Redleg

One of the papers said Goldsack had agreed to a new contract and that a new contract was offered to Wellingham, but that it fell way short of Melbourne's offer. We will see.

Good submission Rumpole.

Apparently there is a game on today. Lets get it over with and then we can move on to the important part of this season for us. The other part was pretty sh-thouse.

Nice thinking.

Agree Big Red.

Other than what's in the papers, not at the moment. I am concerned that we are being mentioned in connection to every single name except Goddard, that has been rumoured so far. I hope it is just the managers. Some names mentioned have left me bewildered. I would be happy to get a couple of good mids like Wellingham and maybe Stevens in trades and then a few more including JV, Toumpas and maybe MacRae in the draft. A couple of FA's on top of that plus the rest of our drafting would see a qantum change in the list.

Don't worry, he will be a tiger.

We are headed for a very interesting few weeks. When all is said and done, if we could get a couple of good mids in trading, like Wellingham and say Stevens, then draft a few more like JV ,Toumpas and maybe MacRae, we would be far better off than we are currently.

Heard the same today.

Disagree. I think we should get every player that has been mentioned on Demonland, all 73 of them.

Not to.

Gerard Whately declared him gone last night.

Cloke stays , so that's the first domino.

Contrasts nicely with the info I got yesterday from someone close to the Bombers, that he will be a Bomber next week.

We need pick 23 for JV.

No it doesn't affect your current picks. It will be an extra pick. They haven't really explained if the highest pick you can get is mid first round or after your first round pick. There is a big difference.

Yes. Word out is that if Goddard goes, Saints won't take a FA, which will maximise their compo pick. That pick would probably be as high as it goes which is round 1 pick. Therefore if you are losing a star player for big bucks to another club, your best pick will come if you don't get any FA's into your club that year. If we lose Beamer and say Rivers and then get say Byrnes and Russell, our compo is diluted.

Ok , I love you.

One can only hope. I must say that when Bailey was Coach and we knew we were rebuilding, I accepted our plight. This year however has been a disaster. Hopefully we don't see a repeat, as it is finally getting to me.

Really enjoy reading the trade speculation. Pity though that a lot of it is just made up and never a chance of happening.

This makes the compensation easier to understand. "As for compensation, Anderson says in the document: ''We confirm that the compensation formula will produce a points rating for players based on two factors: 1) new contract of the free agent and 2) age of the free agent. ''Draft picks will be allocated to clubs based on the net total points for free agents lost and gained during the transfer period. Draft picks will be allocated to one of five places: first round, end first round, second round, end of second round and third round.'' Read more: http://www.theage.co...l#ixzz27ZvCeMMB

Just heard that Dale Roberts is not going to the Draft camp. Clearly trying to fly under the radar.

We will get saturday out of the way and then we can get down to the real football, trading and drafting.

The Big Butcher. Played only 12 games and is 21.

I don't know much about him, but surely if we wanted to get him Clark and Rawlings would be a big help.