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Pick 2 + 3 + May + KK our opening ambit Get it done you wimp Mahoney

Surf on Gold Coast pretty good - warm water all year round.

Well they only had 6 and 81 and want Lobb and Hogan so that's a problem. So they did a deal for a bunch of picks including 11 and 23 with Port who want an early pick to get access to the highly rated SA players in the draft.

Fremantle made a low ball offer that we cannot accept. But the hypocrisy of the "hardmen" here is gobsmacking. On one hand it's "5 + 6 or tell Freo to get [censored]." "Mahoney needs to man up". We even had one highly respected poster saying the fair price is 5 + 6 + Brayshaw/Cerra. Now Peter Bell comes out with the same logic at the other end of the scale and the outrage is palpable. You hardmen should be appreciating and admiring his work. It's the way to negotiate according to you isn't it? It's just turbulence, Mahoney is smarter than that and we'll get the right deal. Relax.

They missed out on everybody else.

5 more pages of the same recycled content. Be hard vs be pragmatic, with the occasional "hes a FA next year" fallacy for spice. At least there's been some real actual movement today with Freo's pick trade.

wow nice work by Freo and very helpful to our cause Port still have 6 & 10 which possibly gets them 2 of highly rated SA prospects Lukosius, Rankine, Rozee and Hately. That's win-win trading

Your leased Rolls that only goes sometimes?

Or it's posts like these who expose Cro Magnon supporters who are all club and no brain.

Yeah but you might end up walking home with just the Porsche brochure in hand.

Agree I love trade period.

Yeah look the 4th rounder 62 that we might get back to balance the trade could be useful since we're turning quite a few players over and may still be picking then. But the competition for players is thin at that point in the draft. Don't sweat the small stuff.

No shiit post. Those stats are not from last year. Did you miss it when he dominated against us in atrocious conditions at Casey this season in a rare televised match? Have a look at the 2018 stats in the later post by @Sydee. Scroll across to his hitout numbers "reasonable number of hit out" 75, 72, 62, 60, 55, 50. FML I'd like to see good numbers then! Look this trade only makes sense to me if he's back up to Max. He's not really a ruck forward like Vardy, he's a big 1st tap ruckman. Contested mark numbers are reasonably good at 20. We'd have to be consistently playing a more extreme version of the gamestyle with a ruckman behind the play if Max and Preuss both play together.

Like is insufficient. Needs repost for emphasis.

Crows notoriously conservative in trading. It has cost them big time IMO.

Groin Guru and Snake Baker?

Yeah we'll all be counting the great savings, after we finish runner up to WC with Kennedy kicking 4.

Some raw meat eaters here destined for disappointment again.

and North can front-load it all in 2019 again

Freo must have convinced Brisbane that 5 + 24 doesn't get the Neale trade done, otherwise why trade it? Now the next better offer would need to be 5 + 2019 1st with maybe something going back to Brisbane. Brisbane's 2019 1st may then be in play for Hogan. Who knows where Brisbane's and Freo's 2019 1sts will be placed - maybe Brisbane's later?

set Demonland on fire though

I warned you there'll be turbulence, grab the sick bag and hang in there.

Begging for "Fremantle doctor" dad joke. Whatchootalkinabout - of course Fremantle would do a medical on him using their own trusted resources. It's draftees that can't have club medicals.

Nope can't see a doctor if you can't run. Medicare rules.

If Tyson is on $500k as suggested here then there's salary cap dump involved too which helps our cause. I expect Preuss will come on less per year over 4 years. That is a factor in evening out the trade value.