Colm

Use the next couple of weeks to rest a couple. Viney for a week and Clarry for a week. Try and be in as good as shape as possible for the filth in the last game.

Just to be clear- I’m not having a crack at the Kolt. I like him, puts himself about, not afraid to tackle has good attitude and seems to have a good kick. My point was that we gave up picks 27 & 35 to move from 14 to 11 when we may have got him with our original pick and if not we could have had Darcy Wilson. We have lots of holes to fill and not much draft capital to fill them. Just for a reference point we received picks 46 & a future second ( currently 38) for Grundy. A blind man can see that’s poor trading.

I generally like trading up- but it has to be at reasonable cost. That one felt like overs. We were the only ones to travel and meet his family. Reasonable chance he would have been there at our original pick.

What was more interesting was giving up picks 27 & 35 to move up 3 places and get the Kolt. Darcy Wilson went at our original pick. We could have traded those picks into this years draft and put ourselves into a much better position.

Apart from Jeffo we have no kids. Cupboard is bare.

Yeah same here Gawndy. But when you look at how bad Casey are travelling it’s looking a bit grim.

Dogs off a 5 day break look 2 gears above us.

How did Jed Adam’s go? Seemed to be getting a few mentions early?!

Back up Ruck perhaps? Can’t go into another season with all our hopes relying on a 33 year old Max staying fit and healthy.

Not sure their 5 day break will be enough to get us up. Just had a look at Dogs previous game off a 5 day break. Lost to the Swans at Marvel 88-102 in round 11. Not bad as the Swans were flying then.

Our future should be able to get a late first round of Brisbane for it. Given the evenness of this draft I’d be delighted with a top 10 and late first round pick with one or two picks a bit later where hopefully JT can find another gem.

I don’t think there will be much difference in the draw between bottom 6 and middle 6. Comp is very even now and the a lot of the teams in the bottom 6 will improve next year. Double ups are always important but amount of 5&6 day breaks are probably more important these days.

This 100%. More goals than Petty, McAdam and Fullarton combined. I suggested him last year but was shot down as people said he was lazy and soft. He’s averaging 3.1 tackles per game which is elite for a forward.

Have you factored in bringing in Kentfield in the mid season draft. I assume we will extend him for next year as he a project type of player and would have to have at least one preseason. So we could be looking at only 4 list spots unless we trade or payout contracted players Also if AMW is promoted off the CatB rookie list doesn’t that mean we have to bring in another CatB this year or can we increase the number of players on the A list?

I’m a bit on the fence with Cumming. Great age, skill set that we need. Would be best 22 for sure. But he’s had 3 soft tissue injuries this year( quad, calf and hamstring) and is out for the rest of the home and away at least. Salem looks done for the season as well. Hopefully he can get his body right for next season. But if both Cumming and Salem both have same amount of injuries next year that’s a fair bit of our salary cap going to waste and clogging up our list.

I’ve been thinking the past couple of weeks that this would be the best way to give Jeffo a game. Tmac wasn’t great tonight but he has been good. Manage him for a game or two and put Petty back where I think we will need him most next year.

Never mind Houston. Go all out for Callaghan. Going to be an awesome player and would be would be perfect for us.

Well done Kolt👍🏻. Interesting that we are locking away two first year players that still have two and a half years to run on their first contract. Making sure all our sums add up before offering a new player big four year contract perhaps?

I get that Tim Lambs job isn’t easy. Just look at the two players we are currently being linked too. Houston and Isaac Cumming. Both would fill a need for us but it’s easy to make a case against both of them. Houston could be seen as too expensive given his age and we have other spots to fill. Cumming has had 3 soft tissues injuries this year and will miss the rest of the home and away season. If we were to trade for him and he’s often injured then Tim Lamb screwed up again. If he goes somewhere else and plays most game then Tim also got it wrong. Hard to win. But to win premierships you need to be get you recruitment right the majority of the time. We haven’t done that over the past few years and we can’t afford to get it wrong any longer.

We will probably turnover 5/6 players this year and the same next year. That’s about 25% of our list. We have holes in every part of our list imo. We currently have picks 9, 38,42,48 & 65 in this year’s draft and a full hand next year. Houston would 100% improve our best 22 year but I can’t see how we could give up 2 first rounders and improve the rest of the list enough.

I’m hoping we win every game. I don’t think anybody is actually hoping we lose games for a better draft pick. Even is they say that come Saturday night I’m sure everybody will be cheering us to win. But in the overall picture I won’t be gutted if we miss finals. I get what you’re saying about getting the monkey off our backs but I don’t see us winning the GF. So if we win one final we probably then travel interstate to a top four team. Another belting by Freo would create an even bigger monkey on our backs. Two weeks of finals gives us the same amount of time off as we have had the past two years. A longer off season will allow us to get any surgeries out of the way early and give everybody the best chance at a good preseason. We have seen recently that the deeper teams go in September it has a knock on effect to the start of the next season

Here Bigfoot’s Davo’s top 30 for next year. Has Ah-Mu at 19 Top 30 update 2025 1. Archie Ludowyke - Sand - 195cm 2. Dyson Sharp - Cent Dist - 188cm 3. Oliver Greeves - Eastern - 191cm 4. Fred Rodriguez - Sth Freo - 185cm 5. Blake Kelly - Swan Dist - 182cm 6. Riley Onley - Murray - 194cm 7. Louis Emmett - Oakleigh - 198cm 8. Lachlan Dovaston - Eastern - 176cm 9. Blake Oudshoorn-Bennier - Nth Adel - 182cm 10. Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves - Dand - 185cm 11. Basil Hart - Peel - 185cm 12. Zeke Uwland - Gold Coast A - 177cm 13. Cody Curtin - Clarem - 197cm 14. Daniel Annable - Brisbane A - 183cm 15. Thomas McGuane - Western - 177cm 16. Noah Roberts-Thompson - Sturt - 180cm 17. Jack Dalton - Sand - 177cm 18. Cooper Duff-Tytler - Cald - 199cm 19. Tairon Ah-Mu - Dand - 198cm 20. Willem Duursma - Gipps - 191cm 21. Marcus Cassidy - East Perth - 187cm 22. Xavier Bamert - Sand - 184cm 23. Dylan Patterson - Gold Coast A - 183cm 24. Jadd Hill - Perth - 178cm 25. Jobe Scapin - Gipps - 186cm 26. Sam Grij - Oakleigh - 182cm 27. Toby Whan - Sth Freo - 182cm 28. Zach O'Keefe - Gipps - 177cm 29. Raphael Geesu - Bris A - 175cm 30. Harry Morphett - Geel - 180cm

Funny leading up to the last draft I was hoping we would pick Curtin or O’Sullivan at our first pick. Partly due to the fact that Petty had tried to push through a trade to the Crows and I thought with their mature bodies they both could have a good impact in the seniors in their first year. Fast forward to now Petty has resigned and Windsor has had a far greater impact in his first year than either Curtin or O’Sullivan.

Two great signings. I voted for Petty. I was worried that he might have been gone this trade window and he would have been very difficult to replace. Despite not playing his best footy this year I still rate him very highly. I never had any fear of Windsor leaving.

Got him signed up very early. He would have been on a 3 year contact already as top 10 pick. Great news. Has been a great pick up. A perfect draft pick really- filled a need for us, has been able to have an instant impact and has potential to be one of the best players in the league. Well done to all involved.