ChaserJ

My read is that Eagles want to trade up to pick 7 or 8 to give them 3 picks inside 10. More likely that they want to bundle the mid-range picks they have and MAYBE a future 1st to get there.

There’s just under a week to go. Dream’s not over until deadline is done, we’re just going to have to sit tight.

I'm old enough to remember when people used to read Playboy for the articles.

Sounds painful.

I'm picturing one guy that kinda looks like Warwick Capper with multiple phones and a heap of burner accounts on Bigfooty.

This feels 6 months too early…

Oliver kicking to Hogan in charcoal and orange is going to be weird to watch.

Judd’s here. Wearing a Melbourne scarf.

Thanks team, in many ways you Demonlanders are like family…often it’s the crazy uncle we don’t make eye contact with, but family all the same.

Or the trade table at least. What's a future AA running HB worth? Pick 11 sounds like a good start.

Do secondments count? If not, then...

Sure, but Bailey Smith hadn't played in two years due to injury and the Dogs wanted him gone by the time his contract was up. What he was going to do in '25 was speculative when it came time to do a deal. We clearly wanted to keep Judd and he is a best 22 player. It's objectively a bigger loss for us than either Smith or Daniel were to the Dogs. I'd be comfortable drafting a replacement w/pick 25 in last years draft (North are clearly operating with a different set of values given the amount of draft capital they've held as well), but pick 30 something is a shot in the void this year. By the time you get there 9-10 players already tied to clubs will have been bid on. A third of the best kids in the crop will not be accessible and we'll struggle to see 50 kids taken in total. So are you suggesting we approach the trade deal eager and happy to take 29 because it's the closest to fair in your eyes? How do you want the Dees to approach?

Add that WC & Carlton will get band 1 compensation for Allan and TDK's free agency departures and some chance that Draper nets band 1 as well.

May has been linked with them.

100%. With WC holding pick 1 in the PSD, that gives us that little bit of leverage. The draft pool being what it is, we lose little by holding the line on our trade demands for McVee.

Next year is projecting to be a heap better than this year. Pick 29 may as well be pick 55 this year. If we can do a deal for 11, would much rather a future 2nd. If Freo are poaching him, they need to pay up. It’s on them to get the deal done.

Can't imagine he'd be keen given his very highly rated little brother's about to come in through the GC Academy.

Chocco's successor named:

9 hours later and I’m still laughing about this.

Been mentioned in the media that he’s carrying an injury.

Around 5 I reckon. Both Taylors, Robey, Greeves & Dovaston.

Yep, it's all over now, Old Peninsula have won their 1st VAFA premiership.

LET'S GO NUGGET! Hopefully Jonesy can snag himself a premiership today.