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which team is going to get worse though? maybe saints and cats but they wont lose many players and they still have plenty of stars. bulldogs, crows and pies still fairly young. bombers, blues, lions, hawthorn still all young teams. I can't see us being a better side than any of the top 9 next year unless there is a fair amount of injuries.

brian lake will almost definitely be AA this year, ofc we would take him in an instant, even geelong with perhaps the only better FB in the game would take him. lake is worth more than pick 9 in national draft... a lot more.

it's all just speculation, if we want a pick around 10 we have to give up someone good. no we aren't going to be trading bell+newton+pj for pick 9. that kind of pick would be nice for us as there are a few KPF that will go around there, not sure what kind of choice we will still have at 18 though. good tall backmen is the ONLY thing that we dont completely lack so if we are ever likely to trade someone for a decent pick it is likely to be from there. or possibly bruce/green who may be too old for our premiership window. rivers is an excellent player, he reads the ball as good as anyone out there and he spoils brilliantly. however not sure how well he can play on big power forwards, he has been somewhat injury prone and has shown glimpses but never really recaptured his rising star year form. we cant expect to trade off our lowest tier players and expect to get top picks, so if we were going to speculate on SOMEONE it was likely to be rivers. dont let him being your favourite player cloud your better judgement, rivers for roughead would be omg good

i hardly think he is a 'topline' CHB atm and a top 10 draft pick is a lottery... i tend to disagree with that.

i think it was pretty close between watts and nic, but iirc there was a fair question on richs running endurance, which was the reason he slipped a few places.

we have big defenders in surplus and getting pick 9 would put us in a great position to pick up a KPF; i would 100% trade pick 9 for rivers/warnock, probably not for frawley and not sure about garland.

lol you're dreaming boak is worth a top15 pick and u think they will trade him for bell and 34??

so one of the eight selectors is stopping us getting any aa's...

@most peoples i dont think theres room for garland, frawley, warnock and rivers in our backline, way too top heavy, also jimmy should definately start in the best 22 had a better season than jones/mclean imo. i see him more as a goodes type player, anyway hopefully watts will be filling this position.

did you really think he was good enough to be picked before any of the elite midfielder from top4 sides? theres like 12 off the top of my head i would pick before him...

what do you guys think about bartram? has this guy improved since 06 at all?? we also have enough of his type of player on our list imo