The Jackson FIX

Top 10 pick this year, 1st rounder next year, 2nd rounder this year and next. Offload Cam McKenzie if necessary. More than enough to get it done if they want. What they have in stock for the Merrett trade can just be shifted to GC for BH if they really wanted him.

Maybe it’s just my MFCSS kicking in but I worry Humphrey gets seduced by the Dorks in coming days and selects them as his preferred trade destination. Hawks have the assets to trade for him and would make it happen. The only silver lining for us is GC may be more open to including their two top ten picks in a deal for Trac (with lots coming back their way), partly because we crack the sads over Humphrey and partly because Trac becomes more important to them if Humphrey leaves.

Good luck with that dimmawit

We are getting not much for him and we are paying a huge chunk of his salary. We want him out. I don’t understand how people see the outcome to be any different given, for the second year in a row, we’ve signalled to him to look for a new home. We can’t walk this back now. Everyone knows that, apart from perhaps this thread. I mean we probably can but it would be such a cluster*** that it just isn’t worth it. The idea I read last night that we are getting a first rounder is absolute fantasy.

I fear you’ll be extremely disappointed f that is your expectation

Fly with a cheap shot on Clarry ‘being difficult to get a hold of’ because “he must be having a good time in Sydney”. Everyone is aware of Clarry’s past, a ‘no comment’ would have been more appropriate from someone of his experience and stature. Fly is quickly spiralling from ‘industry darling’ to ‘bitter oddball’.

Will we find out who it is or too low level within the club for their departure to rate a mention in the media?

Rumoured to be joining Silence Wedge at Golden Plains this year

Comment around Derksen on trade radio that Dees’ interest in Diggler may have cooled because of a late-season foot/toe issue…

Sounds like a folk act from the 70s

Grundy to Swans from Dees 😬

Isn’t the issue more about getting BH to select us (or just state ‘a move back home’) instead of Coll/Haw? Seems to be players typically get to the club they select nowadays, regardless of who is more attractive on the trade front.

There’s Gold Coast supporters?

One thing in our favour is the Bombers are holding out on Merrett which means the Hawks won’t really be able to resolve Merrett until late in the period. Harder to play hard for Bailey if they still have Merrett in their sights. What I fear though is Hawks prioritise BH over Merrett and then we’re competing against a cashed-up flag-contending club for his services.

I hope we pay out his annual salary contribution in 5c pieces.

Maybe he thinks Sydney is in America. Academia not his strength.

Sums up his level of maturity.

We won’t need to wait that long! They clearly want to package the pick up for something else

Pick 23 to be tabled to us

Good news we are holding Troy to his contract. He’ll be gone next season but King needs some stability around him in his first year.

Maybe not just Bailey, maybe this is where another player eg Jake Rogers cones into play

Geeze GWS burnt this kid last year by holding onto him

It does for us, absolutely! Reading the tea leaves I don’t think it does for them sadly…

And then Freo claiming that they’ve ’unearthed the lockdown defender in him’

Aside from being compromised the general consensus seems to be there is a sharp drop in quality (sharper than normal) after the first round or so.