Demonic Dave

I saw a few games where Johnson was doing well in defence. Maybe I missed something. Maybe he can be the mid-age KPF while Jefferson bulks up and swaps with Petty, McDonald or Turner to improve in defence. Now that we cant make the finals, we should blood everyone. How do we know id Adams is the future until he plays? Play him, if he is hopless, find a new KPD. The largest issue is Tasmania. 2025 is the last draft and we have a really bad hand. And it is a shallow pool.

A large issue is May and Lever wont last much longer. We have Petty, Turner and Johnson as our new key defense, and it helps they can go forward.

With Pickett I would try get a your tall defender or picks. I am not certain but I think Yze is another father/son pick, which makes 3 I think. So we need a lot of picks. I would go to Oliver, Pettracca and Viney and tell them if they agree to lower payment, we will trade him as son as someone wants him. I would instantly start playing Adams, Culley, Fullerton and Mentha. I know people were saying last year that Fullerton is not good enough. But they also said Jefferson wasn't. Once Adams is established, we delist May. Too old. If we get a defender from Pickett we drop Lever too. The only reason I keep McDonald is he can play both ends. Once Fullerton can ruck, we can rest Gawn next year and start playing Verral Cully and maybe Sestan will gain experience with our top 3 mids. Before all this we need to extend Rivers' contract or maybe lose him to Tasmania.

If we swapped McDonald and Pettty, both scoring and defending would improve. Petty is in no way our long term tall up forward.

I dont know enough about the various players to pick a name. I think our first pick needs to be someone along the lines of Petracca/Viney/Oliver. Our other pick should be someone similar to Neal-Bullen.