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Demon Alex Neal-Bullen’s move to Adelaide should be fairly painless, given the personal circumstances in him wanting to return to South Australia. The 2021 premiership player is contracted for two more seasons, and the Crows’ second-round pick – which is coincidentally tied to Melbourne – will likely seal the deal. The Dees sent that to Adelaide last year for Shane McAdam.

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    Adelaide got themselves an absolute bargain. One of the best clubman you can hope for!

    Wishing Nibbler all the best, he will be sorely missed.

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    ANB is turning 29 soon so the Crows can expect to get 50-60 good quality, workmanlike games out of him. We should be expecting that if not a little more from the second round pick. Win-win trade and I'm glad we're not haggling over the exchange of future fourth round picks. 

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    On 04/10/2024 at 15:20, hardtack said:

    Not directly related to the ANB trade, but would the now delisted McHenry be worth the club looking at as a replacement for ANB?

    He is a complete waste of space, weak as water.

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    We have a good recruiting history in this pick range like Rivers and Sparrow. 28 feels low but we could easily recycle this into another 150+ game player.

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    I'm still confused how we are getting our pick back we traded last year for McAdam.  Regardless of the number (25,28 whatever), it's still our 2nd round pick.  According to the multiple versions of the AFL trade rules (9.7) that ive read, clubs can't directly trade out a pick and then trade it back in from the same club that it went to so how can this be possible without a third party touching that pick first?

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    1 hour ago, Yarra Valley Demon said:

    I'm still confused how we are getting our pick back we traded last year for McAdam.  Regardless of the number (25,28 whatever), it's still our 2nd round pick.  According to the multiple versions of the AFL trade rules (9.7) that ive read, clubs can't directly trade out a pick and then trade it back in from the same club that it went to so how can this be possible without a third party touching that pick first?

    2023 vs 2024 trade period

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    1 hour ago, MrFreeze said:

    We have a good recruiting history in this pick range like Rivers and Sparrow. 28 feels low but we could easily recycle this into another 150+ game player.

    Sam Taylor was drafted at pick 28 in 2017.

    Neal-Bullen himself was pick 40. Weirdly, pick 40 has a strong history. Average of 92.5 games played, the next pick with a higher average is pick 19.

    Some absolute stars:

    • Matthew Lappin
    • Michael O'Loughlin
    • Ablett Jnr
    • Jobe Watson
    • Josh Kennedy (Haw/Syd)
    • Luke Parker
    • Tom Stewart

    Plus others like Allen Christensen, Mitch Robinson, Chris Mayne, David Hille and Ivan Maric.

    Anyway. When is this trade going to happen? I don't get why they don't just pull the trigger from the moment the trade period starts, get things rolling...

     

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    Nibbler will be missed for sure. Great leader. But I wonder how Adelaide intend on using him?

    Pick 28 in this draft is not to be sneezed with the talent still available.

    Good luck to him. His acceptance speech was second only to Brayshaw as far as the messaging went from Friday. Class.

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    On 23/09/2024 at 22:56, Adam The God said:

    Agreed, but it was his calf wasn't it?

    No it was his Achilles, refused to mend and he had to have surgery.😁

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    I'm dumb struck that we get pick 28 for ANB.  Perryman and Battle (free agents) went for picks in the teens, he's worth at least that.  Maybe both picks.  Unbelievable and disrespectful.

    Go Dees

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    4 minutes ago, D Rev said:

    I'm dumb struck that we get pick 28 for ANB.  Perryman and Battle (free agents) went for picks in the teens, he's worth at least that.  Maybe both picks.  Unbelievable and disrespectful.

    Go Dees

    Bear in mind Nibbler is 28 (29 in Jan next year) whereas Perryman and Battle are 25 and 26, respectively.  The time left in their careers will impact their respective values.

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    2 hours ago, Ugottobekidding said:

    Getting done over again...🤮

    What do you actually expect for him? 

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    13 minutes ago, D Rev said:

    I'm dumb struck that we get pick 28 for ANB.  Perryman and Battle (free agents) went for picks in the teens, he's worth at least that.  Maybe both picks.  Unbelievable and disrespectful.

    Go Dees

    You can’t compare it to free agents and both Perryman and Battle are supposedly on 800- 900k a year.  ANB would not be on anything near this 

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    See ya Nib. All the best.

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    Forever a premiership Demon.

    Cheers ANB. 

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    Bye ANB.

    I look forward to watching you turn it over at the Crows next year (while convenently ignoring all the great things you do).

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    Fair well Nibbler. All the best with your family back in SA and thanks for being such a great servant of the Melbourne Football Club.

    Second round pick is bang on value wise, though he's a big loss for the club.

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    The thing that annoys me with this trade is Adelaide managed to extract this pick from us for McAdam who has achieved 5% of what ANB has in his career. Think we need to get more ruthless in these negotiations, perhaps ANB is worth Pick 28 but I'll be stuffed in McAdam was.

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    Just now, RedFox said:

    The thing that annoys me with this trade is Adelaide managed to extract this pick from us for McAdam who has achieved 5% of what ANB has in his career. Think we need to get more ruthless in these negotiations, perhaps ANB is worth Pick 28 but I'll be stuffed in McAdam was.

    McAdams needs a really big pre-season. He has a spot open for him in rounds 1-3 with Kozzie serving a suspension. It's all his for the taking. 

    But so far, you're right, this trade has been a bust. 

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