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Brian Taylor - contracted to 7 though

Yes I agree it's the right call for them, country boy possibly less likely to "go home" too. And yes they should bid Ashcroft. It was a joke that Daicos wasn't bid until 4 last year. I was more addressing @spirit of norm smith musing that we could trade up to get 1 off GWS - that is dreamland talk.

We have got that Petty option, I'm in the camp that he saves more goals than he can create. But it's definitely an option with Tomlinson and Turner in the wings. I think we need to see where TMac and BBB are at over summer and leading into next year. We probably need 2 of TMac, BBB and JVR available each game for the next 2 years. If we get 100 games out of the 3 of them across that period then Petty can stay back. I should add that we need to recruit another ready to go KPF by the end of that period - I think that's possible - we can clear cap with outgoing players and we have a strong future draft hand.

Agree if, as expected, Weed goes then we'll need some ruck/fwd depth added.

We've got 8 players that didn't play in our finals' teams that should be ready to go next year - Laurie, Bowey, JVR, Howes, JJ, Chandler, Woewodin and Turner. That's not counting D.Smith, McVee and AMW who can all improve with another year in the system. They'll either get opportunities or leave like Bedford. We also had Tomlinson, TMac, Dunstan and J.Smith not in the 22. Our depth is not as dire as you make out.

I wonder if O'Meara and Mitchell will both be traded?

GWS just paid a big price to trade up to 1 to take Cadman.

While I'm rolling ... I was standing on a corner in Sydney Olympic Park Such a fine sight to see It's a Dee my lord, name of Toby Bedford Slowing down to take a look at me Come on Toby, don't say maybe I gotta know if your sweet speed is gonna save me The Dees will lose and we will win We'll never do such a deal again The first player we've ever traded in Take it easy

I gave this a run elsewhere but I think it still stacks up ... He got drafted in a fever Earlier than Hayden Young When we were rucking Luke Jackson We won the flag in 21 Now we've trade Luke Jackson Lamby got us two first rounds Watch out Luke Jackson Don't let Freo down

Brodie Grundy is now a Dee Ned Guy's contract was all you hoped it would be But Fly and Wrighty, Fly and Wrighty couldn't guarantee That by Tuesday evening you would still a Magpie be

I think I see the big picture plan - next year Witts, then Darcy, then ROB and we've fully cornered the ruck market.

Now that @Redleg I will agree with you is a corrupt deal. The AFL should never have approved that.

I'm not 100% sure Max has thought this through fully. He's gone from rucking against Brodie twice a year to rucking against him at every training session.

Yes but quite frankly most of the Pies supporters in the thread were more reasonable than the Demons supporters. Danster - holy moly! I remember you from the RSFA days - "it's only other vets can understand"

Grundy deal crashed Big Footy ...

Sydney have 14, 17, 37, 75 and all next year's picks so if they finish the same 17, 36, 55, 73 Doubt we'd get 37 or F2nd, probably F3rd - something like 55 I wouldn't do it for that unless it closed another deal for us.

We could do 13 + 27 for 16 + 41 + Grundy. If the draft is even after the first few we could still get our player at 16, and 41 will come right in after Brisbane's F/Ss and we don't have a 2nd pick until 54.

JHF in contract, LJ out of contract - that's the big difference. North could have just said "see you same time next year Port, when Adelaide won't already be committed to Rankine"

I hope we hold Freo's F1st and F2nd, death riding them will provide some extra interest next season.

That cannot be right because Port are giving up F1, F2 and F2 and only getting F3 back, so they are still short F2, which was what the AFL refused to approve in the first place. 7 own the rights but know SFA, it's a disgrace.

We completed this trade and got the best deal we could, now moving onto other deals no doubt.

I wonder if Essendon will play Weid as a KPB. They've got Ridley and Stewart back there - and Francis is going.

If Richmond give 31 and F1st in the Hopper deal as predicted, their first pick this year is 88 and their 1st pick next year will be in the 2nd round.

No it enabled us to get Freo's F2nd in the Jackson trade.

Needs to be a good deal that enables us to do something useful to be worthwhile.