16 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Where do the picks come from? They need them for their academy boys.

We give them our junk picks back in current (and future) draft

10 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

I don’t think the club feels like they can sell that to supporters. I think we have to land a player too, or this will feel like a loss in the eyes of many.

In the eyes of most, I'd think.

They deliberately traded into last year's draft knowing it was a cracker. Ideally they would have kept a pick in the 20s but they got two really good players. They've now made it clear Oliver and Petracca are tradeable in a year where the draft is below average or worse, and heavily compromised. They have to get at least one really good players back.

The 2025 Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period will start on Monday, October 6 and run until Deadline Day on Wednesday, October 15.

Plenty of time to smash F5

Lamb and Co will need to work their [censored] off to satisfy everyone at club, otherwise Trac goes nowhere...GC will need to pony up or forget it.

27 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

Draft picks from the GC for Trac then it is!

Go hard for 6+ 13 Dees, with late picks back to help them land their 2x top 10 academy boys.

Actually if we don’t get Flanders they’ll end up holding

Their own; 6 and 13

if Flanders goes to StK; 7

If Flanders goes to Essendon; one of 4, 5 or 8 (from Hawthorn as part of Merrett deal).

So I’d upgrade the ask to 6 and 8 (assuming ESS) and then take one of those picks to market for a player.

Just now, The Jackson FIX said:

Actually if we don’t get Flanders they’ll end up holding

Their own; 6 and 13

if Flanders goes to StK; 7

If Flanders goes to Essendon; one of 4, 5 or 8 (from Hawthorn as part of Merrett deal).

So I’d upgrade the ask to 6 and 8 (assuming ESS) and then take one of those picks to market for a player.

We cannot have Oliver, Petracca, Judd and May leave and only bring in kids/pics. We will be in for a world of hurt!

Just now, Mouseymoo said:

We cannot have Oliver, Petracca, Judd and May leave and only bring in kids/pics. We will be in for a world of hurt!

Petracca aside, not sure any of them really stood up last year to have us really concerned about their absence

14 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Petracca aside, not sure any of them really stood up last year to have us really concerned about their absence

Agree with this.

We’ll be some older, experienced players down but we should get considerable growth from some young boys (Windsor/XL/Langford) which could drive us further forward than maintaining the status quo would have

22 minutes ago, Mouseymoo said:

We cannot have Oliver, Petracca, Judd and May leave and only bring in kids/pics. We will be in for a world of hurt!

There are 16 other teams we can trade with.

People on DL acting like the roof is caving in if we don’t collect Bailey and Flanders specifically.

Both players probably are our plan A but I am pretty confident our plan B would be to use the healthy draft picks we suck out of GC to lure someone else (who probably isn’t even being spoken about yet).

3 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

There are 16 other teams we can trade with.

People on DL acting like the roof is caving in if we don’t collect Bailey and Flanders specifically.

Both players probably are our plan A but I am pretty confident our plan B would be to use the healthy draft picks we suck out of GC to lure someone else (who probably isn’t even being spoken about yet).

You are dreaming. You honestly believe that there is an A grader out there who is seeking to join a club that is in rebuild mold? And our record of attracting talent to the club has been so good under Tim Lamb, lol.

1 hour ago, Roddog said:

Yeh Humphrey doesn’t sound like it’ll be happening. Twomey and Beveridge very insistent that Gold Coast won’t entertain a trade involving him. If we miss on Flanders too this’ll be an all time trade shafting

Correct

Dees must say it’s Trac for Flanders plus pick 13. Thats the minimum deal.

If its pick 6 & 13 from the Suns, for Trac, then we might also bite

Need to really own this one.

15 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

There are 16 other teams we can trade with.

People on DL acting like the roof is caving in if we don’t collect Bailey and Flanders specifically.

Both players probably are our plan A but I am pretty confident our plan B would be to use the healthy draft picks we suck out of GC to lure someone else (who probably isn’t even being spoken about yet).

If we can't lure Flanders or Humphrey with the King connection, we have no hope. We have nothing to sell to any decent player from any other team.

We'll be the next Norf.

2 hours ago, Ted Lasso said:

Collingwood offers the best future lol. 90% of their list is prehistoric and Nick Daicos is going to get the biggest offer in history from Tasmania. it's a real possibility in 2 years time we're a finals team and Collingwood are where West Coast are.

What are prepared to offer Humphrey in terms of money?

Edited October 3, 2025Oct 3 by Bombay Airconditioning

8 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

What are prepared to offer Humphrey in terms of money?

Good money.

Plus side deals the AFL will orchestrate to make Trac to Suns happen.

I reckon the desperation to make this deal will be historic.

14 minutes ago, No10 said:

Good money.

Plus side deals the AFL will orchestrate to make Trac to Suns happen.

I reckon the desperation to make this deal will be historic.

Then we should not blink, let the AFL sweeten the pie !

3 hours ago, demoncat said:

True but it would have to be with any compensation they get from the Swans because Gold Coast aren’t interested in trading for him anymore

Carlton also just got Pick 19 compo for SOS and assume they get Pick 9 Compo for TDK and if they do cash in on Curnow - Will have the ammo

6 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Carlton also just got Pick 19 compo for SOS and assume they get Pick 9 Compo for TDK and if they do cash in on Curnow - Will have the ammo

Suns won’t give up Humphrey for picks. And very difficult to turn picks into a great player this draft. Curnow was their currency.

Humphrey may have been a Dees fan growing up 👀

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSTKbuNFicQ/

Edited October 3, 2025Oct 3 by Demon Time

10 minutes ago, Demon Time said:

Humphrey may have been a Dees fan growing up 👀

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSTKbuNFicQ/

Didn't he train with us?

Via the deebrief on FB.

2 minutes ago, Bonkers said:

Via the deebrief on FB.

Beat me to it😅

Someone who "categorically isnt going anywhere" doesnt go for a walk around the tan with an oppo head coach and line coach.