DistrACTION Jackson

Just saw something from Sam Edmund saying medically Gus is ok and plans to complete pre-season as normal. Did anyone else hear this?

6 votes to Michael Prior for complaining about having to play a better team

Tim Lamb said this morning that Harrison will 100% be at Melbourne next year..... wonder how many more tweets we will see from Cornes and Theo Doropolous though

Apparently Tim Lamb is coming up on trade radio at 12pm.... I may break my rule this year of not listening to any trade radio to just catch what he says.

North probably have to give up more and it was just a quick thought. I think the Eagles will want multiple first round picks if they are giving up pick 1, which is why I think it will take a multi club deal.

Because we are essentially sliding pick 11 back to 15 but receiving pick 3. I guess it depends if we want to go all in on 1 or have two picks within 20, one of them essentially being pick 4.

Petty has two years to run on his contract and has not said he wants to leave. If we do this trade we are essentially saying we don't think we can win the flag anymore, that is how important Petty is to our team structure. Our key position depth is already weak, moving him on would be disastrous for that.

I could see a 3 way trade with North & WCE happening. Melb Give: pick 6, pick 11 and future first. Melb Receive: Pick 3, pick 15 & future 2nd (WCE) North Give: pick 3 & pick 15 North Receive: Pick 1 WCE Give: Pick 1 & future 2nd round WCE Receive: Pick 6, pick 11 & future first (Melb) Maybe North give their future second to Eagles also, but that seems a pretty fair deal to me.

Delusional. We all know this will get done late for the pick offered.

I think we have two plans: Plan 1: Package it up for pick 1 and take Harley Reid, Kynan Brown and then potentially trade in an experienced player. Plan 2: If no trade is possible for Reid we will take two top 15 picks and K Brown.

Geez, they are like the weird ex who just won't leave you alone. Let it go Adelaide.

He's out of contract and requested a trade

I think we plan to take 3 picks to the draft (including the one for Brown), so I imagine we are trying to get two top 10 picks if possible.

No different to the 3rd pick we gave for Hunter. Clubs are happy to act in good faith in these situations.

I'm guessing the chance that Gus is forced to retire and who knows whether Oliver will be in a mental space to play next season..... I have no doubt we plan to take a mid with our first pick though either way.

Please Kane just stop talking Imagine a sliding doors scenario: 1. We hold onto him for two years. He kicks 50-60 goals both years and we win back to back flags. He leaves after 2025 and we get a bit less than this year. 2. We trade him for those picks. We get some decent developing kids and finish top 4 the next two years but can't quite get the job done. Your aim in football is to win premierships, not get the most draft picks for your contracted players.

I'm sure glad we've won a final within the last 7,000 days.....

I wouldn't be surprised if we do a swap with Geelong to move 11 up to 8 as well. If North do a swap with the Eagles it is actually a good thing for us, as it means one of Sanders, Watson or Duursma is likely to slide to our pick as the Eagles will take Curtin. If this happened I would be very happy with a draft of Sanders, O'Sullivan and Brown.

Yeah but they would've gone for pick 11 if our offer wasn't the best.

Because other teams were chasing it i.e. Crows and North

The AFL legal counsel was inept during that hearing, one has to think on purpose. It was all a publicity stunt to make it look like they AFL care about head knocks and to try point to it for future litigation. Was actually blindingly obvious and it would be nice if someone in the media had a modicum of integrity and went at them for it.

I'd suggest checking in end of next week.

Not really if they think he's that much better than anyone else. Those picks were created out of thin air for them, so hypothetically they are trading 3 for 1.

Impossible to compare Euro football to AFL due to this fact. I much prefer our setup, as any club can win a premiership if they get their list management right. You cannot say the same for 90% of teams over there who are really just trying to stay in the league they are in.

Given how many picks the Roos have it's hard to seeing us beating them for pick 1, unless they choose not to go for it. I do think however we may be involved in a 3 way pick swap to get us up to pick 3 and gain access to Duursma