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What's on the afl site is not right - big f'ing surprise! It has the Dogs picks going to Adelaide and WC. Big Footy has this: Hudson and Pick 44 to Bulldogs Picks 30 and 38 to Adelaide Picks 30, 35 and 62 to Dogs Picks 22 and 54 to Eagles Pretty bad when the official site is trumped by BF! My interpretation is the Eagles wanted 22 and are not going to use the later pick (apparently a rule change allows this) The Dogs get 30 to give to the Crows and keep 35 rather than just hand over 22 to the Crows Yes it's a bit complex ...

I'm keen to have a 3rd round pick - a lot of players can be rated fairly evenly through the late 2nd round and 3rd round and we could easily pick up someone we really like who has been overlooked. If it takes CJ to do it I'm willing. The Saints may be reluctant to trade 3rd round after trading 2nd round to the Saints. I read on BF they were thinking 4th round 59 - that's a lot less helpful. Maybe they'd do a pick trade CJ + 53 for 43 + 59.

Maybe CAC didn't want to wait until the end of 2008 after TJ had a decent year in the last year of his contract and we were looking at a choice between 3 more years @ $400K or losing him in the PSD.

If St.Kilda is CJ's destination it might be tougher. They gave 26 for Schneider & Dempster and still have King to chase, although he may go through to the PSD.

Yeah it's a great post. It's very early days but the signs from Bailey and Connolly are very good - tough decisions are being made - gone are the bookends: Godfrey - the most committed but least talented and Johnstone - the most talented but the least committed.

Congratulations to CAC, Bailey and Connolly for having the balls to do this trade. TJ for a first rounder is a great result. I don't give a fat rat's clacker how TJ plays at Brisbane next year, that's directly related to the fact that he was traded.

He was F/S 3rd round at 36 and we're talking 3rd round 43 back.

WOOD TRADE BOOSTS MAGPIES RUCK STOCKS

Step 1 complete: Wood to Pies done for 14 http://www.afl.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=2...mp;newsId=52393 Now step 2 please!

1. CJ's done sfa 2. Your rating of CJ is based on the proposal that Dean Bailey can extract improvement 3. if Dean Bailey trades him for a 3rd rounder then that's what he thinks he is worth to us or less

Hudson for a 2nd rounder? Wood for 14 + R.Shaw? King for ? Meesen for 37 If he's any good we've paid under market value.

Looks like a good deal, we need a ruck replacement for White and PJ and Jamar are not setting the house on fire. If Meesen's better then we've got a ready-to-go option with 10 years of footy ahead of him. Hope we can also pick up another one in the draft.

14 this year or when he's out of contract next year - 3 year deal, PSD or take whatever we can get ...

I don't care what Johnstone does at Brisbane. It's what he doesn't do for us that is the point. I'll back Cameron over Johnstone every day - Jones, Bell, Bate, Dunn, Frawley, Petterd - I'll take any of them for Johnstone and that's effectively what we're getting.

FFS Jaded, if we trade him, Dean Bailey traded him - wake up and join the dots!

Great deal for us.

Well he wont have to worry about that a St.Kilda next year. Neale's implementation of run and carry failed, but I have no problem with him trying it. Yeah I supported Neale Daniher, he was a good coach. I'm hoping Dean Bailey will be better and the very early signs are good - but to do so he'll have to win a flag. Neale was given due opportunity at the club, gave it his best shot and achieved everything else except a flag - we've only ever had 3 flag coaches. Contrary to popular opinion he left our list in good shape.

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Dickson doesn't seem very bright. In one breath he's telling them they're playing for Victoria. In the next breath he says everyone watching doesn't care if they win or lose, just how they perform individually. Maybe I missed his point ...

Oh boy! I should know better by now.

How do you explain Geelong's and West Coast's recent success with a strongly handball oriented gameplan?

The runaway premiers Geelong (1.2) along with the 2006 premiers West Coast (1.1) had the highest handball to kick ratio in 2007. Don't hear too many complaints about their gameplans. We implemented poorly but the idea is sound.

You invite ridicule.

Very stressful (crazy isn't it?) but I guess there's a lot of moving parts in a player, player deal with two interstate moves involved so I can understand why it takes a while ... I'll be pleased when 2pm Friday comes and we've got some deals done.

14 for TJ is sensational. If we can do the mooted 37 for Meeson too I'll be very happy.