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Oh well, future third got it done 

In reality, one of their third round picks probably gets it done.

Wonder if we could do Harmes and 41 for 39 & 52?

52 would be fodder for a Brown bid match.

14 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Any mention of what that was?

Not from the media. Someone on social media speculated that the Swans offered up pick 46 flat. That’d be borderline offensive as an opening offer. Wonder if they’d put the same pick on the table for Taylor Adams?

Apparently the Dees have knocked back Swans opening offer for Grundy.

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Picks?

Not speculated on at this stage.

Sam Edmund & Morris saying Harmes is a good chance to be at the Dogs by the end of the day.

6 minutes ago, Demon 16 said:

In our dreams!

In reality North will probably be given an extra pick and GC will trade pick 4 but still take Read as an academy player.

So there will be at least 2 additional picks before we are up and I doubt McKercher would last 6 picks anyway.

McKercher could get through if North go with Sanders at pick 3/4. Very good chance if McKay compensation doesn’t come in at band 1.

3 hours ago, Pulp Fritschon said:

Not sure what is in that article by Marc McGowan……but imo - 

I see the only way for WC will give up 1 is if they get pick 2 and take the local player. 
 

For us to get involved we would need to pay off both WC and North. 
 

North getting pick 3 for McKay is crucial to both clubs entertaining a pick shuffle. 
 

Hawthorn’s offer is decent but think WC want 2 early picks this year. 
 

I think we could still get involved but we will need to pay quite heavily. 
 

 

Not formally. Still expected though.

Marc McGowan going through the 4 clubs that could put together a deal for Reid, he has us in the mix and outlines scenarios where we could put together a good enough trade package:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/he-s-the-no-1-draft-pick-here-s-how-your-club-can-get-its-hands-on-him-20231002-p5e93t.html

On 10/2/2023 at 10:34 PM, Pennant St Dee said:

Dan Curtin won’t partake in the combine.

I believe he has a hamstring strain 

Reid won't test as well, Watson as well.  Both had late season injuries. Not bad enough to keep them out of CTL finals games, but not worth pushing through in Combine.

43 minutes ago, Nudge said:

I’ll take apologies now.. THIS is what was coming, as paired couple wks back, of which, I confirmed this morning!

 

Picks 2+3 for Oliver & a later pick. 

Stepping this out a little, if we nabbed 2 & 3, we could probably still trade for Reid whilst retaining p3. Could a Reid/Duursma double be on the wish list?

On 9/30/2023 at 10:38 AM, Redleg said:

This thread should hot up from monday, but it may not be great news for us.

 

Gee @Redleg, you might have been on to something without even realising. You’ve gone and manifested Clarry trade rumours!

3 hours ago, Cheap Seats said:

Got to talk about something since there isn't much to talk about....

But i kinda agree with Corn, i don't agree we are "under pressure" but you could argue a few teams have gone past us this year. Will be a big off season for the Dees.

From the media, yes. We’re generally rated a premiership contender with a generational list that has a deficiency in one area of the ground.

I don’t necessarily prescribe to the theory that we don’t already have the talent in place to address this, but the consistent narrative will be ‘will Melbourne try and fix the obvious problem, or stubbornly stick with what they have already tried’.

10 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

RE: Rory Lobb, can’t remember where exactly (podcast?) but I heard it from Gawn’s mouth that when we initially introduced Gawn to the idea of recruiting Grundy, he was told we had someone unexpectedly available lined up to replace LJ, and his immediate response was “oh, please don’t tell me it’s [censored]ing Rory Lobb.”

Cant take the suggest seriously but scared of the proposition at the same time.

Remember hearing the same thing.

I get why they're making the link, but I don't get why we'd pursue Lobb whilst ignoring Chol. Whatever flaws exist in Chols game, Lobb has the same in spades (echo that for strengths).

From a long game perspective, if it's true that having Lobb on the books is making it difficult for Dogs to re-sign Naughton, Ugle-Hagan,etc., I'm happily letting them struggle and see if Naughton can be lured over as a FA in 12 months time.  There's no one else taking Lobb and his contract off their books, they can keep and we should have a crack at picking off bigger targets from their list. Decent odds on it being reasonably messy at the Dogs this time next year.

And also pick 4 being traded away from GC.

Not against it (particularly if p5 is not part of the deal), McKay one of the few key forwards that has troubled Steven May in direct match ups in recent years.

May has owned Charlie, but McKay’s height and deceptive mobility has challenged Maysie. The only reason there’s any possibility of Carlton moving McKay on is that his kicking has been inconsistent, if he’s a dead eye, Blues would not be entertaining any trade.

Apparently we’re keeping an eye on Bulldogs pick 10, which is widely reported to be going to GC.

We’ve also been linked with a future 1st from Port (don’t think both of these could happen concurrently).

If either eventuates, we could easily send Blues a couple of first rounders for McKay whilst retaining pick 5. 

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Big news if true.

Would be massive. Everyone has been speculating on what triggers band 1 compo, and I think if that number from Essendon is remotely accurate (the Age gave an approximate of 750k a few weeks ago, so either agents are backgrounding or clubs have made an informed guess), no one would expect that to trigger band 1. 
 

Clubs were already angry about the assistance package, the compensation pick is going to be a massive watch.

41 minutes ago, JJJ said:

We have the space to get a highly paid player.

Re my ‘riddle’, we were right into McKay earlier in the year but it had gone quiet. Only heard about it again on the weekend that we’d upped the ante.

We’ll see. 

Old mate Trade Whisperer has just dropped this one on Twitter as well.

Need to see what Blake Howes can do as well.

He was there. Featured on some of the red carpet coverage, looked like he took a mate to the event.

Jon Ralph speculating (both OTC & I assume in HS article that went up at the same time he went to air) that the Essendon contract to McKay may not be big enough to attract band 1 compensation, stating that Essendon were only prepared to offer McKay what they thought he was worth (rather than pay more just to prevent North from matching).

He reckons Essendon have offered incentive laden contract worth around 780k, so without AFL ‘massaging’ the compensation, doesn’t seem to rise to band 1 level.

2 hours ago, biggestred said:

Rumour is that weve been speaking pretty heavily with Tew Jiath (CJs brother)

Would be happy to get Jiath in with a second rounder. Would give us some real speed out of defence, pretty good kick as well.

3 hours ago, Redleg said:

Sydney have a far deeper midfield than the Saints, so it is strange for a player who has not been able to get a regular game and is probably leaving for more opportunities. I could say the same for JJ.

Maybe the contract is fatter.

Sydney have some talented midfielders but have struggled with contest & clearance since Kennedy went out of their centre square rotation. Parker can’t do it all by himself (and he’s getting on), Dow would make a lot of sense. He’s a fairly one dimensional midfielder, but just happens to be strong in the area Sydney’s midfield is lacking.

JJ has probably been told he’ll get a good crack at CBA’s as well.