8 hours ago, Ted Lasso said:

I’ll counter

petracca, spargo compo, pick 23

Humphrey and Flanders

Much better idea. But Mihocek in via FA pretty much erases Spargo compo… unless we trade for Brody that is

10 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I loved his quote when he was interviewed at the airport:

“Yeah happy to be at the Gold Coast Suns… at the moment. See what happens”

I wouldn’t be overly ecstatic if I were a Sun supporter with that level of enthusiasm by Humphrey Bear.

Personally I'm sick of seeing AFL players being interviewed at the airport. The football media ...indeed most of the media...in this country is squalid and infantile.

Imagine the Gold Coast suns managed to turn Flanders and Humphrey into Petracca and Curnow

Can you imagine we turned Oliver and Trac into Humphrey and Flanders 🤞🤞🤞

49 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

Can you imagine we turned Oliver and Trac into Humphrey and Flanders 🤞🤞🤞

Surely that's the only way we let them both go.

10 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

You new to footy?

When it comes to Gold Coast it's as if so! Blind spot on my radar; can't think why!

So mine was a genuine question if anyone can help?

56 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

Can you imagine we turned Oliver and Trac into Humphrey and Flanders 🤞🤞🤞

I’m drooling at the thought

2 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

When it comes to Gold Coast it's as if so! Blind spot on my radar; can't think why!

So mine was a genuine question if anyone can help?

He's a very good young player, inconsistent but will improve with maturity. Tough, goalkicking half forward/mid, opportunity to develop as an inside/outside mid with good disposal who can kick a goal.

Humphrey didn't just kick 3 goals in a final this year, he kicked 3 goals in a quarter of that particular final.

13 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

I said it in the other thread and I’ll reiterate it here

Why the [censored] would Humphrey want to come play for us?

We can’t even get Flanders to commit at this stage and his only other suitors are bloody St Kilda and Essendon. Essendon?!!

Collingwood don’t have any cash and Carlton are as bad as us.

Maybe we haven’t gone all in on Flanders because we have our eyes on the real prize!

3 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Collingwood don’t have any cash and Carlton are as bad as us.

Maybe we haven’t gone all in on Flanders because we have our eyes on the real prize!

Curious if Carlton do trade Curnow what picks they'd have to throw at BH.

Whats BH worth in a trade anyway?

11 hours ago, Ted Lasso said:

I’ll counter

petracca, spargo compo, pick 23

Humphrey and Flanders

I would definitely prefer your counter if we can get it done…

But I do think Dees need to give up 2026 1st to get Bailey. Maybe Dees get back Suns 2026 2nd round pick as well.

My intuition does tell me Bailey & Sam are keen to play under King. King (aka ‘The Hammer’) and the MFC actions with a No BS approach in this last week has already set a culture for success moving forward. I do believe it is attractive to incoming players… The next 2 weeks will tell. Hopefully my intuition is correct.

Humphries, Pickett, Langford through the middle would get me to every home game for the next decade.

(Sadly so would Laurie, Sparrow and a re-listed Dunstan. I’m painfully rusted on)

8 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Curious if Carlton do trade Curnow what picks they'd have to throw at BH.

Whats BH worth in a trade anyway?

I’d be happy to put Tracc and our future first on the table for some later stuff back.

Suns out of Curnow chase.

1 minute ago, Redleg said:

Suns out of Curnow chase.

No [censored].

Can’t have both plus keep their picks for their academy guys

And Carlton’s price for Curnow would be even higher than ours is for Trac.

12 hours ago, DeesEmb said:

You would have to through in a second round pick as well, the value is this trade is freeing up cap space!

It is also readjusting the age profile of our list where our existing core midfield group of Gawn, Viney, Trac and Oliver are all in the back end of their careers. We will save having to spend high end picks to draft elite talent 18 y/olds who we then need to develop for at least 3 years to play in the midfield.

Bailey can I interest you in a house and land package out in Cranbourne?

3 minutes ago, demoncat said:

Bailey can I interest you in a house and land package out in Cranbourne?

Post of the pre-trade period 'trade talk' um, period, change my mind.

18 minutes ago, Dee Vision said:

I would definitely prefer your counter if we can get it done…

But I do think Dees need to give up 2026 1st to get Bailey. Maybe Dees get back Suns 2026 2nd round pick as well.

My intuition does tell me Bailey & Sam are keen to play under King. King (aka ‘The Hammer’) and the MFC actions with a No BS approach in this last week has already set a culture for success moving forward. I do believe it is attractive to incoming players… The next 2 weeks will tell. Hopefully my intuition is correct.

Nows the chance for King to display his legendary skills of persuasion to get them to come.

He's 0-3 so far.

Pardon my cynicism.

Edited October 2, 2025Oct 2 by Redlagged

Can someone remember what we were supposedly prepared to give up to trade up to get Humphrey in his draft year. Wasn't it something crazy like 3 first rounders?

As much as I love the look of some of the proposed trades here - I think we'd have to pay more if we were to get him (if he's gettable)

5 minutes ago, Redlagged said:

Nows the chance for King to display his legendary skills of persuasion to get them to come.

He's 0-3 so far.

Pardon my cynicism.

He’s inheriting this mess and trying to clean it up. So we can’t hold these losses against him. Plus as far as I can see he’s really only 0–1 . Judds loss feels the largest in terms of building.

1 minute ago, Wells 11 said:

He’s inheriting this mess and trying to clean it up. So we can’t hold these losses against him. Plus as far as I can see he’s really only 0–1 . Judds loss feels the largest in terms of building.

I wish him well and a lot of luck.

You can just see this bloke in a Collingwood jumper.