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Ben Brown trade done early. Andrew Phillips trade done for one of our picks in the 60's. Bundle some of our picks to the Bulldogs for an upgrade to a 1st Round Pick. Word that we're committed to taking Marley Williams as a DFA. Would be happy to hear of a trade for Tom McDonald or ANB out, but will live if it doesn't happen.

I'd be shocked if we don't sign him. Only thing I can think is it's due to the uncertainty on list sizes and they probably wanted to sign up players who were being targeted by other clubs first. eg Sparrow and Hunt.

I don't know if you bothered to watch any of Egan's brief reports post the scratch matches, but it was pretty clear that he was extremely close to getting a senior game when the finger injury hit. I saw him down at Casey a few times in 2019 and liked what I saw. They were playing him mainly off half back that year, and while it didn't look like he'd be a superstar or anything, he was a very good kick and never looked rushed with ball in hand or with his decision making. Allegedly moved into the midfield this year where he's looking even better. Not super fast, but not slow either. Reminds me of Bryce Gibbs a bit actually in the way he plays.

He'll make MFC Great again!

Agree, we're certainly at a point where the saying of no one player is untradeable is true. All I was getting at is the fact Petty is contacted and has won thataward would suggest that in the unlikely event that we did trade him, we'd get something significant back you would imagine.

True, though Sparrow signed an extension only a few weeks ago and Petty (who is also contracted) won our best young player award in the B&F last year, so unless we're getting something substantial, I can't see us trading either.

I'm going to go with ANB and one of the McDonald brothers.

Not wrong. After all...

If we're looking to have Petracca play the Dustin Martin role of splitting his time between the midfield and forward line, Harmes could be the guy to interchange him with. Start each game with Harmes forward and trac in the middle. When they switch Harmes can then clamp down on an oppositions best midfielder at the time. That allows us to then have Oliver, Brayshaw and Viney rotate amongst the other two midfield spots and potentially have short shifts in the forward line also.

It was a weird list analysis. He wasn't completely wrong, but as others have said, he contradicted himself as well. Said we're good for inside mids and small forwards (noting we should continue to play Spargo), and that we're addressing our needs for tall forward and back up ruck. So the main areas he reckons we lacked were tall backs, running backs and another wing. Personally I don't agree re tall backs given we have May, Lever, Tomlinson and Petty plus Smith & Hore who could play as the number 3 or 2 at a pinch tall back. Running backs I agree is an issue with both Hibberd and Jetta on last legs, jury still out on Lockhart and that only leaving Salem & Rivers. I heard someone mention we may be into Marley Williams and I think that would be a good short term solution for 2 or 3 years while we build that area. And as for the other wing, I'm hoping we're eyeing the Bulldogs Pick 14 so we can land MacRae or Cook for that spot. That could be enough to turn the swiss cheese into a nice bree and what we need for premiership 13!

ALREADY DELISTED Bennell, Dunkley, C. Wagner, J. Wagner LIKELY TO GET DELISTED O. McDonald LIKELY TO BE TRADED Hannan, Preuss POTENTIAL TO BE TRADED T. McDonald, Jetta, Neal-Bullen

Haven't seen it reported anywhere that we've offered Oscar a contract?

I suspect we'll be giving this years 2nd rounder along with other picks (Preuss trade etc) to the Bulldogs for Pick 14.

You might be onto something here @adonskiI suspect the club is either very smart or very stupid on this one. Time will tell!

Reckon our lack of interest here to me indicates that we're well down the path with a pick/points swap with the Bulldogs to get their Pick 14 and take one of Finlay MacRae or Brayden Cook to fill the wing role.

Hoping we get him for our future 2nd round pick. Maybe offer any of Tom or Oscar McDonald, Neal-Bullen, Bedford, Jordan, Nietschke, Chandler, Mitch Brown or Lockhart as steak knives. Though ideally they'd only take one of the first three.

Have seen him a few times, and while he's no star, he ticks the boxes of what we need. As @Turnersays though, I don't know why the Bombers would let him walk? But if we can get him as a DFA or for something like a 5th round pick or in exchange for Neal-Bullen or something like that, I wouldn't say no.

No way should we give up a 2nd round pick in what will be a strong draft. They can have Jetta and our future 3rd rounder in their fire sale!

He wouldn't be a bad option. Still only 27 and has talent. Would rather we trade for Webster though.

If the filth took on all of McDonald's contract, then I'd be happy for us to take on all of Treloar's contract for the first two years (length of Tom's contract). But for years 3-5 Collingwood should be forced to pay the money that's owed and we just cover what his base contract was supposed to be.

Pot calling the kettle black isn't it???

While I don't think he's necessarily a walk up start to solve our other wing position, he'd certainly improve the depth there and create competition for spots. Maybe we could get involved in the Cameron trade? GWS send Cameron and Pick 43 to Cats. Geelong send picks 13 & 15 to GWS with Narkle and a future 3rd rounder to Melbourne. We send Preuss to GWS.

This doesn't shock me at all, we need some mature ruck depth with Preuss leaving and there aren't many other cheap options out there. I mean there's Majak Daw, but he's a questionable character. Another option I think we should look at is Lewis Pierce who was delisted by St Kilda last year after they recruited Ryder. Still only 25 I think and showed some ability. As he was delisted last year we can still get him as a DFA.

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/549228/nietschke-suffers-second-acl-injury This confirms he'll be on the list. We may delist him and re-draft him on the rookie list, but he"ll still be here.