No word today from the GC Melb meeting. I don’t want Petracca anymore, I hope they hurry up and lock 7/8 in before someone else starts asking the question of GC eg De Goey for 8

50 minutes ago, bing181 said:

Pick 11 plus a future first that could easily end up a lot lower than that.

In terms of equivalence, it's a lot less than what we're getting for Trac.

Plus Hayward and Florent.

Remember when some said no Humphrey, no Petracca..

Melb has to absolutely keep pick 24 in this trade. The 1st pick of the 2nd round is incredibly valuable. A future 1st will be offered up for this pick on draft night which could be a fantastic pick next year

4 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Remember when some said no Humphrey, no Petracca..

Some of us just underestimated how much the club wants Petracca gone.

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Remember when some said no Humphrey, no Petracca..

Not sure why we can’t offer 28 instead of 24? Or why we’re even sending a pick back at all?

Resigned to only getting picks for Trac, but we shouldn’t be doing the Suns a favour in regards to the academy players

I like the sound of more draft capital. Future first would be nice.

But if we give us 42 for a F2 that works too. Chuck in Essendon’s F3 as well.

3 minutes ago, demoncat said:

Not sure why we can’t offer 28 instead of 24? Or why we’re even sending a pick back at all?

Resigned to only getting picks for Trac, but we shouldn’t be doing the Suns a favour in regards to the academy players

Agree. Dont like that we are giving away a pick that can become so important when it comes to getting a spider on the second night of the draft.

14 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

Melb has to absolutely keep pick 24 in this trade. The 1st pick of the 2nd round is incredibly valuable. A future 1st will be offered up for this pick on draft night which could be a fantastic pick next year

I don't know if a first rounder will be offered for pick 24 (that becomes 30?)

Maybe when the first pick of the 2nd round was actually pick 19 it would have

Edited October 14, 2025Oct 14 by adonski

[censored] !!!!

Tell the Suns to [censored] off

7,8 for Trac & 24 is a big win for the Suns … and they keep Humphrey … and keep face in terms of draft negotiations

Dees caved in again in my view … again

Trac is elite and an absolute champion

If GC do a deal with kangaroos (picks 25 & 26 ) for pick 15 , those picks will get used in points for academy .

Our pick 28 will become 25 ?

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31 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Remember when some said no Humphrey, no Petracca..

I hope the football department can pull 2 rabbits, and not skunks, out of the hat with these picks otherwise there will be hell to pay

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Underwhelming. As always, keen to see what Jason Taylor has in mind.

Pick 24 v Pick 28+42.

Pick 24 is about the same points as pick 28 +42.

Pick 24 is the first pick of the second round which traditionally becomes very attractive to teams who after sleeping on it have identified a slider they desperately want .

Surely we keep 24 and give up the other two picks which we don’t need.

"The Petracca negotiations are moving in the right direction."

I just report. I'm not biased. I don't have an axe to grind.

26 minutes ago, fredblackham said:

Pick 24 v Pick 28+42.

Pick 24 is about the same points as pick 28 +42.

Pick 24 is the first pick of the second round which traditionally becomes very attractive to teams who after sleeping on it have identified a slider they desperately want .

Surely we keep 24 and give up the other two picks which we don’t need.

Agree at face value it seems odd that 24 would be included instead of the later picks but maybe we need one of those picks for CJ and JT might think the player we want will still be on the board at 28.

1 hour ago, old55 said:

Some of us just underestimated how much the club wants Petracca gone.

Can you say that again?

Watch lamb trade early and go for De goey I think I’ll vomit 🤮

Looking forward to Langford changing jumper number to number 5 and receiving it from Brock McLean.

We wanted him gone. King thought we could rescue it. Trac let him know that he was out out. Not mucking around. Every club knew. GC leveraged that.

Apparently over the weekend it was at all time high levels of tension.

Back on the subject of jumper numbers; some pretty famous numbers are now vacant: 5, 9, 13 & 14

If we draft some crazy, we should give him 14 in honour of Rod Grinter.

15 minutes ago, JJJ said:

Looking forward to Langford changing jumper number to number 5 and receiving it from Brock McLean.

We wanted him gone. King thought we could rescue it. Trac let him know that he was out out. Not mucking around. Every club knew. GC leveraged that.

Apparently over the weekend it was at all time high levels of tension.

Back on the subject of jumper numbers; some pretty famous numbers are now vacant: 5, 9, 13 & 14

If we draft some crazy, we should give him 14 in honour of Rod Grinter.

Between who? Us and Trac, or us and Suns?

Just now, demoncat said:

Between who? Us and Trac, or us and Suns?

The Trac people were very stressed…

1 minute ago, JJJ said:

The Trac people were very stressed…

Good.

What a [censored] trade, they have a player that wants out but won't let him go for our player who wants out...how does that make sense???

I say, if GC don’t give Humphrey, tell them to shove it.

Pivot off to Hawthorn who won’t get Merritt, and take their pick 9, and a midfielder and future pick in 2026 and be done with it.

1 minute ago, Young Angus said:

What a [censored] trade, they have a player that wants out but won't let him go for our player who wants out...how does that make sense???

Because we want Petracca out, they don't want BH out.

It's no different from last year when we didn't release Oliver despite his desire to get to Geelong.