Exactly the sort of midfielder we are missing. Gets a bit of the ball and uses it well. Oliver mainly handballs, Viney and Tracc are unreliable kicks. Rivers is a good long kick but not accurate passing to someone. Salem is the only accurate kick that sometimes goes through the midfield.

Norf are not [censored] because of their midfield - it's stacked. They only have one good player in the backline and two in the forward line. So his pay is disproportionate to the needs of the club. He'd be the number 2 midfielder at Adelaide. If I'm Norf, pay for his Uber fair to the airport and swap him for Fogarty.

Edited September 17, 2025Sep 17 by Queanbeyan Demon

Maybe he’ll get caught in the big net St Kilda are currently trawling the AFL landscape with.

4 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Norf are not [censored] because of their midfield - it's stacked. They only have one good player in the backline and two in the forward line. So his pay is disproportionate to the needs of the club. He'd be the number 2 midfielder at Adelaide. If I'm Norf, pay for his Uber fair to the airport and swap him for Fogarty.

are u describing north or us?!?! eerily similar the way we're building the next generation midfield out again and praying that we can find talls somewhere down the track, good plan on paper but we've spent 5 years showing the competition how hard it is to execute when u arent geelong/pies/hawks/swans/lions

5 hours ago, stinga said:

Exactly the sort of midfielder we are missing. Gets a bit of the ball and uses it well. Oliver mainly handballs, Viney and Tracc are unreliable kicks. Rivers is a good long kick but not accurate passing to someone. Salem is the only accurate kick that sometimes goes through the midfield.

Simpkin can’t kick, but what he does bring is run which we need and could swap between mid and forward.

He’d replace Tracc and give us more run with less ball winning and different forms of bad kicking. Tracc more hot and cold, Simpkin more meh.

But we can’t be giving up a good draft pick or stuffing our salary cap for Simpkin.

If we are seriously talking to his management, I'm just about done, we all complain about our current lack of foot skills, this bloke doesn't help in anyway, shape or form. We need a midfield full of the young blokes we have, no point send Tracc anywhere if we are going to recruit Simpkin. Just no. Stay away. Can't crack Norths midfield, why would he gets a game there in ours.

I actually don’t mind Simpkin as a player and he could definitely play a role for us

But no way would you want to give up a decent pick and that much coin for him

I can’t for the life of me understand why this is not part of the conversation given it might be difficult to prize a midfielder out of the Suns or the Giants.

Might work if we accept picks for Trac we are gonna need some bigger bodies to shield the kids

If he goes he will probably go to Collingwood, and apparently norths asking price is quite high anyway

43 minutes ago, rumpole said:

I can’t for the life of me understand why this is not part of the conversation given it might be difficult to prize a midfielder out of the Suns or the Giants.

Take your pick from older than our preferred age range, expensive contract, prohibitive trade price and not good enough to play in North’s midfield

On 17/09/2025 at 03:31, 58er said:

Langdon is a far better worker and contributor than both Tom and Chin.

Simpkin is a a better player and could add to our mids more then Tom or Chin simply with more output which is aBout what Lingers provides on a regular basis.

Swap for Langdon? NO NO NO NO!

39 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Take your pick from older than our preferred age range, expensive contract, prohibitive trade price and not good enough to play in North’s midfield

Sheezel, Laidlaw and LDU! I'd be pretty happy with that.

1 minute ago, Roger Mellie said:

Sheezel, Laidlaw and LDU! I'd be pretty happy with that.

Wardlaw* misses a lot of games and Sheezel gets moved around. No shame not being ahead of those 3 but there’s a problem that he isn’t 4th or 5th

5 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Wardlaw* misses a lot of games and Sheezel gets moved around. No shame not being ahead of those 3 but there’s a problem that he isn’t 4th or 5th

Don't care about or want Simpkin, but posters saying he can't get much of a run in celler-dweller North's modfield are missing the mark. Their midfield is well on the way up and is better than ours IMO. Wardlaw will eventually learn ways to avoid killing himself at the contest.

Norths list does have a few holes but Simpkin leaving wouldn’t create one, their commitment to drafting mids early will pay off in the coming years.

He did have a very handy showing in the preseason all stars match early this year.

Could be very damaging for a club of right fit. If saints roll all their dice I could see them having a play and them jumping to finals next year. Can see him loving the option of running plays at speed with NWM.

(I could see it being a Marshall out Simpkin in and let the cats figure out how to appease north.)

My initial reaction was Who?

Is being drafted by North the equivalent of being thrown into the abyss?

A very good first round pick is the price for Simpkin? That would make Petracca worth 15 first round picks.