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That will throw the cat among the pigeons. The Tim Kelly deal for one.

Well that would be the next 3 years and that would be in line with most good players.

Carlton will improve. Cripps. Docherty. Dow. Curnow C & E. McGovern. Weitering. Marchbank. Settering. Petrevski-Seton. Shiel maybe and others.

Next you will tell me about the joke, what is a ship load of lawyers sunk on the bottom of the ocean? Answer " a good start".

The jugglers follow the clowns into the ring.

Sorry misread it, no cake.

5 and 9 for Polec. Wow! That probably takes the cake. You are the winner.

And also the May deal?

You think the Pies will just walk away next year with Dunn and Goldsack probably retired?

It was needed then. Today it probably wouldn’t have happened.

If Gaff is staying how do they get Tim Kelly or fit him into their cap. Could Dockers make a play for him? How would that affect other deals? Might make letting Neale go easier? Interesting 10 days ahead.

Have we got anyone yet? No, well we are f....d.

That is why I am not worried and have faith in the FD to get it done.

Starting to get the feeling that if Lobbe needs to get to the Dockers too, we may be looking at a pick and player for JH, with the pick to go to GC maybe for May and KK and maybe a lesser one coming back. That would mean we get 3 players for JH. That could be a possibility.

You mean a $1m a year player who doesn’t chase and will cost you 2 first round picks as stated by Port . Don’t think we lack that.

A poster Theo, on Tohill thread said you can have 3. If so, I hope we are into Tohill, or one of the others, if of course they are good enough or showing potential.

Got the answer Walker and Bradtke.

Are we out of the running for one of the Irish boys as a category B rookie? I know we have Bradtke as one. Do we have another one? Sad when we started this and one of the boys is the talented 198 cm Anton Tohill, son of Anthony, who played Reserves for us in the 80's.

Yep. I think they are all "keeps" for Swans. They do have a couple of blokes in the seconds who we may be looking at, or otherwise it will be a pick that we will hope to bundle and upgrade I think.

None of those 5 will be pushed out.

But Gaff has more hair.

I think the clowns are now in the ring.

Do you think we haven't already spoken to Freo, before we softened our stance on looking at a deal?

Good post. Also with those that are NQR that have left, the hope is to get 1 or 2 that are better than them, not just to replace them. That is always the aim of list changes.

Is it selling the farm to pay what others offer if it costs you nothing to get a top player? I understand there is a cap, but other clubs seem to manage or are true destination clubs.