The Jackson FIX

North are inept but they’re not that inept that they trade away pick 3 for an upgrade in the teens

Makes sense in that the dogs want backs/Dees want forwards but there is a material difference in their market value, surely…

Slowly getting the hang of trade-time-list-manager-code: “I don’t want to go into the specifics” = we know less than the public know “We haven’t spoken to any other clubs about him” = lots of cryptic texts though, often with an overuse of the word ‘mate’ to cleverly disguise the fact I hate all other list managers “He’s a required player” = problem child trying to escape, asked the fitness guys to give him a torturing off-season plan to teach him a lesson “Contracted/not going anywhere” = we’re going to make you pay through the nose for him “We’ll sit down with his manager” = player has cracked the sads and isn’t responding to our calls/text messages and has left the team WhatsApp chat “We think he has a strong future ahead of him” - bloke is a jet and we can’t believe those muppets gave him to us for peanuts “Happy for him to explore his options” = happily take a future 9th round pick for him “We’ve got a strong draft hand” = I’ve done my job, don’t f*#% it up recruitment team “We’ll sit down with Essendon over the next week and have some sensible conversations” - Dodoro is the worst bloke I’ve ever met and this deal will not get done

Perceived value of pick 1 is significantly higher this year with Reid. Not saying it should be, but it is.

Melbourne would do that in a heartbeat. West Coast would hang the phone up. We’d need to throw in a future 1st on top of that at a minimum

Truth is he butchers the ball in front of goal and has only kicked more than 20 goals in a season once in a 10 year career. A bit like Harley Bennell for me - everyone is seduced by the ‘potential’ but the reality is this bloke has been around for a long time and done bugger all…

We’re not getting anything near 11 for Grundy, that was obvious even before Sydney offered pick 40-something.

Respectfully, I disagree.

I had said in another thread that there is just no way this guy plays anywhere else but the fact he happily told Josh Jenkins - who he knew would share it on radio - there was issues/deadlock in negotiations suggests to me he is either trying to force Geelong’s hand or soften the impact for Cats supporters if he were to leave. I hope the latter - we would be a better side with him in it next year.

Chandler is 23 years (Roo is 20) old and plays exclusively as a forward who struggled to get near it back half of the year… if he ran out of gas I am officially worried. edit; for reference Bobby Hill and Toby Bedford are also 23 years old and those two were in peak form come finals.

Looks like he needs to lose 15kg. I worry about players that size as they get older, it only gets harder to manage weight and knees/joints get worse, not better

They’re meant to be a similar player - good goal craft and the ability to work hard both ways. Kade had a hugely disappointing end to the year.

Or do we just need Chandler to be more like him?

This is getting boring. James Harmes has played occasionally (more like rarely) as a tagger in the past 5 years. Maxy swings down back sometimes… does that make him a backman?

Warming up in the foyer. Unclear whether he’ll make it through the doors or not before the end of the evening.

Don’t understand the Tom Morris vitriole in regards to the Clarry stuff. I much prefer his narrative on the subject than someone like Mick Warner

Have we talked about Koschtizke on here? Has he nominated a club?

I believe they’ve since tightened recruiting rules and they now test for over-possessive mother at the draft combine

End of Round 2 compensation pick… i think that feels fair

Yet probably twice the IQ

The article is flimsy, because Morris is hedging his bets, but I posted my concerns about Petty a week ago (or so) after hearing the club wasn’t entirely confident he wouldn’t request a trade in the short term.

Their trading forecasts are mostly laughable. They’re just looking for a segment to fill time and to bait people for conversation (which again fills time). His trade value will be determined by the perceived ‘severity’ of his issues (which the guys at trade radio don’t know yet) and how much of his salary Melbourne are prepared to pay (which they also don’t know yet). I am not a list manager but my guess is if Melbourne’s plan is to snare top end talent in the draft they might be prepared to pay some of his salary for a fee years to maximise the trade return but if the plan is to go after a tier 1 KPF then we’ll be less willing to cover any of his salary and the return will be a fair bit lower

How long before we start getting linked with Ollie Wines?

If you’re a handy ex-player with 100 games under your belt, I’d advise you to reconsider. We may need you the way this off-season is playing out.

This is a place of opinions, so you’re entitled to yours. My opinion is you and I probably know less than 10% of what has transpired/is transpiring and we’re therefore incapable of reliably diagnosing what state of ‘repair’ the relationship is in. I’ll defer my trust to those that known more than 10% of what is going on.