Turner

We owe it to Weid to let him explore his oportunities at the dons where he likely gets more looks in and schache can play the mb38 role for a year or two until the big fish lands

he's a better tap ruckman than darcy

i agree with layz here, 3 year deals for all draftees is too much given the average career is 3yrs length. and quite often players are delisted after 2. less players will be drafted as there will be more clutter on each list each year, this would therefore bulge the cap and the top players would have to play for less etc etc theres too much flow on, the idea for the first round i would be ok with as usually they're given longer than 2 years in the system regardless and whilst i'm on it the end of 1st round should also be the cut off for NGA bids as well, 40 is too far out and gives no incentive to clubs to invest in it

im of the view we should go smaller here and try and get our second pick into the 30 range to have a go at keeler, i rkn he has the best athletic build of the talls. cadman i feel has peaked early and benefitted from being the biggest bloke out there against other 18yo's which as we found out with weid doesnt necessarily transition to the big league. keeler has the leap and the athletic ability to get around the grounds. pair him with hollands i say and then bring elijah back to melbourne in a few years time ;)

these guys are clowns sometimes, Rankine won't be a free agent as it'll only be 3 years at his club, needs to be 6 to qualify for free agency so he'll just be an ooc player then not a free agent

grundy 6 turner 28 or ideally 12🤞🤞🤞 bruce 29

i rkn he's 50% of the reason wce would be happy to move pick 2 to 8 & 12. busslinger probably the other 50%

bedford was always one of my favourties due to taking the no12 which has always been my number thanks to col sylvia growing up as well as the romance of being a late pick from the NGA, sad to see him go but from a selfish pov can totally understand why he's done it, i hope he makes us regret underutilising him and has a lengthy career as a (slightly less than average sized) giant

i'm throwing Brayden Crossley's name out there again you'd think any chance to pay afl he'd take it but also who cares if in 2yrs the eagles throw coin at him to replace NicNat he's depth and we have 2x AA's ahead of him so we'll get a handy trade for him and we'd be able to just rinse and repeat the next state league ruck or grab someone off the trade merry-go-round we'd lose him as an OOC player at the end of '23 anyway, no way he'd sign on again then so may as well let him go now if he's not in the plans while he has a little bit of value ruckman have too much scope to go wrong, when they're drafted as an 18yo they still have so much development still to go -as in 4-5 more years- yes we've had some success over the years but recently King, Flip, Bradtke not so much. it's a much better strategy to let other clubs develop them/let them develop outside the system and then nab them when they're ready to go/proven. so i actually don't have too much of an issue with our strategies in this department

some people get proper brutal and aggressive on here towards others ideas and towards professional footballers, some of whom have had successful 10+ year careers. a weid-bruce swap would be worthwhile if we think we won't be able to re-sign weid next year after anothre year of vfl predominantly and given the squeeze at WB. could easily be our number 1 key forward by the bye u just never know. offer him 2 years on 350-400 and you've got yourself a deal i say. feel the criticism is unjustified and the faith in players under 20yo and under 10 games to just walk into a top 2 side and win a flag is probably too strong. look at the way the cats operate, 2-3yrs at vfl level before players get a crack to let them size up and be properly prepared. we're not a bottom side requiring to expose talent anymore, we're premiership contenders so we need depth who can take us there and bruce is a proven game changing key forward when he's up and running

bit of an aimless comment isn't it? given one of them is already a premiership player at the club... 33% aint bad

last round v WCE in 2020 when he absolutely tore them to shreads, took so many marks on the lead and polled a couple brownlow votes sticks in my head

it doesn't seem to matter what thread im in it always somehow loops back around to petty the forward smh. IT AINT HAPPENING PEOPLE!

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DFA watch on Frankie Evans -Port Narkle -Dons/WA Stocker -Dons Blakely -Suns Brown brothers, Howe, Hartigan, Joyce, Phillips all raised themselves or by journos as still interested/getting interest

looking forward to finally realising my dream as an afl plyaer

i don't know why we don't just try tomlinson there! he's the one who cant get into the side anyway! time to reinvent himself!!

admin i'd like to mute the phrases "petty as a forward" and "petty forward" from all future posts in my feeds please, thanks

he's going there to partner aliir and replace mckenzie/jonas who are aging

if we want good cheap ruck depth i hope we're considering rookie-ing or SPP/DFA-ing Brayden crossley, i indend on calling up the exchange boys and asking their opinions on his prospects of re-entering the comp and how he'd be allowed to do it as a previously delisted player although time ago. he looked seriously promising coming through as a youngster at the suns

liam jones

Turner's predicted wednesday movements: Tucker/Logue will be finalised Cordy will join StK Frampton for that future pick to the pies GrunDEE tune back in at 7pm to see how right i am lmao

probably might've if we'd been able to tie bedford down. i realise probably might've is as close to an oxymoron as you can get but i think it was a chance

Bonner, Sharp, HClark, Hunter

i was gonna say neitschke but aidan riley is definitely more niche