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Watson & Caddy may be more attainable.

I'm back up in Q50 with the family and other Dee mates. Got through on my phone after around 15 mins, finalised transaction whilst my MacBook kept whirring away. For some reason I keep having more luck with Ticketek on the mobile.

Young Kynan added another 2 goals to go along with 20 touches and at least 1 goal assist in a narrow loss.

Nick Watson's Eastern Ranges have just won through to a prelim after knocking over Kynan Brown (& Noah Yze's) Oakleigh in a bit of a thriller. The Wizard gets at least another week to further his draft stock. Brown had some good moments and well worth a spot as F/S selection.

Think he was 23 when Adelaide added him to the list in the McGovern deal. Sounds like he didn’t seriously invest in footy until he decided to move from Halls Creek. Is a cousin of Bedford. Wonder if Toby gave us a good reference?

We could do worse than bring in a pair of Duursma’s at the end of the trade & draft period.

I’ve had to do something similar. No SMS, couldn’t access the mobile tickets from my account, but got the pdf versions on screen. Stress levels returning to average levels(ish).

Anyone have any issues getting the Ticketek SMS with links to the tickets? I’m getting the reminder to save the ticket to my wallet, except no SMS with tickets.

He trained with Dees for a few sessions due to connection with the Dandenong Stingrays leading up to the National Champs. We must have given him some decent pointers, DeMattia’s output spiked from that point onward.

Not likely. He’s part of a group of 8 players at the top that are considered the upper rung of the crop. Next best kpd behind Curtin and now being speculated that he could go as high as 6 (a couple of murmurings suggest we have interest). If we nab pick 4 from GC and take those picks to the draft, I strongly suspect O’Sullivan would be selected with one of those picks. Alternatively, that could be a selling point if we’re trying to trade up with a club that is willing to deal and is also keen to add height at this draft.

4 & 5 will become 5 & 6 when a Walter bid is matched inside pick 4. Could even become 6 & 7 after McKay compo. With that in mind, I’m all for swinging for the pick 1 fences.

The Trade Bell from Whateley's radio show, brings together a few of the trade topics that have done the rounds here:

Bundling up our natural first rounder, our two 2nd round picks for this year & our future first.

Great to see so many Demonlanders secure their seats. Managed to grab tix for the family without too much Ticketek drama. This wait is going to be excruciating…almost glad it’s the Thursday game now.

Oh, excellent, thanks for the update @WalkingCivilWar, hopefully the family and I can get tickets nearby tomorrow 🤞

The two biggest beneficiaries of dodgy goal umpiring decisions face off in an elimination final. Surely this game has to be decided by a goal review.

Thanks @goodwindees, great mail! Hard to see how they wouldn’t, but would be interested to see how the deal effects any Ben McKay deal. Both sides widely reported as being well into McKay. Does Sydney still offer enough to trigger band 1 compo? If Essendon lose Parish, but get McKay, will they still sign as an FA and dilute any Parish compensation?

Were we still being informed on his intentions? It had been reported (I know, I know) that we had stepped that back when Koz resigned.

Any feel for which of Sydney’s targets is most likely?

I suspect you’re right on that @rpfc, my first thought when she gave the info she had was that it was either Brodie’s agent or one of the clubs pursuing that had informed her. The speculation on the trade cost sounded like this was the preference of a buyer (as opposed to what an MFC source would have claimed the cost would be). Was too specific to be a thought bubble from Caro.

I'm in this boat. Looking at some of our direct competitors, Port have Butters, Rozee and JHF as a young powerful midfield combination that will challenge for years, Brisbane have had their midfield supercharged by the arrival of one Ashcroft with another on the way (Fletcher looks more than handy too) and Collingwood have had their entire trajectory changed when Nick Daicos walked through the door. I don't think it's unrealistic to think that a player of that calibre and capacity to impact early can be found in the first 5 picks of this draft.

Swans have Hawks 2nd rd pick from the Weddle trade last year. That probably gets the deal done.

If that’s the case, makes the signing of Ben McKay very interesting. Bombers looking at good compo for Parish if he goes. Signing McKay as a FA would dilute that compo, they may be best served by trading for McKay.

I’m guessing one of Smith or Schache will play as a nullifier on Sicily. Schache played that role well on Allir Allir in ‘21, Smith very capable of playing that role as well. Take your pick of Tomlinson or Schache as the in, Smith will be at the opposite end of the ground to one of those two.

I can understand that Marchbank and the Blues were just so desperate to get a win at all costs. Conning the umpires in this instance is a bit like going up for an appeal, when you reckon it wasn’t really out, but you go up anyway to see what the ump thinks. Worked out for Carlton this time. Made me think what Dee players might have done in the same position. Marchbank might have been injured for this one (odds on at least) so might have missed the example set by Koz: