KingDingAling

I do tend to agree about GC being a feeder club. I’d hope we could land Anderson, but sadly I doubt we’d have the cap space. Pickett offers better polish, and defensive pressure and that isn’t a disservice to Anderson as he is tracking to be AA.

Freo won’t make finals. It’s more than dropping a couple games, they just haven’t moved the ball with flow, and struggle going inside 50. A problem that is compounded by not having great forwards if they do go inside 50 well. Many of their goals yesterday came from either opportune moments from goal sneaks or umpire frees.

Freo have no forward line.

The AFL Is a serious league. Its a weakness to be seen to laugh and joke. When you’re playing for sheep stations anything less than serious is seen as a flaw. What the women do in their league is obviously very different, it’s the AFLW is merely a token league.

Moves well. Should have a good set of mitts, as he appears well coordinated judging from the basketball videos. There is a lot to like from a small sample size of viewing. Rather agile for a big fella. Fact he has played AFL as a kid really helps going forward.

He is a talent worthy of consideration.

I thought North were a B-. The rating of D+ is a bit fanciful. They got rid of a problem child in JHF, and managed to get overs for him, and picked up Logue and Tucker, both of whom will be starting 22 players, and both are underrated.

I wouldn’t think so. 13 is a good position to be in this draft. And next years draft will be strong. We need to try bring a couple quality kids in. If we can land 2 out of 3 200 gamers goes a long way to securing our future.

Well done Lamb. Held his line. I am not big on the Grundy move but for 27 is at least good value on the trade tablet.

It’s not so much do not draft WA, or even interstate draftees. But more about doing our due diligence on a personal level. It doesn’t take Einstein to see that Jackson has lived a very sheltered existence. People say that he isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but to my eye, it just looks as though he’s never had an opportunity to grow and become independent, and have that confidence to shine. I wouldn’t rule out every WA potential draftee on the merits of one.

We are a club known to bend in trade periods.

I remember Gawn telling a story that Dogga saw a pineapple and didn’t even know what it was. Sheltered kid. Wish we got more for him because he is worth far more than what we did get. But homesick kids with what I’d probably consider to be an unhealthy attachment to their mother - id rather them gone. I’m surprised she even let him play football to begin with. Basketball is a far safer sport. Then again, the eyes In WA aren’t on it. Deal done now so we move on. As a player I think Jackson was already a gun, and the potential is there to reach further heights. His inside work is up for with any midfielder, and he has an aggression rarely seen for a big man. Freo got a steal and a half. Hopefully as a club we learn our lesson a bit and put more resources in psychological assessments and the mental side of a player.

13 isn’t worth a great deal in this draft. And for the sake of next years which will most likely be around 13. I’d just let Jackson walk through the PSD, or enter the National draft. At some point teams need to set a strong precedent, especially given the increasing movement during trade period. The option should be 1. A fair deal, and 2. No deal you don’t get Jackson. I don’t really understand why football clubs don’t see the bigger picture and set stronger precedents.

If West Coast are splitting pick 2 for 8 and 12. It could surely only be for making a play for Jackson. They could offer unders and still we may bite, as Fremantle are apparently offering unders. Instead of walking Jackson we could just take WC offer of unders. This may be what WC are seeing as a good opportunity to get In a top 3 level talent for big unders.

No doubt. Providing he doesn’t get injured he will win most years. Coming into his prime and already the best is I’ve seen behind Ablett jr.

Petracca and Oliver you have to pay right. Any other side would’ve did the same if they were theirs and paid far more on a free market. Outside of those two, I’d be hesitant to bust the pursue strings too much.

Too much logic in that.

They are the type of club to jump on that. Reason why they don’t need to rebuild.

He spoke very well Selwood. Geelong were the best side in it last year we just knocked them off during our once in a century purple patch. Geelong have consistency down pat. Very much Melbourne Storm like in that regard, and like many sides that string flags together over a close period they all have that resilience underpinning their cultural make up. Richmond also have that. Hopefully we one day have that, it’s rare. Geelong be hard to beat next year too. MFC a long way off those heights. Hopefully we find the right man for the job to get us there.

I’d be taking Bowes contract and pick 7, instead of taking Grundy. As a back up for Gawn I’d ask for Meek in the deal with Freo. Would also be saving the pick that would be wasted on Grundy. Stupid idea to go after Grundy. It’s the Westbrook type situation that everyone else knows is a terrible fit for us - but apparently we know better. Whoever tells the players to bomb the ball into the forward 50 continuously is probably the one who is big on Grundy. We could end up with Bowes, pick 7 and a second rounder. Or we could end up with a second ruckman we don’t need.

Spot on.

I’ll play it safe and say I’m confident you’ll see us continuously bomb the ball inside 50 without lowering our eyes.

Oliver has been the leagues best player the past couple of years. But we have others taking votes from him. He’ll still win one, because like Ablett jr, he is just that good.

Really bad umpiring. It’s like they just make it up as they go. Comically bad.

Games all round getting harder to watch these days. Just blatant favoritism by umpires. Getting sick of it.