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Still shell shocked by the election results?

I'm most interested in which groups back, mid, fwd, players are training with - e.g. Joel Smith, Dec Keilty, Bailey Fritsch, KK, VDB, Jayden Hunt and to lesser extent but still interesting - the draftees?

Clubs pay many $000s for CDs standard stats package and many more for custom packages. I don't think they regard them as useless. What seems to missing here is the realisation that CD correlate stats with game outcomes to determine the important stats. It's an emerging and imperfect science but it's not "opinion".

Goodwin always springs some selection surprises so even the best thought-out 22s are likely to be off.

Numbers must be allocated I think because players are training so lockers will be allocated. Wonder when the announcement will be made?

Final outcome: In: May, KK, Tom Sparrow Out: Hogan, Brett Bewley

The Jake Lever trade has washed through the system now and can be viewed in (close to) completion. The 2 1st rounders we traded both ended up with Carlton and they chose O'Brien and Stocker. We took Petty with the 2nd rounder we got back. It's harder to track the late future 3rd and 4th round pick swap because we combined our 3rd with another 3rd and swapped that to the Saints for a 2nd so we didn't end up with the player at that pick and it would be a bit of exaggeration to say we got Jordon with it because we added something but it's as close as I can get. The future 4th round pick we traded ended up at St. Kilda and they took Robbie Young. So ... In: Lever Petty Jordon* Out: O'Brien (Carl) Stocker (Carl) Young (St.K) Clearly "bent over" : )

I noticed

There is no "wrong" with this selection, only "right".

How many reverse gears have you got? First Smith doesn't even exist, then he's not tall enough for the role, then half of the six players off the top of my head the same size are "not having consistent impact" so he's no good. Maybe shift into R4 and tell me again that Bailey Williams would have been a better option than Smith in season 2019. The FD rate him as depth for the role and he hasn't had a straight run at consecutive AFL games. It's guaranteed he'll provide aerial and ground contest and help us play our style of locking it in our half. Not many clubs have ready-made quality tall forward depth in their squads, we were fortunate to have Weed last year but that was a special and unsustainable situation. Quality KPF aren't hanging around in the lower leagues.

Jack Darling 191cm, Mitch McGovern 191cm, Mason Wood 192cm, Tim Membrey 188cm, Tom McCartin 192cm

Tim Smith say hi

I think we've got 39 senior list + 3 cat a rookies + 2 cat b rookies we're 2 short but we might leave 1 or both slots free for the pre-season pick-up and mid season draft

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Surely WC take Ian Hill?

So did Sydney trade that pick in AFTER they used later picks to match the bid on Blakey? If so that should definitely not be allowed. You shouldn't be able to trade in picks before any of the picks used for matching. The AFL is just too stupid to have foreseen this and created a rule to prevent it.

I don't understand why posters are gratuitously negative about players we have had exposure to in our system and have added to our list for free. The FD see something.

May. Preuss, KK numbers?

That will likely be our 4th pick. We'll be making plenty of picks after that even if they are rookie picks.

How will you measure this?

SD has GC taking the 3 top SA prospects which I guess has some possible retention value too. It will be fascinating to see what they do. Retention has to be a factor in GC's strategy along with talent, Emma Quayle said it was for GWS in The Age podcast. I think nabbing both King twins would have appeal. If I'm Craig Cameron and you're Port or Adelaide try to tempt me to trade to you.

I used to feel like that until this episode has put me right off.

If Menzel kicks 4 against Geelong I'll be very happy.

Fan favourite here - Bailey Williams - not in Twomey's list - will be interesting to see where he goes.