ChaserJ

If our salary cap is an issue and impacting our capacity when discussing Brown, we are no chance to enter talks with Cameron unless we shed serious salary. I can't remember the last time this many credentialed key forwards were potentially in the market at once, hope we could get one in.

Were rumours about him being unhappy at Dogs earlier in the year. Can win his own ball , but has played the wing role for Dogs beautifully. Great runner and positions himself really smartly. Would be a really good get to fill our wing spot.

Essendon probably thinking the same think at this point. I don’t know why we wouldn’t at least make a pitch.

Yeah, very disappointing that we didn't appear to get heavily involved, he would have really made a difference to our list and obviously was there to be convinced. I do think we need to test their capacity to retain their players now. Curnow OOC in 2023 I believe, but McKay comes out of contract next year, let's get into him now. Petrevski-Seton the other one I'd try and persuade.

Speaking of recruiting consultants, what’s Chris Pelchen up to these days?

If Mahoney’s Position is in question after an objective review, then that’s all fine, my reservation is the timing. Do we want to do this ahead of trade & draft period? While I find it hard to assess his performance in other areas, Mahoney seems to do well at this time of year. Moving him on now could hinder getting deals across the line (we remember how Bell almost bollocksed things up for Freo when he filled in in 2018).

I look at what Richmond have done with Astbury, who at the same age as Oscar had played less than 50 games and was a whipping boy, and wonder how how he would go there. In the right setup, he could become a pretty good role player.

He’d only shown flashes in his junior days, his absolute ceiling was 2nd round. we had some interest and probably would have bid with our next pick, which was a couple of selections after he went. Don’t think he will leave, but shouldn’t stop us from kicking the tyres. We could definitely use his his disposal inside 50. At the very least it might result in someone else falling out.

@Chook in Perthwith the mic drop!

I' m not particularly fussed that Smith won't be a long term player, we've got one year to make progress in finals with Goodwin, we've got 2 years of Goody under contract. We've got a limited crack with May & Gawn. We could well be at the stage where we have to have a mini blow up of the list if we're not competing in finals next year. I'm comfortable with getting a low commitment (in years, not effort) player in the list to fill a need. We won't be burdened with a long term contract if we have to shake things up in a year. We still have clear needs, lets fill them as quickly & efficiently as possible and get cracking.

Sounds like exactly the sort of player we need.

Saints (in particular) & Dogs are going hard for Caldwell.

I'd expect Geelong to monitor the situation as well.

Just spitballing, but it might have been a small amount of the substance in possession, as well as (as far as any scale can apply) accounting for the type of substance in possession. Without having any further detail, it's all just speculation really. Edit: @Ethan Tremblay not only beat me to it, but articulated it better.

The 'Brad Crouch thread' needs to be renamed the 'Brad Crouch line'.

An interested party must have sold him on getting first ruck minutes.

If Freo were a trading partner, I wouldn't mind Darcy Tucker coming back the other way...or Hogan.

Saad pretty astutely called them out. Ultimately sounds like he wanted the security of a longer term deal. With others already leaving, there was money there, as well as a need to avoid having too many walk out.

I think they rate Daniels pretty highly, unless he agitated for a move (no indication that he wants out), he won’t be moved on. Would think we’d be pretty keen if he were available.

Objectively, that’s probably what he is worth, but don’t see the point of moving him if it’s just at cost. Don’t think we’ll do it just for a third round pick.

Sydney have two academy players who are expected to go in the 7-20 range. GWS don't have much coming through the academy this year and are carried a points deficit from matching on Tom Greene in '19 draft. My view is that we could maybe get pick 22 from Swans for Pruess & some lower picks (they may just want to do a player swap), but any deal with GWS would more than likely have to involve a player coming back. Can't see any picks of value coming back from GWS.

I still reckon he comes back at some point, but maybe not this year.

Thanks mate.

I think @Demons11 had some mail around Jesse being available in one of the threads, any updates?

Also, Scott brought him in to add to a group he thought would compete for finals. Scott’s not there now and there is a different direction for the club. Polec is something of a luxury item in this scenario. It shouldn’t reflect as badly on Polec as it has done.