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If you've got some Clonakilla SV I'm prepared to reconsider, Ravensworth even.

Look I'm happy enough with you over there, thanks.

True, if he's bid on at 6 (Ashcroft bid pushing things back a pick) they'll need 9 to fully cover it. If he's bid on at 9 then 14 will fully cover it. They need to have some alternative plans already agreed and in place on draft night.

EFA

Those are Cal's ratings independent of who is picking, it's not his Phantom Draft. There's two different perspectives, his raw rankings which that is and his intel on who clubs will take - his Phantom Draft which doesn't come out until days before the draft and is uncannily accurate. They usually don't have the same ordering.

It's not over until the trade bell goes next Wednesday night, it's naive to think it is.

It's not often that decent players want to get to the Suns. They'll "overpay" to make Rioli and Noble happen like they did with Weller. GWS and GC still have draft picks out the ying-yang because of the flow on from their concessions and players leaving. Draft picks are less valuable to them because they have plenty. F1 + Noble probably gets 13 + 29. A good deal for Collingwood.

If I'm Essendon, I'm trading back to 2 late teens picks with GWS, Richmond or Sydney and using one to cover Kako and the other in the draft.

Maybe Jacob Konstanty could be a viable DFA option?

If it's all to much to handle RBMB then just choose to tune out. Trade period will be all over next Thursday morning. Things could go many ways in the meantime - tune back in then and find out what happened.

When the moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, that’s the dawning of the age of acquiring Bont.

Gettable at noon is very good. Forget the rest.

McAdam was ready to go and would have played towards the end of the year but they preferred Melksham which is fair enough. It's a pity he couldn't get going earlier when Melksham was unavailable. He'll likely get an opportunity with Kossie suspended for the first 3 matches next year. ANB gone opens another spot in the forward 7 or 8 rotation, McAdam won't play that role but it will lead to a role shuffle for Chandler, Kolt and Spargo which will open some role possibilities for him. Let's hope he can take it. He can play and offers some decent forward pressure.

Thanks Sandra, and now it's over to Livinia for last week's weather ...

Nice!

Looks like the Graham FA compensation might push it back 1 more pick if it's band 2 or 3.

With clubs scrambling for 1st rounders I think it's unlikely that Freo will trade all 3 of theirs away. I think we might get access to 10 or 11 at Freo if the Bolton trade fails or get access to it at Richmond if it succeeds.

So combine test results "barely makes that much of a difference" but Langford's good result in the 2km time trial proves his endurance? OK! My controversial view is that his 2km result is a positive and his 20m result is a negative.

If GWS holds Derksen and Tomo gets to Collingwood, St.Kilda or elsewhere then retaining Hore seems likely to me.

Look you clearly love him and any critical observation is apparently worthless ...

I didn't say he won't make it but I did say they do the tests for a reason and Langford had a poor result. If we're not going to look at the results why bother doing them?

Just like a great result is no guarantee of a good AFL career, a poor result is not a guarantee of failure but they do the tests for a reason and coming in the bottom echelon is not a good outcome for a midfielder. He'll really need to excel in other skills to be a worthy top 5 pick.

Bottom half is a bit different from dead last.

Bottom 5, actually equal last, in the 20m sprint at the Draft Combine is not an attractive result. Edit: I misread the results and Langford was equal 4th slowest, not equal slowest as I originally posted above.

That's not ideal but endurance is more important for the ruck role, would be interesting to know how he went in the 2km time trial.