Adam The God

Lever is 26. What are you talking about, Steve? He's likely to still be on a significant contract. And yes, I wouldn't be taking on 850k just to get pick 7. It's incredible some still value draft picks so highly, particularly bang smack in the middle of our premiership window. If it was a top 3 pick, maybe that's a different story, but 850k is far too much to take on for pick 7 and likely our 2023 future first. I'd much prefer we put that 850k to a plug and play star we may want to target this year or next year. Edit. I see you've seen the light lol.

I don't think I had a strong opinion on it actually.

We do, but everyone does.

A 40 goal forward in his third year was not much help? FMD.

This happens every year on Demeyland. If the media doesn't link us to 3 or 4 players on the market, it means we're not looking at anyone.

You're very negative aren't you?

Because we don't do a scatter gun approach. We work quietly and professionally behind the scenes. We have done this for quite a while now. Just because we're not linked to players does not mean we're not having conversations and looking at ways to improve our list.

That's a very hard thing to measure. Great players always make role players look better. I thought it was our core that struggled and this then impacted on the effectiveness of role players.

Where did I say we shouldn't replenish the list? I was referring to the idea that Geelong have all these top picks and new players coming to them (supposedly) and was making the obvious argument that it's not a fair comparison - their core will all have retired over the next 3 years. Likewise, I hope we're not taking your panic stations attitude either. The idea that the bottom 6 win premierships is nonsense. Look at Richmond. Their top players won it for them, specifically Martin. The rest are role players in a system. It's not 1996 anymore. System always wins out.

How do you know where we intend to play him? Who says we're looking at him as a KPP? Why not a winger? See Blicavs...

It's not like for like though, is it? When we won our premiership, we were aiming to be the first premiership team to ever play another game together. It'd never happened before, such was the age profile of our list. Oliver and Petracca not yet at their physical peaks, Lever, Kozzy and Jackson at the time etc. Compare this with Geelong and they face the very real possibility of falling off a cliff next year due to their age profile. They need to replenish their list. We didn't. We were undone by injury to our best players. Had Geelong suffered a similar fate, they don't win the flag. As simple as that.

I feel sorry for @Lucifers Hero the most. You must be devo mate.

Coaching is about results, not playing career. The Giants forward half has been a shambles for a few seasons. Why do we want Stevey J?

Nah, it was Dangerfield and a bird from the West that has petals or some nonsense.

Oh mate, give it a rest. We can't knock GNF. He's brilliant.

It makes sense. Collingwood would want to get it out of the way early as they have so many players nominating them that they need to understand their salary cap position and what picks they have to leverage.

I think I've told it twice, but time and time and again.

I reckon that's too slanted in the Bulldogs' favour. One first rounder is surely enough. Two seems excessive.

I don't know enough about Bowes to say one way or the other. But Hibbo for Bowes is not really an apt comparison as they don't play the same position. The better comparison is Baker though and I'd be happy to get pick 7 and exchange Bowes for Baker without knowing anything about him. The only question remains is how much salary cap space do we have? If bringing Bowes in impacted us getting, say, Naughton, I'd be against it.

It depends if we have other targets. But taking on a NQR just to get pick 7 is essentially taking on a list clogger and hoping you hit pick 7. It's a brave new world, I guess.

Grundy pretty much is the older version of LJ, just not as quick or good by foot, but a million times better in the ruck.

Let's just hope he attends the right burning man and it's not a burning little man, because, you know, St Kilda.

I wouldn't mind Yze moving to forward coach and strategy, shift Stafford to ruck coach and bring in a new midfield coach. But what would I know?

Just waiting for GNF to come in here and claim chook's info from a few weeks/months back as his own again. Come on down, mate.