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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

Not sure whether I should take anything from this, but haven't seen one story from MFC players on Insta regarding this.... May just be they are all on holiday and different timezone, but usually they are all sharing with their farewells...

Hey West Coast, here's 4 Toyota Corollas we are willing to swap for your Ferrari.

They will need two 2nd round picks, so maybe something like: Grundy and pick 27 to swans for Roos future 2nd round + pick 46 I'd do that personally

Got North's pick back so hopefully we are in discussions about this

Any chance we can leave this thread for rumours?

On paper picks 10 & 20 look good, however we all know drafting kids are unknown so it is a massive risk, given we know what Petty can produce already as a 23 year old! There's a reason teams like Geelong & Sydney are so strong, they don't get stuck in an eternal pick loop thinking draft picks will save them. I'd personally rather trade for established players than use draft picks on most occasions. So in summary, no I wouldn't be trading Petty and would back ourselves to keep him in 2 years time.

They lost me at 'Petty has struggled to cement his spot in Melbourne's team early in his career as a key defender'. Is this the same Harry Petty that won a premiership at 21 as a key defender or is there a different Harry Petty?

Pretty sure it was about trading Oliver.... which makes me question how that would make you feel warm inside as when I heard I broke down into cold sweats and wrapped myself up in a little ball in the corner

Isn't too complicated in my view. 2 x AA ruckman wants to join club with no ruckman

Think they were happy to get the cash off our books.... maybe loading up for something this year or next.

Correct. They are what we would call Neanderthals.. though that is actually quite degrading towards Neanderthals. He hadn't had a concussion in 6 years, whereas Murphy has had multiple in the last year or two. The Maynard hit would have knocked anyone out.

Given the amount of talent the Roos are bringing in, especially in the midfield I hope we are getting in the ear of someone like Will Phillips. Hasn't quite come on early in his career and if they have so many high draft picks trying to get a game he may look to move. Good mates with Bailey Laurie as well I think.

I'm not comparing Frawley to McKay, I'm comparing the situations.

We all know the system isn't fair, so no point worrying about it as it isn't changing anytime soon. We can't complain as we got the exact same thing for Frawley at a similar time that the Hawks got pick 19 for Buddy and were punished for being a good side. The only way to end this is to get rid of compensation for free agents entirely.