Adam The God

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.

They did, but then didn't include it in what Bulldogs received, so I didn't like it.

Where do the two top 10 picks go in this set up?

Very interesting. My mail was St Kilda are in with a huge shot at luring him and Ben King this off season.

You are hilarious. Are you taking the [censored] here?

So there's us allowing Tomlinson to seek a trade to the Bulldogs, whilst still under contract. There's how the feck do Fremantle satisfy our demands of two first rounders? Henry's seen on Clarry's instagram stories. Would all parties be satisfied with the following: Bulldogs give up Naughton. Bulldogs receive Lobb, a top 10 pick (via Melbourne) and Tomlinson. Melbourne gives up Jackson, Tomlinson & a top 10 pick. Melbourne receives Henry and Naughton. Fremantle gives up Lobb, Henry & a top 10 pick. Fremantle receives Jackson. Crazier things have happened. We then give up our future first rounder (hopefully end of first round) for Grundy. Grundy, Naughton and Henry would be a huge off season and change the face of our forward half.

Only problem is Lachie Hunter is allegedly a ****stick.

In the words of the great Kevin Sorbo, "disappointed".

If the future first goes for Grundy and Henry's thrown in (or part of another trade), that leaves pick 8 for the Astronaut. We allow the Bulldogs to take Tomlinson and maybe a later pick exchange upgrade for them too. Like it. 😉 Where's that new thread, @Engorged Onion?

Why would we give up a fringe tall for another fringe tall? Other than the contract amount. Schache isn't good enough at AFL level whereas Tomlinson is.

Seems a bit PRry from Grundy's side. I can totally believe he's angry with Collingwood, but surely that anger has now become about getting to Melbourne, without getting smashed by Collingwood supporters.

Does the Hawthorn fallout include Karl Amon looking somewhere else other than Hawthorn? He'd certainly be handy to pair with Langdon's run, Bowey and Salem's ball use.

Agreed. Adding Bowey to the defensive set up and giving him licence to go hard and fast will improve us immensely. And a fit Salem.

We're more direct when we're turning the ball over closer to goal, which is directly related to pressure from half forwards and mids. This is what so many don't seem to understand. Route 1 is not long and slow to the pockets. Route 1 is turn the ball over close enough to goal that we get an easy shot on goal. And I haven't said we don't need to tweak the system. I'm saying its outdatedness is overstated and pretty much just wrong, unless you failed to comprehend what Geelong did today.

Yes, I know. And their former captain sounds like he might get Gil's role too, so I doubt much will change. It'd be nice having a Melbourne person batting inside HQ.