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We introduced about 3 this year - Lever, Fritsch and Spargo. Wouldn't expect much more than that this year. Kent is outside my best 22 but he is definitely in the squad of about 30 who can play at AFL level as required by injiry and form. Hogan is the only core best 22 to be traded or retire. I could see some subset of Kent, Tyson, Frost, JKH, Hunt traded, Bernie retired, and they are all 23-30 for me. So there will be important spots to fill. As I posted before. We could run with a primary list of 38 instead of 40 particularly with T.Smith, Keilty and Maynard all on the Rookie list and mature enough to play in a pinch. Looks like we will have a lot of development spots to fill.

At Casey?

Pretty hard for him to say anything else.

We have been running the max 40 + 4. We could run the minimum 38 + 4 + 2 Cat B. Then we've got 2 less spots to fill

Yes and we have been running the max 40 on the main list and 4 on the rookie list. We could go to the minimum 38 on the main list and 4 on the rookie list (AFAIK there's no minimum number of rookies). Paticularly since we have 2 Cat B rookies in Bradtke and Walker. We'd still be running 44 players and realistically only about 30 will be ready to play anyway. Some may say more is always better but I think there's a limit to the amount of players the FD can effectively service and develop.

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That's not the deal Red. 9 + 10 = 2864 while 4 = 2034. The actual deal is 9 + 10 for 4 + 22 = 2879, the 4 + 22 coming from Brisbane for Neale. So it's not helpful. I think a fair deal for Hogan is 5 + 10, it's in between the partisan ambit claims. With Port, Brisbane and GC involved the fair net deals for MFC and Freo could be: Freo: Hogan + 9 for Neale + 5 MFC: 5 + May for Hogan I'd be even happier if it was Andrew Brayshaw instead of 5 in that equation. Other clubs net are: Port: 4 + 22 for 9 + 10 Brisbane: Neale for 4 + 22 GC: 10 for May

Not really a problem on desktop but I expect a lot of your traffic is mobile. I also expect you are not getting many clicks on that extra content. Just trying to help

IMPO you've added far too much content at the bottom of the pages which is affecting page load times. It causes latency on activation for clicking the buttons next to threads and on auto scrolling to latest post in threads when you get there. Seriously diminished UX especially on mobile.

Agree we could be back in this now.

I'm with @ProDee Hogan is gone unless I hear otherwise - no statement from the club with all the noise going on IS a statement. Yes we don't need draft picks. But we can turn that currency into players we need like May. Freo will be desperate to get this done. It's their dream deal and they haven't been able to get anything similar done before. Neale leaving just compounds their need to capitilse on that. I don't think we will get Cerra but we might get Andrew Brayshaw and a pick that nets May.

Sell at his peak. There'd be demand. I was big on Weed or Hogan back to replace Frost. But looks like Hogan is gone so that is off. Therefore May in makes complete sense and trade Frost. Fallback is the Frost OMac status quo.

It's unclear. But I'm happy with him and Petty as depth if we're playing May, OMac, Lever. Frost could then be traded at peak value.

What do you propose?

Strangely I can see him in a St.Kilda jumper too.

Yep on reflection I'm dreaming. Saints pick 57 will probably get it done and move on.

Yes there are 4 alternatives 1. Re-sign with MFC 2. Trade 3. He goes in the draft 4. Quits football

Agree - trade Frost now at peak value. He was good this year and we would not have made finals without him. He has his dashing pace and attacks the contest but he still has shortcomings - he dropped or misjudged many marks. We do need a replacement KPB - I would go for Weed or Hogan because they offer much more class and I think we only can carry 2 KPFs in the 22. But if Hogan is traded the May deal makes complete sense. We have developing KPB depth coverage with Petty and Keilty.

He's not a Free Agent until the end of 2021. He was drafted in special mini draft in 2012 but was not on our senior list in 2013 and could only play for Casey because he was too young. First season on our senior list was 2014. 8 years to qualify for FA means end of 2021. He is out of contract next year though.

Maybe the Saints have to send their 1st round pick 3 or 2019 1st round to Sydney for Hannebury and get a pick back they can use for Kent? Sydney have 31 and 34 or thereabouts. Alternatively they could offer a future 2nd for Kent but that would stop them being able to use future 1st vfor Hannebury. I reckon this will drag on in trade week.

That's a well written informative and generally very positive article. There's no way that could cause offence. If anything it's this previous article referenced in the recent article that is in play: https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theage.com.au/sport/afl/gary-pert-s-resurrection-a-contentious-call-at-melbourne-20180629-p4zojn.html It is critical but hardly ban worthy. I think it's dangerous to declare war on such an influential journo who has been supportive of us recently. I'm not a Caro hater though.

There's absolutely no way Gawn and Preuss can both play with a forward line of Hogan, TMac and Weed. All those 3 have to play so something has to give there. Either Weed or Hogan play key back and push Frost out or it's in anticipation of a Hogan trade and resulting restructure. There has to be consistent structure from week to week so the plan gets settled. Goodwin is emphatic about playing "our way". IMO it wont generally work to have Preuss play just "some of the time". It's either on or not. If it is on then we play 2 rucks consistently. If it's not on he could give Max a bye as necessary but we play one ruck consistently and rarely or never play 2. I love the idea of Preuss as ruck depth but I'm sceptical of the consistent 2 ruck plan - it costs an extra midfield runner. An in match injury to a mid leaves us very top heavy and stretches rotations to breaking point.

Jesse has crack in his navicular and this is a notoriously difficult injury to fully recover from. Let's say Freo is waving 6 years x $1M at him - I bet that insurance looks very attractive. On the other hand MFC has Viney, Stretch, VDB and Hogan all with foot problems that create a lot of uncertainty. Maybe we want to manage some risk and are not enthusiastic about competing with that Freo offer right now. I can see this influencing the market.

Nope, we ran out of petrol.

I wasn't there so it's hard to know if he was whinging about progress at every base camp.