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Season over. Can we still get a top 5 draft pick?

Gun player and you'd certainly make room for him the side, but hard to see how we'd fit him into the cap? Need to keep enough room for Brayshaw, O and Tmac and Hoges of course...

Would finish off our midfield perfectly....unless he wants $1 million per season we'd have to be the front runners as the other clubs on that list are miles off any real success

Apparently Geelong and Collingwood are close to selling off all their pokies too...I assume there is a strong business reason for this, and it's more than just for the "optics"? I'm not particularly happy or unhappy we've made the decision to exit the gaming industry, I'm not much of a gambler myself and see the machines as a complete waste of time, but hey it's legal, if that's how you choose to spend your time and money go for it. You'd trust the finance guys have done the sums and agreed that this is the best way forward and the benefits of selling off the pokies venue will far outweigh the costs.

It’s doubly annoying we lost him for nothing as he was part of the Scully compensation....got that pace and ball carrying ability we need but I suppose it’s ancient history in footy terms

He chose to leave for cultural reasons didn’t he? Pretty sure we wanted to keep him and he’d recently signed a contract extension

“Experts” like Karl Langdon and Brad Hardie said he was a certainty to go to Freo before he signed a contract extension last time as well

Tom Morris on 3AW (whoever the heck he is) just said TMac is highly unlikely to play round 1....but doesn’t know the actual nature of his “foot soreness”

The roller coaster begins before the season even starts: in the space of 2 days we've gone from having half the side out to nearly everyone bar Viney available!

I’m none the wiser if he has the start of a stress fracture or not now! Exactly how the club wants it I assume

Are we even sure Tom is definitely missing in round 1 or are we all panicking?

Hopefully they've caught Tmacs injury early and if he needs to miss 3 or 4 games to get it right, he can still play the majority of the season

Both ourselves and Geelong will have a couple of best 18 players out by the look of it...I don't think we can use injuries as an excuse if we don't get up

We’ve booted 19 and 18 goals in the first 2 practice matches, so given the available sample data so far we’re not missing Jack’s goal kicking ability much

Trac is a raw excitement machine, he could be our most marketable player, not to mention game breaker, great news!

The shares in his company are up over 700% since listing on the ASX: wish word had got around I would have bought into the IPO for sure!

He was one of our best players in the second half of last year, especially in our great wins over Hawthorn and Port, and our near win against the Eagles in Perth. So we know what Dom can do at his best. Bit early to call for his axing or trade, sure he's not in top form at the moment but he can still be a key performer as he works into the season.

I reckon Trac is already one of our most important players, his explosiveness and zone busting long kicks into the forward line are real weapons. He's also a brilliant overhead mark, one out he will beat a lot of players in the air this season. Haven't seen enough of McCartin to make a call on him, just hasn't managed to get himself on the park enough....but taking a shortish key position player with diabetes who doesn't display elite fitness and conditioning at #1 is a big risk.

Watched the replay last night, the kid's an absolute freak, he does things with his hands I'm not even sure Sam Mitchell could pull off! I can see why some experts say he will be better than Petracca or Hogan - nice argument to have at our club

His game yesterday was off the charts, absolutely unstoppable

It'll happen, once a player and his manager publicly commit to another club, it always gets done.

We need to get our top end of town Collins St supporters to make him the best under the table, brown paper bag deal dirty money can buy!!

As other posters have said Hogan would be mad to go to team just starting it's rebuild: the pressure on him would be ridiculous. Hope like mad he stays but if he does leave we'll no doubt get another top 3 draft pick + whatever else we can squeeze out of the deal.

He'd be mad to go to Freo who are going back to the start of their rebuild when we are finally coming out of ours. And screwing up his career by playing for boring-ass Ross Lyon!

Already a more impressive player than the Toump and hasn't even debuted in the real stuff yet. How a #4 pick midfielder should look.