Dee Boys

McAdam may be the nicest bloke in the world but right now the (effectively) McAdam for ANB trade goes down as one of the worst in AFL history. I'd have thought he'd be absolutely bending over backwards trying to rectify that.

Yep, possibly. Although you think that'd be more than offset by the increase in points they'd get next year for Walker from us compared to the other deal.

Yep it doesn't seem to make any sense. Norf are getting this year's pick 11 from Carlton with their pick 25 and a future 2nd. GC's first rounder and this year's pick 37 would appear to be more valuable than that.

Oh right. Haven’t seen that anywhere in the media.

I haven’t seen any link from anyone to us wanting to get another later first rounder? Or do you mean shifting one of them back a bit to get another pick next year?

Intrigued to hear he said no trading up or down. Would've thought it made sense to talk that up as a live option in order to keep Essendon honest so they don't manipulate their picks, regardless of whether we were actually ever going to do it or not. Still, there's a reason why he's very good at what he does so just have to back him in!

Anything noteworthy?

Huh? Lots of other clubs are linked to him.

Would be a disaster if Farrow, Robey, Cumming and Taylor were the four taken by Richmond and Essendon. We've been praying either Grlj or Sharp gets taken so one of the above slip through.

Seems silly.

Forgive me for my limited knowledge of the AFLW team but isn't Bannan one of our better/more recognised players? Form slump or just overrated?

Our only card to play now if it goes that way is putting it out there that our pick 8 is available to the highest bidder. Another team could still be desperate to land Sharp and happy to pay up for that pick, meaning hopefully this possibility spooks the Bombers into taking him with one of their earlier two picks.

But that's because Kozzy and Watson are really good players. You don't reach for a completely different player that's not of the same quality simply because they play the same position.

What an incredibly unneccessary thread bump!

Order definitely changes as recruiters go to work on background and off field stuff between the end of season and the draft.

Thanks for the reports all!

HE HASN’T PUT OUT HIS PHANTOM DRAFT YET

Those double ups are a disgrace for a team that's finished bottom 6 two years in a row.

I've got no idea why people come out with definitive statements like this when they don't actually know what they're talking about. Twomey, The Age and The Herald Sun have all independently linked us to Nairn with our early picks and said we're heavily into him. Taylor has consisently gone against the grain with early picks. Just cos phantom drafts have players in certain spots doesn't mean he'll just blindly subscribe to them. We may pick him, we may not. But "we aren't picking him" is just nonsense.

The sort of damaging athletic utility the Hawks have 6 or 7 of and quickly becoming the modern prototype.

That's promising to hear.

Read the article mate. It's all in there.

If you’re small and slow you’ve got to have some unbelievable strengths to make it as an AFL footballer. Not sure I’ve seen much evidence of these whenever I’ve watched Bailey at AFL or VFL level or at training. Would love to be proved wrong and a fresh start and clean slate under King might help.