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We could do with some La Flama Blanca personality

Very clean and effective, two words I don’t remember using about a Melbourne Mid

I’m happy to burn picks if it lands Reid, not so convinced if it’s for Zane D. Reid can play and would impact from Round 1, Zane won’t. Would much prefer 6 & 11 if this scenario plays out

Gawn being shaded by Jacko will sting a little. 11-50 is definitely up for debate but you couldn’t really argue with the Top 10 - personally don’t think Viney is in that group but happy Dwayne thinks so

I think most Melbourne supporters acknowledge Spargo would be so much more useful if he could find the ball 15-20 times, rather than 10. He has the skills we need. If Billings can do that plus generate a few shots himself, it’s a huge win. Helps that he’s a 6’1”-6’2” height too

Pavlich was so good, shame he was in WA for his whole career. Probably missed out on a bit of deserved love

If Billings had a good preseason, I’m not convinced he’d be wing depth. Good rocket for Lingers and Hunter

I think Billings in, Harmes out has the potential to be a pretty good result for us.

I'm really interested to see how he is received by Hawthorn supporters. Seems to have been well loved by Pies fans purely because he was so hated by everyone else. Should be fascinating

Also, it has been mentioned multiple times but his partner is from Adelaide. Perhaps she wants to get home to family as well. If he's in a serious relationship that is considering the next stages, then being around/closer to both families makes it a lot harder to argue with.

At the very least, he offers something a little different

Surely Logan McDonald is the one there, Darcy and Jacko have them stacked for rucks

Both are decent kicks at goal too, uncomplicated and reliable. Not many other clubs have 2 key forwards 23 or under who’d be first choice. If Petty holds up, we are sorted for a few years with Jeffo developing. As for mids though 👎🏼

Apparently Curtin has grown to 197cm too. If that’s the case, he’d be a very, very handy acquisition at CHB for us.

Butters value would be higher than Clarry, every day of the week. Butters will command huge offers next year

I hope you mean which player, as in there’s 4-5 to choose from.

Problem is, T-Mac won’t get through 20 games.

Jack Darling career goals - 510 Tom McDonald career goals - 165 Ben Brown career goals - 353 He’s still a far better player than those two currently and he’s always been better over the journey. I didn’t actually realise he’d been that prolific, West Coast did well keeping Kennedy and Darling for as long as they did

I think this works from the club’s perspective as well as Harrison’s. They might never get this currency for Petts again. For all the same reasons listed, it makes sense for both parties

I know you need to trade something of value to get something of value but JVR is an absolute ripper. You can’t teach that appetite for contest. We already have 3 of the best players in the competition on our list, I prefer we enhance the mid to low range so they don’t need to do as much heavy lifting.

Would have been interesting conversations between the Melbourne recruiting team and the Richmond team. Yze/Tiges would have been mad to let this happen

Lachie Neale would like a word

If pick 1 is being traded, surely the AFL are keeping that on ice until the draft

I tend to agree with @Damo above, I’d take it. I love Petty and would be pretty shattered to lose him as I think he’s great when up and running, at either end. His journey so far has been very stop start, so he could be perennially injured. Hypothetically, if we got pick one though, I’d go to North to split it rather than take Reid. Then we could grab two of McKercher/Sanders and Duursma and fill two gaps instantly, bringing the level of our whole 18 up, rather than just one player

Watching JUH in dees colours would be the stuff of my dreams. He’s going to be a bonafide star.