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Horrible defending by Sydney. Flashbacks to the days of Garland and Rivers spoiling each other.

A lot of complaints about letting Harmes and Jordon go, but both have done absolutely nothing in the finals they've played. Don't care about a tagging role for Jordon, 5 touches and 1 tackle is [censored].

This is actually a great piece of media timing by the club, credit to them. 4.30pm on a Friday in the middle of the first week of finals. There's no better time to sweep the news under the carpet. Media and fans are focussed on the Port debacle and the game tonight.

Needed to happen. Sounds like Brad is interim, fine with that, fans will probably be happy.

If Armstrong and Smillie are available from 10-13, I hope we have a plan to get a second early pick, likely targeting one of the picks Richmond will get from Freo.

A lot of good, experienced, mature players chose years and cash to go to St Kilda in recent years. Hannebury, Jones, Carlisle, Howard, Kent to name a few. They all achieved nothing. St Kilda have been stuck on the mediocrity treadmill and the only way out is for them to add young, a-grade midfield talent which they could do with two early picks this year. Trading Houston would be a dumb move - but good luck to them.

I really, really like what Riv brings to the team. His potential for further growth is a key for us challenging in 2025. I expect that he has been promised a full time midfield role next year. If so, i'm hopeful it'll give him a huge up for a good off-season and massive pre-season. His time on ground %'s dropped in the back half of the year, perhaps showing he didn't quite have the tank required for midfield. I back him to get there and think he could be a huge difference maker for us. A midfield ready Rivers and a fit Oliver - suddenly we have a scary midfield again, and can leave Trac to spend more time forward kicking bags.

Jagga played for Richmond VFL so they've had a good look at him. With the slight frame, there's more time needed for development, which fits their list profile perfectly. On paper, Langford looks the most likely. I'd be very happy if we picked him up. Seems likely that one of Langford or Smillie would slip to pick 5, i'd be very happy with either. Both read like they could play immediately.

Sounds like he'll leave at the end of next year when two years of future trading opens. Might be the right timing. By then we'll know if Oliver is able to make it back, we'll know if May still has it, we'll know if Rivers is a midfielder and if Petty can actually play forward. If all goes our way, maybe we're a strong team and do some damage. If not, he'll leave and it'll be rebuild time anyway.

Good, less chance of a first round pick(s) going out the door.

Mid year draftees are often older. but Luker isnt. He's the youngest player on the list. Didn't even have an AFL pre-season. Deserves a chance.

Yes. I love tall midfielders. Cripps, Bont, Tom Greene.

I'm looking forward to: Spargo getting a chance to play Salem no thyroid or soft tissue injuries Petty a full uninjured preseason

Straight swap for Trac

Tomlinson is an UFA so he doesn't need to be traded. He'll either sign a deal with us or walk to another club for free. At his age and status it's highly unlikely the contact he'd receive at another club would get us any compensation.

He's in the top 5~ for goals kicked in the entire league in the last 4 years and kicked 6 in a Grand Final. I know things are tough right now but [censored] me, some people seem to have a wish for us to end up like North or West Coast, or god forbid, Melbourne 2011-2013

Well I thought tonight was going to be lovely... Big blob of rain about to appear and the forecast is now "Very high chance of showers, tending to rain at times later this evening. Damaging winds possible about the nearby hills later this evening."

If we get Houston it's guaranteed that we play Adelaide in Adelaide next year... in fact they'll probably give us the same back to back Adelaide games [censored] they did this year.

Gawn has played 222 games. 111 wins / 1 draw / 111 losses Crazy. Let's hope he retires with a winning record.

Remember in 2012 how we were all scared of Jack going to another club because he refused to commit to Melbourne? He made a statement like "If Melbourne don't want me i'm happy to play elsewhere". Then it eventually came out to be completely a bluff so teams wouldn't bid on him before our first pick. If Jack was smart enough to play games as a 18yo he'll be smart enough to do it again now.

Four FS players worthy of pick 1 will be running around in the AFL for the next decade o more - Daicos, Darcy and 2x Ashcroft. If Kalani doesn't come to the Dees i'll be absolutely filthy.

Lots of talk around here of hard decisions this off season. Could start this week by resting ANB to avoid risk of injury.

Brisbane have two academy players coming. One of them is likely the first pick in the draft, the other will be an early second rounder. They only have three picks in the 2024 draft, so they desperately need points. We should go after their first pick, which right now would be 14. We have two third round picks and a fourth round pick. We could then even look at trading that to get further up. Maybe Adelaide would take ANB + 14 for 4. We've traded strongly in the past to get back into the first round, I back us to do it again.

If the Dogs, Hawks and Blues win their remaining games, Collingwood can't make it If the Hawks and Fremantle win their remaining games Collingwood can't make it If the Dogs, Hawks and Blues win by 1 point today, Collingwood will be out of the eight by 7%. If the Dogs, Hawks and Blues then lost by 1 point next week, Collingwood would have to win with score around 150-20. Even if we lose, if we can keep it close, it's a win.

Hore playing better than Lever today, looks like he did in his first stint at the Dees