Fat Tony

This won't be popular, but Kyle Reimers should be on our radar IMO. He is only 23 and he has talent but has been on the outer at Essendon. Out of contract I believe.

Caddy is very overrated by the AFL community. He is not overly quick and not great by foot. He is not worth pick 13 in my book. In saying that, a potential path we could take is to offer him a high dollar i.e. $750K one-year contract to come to us via the PSD (so high that it puts GWS and GCS off taking him) and agree to trade him to Essendon the year after for their first round pick. We need to spend the salary and we would gain a first round pick the year after. Caddy would pick up extra money and eventually get to Essendon and GCS would lose out on any compensation. The other option would be to offer to trade down pick 13 to broker the deal a la Geelong and Mark Williams from Hawthorn to Essendon. (i.e. gain two picks in the early 20s).

If we make this deal we should double cross GWS after the FS bidding process. Pick 4 should be the only pick on the table for the mini-draft.

Dawes could be traded if Buckley sees his form slump as permanent. The pies also may want to free up some salary cap space for Cloke. I would think about offering our third rounder and a player (i.e. Petterd or Cook). Aaron Edwards would be a canny pick up.

IMO Edwards would be a great get.

IMO We would be better off offering Cook a one-year deal than delisting him and taking pick 85 in the draft. However, if Neeld and co. don’t think he will make it, I have no issue with us seeking a trade. Despite not showing much to date he could fetch pick in the 30s. After all, he is a tall and skilled KPF who was AA at U18 level and he was a pick 13.

Also 10th in the Brownlow. Hopefully he gets a great offer and we get a decent pick.

This is the scariest part of our predicament. We should be taking a long-term view and relying on the 'Demetriou put' for our survival. Paying obsene money/high draft picks for average or older players at other clubs is not the answer.

If he is one of the best two players in the draft - yes. Otherwise no.

Solution: Keep picks and draft well, target free agents, front load contracts of best talent. The only trades possibly worth considering involving picks 3 or 4 would be for the mini-draft.

That's because it would be a bad trade for us.

Why is 2013 that important? We need to build a list capable of winning a flag, not keeping the coach in a job.

$450K from Geelong. Not us.

Good luck Brad. Doesn't make Neeld's job any easier IMO.

A pick 4 and pick 12 swap for pick 7 and Boak is a bad trade on picks alone and he would command $800K in salary.

The same media that got shots of Selwood, Bartel and Scott in Adelaide. We are not on Boak’s radar and the only way to get there would be money and draft picks.

No he hasn’t, but it is pretty obvious that he would rather play for either Geelong or Port Adelaide. To land him we would have to cough up an obscene amount of money and beat the market in terms of draft picks/players to satisfy the Power. I would love to see Boak in a demon jumper but not at the cost which would be required.

Boak doesn't want to play for us and we would have to pay him too much. We would be better of using our salary cap space to pay overs for free agents such as Cloke or Goddard or further front loading the contracts of our current players.

This is exactly the reason why coaches shouldn't have ultimate control over list management decisions. Boak isn't that good and he would cost us high draft picks and command a big salary.

Logical way to look at it.

As much as our list needs a talent boost, a mass overhaul is not the best way to do it IMO. Players picked later than the third round are most likely to be busts and are a reasonable chance to slip to us in the rookie draft in any event. They also require two-year deals, which impinges on our flexibility next year. We would be better off giving one-year contracts to players like Dunn, Macdonald and Bail than taking picks 60 and 70 in the draft.

Contracts: Strauss, Blease, Moloney, Rivers, Jurrah, Cook, Dunn, Bail, Fitzpatrick, Green, MacDonald Upgrades: Nicholson Delists: Bate, Bennell, Petterd, Spencer, Davis, Jetta Attempt to trade: Morton Unsure: Bartram We would then have picks something like #3, #4, #13, #25 (Viney hopefully), #43, #60/PSD pick #3 The problem with making wholesale changes is that new draftees get two years. For that reason I would prefer to give a greater number of players one-year contracts.

The club did the right thing three years ago and I agree with the basic premise that tanking doesn't create a "losing culture", but Schwab et al have to go so we can move on.

We won't get a priority pick, so it will be 1, 2, 12ish and Viney.

Jack Viney complicates this issue, just as the priority pick did in 2009. For mine: Picks #1, #2, Viney, PSD pick #1, big losing culture > Viney, #4, #23, two meaningless victories, lesser losing culture, PSD #3