I originally thought the loss of Petracca would hurt us badly and to a minor degree Oliver would do the same. With a new game plan we have we have re invigorated and found half decent players probably at at smaller cost. Sharp, Culley, Latrelle and Tholstrup have been a breath of fresh air. Michochek and Steele have been great finds. Our crop of young players in Windsor, Lindsay and Langford are good competitors. Gawn and Pickett wow. We could do with another decent midfielder but not at a huge cost. Another Luke Jackson would be the icing on the cake. NO to Butters NO to Humphries.

Hard to see us even going close to matching Richmond's offer anyway (if it came down to $$$$'s only)

Apart from the cap space availability, would we want to commit to that sort of dosh?

Edited April 8Apr 8 by Macca

There is no world where Butters moves the premiership needle for Richmond, it makes no sense.

Nothing insightful to add but Butters looks like the type who bit his classmates

33 minutes ago, deegirl said:

Nothing insightful to add but Butters looks like the type who bit his classmates

He was a Bulldog growing up...

5 hours ago, Flagdees said:

They will get a whole of a lot more for butters trading then not matching it getting say a pick 4

With who? Butters wants to go to a team in a premiership window they don't have early picks.

11 hours ago, Macca said:

I'd take the 3 picks in the top 15 (the equivalent of what we got for Petracca) And Port's compensation pick might go as high as #10

Remembering that a top end pick on its own could be a bust anyway. Drafting can be flawed so playing the numbers game can be a better alternative

You end up with nothing if the 1 compensation pick is a bust. A bust for Butters? No thanks (says Port)

I did a 10 year study of top 5 picks back here a number of years ago and started a thread about it

In that 10 year stretch only 14 of the 50 picks were B+ or better

Happy to give JT the 3 picks though. He seems to know what he is doing

11 hours ago, Macca said:

I'd take the 3 picks in the top 15 (the equivalent of what we got for Petracca) And Port's compensation pick might go as high as #10

Remembering that a top end pick on its own could be a bust anyway. Drafting can be flawed so playing the numbers game can be a better alternative

You end up with nothing if the 1 compensation pick is a bust. A bust for Butters? No thanks (says Port)

I did a 10 year study of top 5 picks back here a number of years ago and started a thread about it

In that 10 year stretch only 14 of the 50 picks were B+ or better

Happy to give JT the 3 picks though. He seems to know what he is doing

I disagree of course they could be a bust but you back your recruiters in. I'd rather have pick 5 for Petracca than pick 11, 12 and whatever Gold Coast's pick is this year. We didn't have that option unfortunately.

17 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

With who? Butters wants to go to a team in a premiership window they don't have early picks.

17 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

With who? Butters wants to go to a team in a premiership window they don't have early picks.

The package there looking it would be around 4 firsts or 3 firsts and a good player, I’m sure they would much rather that then a pick 5 in yet again another early compromised draft

I really hope he just stays with Port to be honest.