Mickey

I'd prefer to keep 23. It'll fetch a kings ransom come draft night. But if its needed to unlock Humphrey, I suppose its ok

23 is the first pick of the 2nd rnd. Fully expect us to flip it for a future first on draft night, North paid a stupid amount for a similar draft pick this year

They might not in the trade period but clubs do stupid things on draft night to get up the board and nab a player they like. And end of rnd 1 draft pick may well attract bids for rnd 1 next year

Anyone who thinks SOS will just offer pick 7 for Flanders has never seen SOS work. Terrible to deal with, trade wise

He might be a similar player to Clarry but he has nothing near the off field concerns. You still need an extractor, its a matter of what we are doing with viney

Second would be amazing. Expecting end of second round though, which would be in the 40s with academy picks

Dan Curtin and a F1. I'd even keep some of Trac's salary on the books for that

We absolutely dodged a bullet

And Houston was coming to us until the Trac drama happened

Brisbane will lose Ah chee and Starcevich. The issue is they can recruit players that want out of footy bubbles in Melbourne and Perth, and have an academy churning out guns

[censored] move. We pick him up in the rookie draft, develop him into an AFL player and he buggers off first chance he gets. Freo can pony up their 2nd rounder or he can go to draft and win 1 game a year with WC

I've lifted this straight from BigFooty but though there were some interesting titbits

What the [censored]? Goyder congratulating Daicos when he didn't even win. Can't wait for the Pies fan melts when they realise Nick lost to a guy who regularly eats grass...

WC aren't trading their only key forward prospects for a back pocket. Especially after losing Allen

Pies fans can just say "We should have smoked them"

Maybe Paul's actually been quoting Buckley this whole time. It's much funnier when you think about NB talking in the third person during his presentations. "Nathan Buckely is a standout coach" "Tasmania would be very lucky to have Nathan as coach" "Hopefully, in a couple of days time, Nathan will be announced as coach of the Tasmanian Devils"

King was also a Saints assistant for the 2010 GFs

He's ****ty he didn't break the news

This might get spun as 'Melbourne didn't want to wait a week' but i think its actually 'No need to wait because King was our man'

Yep, said there were a few things he wanted to prosecute as an experienced coach that a first time coach would absorb and then try to fix when they got in, but otherwise said the process moved quickly and in the end too quickly for him, with his meeting with Tassie next Tuesday.

He also wasn't premiership captain. That was the other tall bald guy, Tom Harley

Premiership player at Geelong in 2007, Premiership assistant coach at WB in 2016. Knows how to win them, not just chase them

How is this on the club? They were clear it was a genuine process, if people chose to pull out that was their decisions and not anything to do with what the club said or did

Given the quality of the externals on the panel I'm excited by this. Went through a thorough process and got the best committed candidate. Also, eff you to the journos who were pushing the boat race line