Fat Tony

Petracca will obviously be a target for all sides and he has the emotional element with the Pies. That said, I am sure he loves the MFC players and the club. My take on the Collingwood trading situation is that the Pies put themselves in a hole by backloading contracts to win the flag and then bringing Beams in. This got worse when they agreed to the Grundy deal. To get themselves out of it, they had to either offload contracted players or let Moore, De Goey and/or Mihocek leave. They didn't want that given the importance to their side and De Goey having depressed value given his impending court case. Treloar was seen as a good option to move because they have depth in the midfield and they felt they could fleece GCS out of pick 5 and offload his contract. Things then went awry when he didn't want to leave Melbourne and once you look to move on a player there is no real way to unwind it. The Bulldogs knew they were stuffed and took advantage. They also looked to move on Phillips, who they felt was not best 22 and Hawthorn took them to the cleaners. Stephenson was seen as difficult to coach/soft but I am sure they felt they would get a better return.

Yes he is definitely against good players for a spot. In saying that, we need to have depth and he is potentially a better kick than all of those mentioned.

Thanks DD. From the outside, Jordon looks to have the skills but not yet the strength/athleticism. I remember Egan was quite positive on his development early in the year. In saying this, he is competing with very good inside midfielders and so it will be tough to break into our side. The other spot he could play is half back, but I think that Salem has the spot as our distributor.

Is that enough for us? We should wait for the draft and see if we want to trade up IMO.

We have 4 picks of value this year and limited list spots. It would be dumb if we take 3 players and pass at #50 (particularly after we did multiple pick swaps to obtain it). Either we are looking to take four players or we need to slide up or into the future to keep our currency.

The brains trust have made a mistake if we are unable to consolidate our picks or push one of them into 2021.

Binman would be interested.

I think experienced depth players like Mitch Brown are worth retaining on minimum wages. Particularly as we don't know the length of the season yet and there are question marks over the fitness of Petty and TMac. Our KPP and ruck depth is Gawn, Jackson, Ben Brown, TMac, Weideman, May, Lever, Petty and Mitch Brown. Plus potentially Bradtke and Tomlinson and Hore and Smith. That doesn't seem excessive for 6-7 spots in the 22, albeit we may draft more.

Sydney now have their chance to get COLA back.

Looks like Dustin Fletcher and Suckling. Set shots using either foot too!

One of the biggest intrigues for 2021 is how we use Jackson. Obviously he will play as the second fiddle in the ruck for 15-20% of game time. With Ben Brown and Weideman in the forward line, do we go with three towers for 40-50% of the game? This would be against the modern trend but could work in perfect conditions. Does Jackson play as a tall midfielder or wingman? Goodwin will have to experiment early in the year to see what works. I can see Jackson making a big jump next year and he will quickly become an elite player if he can master his overhead marking.

Fantastic. This kid could be anything.

He had 12 supercoach points for the game and got dropped.

My post was responding to Pickett2Jackson who incorrectly stated that he didn't get back into the team, when he did before being dropped again.

TMac looks to be moving pretty well. We know he can be a very good player if he can get his mobility back to what it was. If Tiger Woods can win a major with a fused back, I wouldn’t completely rule out TMac yet.

He played one of the games in Cairns and was hopeless.

That would be in the negotiation. He is clearly on the edge at WCE, who are yet to offer a contract, and he would likely have to move to get a regular game of AFL. My point is it is up to Jetta to consider if he wants to relocate, not the MFC. We need to look after ourselves. However, in saying that, we would be potentially attractive in that he would be a good fit for us and he has family playing at the club.

The MFC is not responsible for where Lewis Jetta sees his life after footy. He fits our needs and, if he were to join, we would pay him for his services.

While adding to our small forwards and outside midfielders are what we need from a list perspective, IMO we need to be selecting the best player available - even if that means we get a ruckman, key forward or inside midfielder. Free agency has shortened the period to build a list, so making sure you hit on your picks is more important than fulfilling needs. Further, as much as I think it is a good strategy to borrow from the future picks, we should be willing to trade back to 2021 if the main targets on our draft board are gone. Particularly if we get a good return from someone who wants to move up the draft.

Think he will make it Dazzle?

Surely Mason Wood gets another go somewhere. I think Lewis Jetta would be a good fit for us.

We will need multiple plans depending on how the draft plays out but I assumed we would only take 2 players. The last trade with the lions indicates we might take more.

Mahoney said this in an interview.

How many picks are you expecting us to take? I assume we have players like Jordon on standby for either a rookie or senior spot depending on what’s left in the draft.

The trade for Brown was very good for us given the cost. And this is coming from someone who has some doubts about if our forward line will fit together next year with too many talls. I think Preuss will be good for GWS and prove to be a negative outcome in terms of a trade. But, he was really insurance for us, so it made sense to let him go. Hannan got a 3 year deal and we did the best we could in terms of return. It will be interesting if he gets a regular game for the Dogs. Bontempelli and English will play forward more next year (with Martin in the ruck) and they are getting another forward in the draft. And they picked up Cody Weightman last year. Isaac Smith would have been a great addition and fit for us, so it was a shame to miss out. It is a bit disappointing we didn't pick Collingwood's pocket for Phillips, Stephenson or Treloar, but we obviously wanted to maintain cap space and trade assets. I think we underestimated how badly the Pies needed to move players on and, in hind sight, we exited out of the race for Phillips and Treloar too early. The pick swaps were slightly negative in terms of points, but obviously fit our strategy going into the draft and managing list sizes. Overall, we started with a pretty weak hand in terms of assets and came out in front. And hopefully being unable to move TMac is a blessing in disguise and he can return to being a very good AFL player.