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Hot flash: King or Butters aren't coming to MFC. We need to trade for solid talent like Flanders and draft for stars, lucky we've got JT who can do that.

There's no evidence our salary cap is tight.

Honestly, neither of us would have any real idea ...

A grade 24yos only move for 7 figures these days. $900k for Flanders is fine if he delivers 2024 form.

Perryman reported to move for $900k x 6 years last year, it costs to acquire talent.

Perryman reported to move for $990k x 6 years last year, it costs to acquire talent.

If Flanders chooses us then we don't need to match the picks price.

I agree, I don’t think that contract offer is over the top. I'd match it and let the King vs Lyon factor sway him. Once he chooses us we're in a negotiation with the Suns.

Love your work Jaded but GC and Adelaide are a lot closer to success than Melbourne. I'll be surprised if GC doesn't win at least one flag in the next 5 years and Petracca plus Rankine in that Adelaide team probably means at least GF this year. Hawthorn should have a fair amount of salary cap space. 8 & F2 if they take all of Petracca's salary, 8 & F1 if we have to pay some. I'd imagine we would have floated similar deals to them and said "forget the Merrett drama, this deal is on the table now".

Best time of the year outside us winning the flag.

Wait ... what! Max is up for trade? Surely not!

I recall seeing a post on Instagram from the club a little while ago asking players to nominate their next prospect from the young players and 3 or 4 out of not many nominated Mentha so there's some hope. They're hard to find, we tried unsuccessful to trade up for the Wizard and we legitimately warned Essendon we'd nominate Kako which encouraged them to trade their first to us last year.

I agree, a small forward should be at the top of our wish list with Kozzy moving to more midfield. Which one do you think we should get this trade period?

I'm fine with you being happy to be wrong

Petracca's 2023 vs Flanders' 2024 https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=12&playerStatus2=A&tid2=24&type=A&pid1=4041&pid2=6748&fid1=P&fopt1=2023&fid2=P&fopt2=2024 I'm not suggesting Flanders is a replacement for Petracca but he has some decent numbers and is more outside than Petracca which is not a negative with our set-up