Chelly

It had to happen sooner or later. The Western Bulldogs have delisted Jackson Trengove (not to be confused with our former skipper Jack). He’s a 30 year old key position player who would be behind Mitch Brown on our list and therefore have no role to play at the club. However, for those with nostalgic feelings for the old days when we had a Trengove in the team and that Neeld bloke was coaching us, this could be really big.

The best KP players will all go early.

Geelong left with only picks 51 and 96. Wells is going to have to pull a rabbit out of the hat with these picks.

Eddie’s team is already making an application to the AFL for special draft assistance.

Once his manager suggested that someone might pick him up as a DFA that was it.

The bad news is that even less happens on the third day of the trade period than the second.

Given that we’re courting 200cm Ben Brown, I would have though that our focus was already on height.

They’re off an running for the 2020 Trade Period and Titus O’Reily has it all pegged out.

The big news of the day on Trade Radio so far is that it looks like the Tigers are going to release Jack Higgins and that Melbourne is one of three clubs after him.

Round 18: Injury List James Harmes (hamstring) — test Michael Hibberd (ankle) — test Luke Jackson (hamstring) — test Nathan Jones (quad) — 1 week Angus Brayshaw (foot) — season James Jordon (finger) — season Aaron Nietschke (knee) — season Harry Petty (groin) — season Kade Kolodjashnij (head) — indefinite

Judging by the way the club has traded and drafted in recent years, I doubt that we will be holding what is currently our first pick (being Hawthorn’s R2 selection) by the time the draft rolls around.

Injury List: Round 15 Michael Hibberd (ankle) – test Luke Jackson (hamstring) – 3 weeks Tom Sparrow (collarbone) – 3 weeks James Jordon (finger) – 3 - 5 weeks Marty Hore (quad) – indefinite Harry Petty (groin) – indefinite Kade Kolodjashnij (head) – indefinite Aaron Nietschke (knee) – season

It's a dire need and we have to inject some of it into the team next week because the Saints have us well covered for outside mids.

6. Steven May 5. Jake Lever 4. Jack Viney 3. Christian Salem 2. Christian Petracca 1. Braydon Preuss

Carlton will destroy GC17 coming off a 4 day break and having to play in 30 degree heat and humidity.

Injury/Suspension List: Round 13 Max Gawn (knee) – test Braydon Preuss (hip) – test Alex Neal-Bullen (suspension) – 2 matches Luke Jackson (hamstring) – 4 - 6 weeks Marty Hore (toe and quad) – indefinite Harry Petty (groin) – indefinite Kade Kolodjashnij (head) – indefinite Aaron Nietschke (knee) – season

The list grows ... Injury/Suspension List: Round 12 Corey Wagner (wrist) – available Max Gawn (knee) – test Alex Neal-Bullen (suspension) – 3 matches Luke Jackson (hamstring) – 4-6 weeks Marty Hore (toe and quad) – indefinite Harry Petty (groin) – indefinite Kade Kolodjashnij (head) – indefinite Aaron Nietschke (knee) – season

Makes sense as we have yet to play either Freo or the Swans. If it turns out that we’re still in the hunt for the finals then playing teams that are close to the bottom and not much to play for can be an advantage.

It looked as if Grundy was being managed as he was off the ground a lot more than usual.

Dunny!!!

Fair dinkum - we are going to have such a different side this time.

The impact on the draft of academies and father-sons can be measured by this - Cody Brand 195cm/85kg 23/5/02 Calder Cannons/Vic Metro Tall defender Essendon NGA Tanner Bruhn 182cm/73kg 27/5/02 Geelong Falcons/Vic Country Midfielder Braeden Campbell 180cm/73kg 4/2/02 Sydney Academy/Allies Midfielder Sydney Swans Academy Heath Chapman 193cm/81kg 31/1/02 West Perth/Western Australia Key defender Nik Cox 199cm/82kg 15/1/02 Northern Knights/Vic Metro Key forward/defender Alex Davies 191cm/85kg 18/3/02 Gold Coast Academy/Allies Midfielder Gold Coast Academy Zac Dumesny 187cm/79kg 26/4/02 South Adelaide/Western Australia Midfielder Luke Edwards 187cm/82kg 12/1/02 Glenelg/South Australia Midfielder Adelaide Father-Son Denver Grainger-Barras 195cm/78kg 17/4/02 Swan Districts/Western Australia Key defender Errol Gulden 171cm/71kg 18/7/02 Sydney Academy/Allies Midfielder/forward Sydney Swans Academy Oliver Henry 188cm/76kg 29/7/02 Geelong Falcons/Vic Country Forward Elijah Hollands 188cm/85kg 25/4/02 Murray Bushrangers/Vic Country Forward/midfielder Joel Jeffrey 192cm/78kg 12/3/02 NT Thunder/Allies Forward/defender Gold Coast Academy Lachie Jones 185cm/88kg 9/4/02 Woodville-West Torrens/South Australia Defender/midfielder Port Adelaide NGA Finlay Macrae 184cm/75kg 13/3/02 Oakleigh Chargers/Vic Metro Midfielder Logan McDonald 196cm/85kg Perth/Western Australia Tall forward Reef McInnes 192cm/84kg Oakleigh Chargers/Vic Metro Midfielder Collingwood NGA Nathan O'Driscoll 187cm/76kg 17/5/02 Perth/Western Australia Midfielder Archie Perkins 186cm/77kg 26/3/02 Sandringham Dragons/Vic Metro Midfielder/forward Will Phillips 180cm/79kg 22/5/02 Oakleigh Chargers/Vic Metro Midfielder Caleb Poulter 191cm/77kg 12/10/02 Woodville-West Torrens/South Australia Midfielder/defender Zach Reid 202cm/82kg 2/3/02 Gippsland Power/Vic Country Key defender Riley Thilthorpe 200cm/99kg 7/7/02 West Adelaide/South Australia Key forward Zane Trew 187cm/78kg 26/4/02 Swan Districts/Western Australia Midfielder Jamarra Ugle-Hagan 194cm/84kg 4/4/02 Oakleigh Chargers/Vic Metro Key forward Western Bulldogs NGA That’s nine out of the top 25 by Twomey including the player tipped to go at #1. It’s going to be fascinating to see how this pans out on draft night and how Melbourne will handle the situation whereby we don’t have a pick in the first round at the moment.

Odds on, we play North in Tassie.

This is my unofficial Round 7 Out of Hub and Injury List*:- Oskar Baker (out of hub) Toby Bedford (out of hub) Austin Bradtke (out of hub) Kade Chandler (out of hub) Kyle Dunkley ((out of hub) Braydon Preuss (out of hub) Corey Wagner (out of hub) Josh Wagner (out of hub) Tom McDonald (eye ) – test Marty Hore (toe and quad) – indefinite Harry Petty (groin) – indefinite Kade Kolodjashnij (head) – indefinite Aaron Nietschke (knee) – season * Based on various reports from the club and posters.