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Been quite a while since any team had a pick in the 90s George, probably have to go back to the 1990s.

See @Roost It above

I didn't realise that drafting isn't part of list management.

Only because so far no-one has been able to get organised enough to table a coherent offer. He won't be in red and blue in 2026 - bookmark it.

Yes, effectively our best player put himself on the trade market!

Destructive rather than constructive approach if true.

Let's accept for a moment your charitable view that a club source leaked all the material to the media and the Petracca camp had nothing to do with it. The media reported that Petracca wanted to be traded and his contract was the only thing preventing that, and that he wants to play for "a big club" in front of big crowds. There was no denial of this by the Petracca camp and there hasn’t been since. If this wasn't his position then the club and Petracca would have been straight on the front foot to deny it, but Petracca's silence was conspicuous and all we ultimately got was the explanation you quoted. I conclude that the substance of the story is true and who leaked it is less important. If it was the Petracca camp, which must be possible, then that is more damining.

It's Yes. We've concentrated on the draft: 2021 - JVR, Howes, Woewodin 2022 - Jefferson, Adams 2023 - Windsor, Tholstrup We've had some low cost experienced players join that haven't had much impact but that's because we've been focussing on using early picks, not trading them.

Maybe so but you gotta have a couple. At worst they make the Casey midfield competitive and give their forwards some service. Outside of Laurie we don't really have any and that was stark for Casey this year.

If Peatling takes a 5 year deal somewhere then the trade price will be decent - probably something in the vicinity of the ANB pick 25. GWS aren't going to trade him for pick 50, they could push him to the draft and Richmond will snap him up.

You're truly amazing SONS - an authority on all things U18 and draft, every State league player, every AFL player and all things MFC. I truly don't know how you do it.

Agree, a lot is made of Geelong's rebuild on the run but the 2022 flag side still had 3 players from the 2011 flag side playing and two of them were still on the list this year. Let's see how the complete new generation goes.

Sounds amusing until I recall that the Big O was injured for the 2022 SF and Brisbane beat us with Fort and Fullarton.

Scott was clearly hurting post match. I'm enough of a [censored] to have enjoyed that.

25 (756) + 38 (465) + 50 (273) = 1494 - not sure where your 1149 points is coming from?

Phil Davis is a very thoughtful commentator. He said this on his weekly spot on Whately. FWIW I agree with his position. In addition I think there's no guarantee that Petracca will be playing for MFC is 2025. There's water to flow under that bridge IMO.

That's interesting analysis. It's actually a ranking of Goodwin's position among the cohort of greatest ever coaches.

I think it's for the best if Petracca doesn't attend the BnF, but it's pretty damning that it's come to this.

So it won't be called the Kate Roffey Centre?

They get rid of us and reclaim the space?

Yeah they've won one of the last 10 flags!

I hope they burn draft and salary cap capital on him. He's the last piece they need with Saad, Docherty and Newman in the team already.

Probably CIA interference after you name checked Taliban Abdul.

The AFL has got a big vault overflowing with them, they're going to change the system next year so there are fewer points which will save the money needed to be spent on extra vault space.

That's not their problem at all, they have Newman, Saad and now Docherty back. Carlton's biggest deficiency is a dynamic small forward. Owies is a decent player but they need a gun like Kossie, Bobby Hill, Papley, Charlie Cameron, Stengle. Martin, Durdin, Fantasia, Motlop, Fogarty are just not up to it.