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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.

Doesn't sound like we will. We thanked him for his contribution

I think we're currently on track there Red. 4 out of the primary (Jackson, Bedford, Rosman, Hunt), 2 in (Grundy and Chandler upgrade) and 2 picks

So bitter ...

That's not going to happen.

F*^k with Freo's minds and make their state competitor pay a higher price.

We just need WC to make some sort of competitive bid for Jackson and Freo will up their offer. The spectre of a WC flag with Jackson is too nightmarish for Freo to survive.

Probably not, but I'm very happy for them to just miss out for the next 10 years again though

JVR?

Whoa there. You're making way too much sense for this thread. WC 8 + F2 will make Freo sweeten their offer and WC will put it on the table just to stretch Freo if nothing else.

According to Footywire Bruce has one year to run on his current contract. https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/out_of_contract_players?year=2023&action=submit

Not sure what our overall strategy is. Tim Lamb said we're only taking two ND picks which currently makes sense with 4 out (Jackson, Bedford, Rosman, Hunt) and 2 in (Grundy and Chandler upgrade). But we only have one useful ND pick at 27 - 54 is not a useful draft pick because we traded out earlier ones on the basis we won't use them. 27 is surely earmarked for the Grundy trade somehow. So we're short 2 2022 ND picks. The Jackson trade is currently only going to produce 13 and (hopefully) some future picks. Not sure where the other 2022 ND pick is coming from? We'd either need to get two from Freo - 13 and one via a Lobb trade with the Dogs, or trade a F1st for a 2022 pick. The other moving part is the Bedford pick, maybe we can trade a F1st to GWS for Bedford and a 2022 1st? A lot to play out ...

Tomlinson for Bruce - he's actually listed at 197cm which surprised me. 30y3m old.

Tomlinson for Bruce - I've heard worse ideas ...

Well it can't be that now after Geelong's future pick trade with Brisbane, you're right. Shaping to be F3rd - that's a shocker!

Well that means Geelong can't trade their F1st in the Bowes deal now, looking at F3rd?

It'll be fascinating to see what Geelong send back.

Freo already have 2 F2nds don't they - their own and North's - so this doesn't affect the Jackson trade because they can already offer a F1st + F2nd.