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Russell Jackson is one of the finest journalists in the country and broken some of the biggest stories in recent times. No question on his sources and veracity of his story. This is a shameful story and can only hope it leads to a positive inflection point for society at large. The depths that clubs have ‘allegedly’ plumbed to achieve success continue to shock.

Further to this, Alwyn Davey could go anywhere from 15 to 25, meaning that 22 could well go & Bombers might want some points to match the f/s bid. I would be quite happy with MFC bidding on Davey with p13/14, his pace & skill wouldn’t go astray in our fwd line.

One of three that came to mind when I heard that GC might be willing to trade out players that you wouldn’t expect to see on the block. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Flanders go as well. Joel Jeffrey the one I’d be keen on getting out (unlikely, especially now that Rankine is out).

Pies have delisted the Brown brothers and Liam McMahon. McMahon was a 2nd round pick on potential in 2020, 198cm forward with a good leap. Pies are very conscious of cap space, think McMahon would be a good rookie candidate to see if he can develop into a low cost fwd option.

Well, this thread got weird.

Hotton was very good again tonight. Should go in that 10-20 range, would love him at the Dees.

Good point, the anti density rules in U18s make it a very different ball game when compared to AFL level defensive setups.

Cadman is a 196cm mobile, competitive type. The Jeremy Cameron comps come from his capacity to work higher up the ground and get touches. Regularly picked up 18 to 20 touches in the back end of the NAB League season and popped up with big marks and goals in important moments. Improving below his knees (not a giraffe) could be cleaner. His inside 50 play is similar to Harry McKay (including some technical issues with kicking). Good distance on his kicks, can spray them. Seems a really good kid, willing to learn. Has improved a lot this year, particularly with reading the ball in flight. Think he’s well and truly the best kpf in the draft pool.

Ashcroft (mid and f/s to Lions) George Wardlaw - inside mid compared to Clarry Elijah Tsatas - speedy mid, can go inside, good kick Aaron Cadman - key forward, compared to Jeremy Cameron and Harry McKay Harry Sheezel - medium forward, highly skilled, compared to Stevie J or Toby Greene

Richmond are creating a nice cluster of players in Bolton’s age group. Chips have been moved from Dusty/Cotchin/Riewoldt as the centrepiece of the list.

Heeney when up forward.

No, but they did ask our question of ‘what do you love about playing for Melbourne’? Riv answered first (fans, soaking up the atmosphere after a win), Jacko looked slightly uncomfortable whilst waiting to answer and essentially answered ‘same as Riv’, went on to say loves the fans and his teammates.

Turner or Smith. I like Thommo too, but he’s probably at a stage in his career where he can probably win one more contract, but he needs to be playing. His contract is also one I look at on our list with the thought ‘we’re clearly overpaying for the role that player is playing’. It’s a win/win if he finds a new club.

Work meetings meant I couldn’t get on till midday, managed to get 5 seats in M54. Very much feels like lucky dip with Ticketek. That said, stoked that I’ll be able to take the kids to their first finals games.

One thing that frustrated me about our entries on Friday…the number of times Spargs was completely open in the forward line and he was just ignored. There’s one way to get his possession rate up…use him instead of dump kicking it to our outnumbered and outsized fwd line.

My wife’s convinced that she heard the commentary team mention something about Naughton leaving during the Dogs Dockers game yesterday. I missed it and it was well before I read @chook fowler’s post. He’d certainly improve our forward line in multiple areas. Naughton’s contested marking is much publicised, but he is mobile and good with fwd pressure as well. Could the Dogs afford to lose him with JUH & Darcy being the part of the future fwd line?

Thanks for sharing your mock @IvanBartul13, great stuff. It’s not until you see the 2023 names on paper that you start to get an idea of just how stacked next year’s crop is looking at this stage. Reid, Duursma & Moir, phwoar!

Will be there, family in tow and full of voice. Can’t wait!

Thanks @Pennant St Dee, really appreciate the insight. Demonland’s own WA based scout!

He impressed when moved into midfield for WA, moved right up the boards. Seen much of him, @Pennant St Dee?

Apparently a bit of a Serong-style of player. Had 5 behinds to go with those 4 goals, he could have had an enormous day!

Home grown key forward taken with the Cerra pick? We could ask, but the answer’s going to come back pretty quickly in the negative.

Just doing the quick glance at the ladder, I see Essendon & GWS as teams that could go tall in that p 5 range, think there’s a strong likelihood that we’d need to get ahead of those picks if we identify Cadman as the kpf for us. Jefferson probably doesn’t get past pick 11.

Fire sale on their experienced players. They have to get Lobb off the list, Mundy’s OOC, Logue could go and many of the rest are quite young and on affordable contracts.

Can’t imagine Melk would be all that high (although he did well against Port). He did try to chase and apply pressure against the Dogs, but the wheels aren’t quite there anymore. Not sure we can have more than 1 or 2 in the forward line that are sub optimal pressure players. Eapecially when ANB does so much work further up the ground plugging gaps to give Petracca more opportunity to play offensively. Structurally we might need to drop one of Melk or a tall for Chandler or Bedford up front.