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Wow. Lifeline 13 11 14. Killing yourself because Jake Melksham plays for your team won't get you anywhere in life.

Sorry, no news - just a note: Bugg is OOC and can go through the drafts if he so chooses, he can nominate to go through the PSD alone if he wishes.

Sorry to update with no actual news - just a reminder - Kennedy is contracted for 2016. So there is no option to go through the drafts to get him.

Hope he chooses the Saints and they get a deal done. Better for the comp.

So we have identified him as a HBF - Salem into the middle from 2016? Probably not, but that is where he will end up.

There is a minute and a half I won't get back...

Thanks Alanis.

In before deletion!

It always a packet of chips...

Would it be to improve? And try to position ourselves for a flag at some point? Geelong have just traded what could be a top 8 pick for a bloke that might be a good forward or an adequate back. They have trade a top 10 pick and the next pick for an immense talent in Danger Mouse because he wants to go there - strategy be damned (or be irrelevant), and they have convinced the crocked brother of their skipper to spend his last 5 years of his career playing with him. They need a ruck to release Blicavs and they don't have it, they have got a player in who might fill a huge hole down back for a potentially huge price... I think you are confusing action with strategy.

I heard the NM boys also thought that too. Some people are wired differently.

I am in a conundrum - I want Geelong to fail badly but I don't want Carlton to get a good pick... Let's hope Geelong are middle of the road next year, then terrible after that. It's the best of scenarios!

A star player leaving a club near the bottom hurts more than a star player laving a club near the top. That is just a simple fact. The compensation tied to ladder position was a godsend to a club that needed some help - namely - us. Fairer when it is equal? Whatever.

It's my personal experience that the most arrogant people are rarely the most talented.

"The most arrogant person at the club." On pretty good authority.

If they do this then they are 'Jonesing' for another 'Brayshaw' they have lined up a long way out... Some kid who won't be there at 6.

We really need a 'WTF' button... I would call it The 'dee-luded' Button.

Those picks can be 95, 102, and 105 if we wanted them to be, and as Mach5 said, two of them should be Rookie Elevations.

Agree.

The main problem with trading is that players have a veto and the players want the opportunity to veto a deal so that they don't end up in a different state to where their life is set up. In the US - players of all major codes live elsewhere to where they play, but that is not the case here. Your solution doesn't really allow for them the freedom to choose where they live - which is the base requirement that they feel they deserve. Getting them out of that mindset will fix your scenario but it will largely address the issue of the current scenario. My changes: - UFA after 7 years of AFL footy (on any list, it doesn't restart with a new club), - Every contract after that the player is UFA, - FA compensation remains for players paid a certain amount (Top 10% in AFL) - 2 bands - one behind 1st round pick (Top 5%, 2nd behind 1st round 5-10%) - Traded players can re-negotiate their contract or simply allow their current one to be left in place, - Players can not veto trades, - Player taken in top 10 are given 3 year contracts with a 1 year team option, Players in 10-30 are given 2 year contracts with a 1 year team option, - Draft age to be lifted to 1 full year out of Year 12, The green changes are the ones I would give to the players to get them to swallow the red. I really don't think current players care about the draft age and contracts given to draftees. Give me two weeks in charge...

Well, considering that the deal hasn't been done yet and the vague language of a 'second round pick' - perhaps we are trying to secure another 2nd round pick to give for Melksham.

Well, it has helped us become more competitive. Sylvia for Vince. Frawley for Brayshaw. Moloney for Kent.

Disagree.

Those are not 'live' picks so they don't really push back those eligible in the draft. For all intents and purposes we will get the 25th best talent we could get with Pick 30 if there are 5 Academy selections.