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I'm fairly agnostic on whether we should look to trade up in order to obtain Robey, or if we should take both picks to the draft. Taking both would help us address our needs in multiple areas, but Robey probably looks a slight cut above some of the other potential top draftees. If we're taking both 7&8 to the draft, Grlj would be one of the players I'd take, provided he's on the board at that stage. He has a beautiful kick, moves well and would add polish to a side which is significantly lacking ball use and spread. Hibbins-Hargreaves would be the other player I'd take, some very nice x-factor and good athletic traits. I know some may be put off by virtue of his role as a utility, rather than having a defined role, but I could see him adding to our ball movement and F50 finishing in a tangible manner. I really like Xavier Taylor, but he's probably competing for a spot in a list area where we're already pretty stacked. I'm with @Bombay Airconditioning , I'm not sold on Dovaston. Admittedly I've only seen recorded footage of him, so this will likely lack nuance but I'm not particularly enamoured by his ball use or marking and for the most part, I am somewhat sceptical about using high picks on small forwards (cf. Murphy Reid / Pickett). For mine, nothing really stands out about him and I wasn't sold on what I saw. Though if we do pick him up I won't be tearing the place down, but I doubt he'll be able to fix his kicking. Very few average / poor kicks come into the league and tangibly improve. I'm really hoping Pickett will be there with our Pick 37 too. If Robey was available, of course he'd be the player I'd take at 7, hands down. But there's little chance he'll be available.

Personally I don't see May featuring in R1, like some have suggested.

It speaks volumes to how untennable Oliver's position is at the MFC. We want him gone at all costs and are essentially paying someone to take him. There is no Option B of Oliver being at the Club next year.

Yeah, depending on the price I've slightly come around to this. Although, I'm not sure he really improves us on-field so you're effectively bringing him in for 'character' reasons.

Like many things in the AFL landscape with reference to player movement etc, it's self-governing. It won't happen and in fact, the current changes are likely to make it even more self-regulating given you can now only match a bit with two picks, plus discount being reduced to 10%. If a player is projected and ranked to go at Pick 60, no club would match a first round bid and that leaves the bidder to burn a draft selection.

No, off the top of my head this hasn't happened. It is also a massive risk to the bidding club that another club wouldn't match it and they'll burn a pick.

Most likely Fourth Round plus, he's not ranked in the top 50 prospects for this draft. Aware this is a pretty broad answer, suspect there's a few on here who will be able to give a more nuanced answer.

Same with Oliver, but we had Goodwin in self-preservation mode and President who lacked foresight. Not too mention a divided board that didn't help.

Because we want Petracca out, they don't want BH out. It's no different from last year when we didn't release Oliver despite his desire to get to Geelong.

Can you say that again?

You don't think it's merely indicative of just how much we want Petracca and Oliver out of the club?

Exactly how I see it too. Very fair return for Petracca.

Very happy with 7 & 8 and look forward to seeing the final shuffling of the deck chairs. Ideally, I would've liked to have held onto 24 but I'll wait and see what the final outcome is prior to judgement. But as I said, very excited by this. We should still be able to get two very good players at 7 & 8 if we hold those selections.

Just patiently waiting for this bad-boy to hit the double century.

Correct - it was noted that we ideally wanted Robey to keep a low-profile in the lead up to the draft. Unfortunately for us, he's had numerous head-turning performances since our initial approach that have caused his name to be lit up on the boards of national recruiters.

This wasn't directed at you mate. But there's multiple posters across various threads taking issue with things being posted, because it's not in the media, but having previously shouted down any media reporting linking our own to another club. It's tiresome.

Yeah there's definitely a few examples of that... Jake Bowes, Brodie Grundie, Treloar, Mitchell (Hawthorn to Collingwood). It's definitely the closet thing we have to pick purchasing as it stands.

This is hilarious. Half the people complaining about this saying there's no truth to it as the story hasn't appeared in the media were the same people banging on that the media were bullsh1tt1ng about Oliver and Petracca not being at the club next year. When it suits, am I right?

Without a player involved or another draft pick? No, that's not permissible. There's been a concept floated where a club could sell a draft selection for cash (i.e. cap space), but under current rules this is not permissible.

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We’ve expressed interest in him throughout the year. It’s entirely possible this is accurate.