Matt

Maybe West Coast had to be sure they didn’t have pick 1, before they started to seriously chase Dogga. No one has traded pick 1 for a long time. Pick 2 would be fine though, and along with pick 20, sounds pretty fair to me. Then go after Cadman

Where are they saying Darcy is going?

I suspect we would let West Coast know that we want pick 2, and the AFL would allow it

Firstly, I’m assuming Dogga is leaving. Secondly, I’ve been thinking West Coast have always been a chance, just because they have the pics. For this reason, for much of the year I have been wanting North to finish bottom, so West Coast don’t have pick 1. Pick 1 hasn’t been traded for ages. Fingers crossed we can get our hands on pick 2 or 3!

And that is why the Pies are prepared to pay part of his salary. The first thing this guy said to me was that it was a bad contract, and we had already discussed that in the past. That's why they don't want him on their list. He also believes no ruck should be worth a mil, let alone Grundy. As I said he even thought Jackson was just "ok".

I think the person I talked to was meaning that someone on a mil a year, should be worth a first rounder, in theory. Even if 300 of that is being paid by another club. It's not my view, but I think that's what he meant. He did say they were trying to move Grundy, to trade in a GWS mid, so I guess that's where the bargaining power comes in, meaning they need Grundy gone to bring in the GWS mid

To be clear, I am not talking about your average Pies supporter. Not going to elaborate any further though

Neither really, maybe someone in between the examples you gave. I didn’t want to press him too hard for info either, as he might think I could be putting it up on something like DL

That was exactly what he was saying from the Pies end

I made the same argument about a second rounder, but he wasn’t having any of it. He did mention wanting the money to go after one of the GWS mids though, can’t remember who it was though

Talked to someone I believe today, and they said a few interesting things, coming from a Pies perspective. Firstly, they didn’t think Dogga was that good. Said he was ok. Secondly, they thought Grundy would be worth at least a 1st rounder, mostly because of the salary he is on. Also said if Dogga was worth 2 1sts and I was saying I didn’t think Grundy was worth one 1st, that wasn’t realistic. I talked about it being a salary dump & he agreed the Pies would be paying $ for him to move (& he grumbled about Treloar). But he still remained firm about the 1st rounder. Hopefully he is wrong, wouldn’t want to give up a first for Grundy!

This!

To put us in the best position

So who do we want to win today, Pies or Swans?

I’ve only seen it mentioned by one person on Demonland. Hope it’s legit though!

You would think we’d be looking at Georgiades, how much would he be worth?

Trading out pick 1 would be a fair bit harder sell to their supporters than trading out pick 2 imo. Pick 1 hasn't been traded away in a fair while

That's why I've been wanting North to finish last. Just in case. Teams pretty much never trade pick 1, but might trade pick 2

Like when Buddy left the Hawks

I would love it if he did a Buddy, and went to a team no one was talking about (West Coast)

Unfortunately I agree with this

If AFL allow it, which they should

Cheers mate, thank goodness you're here.

Really? Phwoarrr.

Lol I knew I would get this comment back