drdrake

Yep, with out a great knowledge of those seats, I'm assuming Punt Rd would be a green seat at the moment and Geelong a Labor Seat under threat from Liberal

Only if the AFL allow us to trade next years first round pick which might not be enough considering it will be Pick 18

You are using one pick for the Preuss, another for KK leaving you with 4 picks between 33-55 and hopefully get the Bedford for pick 90ish as NGA pick

We aren't getting a second round pick for him 40-55 is his value this would be similar for Kent and AVB

Hopefully he slots on Salem's HBF, to allow Salem to push up onto the wing.

A bloke who can't run, Kick or Tackle, I'm sure 17 clubs can't wait to get him on their list

He must be gone then based on Tim's great journalistic efforts to uncover this. Journo's are paid to make statements to keep them employed. If they don't make big statements and just deal with facts no one reads or listens to them. If they are wrong no one holds them to account, they can say what they want, make stuff up would it right and get away with it, bit like our politicians. We have 117 pages based on Journo's hunches not facts. Until we get some concrete comment for Hogan, his manager, Melbourne or Fremantle, he is a Melbourne player no point everyone saying we don't need him because we do what team doesn't need a 50 goal per year forward.

Because Freo will be worried about big brother West Coast swooping in as a replacement for Josh Kennedy

As long as we keep a first round pick for next years draft we are ok. So if we get freos future pick we can keep or trade 1 future first round pick

I reckon if we were trading Hogan, Cam Pederson would have been offered another year on his contract

It's a shame that North's salary cap will be busting at the seems after they pay massive overs for Gaff/Polac/Hall this season

Trading is simple, if your club will benefit from the trade you need to have a serious look at it. I'm not for trading Hogan, key forwards are pretty rare but if Fremantle are silly enough to offer two picks inside the top 10 for him and he is willing to go it needs to be considered if you have a May lined up with the deal and a spare first round pick that could be offered to GWS for a Whitfield/Kelly. Adding May and one of those two GWS players this deal would be done in a heartbeat

It's going to be a long month

No we don't need to nominate him. A club can select him in the draft and we have the option to select them. Example say a club picks him at pick 35, each pick has an allocated point value we need to give up our next pick and make up any left over points from other picks. We hope that no club picks him till after our second pick in the draft and he cost us a couple of late picks

What community benefit can you have by spending more money on Punt Rd and Geelong. Hats off the Collingwood you drive past their facility and the general public are using it. Even the Goshes paddock the rugby/soccer and our oval people are always using it.

You have Bradtke coming onto the list 205cm I reckon will get to the 208-210cm as our developing ruckman

The basic fact is we don't have a second true Ruckman on our list capable of playing AFL, Casey showed that yesterday. We can't relay on Max to be fit for the entire 2019 season and need someone that can give him a rest.

Good, if North want to pay him 1mil+ per season they are stupid he is a wing man that clubs don't tag and when they do he goes missing, he will improve your side but not to the point where he will have a massive effect on the result. Would rather save the coin and have a red hot crack at Kelly next season, this guy has super star midfielder written all over him

The game moves and the AFL is looking at ways to get it back looking like it was 20 years ago with 6 6 and 6 set ups. Hogan and McDonald are endurance beasts, you will need these guys going forward as hit up forwards to transition the ball from back to forward. They will work hard up and back, I see Weiderman as more of a marking inside 50m forward. I have no issues with the three in the same side three blokes around 196cm that are mobile and play different styles of games. Would love to be in Spargo's shoes over the next 5 years they will either mark it or bring to ground.

Yep, their justification was that kids from a Multi-cultural or indigenous background didn't have the same opportunity to play the game and develop. Load of political hog wash, it kept the southern clubs happy as they got something and the AFL didn't want to go back to the full on Zones the once had.

The next Generation academy's are a little different for the southern clubs. Clubs outside NSW and Qld teams only have priority access in the drafts to indigenous and kids with a parent born overseas. The Qld and NSW teams have priority access to all kids in their academy's. It is an unfair structure not only to the clubs but also to kids that don't fit into those 2 categories. I'm involved in a Junior Club that is in another AFL clubs region, we had kids miss out on getting selected into the NGA that are absolute guns and deserve the opportunity to be a part of the program and we had kids that couldn't get a kick in a stampede get selected because of their multi cultured back ground.

Was he falling over?

He has long arms and takes the ball at the highest point. Hoping to see a few contract announcements over next few days, Oscar, Frost and this bloke

Gaff isn't a match winner, he isn't a key position player he sits out on the fringe of the contest and can use the ball well. If he nominates us he should come as a free agent only no kicker back to West Coast. I don't mind Dom Sheed as well, has struggled a bit this year but looked good on Sunday

West Coast don't need Kent, they have a couple of handy small forwards