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If I was Viney and Mahoney and a team offered Pick 22 for Colin - I would take it. We will find out for certain in a couple weeks.

And you don't see how taking the only competitor to GWS out of the market would have made a difference? GWS need their allowance as they teethe, Franklin should be there and the sport would be better for it.

The Worry? People cannot adequately describe The Worry. The fear is that big clubs will suck up all the talent through FA. That is absolute crap. FA allows 28+ year olds a few years at the club of their choice on their terms. Teams can pay them an extra $100k outside the cap to keep them at the club. RFA can be re-signed or traded, if the compensation sticks around in near to it's current form it is another soft landing for clubs in this new FA era. The Worry is unfounded.

Hope it's true and we can get something done. Throw in Miles or Bugg... I am greedy.

Plenty. First, the scenario for Vets involved 10 year vets at that club. Not vets from othe clubs. Secondly, that scenario is now defunct. Thirdly, the new scenario is you can have an unlimited amount of 10 year vets and you can pay them each $100k outside the cap. So we could do that for Jamar. But what is the point when we don't have a cap squeeze... As for Chapman - I am sure he would be good value for a couple years, but we have bigger fish to fry this trade period so am more concerned with that.

I am hoping Roos will be the face of the club for some years yet. Even if he isn't coach.

And the changes would be?

W have already cleared 7 positions, D2014. And I think a couple more to come. That's a clean out. And I would like 3 mids too to put into the team. But what assets do we have to move? ND2, ND21, ND22 (hopefully), and some players of value. You have to give something to get something and we need a midfield.

Yeah, he failed. Countless others have too. But he still gets to go and watch and have a beer and enjoy the coming renaissance. He loves the club and he deserves what he got and not a jot more. Move on, the club has. And his articles have made some petty good points; you fail with the best of intentions and the purest of motives. It does not a villain make,

Guys, please, you're both just awful... (IWUAEHIIUE) (Nod to Family Guy and the Gyllenhalls)

lol Welcome to our planet! The TV is overrated but pastries are good. Enjoy!

I think it is closer to $400k from whispers I hav heard. We will find out with a week of Trade week to go.

I could come back at you with where did you get those numbers from? Salary, b+f, games played play a factor. I say Band 3 because Chaplin and Pearce were Band 3 and I really do not think they would be on the kind of coin that would seperate them from Colin.

I was being facetious about the Evil Nexus... My point is that just because someone has ties to the club, does not mean that they are not capable and/or not desired at the club.

2 and 21 for Shuey and 8? I hate when I spitball. Gets my hopes up...

Really? ... Band 1 is the pick behind a teams 1st round pick. Band 2 is an end of 1st round pick. Band 3 is the pick behind a teams 2nd round pick. Band 4 is an end of 2nd round pick. Band 5 is the pick behind a teams 3rd round pick. Do you get it now? Because the brick wall to my left is saying 'rp, we get it, we get it. Enough already'...

We can only get 'second rate' players because we have been a terrible club for 7 years. Wheel will turn and with it will FA. It isn't biased. If you have the money and the pitch - you can get the player.

It would have been without COLA. If the AFL got rid of he allowance, Buddy would be in orange and charcoal like they have been dreaming about.

Do you have me on ignore or something? The bands are set. The die is cast. Band 3 is pick 22 for us. Band 4 will be around 37. Band 5 around 41.

If you knew who was actually in the Old Boys Club you would not be so smug.Viney fell out with the oh-so-evil Lyon-Stynes-CC-Schwab Nexus and left the club for Hawthorn as a heralded Assistant Coach (if there can be such a thing), and then poached back to Adelaide before we got him back to run the Development and Player Strategy a couple years back. At some point we are going to have to stop culling and start building and while there may be a hatred of everything related to the MFC at this club it doesn't mean you get to just lump Viney in there without more evidence than vague illusions of his various roles.

There will be 17 first round picks (I believe GWS has a mid round pick, and Ess and Ade are out of course). Thomas and Franklin will be Band 1 if no trade is done - Pick 12 and 19 respectively. Pick 20+ is where Band 2 picks are placed. There might not be any... So GWS Pick 20, MFC Pick 21, MFC Band 3 Compensation Pick 22, et al. That is how it works and I expect it to happen.

DA and WJ - the reason why we got shafted last year is because we tried to 'up' our net loss last year as the AFL said that you will get a pick of the net players lost with the net value lost - so we thought we were turning two third round picks into one 2nd round pick by getting Byrnes. And I know Moloney was a decent player but we dropped him in the latter part of the season, and he isn't on much coin in Brisbane and that gets taken into account of course. The AFL effectively ruled we didn't want him... We played the colin situation much better, played the entire year and we actually tried to keep him unlike when Neeld said goodbye to Moloney as FA opened.

Yes. But we can trade for them or get DFA players.

NFL has a hard cap. The AFL have tried to emulate what the most even football league in the world does. For example - 32 FA picks where handed to 16 teams last time around. Highest was a third rounder. http://www.nfl.com/draft/story/0ap1000000151670/article/nfl-awards-32-compensatory-draft-picks-to-16-teams The highest they give is a third round pick. And they give as many picks as net loss of players just like ours, and it is based on salary (and playing time and honours in finals). We have a very suitable, soft FA that people should try to maintain. Otherwise they might find it lose the compensation aspect and become even more unpalatable.

All they have to do if they want Dew is to name him and say he will take over at the end of his Swans contract, he will be released from said contract the next day.