Stiff Arm

8 hours ago, defuture15 said:

I would take the future 1st in order to get a ready made like the May

Lever trades. Who is likely in our sights?

Like O'Sullivan ?

44 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

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2. Taking Curtin who seems to be increasing his flight risk level to a fairly high level, which means he could be gone inside 3 years. Could all be rubbish, but the player manager played his cards strongly. 

 

Source?

4 hours ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Yeah I read that earlier Stiffy.

It's a lot of coin if not covered by insurance. Not many clubs could stand that whack!

Bulldogs saying they will have to take out a loan to cover the payout, should their appeal fail

Home base thread.

It's Us vs the AFL, unless it's Us vs Vic Govt... or Us vs Us

Bulldogs paying out $6mill to survivor of sexual abuse as a child whilst under duty of care of Footscray. Biggest payout of that type in Australia. 

Does that come from the Club or through insurance?

10 hours ago, Nascent said:

Extended highlights. Massive props to the person that's been putting all these draft videos together.

This one is slightly different in that the video is broken down by skillset eg. Marking, contested work etc..

 

 

His handball creativity reminds me of Oliver's first few years

Reid is an amazing prospect

1 hour ago, 2021 said:

Leaving us with Curtin, out of that top "tier"?

We do have interest in Curtin (and the Dogs don't), at pick 6, according to Cal T.

Dogs have a lot of young talls already, and Croft in this draft

10 minutes ago, Jeremy said:

As they stated, it wasn’t a phantom draft, it was a mock draft based on club needs, there’s a difference there. It was Sheehan who picked O Sullivan for us not the rest 

Sure, wasn't denying that, however I reckon they would have worked the picks out together before recording

3 hours ago, 2021 said:

Mind you, last week Cal also said that he didn’t think the Dees would trade out pick 6 either.

Cal Twomey, Shifter Sheehan and Riley Beveridge see us taking O'Sullivan at 6, after bidding for Ethan Reid, according to their phantom draft on today's AFL site.

They have Curtin going to North at pick 3, which make sense, as they need key defenders

5 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

Pick 6 is a cursed draft number. No great players of note have been picked with this draft number. Only 68 games average for all pick 6’s from 39 drafts which is the lowest number of average games  played for top 20 picks. For example pick 5 averages 128 games and pick 7 averages 123 games. A trade should not be discounted.

You do realize pick 6 will end up being 7 or 8 by the time academy bids are matched?

Put away your ouija board

Taylor Goad looks good as a 206cm ruck. Says he bases his game on Max Gawn

Why this unique 206cm ruckman is dazzling recruiters: https://www.afl.com.au/news/1059916

Any evidence that WCE are hell bent on getting Curtin just because he's from WA?

Yet, they'll take a Victorian with 1? 🤷

I read a Curtin interview where he said he kinda liked the idea of living interstate. Not every WA lad wants to be near their mummy

54 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

No way! I don't see any upside to this at all. 

There will be a good player available at six - take him.

Why take a punt that could go wrong?

Agreed. Taking a good player at 6 this year means that we get a year of development into him whilst we are still in the window for 2024. And we all know windows don't stay open forever

Keep 6.

If anything, I'd offer our F1st + 11 for 7 or 8 this year. Curtain and O'Sullivan would be a great haul

Not only rigged, but definitely a nepotic boys club with zero transparency or accountability 

A good number of Tassie prospects this year. Liking the look of Schoenmaker, has an amazing left foot kick, nice size about him too 194cm

7 hours ago, bandicoot said:

Pick 2 is better than 6 and 11 is laughable. Most clubs will take 2 top 10 picks over 1

Ha! That's gold!

1 hour ago, monoccular said:

Q for experts - do any feel that there may be some degree of reluctance to take Tasmanians “all things being equal” (which of course they never are) given the presumed concessions for the Tasmanian franchise in the next year or two - maybe??

Gonna be pretty hard for Tassie to meet their milestones before fielding team. 

A not-yet-funded stadium, possible change in state govt at the next election (current opposition against the stadium), not a shovel of soil turned yet, some local protests and resentment, sponsorships to be found.....

I believe Whispering Jack made reference to this a couple of weeks ago after a recent conversation he had with an former Tassie premier

A lot to happen before a team gets going down there. I wonder if Gil made it just a touch too difficult for this to get off the ground

2 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Maybe we are forcing Norths hand by doing so?

I'm not sure to what end but our offer means that they will have to pay up. to get P1

 

...or not pay up and keep 2 and 3

For all our speculation, the top 10 draft order may not change beyond bid matching 

45 minutes ago, WesternDee said:

I don't like being patronised Goffy. I'm entitled to my opinion and I didn't appreciate your dismissive comment. I was steaming last year about Jackson. Everyone knew he was leaving yet we continued to play him when he was playing single digit games. The club was at fault not Jackson. I don't want this to happen again.

The two situations are not the same. You are getting worked up over Cornes' rumours, and tarring Petty with the same brush as Jackson.

If Petty's not injured and is fit enough, he should play. Dare i say, he's more important to our structure that Jackson was

7 minutes ago, JJJ said:

WC 3, 8 + 11

North 1 

MFC 2

Geelong 6

Personally if that were to eventuate or something similar I would be ok with it.

I understand there would be more to it than that. Need to be a F1st or F2nd involved, Geelong can't just give up 8 and get 6 for free

That's a big commitment from Taylor/Lamb: our whole 2023 remaining draft picks (except 42) for pick two. 

Hope Duursma is worth it!

57 minutes ago, old55 said:

Are you sure North think Duursma > McKercher?

I think most people think Duursma  > McKercher, but I also think North have a raft of potential A Grade mids, and Duursma offers them something of exceptional quality but different. 

If they nab Reid and/or Duursma this draft, plus possibly another pick inside 10 they can consider themselves well and truly KOTD

Just my opinion, though

58 minutes ago, old55 said:

I'm going all in, assuming we like Duursma ...

WC give 1 + 23 get 2 + 6 + 42 - result: 2, 6, 37, 42, 58

North give 2 + 3 + 18 get 1 + 11 + F1 - result: 1, 11, 15, 17, 57 + F1

MFC give 6 + 11 + F1 + 42 get 3 + 18 + 23 - result 3, 18, 23, minus F1

23 is a valuable pick because it's the first pick in round 2 on night 2 and clubs who want a slider will pay a F1 for it.

You can leave the F1 and 18 out of it if you prefer.

Pick 3 will end up at 4. That won't get us Duursma, but it will be enough for McKercher 

And wouldn't Norf supporters be frustrated they won that last game and moved 'up' to 17th.

They would've had picks 1 and 2 in this draft!

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

goody ruining the narrative again 😮

Indeed, how dare he show what a good man he is. Probably more brave than most of us.

That young swimmer was simply following Goody's instructions to long bomb it into the water