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Not after we traded with them for 9, no way we bid on him.

https://www.draftguru.com.au/analysis/pick-value-comparison Average games for picks 1-20 is well in excess of 100 games. Next 50 picks average above 50+ games.

Option C which has been posted is to trade up 5 to get access to the very top end. 9 to GWS for 15 and 16 5 and 16 to North for 2 (better than Richmond are likely to offer) 2 and 15 in the draft.

North have 2 and 62 and nothing in between.

We need to beat both Hawthorn and Collingwood and Richmond to beat Essendon to make finals - Hawthorn is a big hurdle. Port should win both matches and Essendon should beat Carlton.

They've got a source at the club Rumplestiltskin, regularly posts tea that is later officially confirmed.

The DFA parrot doesn't really exist.

Neale, Butters, Merrett ...?

You should list KFW completely separately because he's a B Rookie (and can only be replaced by such) while all the others are primary list players. By all means also list Hore separately as an A Rookie too.

9 to GWS for 15 + 16. 5 + 15 to North for 2. Take 2 and 16 to the draft.

Teams can have as many picks as list spots. We don't have 2nd, 3rd or 4th round picks but we've got picks in rounds 5 onwards. These will come into play after round 4 is completed and clubs fill their lists or pass on their pick to retain list spots for DFA or SSP. Our last pick will come in and won't be beyond the 60s, that's the maximum number of NDs in recent years.

I would have really liked to get Peatling but Adelaide convinced him to join, possibly with a more lucrative offer, he had a number of suitors. The deal was always going to be F2 after they'd made an earlier agreement with us for the McAdam pick back for ANB. And hey presto it turned out to be F2 with some wilted garnish back from GWS.

"Towards the middle of the ladder" when we were only Maynard brutality away from the 23 flag? OK. We didn’t know Angus would never return, Clarry would go off the rails and Petracca would nearly get killed when we made the trade. Let's see where that McAdam pick ends up this year it's already out to 28 and will likely go out further than your 32 estimate for the Adelaide pick. I love the way you use the fact that Adelaide are paying more for longer for Peatling as evidence of them driving a hard bargain.

Really? They paid their F2 and got the Giants F3 and F4 which on this year's results would be Peatling + 52 + 70 for 23, not sure how that's looking a lot better than the McAdam deal?

Agree he looked comfortable in the match simulation in the pre-season. He's got some good size too.

Kinda hoping Harry Perryman was the ringleader.

GC do draft them, then they leave for "home" and GC get more draft picks. They have picks out the ying-yang, they're not as valuable to them as players are, that's why they'll pay what seems to be a high price for other clubs but isn't for them.

Love for GWS to take him at 16.

If Brisbane demand more we could swap F3s. Brisbane should think that's in their favour. Should be able to get done.

We could do a future pick swap. A swap of F2s and/or F3s could probably benefit GWS. Alternatively we could do 9 for 15 + 21 + Derksen if we wanted to get radical.

I hope when we win the flag next year the contribution of pick 46 gets acknowledged.

If Derksen doesn't come which looks likely, I think we'll need to keep one of Tomlinson or Hore. Tomlinson gets a bit of a bad rap, he's almost never injured, never drops his head at Casey, comes in a plays a role when needed. It seems like he's good for "kulcha". He'd only get a year and can probably get more elsewhere so we may end up renewing Hore.

Good post but we've actually currently only got 4 vacancies, not 7. KFW doesn't count because he was a B Rookie, Mentha may fill that slot. That’s 6. Kentfield arrived mid season as a Rookie for Gus and McVee has been promoted so that's another off your 7. That's 5. Tomlinson hasn't gone yet. That's 4.

We'll either take DFAs (I think Parfitt would be useful) or Rookies (but we're full there unless we delist Hore so we'd need to promote someone). We can also draft at the end of the ND to fill spots even though we've traded 3rd and 4th rounders, next round picks just come in.

Looks like end of next year deal now.