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I think Jackson is key to the draft. We trade up to 8 for someone. It would be big to take him at 3 but Freo could take him at 7. If that happened we could bid Henry at 8 and swallow their pick 10 in the bid match. Freo would do well to trade 10 and 22 to us for 8. Then they could take Jackson, Robertson and cover Henry with later picks and some points deficit. That would be a great haul of WA players for them. 3, 10 and 22 would give us a nice spread. It all depends on who we really like at 3 and 8.

Has genuine acceleration, high top pace and agility. Kicking is not horrible.

The most interesting thing about training apart from who's in rehab is which groups players are training with - backs, mids, forwards. It will be very interesting to see which groups Jones, Petracca, Jordon, Hunt, Fritsch, Sparrow, Petty, C.Wagner, Lockhart, Smith are training with.

Glass half empty. R1 even in WA gives us as good a chance as we'll get to beat West Coast and our players will be acclimitised to heat at that time of year. If there's a 6 day break then this is as good as any time, compared with the 3 6 day breaks in a row in 2018. We've got GWS at home, better than Canberra or West Sydney. Win these two and we're off to a flyer and won't see them again until September.

OK it was last year. But we're 3 home v 14 away against them since 2005.

When was the last time we had a home game v Essendon? I want to see them pay to watch us.

Probably true. I'm definitely in favour on paper but then I see that Geelong have re-signed Harry Taylor in preference. I wouldn't be in favour of picking up Taylor so thats a good indicator.

You and Olisuk should get a room.

Thanks very much for the great summary LH. I don't think it's correct that we only have 3 picks. I think we have as many as we need to fill list vacancies up to 40 if we want to but they're at the end of the draft ie currently after 97.

Trademark logic error from you Rono. Your point all along is that we traded Frost because we don't rate speed and yet here we are looking at other players in the same off season with speed. Maybe Frost was traded for other reasons?

It might show for example that accuracy decreases the longer a quarter or match goes therefore possibly linking it to fatigue and so rotations could be adjusted. I appreciate that in your opinion everything the club does apart from sacking Goodwin is a mistake but try to be a little open minded

Perhaps you'd prefer we were going to bring back Trenners and McLean? Club cannot put a foot right IYHO.

EFA

To be fair - you don't have a reputation for subtlety.

Add Johnson, Yeats, Whelan, Jetta - a roll call of my favourite players.

We're likely to take at least 2 mature footballers in the upcoming period. I think a risk on Bennell is well worth considering. Which other 2 do people prefer ahead of him?

Only Peter Bell knows. How's Nancy?

Yes I expect picks 3 and 8 to play games in year one and it's quite possible they could become best 22, particularly since it's unlikely they're talls. Look at Port this year. We've got a minimimum 5 picks and at least 2 of them are likely to be mature players who could also become best 22 or will surely be fringe or depth. That's likely 4 more players to factor into calculations. Following this year's horrible results we actually have 34 players on the current list with AFL experience and only 4 who are yet to play and of them I expect at least Jordon to debut next year. There's a lot to play out before this is settled.

I just went to see what other gems a poster with such a fully sikk user name had posted.

I agree Jack that there's inherent risk and it's probably greatest with Bennell because it's behaviour and injury. But to engage that risk is probably one third the price of engaging the lesser Martin risk (and lesser potential) I hope we'll take the well trodden path of simulating the Premiers and take a risk.

Prefer to take Bennell a cheaper risk with a higher potential

Last 8 flags ruckmen 2012 Mumford started at another club 2013 Max Bailey home grown Hawthorn dud 2014-15 McEvoy started at another club 2016 Jordan Roughead now at another club and no longer a ruckman 2017 and 19 Nankervis started at another club 2018 Lycett now at another club It's an uninspiring list.

And when Impey is back? Box Hill?

How about we wait until the 2020 list is complete before trying this?