DistrACTION Jackson

That's awesome

Curely they just make this stuff up and are guessing getting Stephen Hill is a sweetner....

Unrestricted free agent so we can just pick him up if he wants.

If we end up with say pick 5 or 6, what would people think about trading it to Freo for Hill, Langdon and their 2nd round pick?

I'd be moving on the following: Garlett, Lewis, Maynard, Stretch, J Wagner, Keilty, T Smith.

100% agree with this and nice to see some measured commentary. I really don't think we need to trade any of Oliver, Viney, Harmes, Petracca or Brayshaw. What we do need to do is 1)get them all through a full pre-season and 2) bring in some high presssure/skilled players. A backline of Lever, May, Frost, Hore, Hibberd and Jetta is one of the best in the league. With Melksham back and McDonald back in form our forward line is solid enough. Probably need another high pressure forward.

I'd question why he was on him in the first place. Cameron - May looks after Hipwood - Frost McStay - Petty

Neal-Bullen is important for this. Yes he can butcher it at times but he does a lot fo good work for us as well.

Gee I'd love to know what moisturizer Burgo is using....

I think with some smart drafting/trading and a full pre-season we should be challenging again next season. We made a pre-lim with key backs of Oscar and Frost only. May and Lever included is a huge increase in key back talent. We just need some quick, skilful players in my mind. Weid will be a year older and hopefully TMac will bring his best from Round 1.

He should go have a chat with Travis Boak. He had really dropped his output the last 2 years but this year has probably been his best.

My view is it depends on the number of our pick and the available talent. If someone like Jack Martin from the Suns is available, at age 24 we would be crazy not to trade for him given he is exactly what we lack. Then if someone like Ed Langdon was also available I'd happily trade our 1st round pick for Martin and 2nd round pick for Langdon. Both take us one step closer to a flag, which at the end of the day is the only thing the club exists for. From m understanding we can trade this years' pick, but must use a 1st rounder either this year or next year.

Loved his game. Absolute bull at a gate.

I'd love to see us go after Stephen Hill and Isaac Smith. Shouldn't cost much given Hill is a free agent and Smith is 30. We've got the inside mids, just need to add some cream to the side. I'd also like to see our starting mid next year be Viney, Brayshaw and Oliver, with Harmes first rotation. I think Harmes has more weapons up forward than the other three so should play 70% mid and 30% forward.

Haha tell us something we don't know....

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy

He is rivaling Barry Prendergast as the most inept recruiter in history.

100% agree. He's a smooth mover and the type of player we haven't had for a while. He is earning his position at the moment, but even if he has a slight drop off we just have to keep playing him to build his experience for next season. I'd love to see him play on Brad Hill when we play the Dockers to learn a thing or two and see where he needs to get his tank to the level of.

After reading the write ups (yes I haven't watched them) it sounds like Noah Anderson or Dylan Williams are what we need.

Haha not required. Petracca was solid tonight. Lewis will 100% be gone end of this year and may even retire early and get a farewell game. Jones will play next season and looks decent at half back. Garlett may be delisted depending on who we recruit and OMac will be kept as depth.

LOL 2019 is the year that keeps on giving. Glad there were much better signs, but we really cooked that last quarter! Tim Smith & Hunt missed the easiest of set shots. Weid also but it shouldn't have got to that point. Still pumped for next year. We will likely get a pick in the range of 4-7 which could net us another high end talent. Go into next year with a full pre-season, softer draw, May & Lever back plus hopefully a few more high pressure forwards and we will rocket back into the top 4.

I agree with your comments re Spargo and ANB, but I don't see any value in trading them and hey provide solid depth. It's way too early on Petty and I'm fairly confident he will become a solid backman once he hits 21/22. I also want us to look at Richmond's list to pick off one of their smalls. Higgins, Bolton, Baker, Butler, Castagna, Rioli..... surely we can offer one of those players a bit more than they're getting at the Tigers.

Brilliant

I hope you mean A Brayshaw otherwise Demonland will go into meltdown when that happens....

It's obvious this season is done, but I'm not wrist slashing as it's easy to see there are a number of reasons for our poor performances: - 15 off-season surgeries resulting in a large portion of our side coming in underdone. - An extensive injury list with 8 or 9 of our best 22 out last week and v the Eagles the week before. - Loss of confidence as a result of our poor start to the season. - Lack of outside run that has been severely exposed by the new 6-6-6 rules. I think our list is still very healthy heading into the next 5 years and this is merely a down season, which can be common (think the Cats in 2006 after making a prelim the year before and Hawks in 2009 after winning the flag). I've run my ladder predictor for the remainder of this year and predict we will likely finish in 12th of 13th with 8 or 9 wins. This will give us pick 6 or 7 in the draft and it is imperative we get this right and ideally bring in a gun forward in the mold of De Goey or Stephenson. The next issue is the management of our current list. IMO the following players will be gone at years end: Lewis, Stretch, Garlett, J Wagner, Maynard & C Wagner. With the addition of Dunkley tonight lets assume he gets given a new contract, that leaves 5 list positions to fill. IMO our most pressing needs are: electric forwards, quick outside mids, back up ruck. With that in mind, I'd like to see us go after the most electric forward with our first pick, more quick outside runners with later picks and a mature ruckman as depth. We should also be looking at potential free agents to add to our list such as Coniglio, Brandon Ellis, Alex Sexton or Stephen Hill (assuming he can get himself fit). A full pre-season into our team and a potential best 22 for Round 1 2020: B: Jetta May Hore HB: Hibberd Lever B Ellis C : Salem Oliver Baker HF: (1st pick) Preuss Melksham F: VanDenberg McDonald Hannan R: Gawn Brayshaw Viney Int: Frost Hunt Petracca Quick small forward (anyone but Spargo and Neal-Bullen) Depth: Dunkley, Spargo, Neal-Bullen, Weideman, Jones, Kolodjashnij, Petty, Fritsch, J Smith *Players in bold weren't playing last week and are best 22 when fit.