And even if the talk about Reid telling the Eagles he doesn't want to play there is bollocks  there's always the risk of a country boy wanting to come back home to Victoria.

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34 minutes ago, ChaserJ said:

It's this sort of uncertainty around what will happen with compensation picks/priority picks/bid matching inside the top 10 which makes me lean toward trading up for pick 1.  All picks below pick 2 look like they'll be diluted.  Only one way to avoid all of that - trade to the top.

So if we do trade up to pick 1, do we take Reid or bid on Walter?

On 7/18/2023 at 7:27 AM, chook fowler said:

this is one of the sillier threads - needs to finish.

Odd thing to write.

Should we message you for the green light prior to posting "anything" or are some things ok? 

 

 
7 hours ago, Wizard of Koz said:

Odd thing to write.

Should we message you for the green light prior to posting "anything" or are some things ok? 

 

Settle down. I have already back tracked - I saw the thread as an opportunity to bash Jackson but clearly I was wrong. Put it down to my irritable bowel.

10 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

See my post above. They have Geelong, Port and Brisbane still to come 

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Bang bang bang!


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