The Jackson FIX

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.

Maybe our 2nd rounder plus Judd could net us 12? I don’t think so though…

Possibility also he would nominate for ND and Freo would trade back from pick 12 and pick him there if necessary. Not sure other clubs would want to spend a top 30 in a bloke who doesn’t want to come to them.

Maybe. Hopefully that threat is real. So little has been reported in Judd’s decision - did he speak to Wet Toast at all?

JJ was just bugging up Judd McVee on trade radio saying we should be getting something close to pick 12 for him! Brad Johnson had a nothing comment on the topic which showed he’d barely watched a minute of Judd play.

Have we ever seen a player walked to the draft and not end up at the club they wanted to get to? Nick Stevens maybe but that was a long time ago. Just think Lamb’s ‘statement’ for Judd/Freo will be to push it to the wire before eventually ending up with a complicated swap of picks plus a 2nd rounder.

Sneaky entrant in my ‘most unlikeable footy personalities’ list. Cant ever recall him adding any valuable insight. As vanilla as they come.

With Essendon being stubborn on Merrett, I predict some talk re-ignites about Trac to the Hawks in a deal revolving around their pick 8 and Cam McKenzie

Something similar may pan out (Melbourne have said they want to to get into the first round) but perhaps not directly with Freo

Pick 12 is overs for Judd. Not ridiculous overs and probably about right if he was contracted (ala Flanders for 7) but very unlikely to happen in an uncontracted scenario

Some chat on trade radio on Freo possibly trading down from pick 12 to give us something in between their current first and second

I reckon the crux of the deal will be a future 2nd. But Lamb will hold out until the very last minute. He sounded absolutely filthy about Judd.

Are we certain they didn’t in fact just request a chaplain to resolve them of their constant sinning?