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But it is the basis of our game, football.

I hope my headache is gone by about 8.00 pm on the 27th of November.

I would be doing a deal for a player next year with GWS, to stop us bidding on Green and making them have wasted their upgrade.

We will get the player we want most likely even if it is Green. If GWS matched our pick on Green they would lose the extra top 4 player and would effectively have traded for nothing. This way they get who they want after our pick and then get Green later. One thing to factor in is that Green has a younger brother who apparently is also pretty good and if we got Green I wonder if the brother could be switched into our Academy zone? Anyone have the answer on that?

Young could be the Shaw replacement.

Can we just assume that if we take Jackson with what could be the first live pick, it is because we think he is special. Young is probably a safe pick, but Jackson is obviously seen as more than a ruckman. If he can play as a key forward as well, we have solved 2 areas in one pick. We get our 3rd key forward, who can also be Max’s eventual replacement. If Bradtke keeps developing he can hopefully also play forward and share the ruck with Jackson when Max is gone. We can get another running defender or mid with 8 and that leaves small forwards as the last target. I can’t believe we take Jackson unless we see a future star and if he is, we will have done well. Personally I am not a recruiter and know very little of these guys, so as with Oliver, I trust Taylor to get it right with both picks under 10, as they are too valuable to get wrong. A couple of guys however who know Jackson well, claim he will be a star. These big guys who can play are like diamonds, as proved by Essendon keeping an injured one, because they had no replacement. BTW I spoke to him last night and he is a nice guy.

And there is the answer. We can all have our opinions and good on everyone who has contributed to the draft discussions, but in the end the professionals will do the job, let’s hope they get it right. This draft is giving me a headache.

Agree. I was just saying that where a player comes from is considered by the club.

Not if they are on the bottom of the ladder and can do a Carlton and Bell would. Also you are 2 years down the track with the kid and if you draft another you start again.

Not if Freo are on the bottom or close to it. With Bell negotiating that could be an outcome where you get nothing, like Martin this year.

Then watch The Eagles and Dockers offer him the world in 2 years to go home, if he is any good.

Correct, get 2 great players instead of 1 and 2 maybes.

With now Jacobs and Mummy plus 2 developing rucks and forwards Cameron to resign plus Finlayson and Himmelberg, I wonder if GWS really want Jackson. IMO if they can’t trade up a pick they match Green and take him.

This kid is being hyped off the map. I smell something wrong.

Off to Singapore to test the Asian banana market and sound out any international recruits. Will rely on DL to get me through draft night. Keep well guys and keep the thread pumping with footy and social news, to inform the fighting masses on the other threads.

Also the go home factor. I don't see it either, especially when Young and Green are seen by most as far better prospects.

Well could this happen, I mean be allowed? GWS offer to delist say Caldwell and he goes in the PSD, nominating terms that GC can't match and we swap 6 for 3 and maybe a later pick thrown in for us as well. They would get Green and whoever they wanted at 3 and lose Caldwell and a later pick. Essentially they would be swapping say Caldwell to get say Jackson and still get Green. That is a monster deal for them.

Couldn't Freo swap 22 and a later pick, for say 21 and a drop on that later pick, making it attractive to the other club? Then they would have another pick in 21 to swap with us.

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You would get at least 2 years out of him and turns 30 at end of next season. There was something about Weid in rehab, from a hip cleanout and that could be a big factor with Brown, as he would be extra cover for a late start by Sam.

I hope that is not the result of one 50. He does look leaner.

Would you be happy with another?

Obviously I was discussing why you could take him and in the end, that I didn't think we would. Does that mean that I shouldn't be allowed to discuss it? PS. This whole thread is about something that probably won't happen.

But it is only $600k per year with the first front loaded. If we take him and get him on a 5 year contract, the last 4 years are at $500k and he can be traded to say Carlton for a decent pick after the first. So you might in effect be paying $500k to get another first round pick or even a traded player. He becomes even more attractive to another club at 4 years x $500k. Then again Nev and Harley could make him want to stay with us. It probably is only one year of pain, but if you have salary cap room, so what. There are ways it can work for us. That said, we will pass on him, if GC don't match.