mo64

If Duursma is that good, he'd be going no. 1. Personally I'd rather draft 2 of the best 11 kids than someone who's probably rated 4th or 5th best.

I agree that we should pursue someone like Hayes or Lycett. I doubt that the club sees Fullarton as a successor to Max. hence the 2 year deal.

There's no draft or salary cap in European football, hence the clubs with money dominate every year. So the powerhouse clubs prefer to trade to an overseas or non contending club. In AFL it's hard to predict which club will emerge the following year, so it's not something a club would factor in.

Is it politically incorrect to call them "chinaman" now?

He'll fit it well at the Dees then. Fyfe is a shocking kick for goal.

If GWS were desperately tight for cap space, they could extend Haynes 1 year over 2 years, like we did with T Mac.

Received a message from a good source in Perth that West Coast have come to an agreement with North to trade pick 1. Full details of the trade weren't specified, but it seems logical given that North have picks 2 and 3. What doesn't seem logical is our upgrade from pick 14 to 11. It was never going to be a deal breaker in getting pick 1, so something else must be on the cards.

I heard from a reliable source that Petty still has a valid library card in Adelaide. He's going.

We still have to trade for McAdam and Fullerton.

But he's a 2xAA, lol. A majority on here have egg on their face with how they perceived Grundy's market value.

Petty is one of the few players on our list that can take a contested pack mark up forward. With our "long bomb" game plan, Petty is essentially untradeable, unless the Crows send Fogarty or Thilthorpe our way, along with pick 10.

The difference is GC and Brisbane aren't trying to offload them. Required players obviously hold more value.

Pick 33 for a 29 yo player who spent half the season in the VFL and is no longer required seems like overs.

Can't see Crows trading Fogarty unless it's a straight swap for Petty.

Were we incompetent for having to trade Jackson last year? Go home factor was the reason in both cases. And by your reckoning the AFL gifted us 2 first round picks. Your takes on North and GC are illogical.

The departures of Hibbo, Harmes and Dunstan would have been factored in when we re-signed our stars. We probably factored in Melksham leaving until he had a resurrection. But unless our cap is really tight, we should be in the market for a free agent next year.

The club told him that he's free to find a new home, so his trade value is nominal. Future 3rd seems about right.

It never happens that way. A deal with Sydney will get done.

I like Harmesy, and I hope he has as distinguished career at the Dogs as Mitch Hannan.

For balance, how about naming all the 1st round draftees that GC have lost over the years? Off the top of my head Lynch, Prestia, Caddy, May, Wright, Brodie, and I'm sure there's others.

North having so many 1st rd picks is partially due to losing their no. 1 selection Horne-Francis, and getting multiple picks in return. Some people need to move on.

The compo is not that hard to understand. If you're a [censored] team down the bottom, you'll get higher compo. Hawks got SFA for Buddy. That's how it works.

It's perplexing because the match committee didn't have the confidence to select him when a like for like player in JVR was suspended. We named him as sub and then didn't bring him on despite T Mac giving us donuts. Schache is not a young kid. We should know his strengths and weaknesses by now. If we're not going to play him with all the injuries we had to KPFs, then why is he still on the list? Being cheap and a solid citizen doesn't cut it. Two of the best young KPFs in Larkey and Mitch Lewis were drafted very late. If Schache rots at Casey for another year then I think his list spot is best used by taking a fly on a young kid or a State League player.

Please no. You want a player who's desperate and motivated to play in a succesful side, and hopefully play in a premiership team, aka Ben Brown. If Hawkins is holding out for more money, then we'll be just be topping up his super.

GC probably have the same philosophy as us. Get a deal done early and move on to the next one. Plus these discussions would have been going on for weeks.