Adam The God

That's West Coast, who did not lead the competition for inside 50s and clearances.

Indeed.

Who can remember who West Coast's key forwards were in their 2006 premiership year? It's still won in the midfield. Who won the North Smith medal this year? Kennedy or Shuey?

I'd argue outside pace is one area you could get us. That's why I'd go hard with that remaining pick and our own future first rounder for a gun mid with toe.

I'd forgotten he was their list manager. That might explain why GCS don't rate KK...

That'll go down well with Tom...

Yeah, see, I don't think North are a destination club just because they're paying way above the market value to attract players. That's not how I'd define 'destination club'.

Because as I say, having lots of money to throw around usually means you don't have the stars, otherwise you're paying those stars. North and Carlton are both outside the 8 and are purely attracting players with cash. The problem/danger of this is that you put your list structure/payment structures out of whack and it hurts you big time down the line.

I'm pretty sure PD wasn't insinuating we'd hold onto the future first rounder in that situation. More that this would give us another asset to bring in a ready-made player now.

Interesting. I wonder if they've agreed to re-rookie him or whether we've identified another player to fill this role.

A destination club is a status that enables clubs to get big, important players onto their list for little financial expense, because they have nominated the club as their choice destination. Invariably, the deal gets done. Having lots of money to throw around usually means you don't have the stars, otherwise you'd be paying those stars.

The Doctor is a gronk.

Agreed, but I'd put the memory of this in our back pocket and remembering this the next time we hold the aces and St Kilda don't. No more nice guy with them from now on.

Absolutely no way West Coast haven't also been in his ear in that time.

Who'd have thought we'd be thanking the scum of Meth Coast?

Aww. You changed your name back mate and didn't amend it to Rod Grinder. Why not?

Maybe. Particularly, if we did the delaying.

All these journos look like idiotic econ kids to me.

Disagree. That's true depth. Besides, it'd be a horses for courses situation and form-related. The best place to be in. Particularly, as two of those four guys are in the twilight of their careers.

Weren't they the same terms that Dangerfield gave Geelong too?

A lot didn't have West Coast all that high leading into 2018 either.

Well, with Lever back, we'd have Salem, May, Lever, OMac/Frost, Hibberd, Jetta and Lewis/Jones.

I'm only speculating by piecing things together that I've read on here, but given we've allegedly asked whether we can trade our 2019 first rounder, it would make sense that we packaged that with one of the Hogan picks not going to GCS. I'd hope we could do an exchange of later picks with the other first rounder for May AND KK. From there, I hope we are thinking of putting the remaining pick and next year's in front of GWS and saying to Kelly 'come and play in a flag tilt with us next year - you can play on the MCG every week, in front of a Melbourne revival that saw 1,000,000 fans watch our games this year'. We can now argue to prospective players that we can pack the MCG out, we play in big games (QBD, ANZAC Eve and hopefully finals) and this list is ready to properly challenge for a flag. There's a chance we'd be able to lure any A grader in the league after our season (so anyone like Kelly, Whitfield etc). We have a legitimate shot at winning it next year if we get our defence sorted and add some more class to our midfield.

I wonder if Hawthorn are in the frame? Although, perhaps if they're going hard for Shiel and already have Mitchell and O'Meara on their books, it makes a May play less likely. I reckon we're in the box seat. The fact he met us twice and met with the players like Gawn etc, that usually tells you the deal is all but a matter of getting the trade done.

I just can't see us going to the draft with the first rounders. Unless the guy(s) that we want knock(s) back the offer or their club does.