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This deal was only mentioned by Clarry’s journo of choice - Morris - this year. Last year Cats said we pay a pick or we pay cash and not both. No chance a club as tight as Geelong were actually going to pay up a pick and take on a big bulk of the cash.

The time to sack Clarry was 2023, but the hope then was surely to fix him and get years of good footy out of him. Plus I'm sure his side/the AFLPA would've asked for a period of mental health leave rather than a violation of his contract. Not sure he's done anything significantly wrong all through the 24 season until now to breach his contract. I'd rather the league just step in a create a max contract value and years similar to the NBA, but otherwise clubs might have to work together to formular some standard conditions and incentives in long term deals to protect clubs. Of course every club is so desperate for talent that they probably wouldn't agree to a standard conditions that project clubs and just roll the dice on guys.

Unlike Hibbo the moment CJ loses a step of pace he probably won't have much of a future, but 3-5 years seems about right. Frosty left us at 26 and gave the Hawks 5 years of decent footy, 4 of which they were rubbish and 1 they were good, after which he barely played this year then got chopped. If CJ can help absorb some of the loses and we can rebuild in 4 or less down years that will be a great result.

Wouldn’t say no, with an extra player on the bench next year we have another spot to fill in a team that’s losing 4 best 25 guys and adding only 1 so far. He’ll use the ball better if he gets continuity off half back compared with being in and out of the side on the wing. This might be a reach but I wonder if there’s any added benefits to getting CJ given our NGA zone has a big Sudanese community in the Casey-Cardinia area. I really liked Waddell Lual’s late season Casey form, let’s get him down for a preseason too. You can’t rely on the draft these days, you need to find every recruiting advantage you can get. We were prevented form getting Mac Andrew, maybe we need some representation in our side to encourage the Sudanese kids in Casey to play footy and join our academy.

Collingwood just traded our f3 for our current 3 that was at Brisbane for the stupid sharp trade. We’ve effectively given Collingwood 45 to hold on to 42. They’ll now trade it for Jack Buller who will no doubt go on to do more for them than Mihocek for us. A Lamb curry Masterclass.

He’s not going to lose talent in 12 months and the best they’re getting for him now is our pick or spinning 7 and 8 with who’s future picks? Better to get offers next year from clubs with picks in hand. Have to think some of the reluctance is Humphrey didn’t really want to join our sinking ship when Hawks and Pies can turn his head next year.

North offered that deal to everyone, I don’t think teams have been as reckless with their offers purely for the first pick of the 2nd night the last few years. That said, it does add some extra value as you never know what clubs will do with that night between draft rounds. Mainly though looking at this draft it does have some talent out until around pick 30 where that pick will end up but not too much further. We need to take at least 3 picks in that top 30ish, plus White, Sinnema then fill remaining spots. If we relent on 24 then Brisbane would probably do 28 and 42 for 23 and 56 as it helps them with points. That would get us back up the other whilst preserving a late pick for White/Sinnema if needed.

Bring from Moe we might have to check if it’s food he’s cooking before we invest in that

Never been a huge JVR fan but he did show some signs of life at the back end of the year when he started trusting himself to run and jump rather than being so man conscious. When he presents hard at the ball he is a handful. When he gets stuck long down the line not moving his feet he’s an under-height lump. Mihocek is the absolute prototype for what JVR needs to be tho. So hopefully he can shadow him all summer. Now that he’s built an afl frame I hope they prioritise fitness and mobility.

We could pay over a million a year and there’s still no way a club gives up a first for Oliver. The on field product just ain’t worth it even if it was paid peanuts.

No, they just traded away one of the picks they could’ve used to get Oliver to get pick 12. Unless we can convince them with more salary they’ll hold out for a future 3rd

Do we need players? Or did we only want players when they were better options than the picks? Come on, it’s Melbourne. We’ll give up at least 2 of the picks! Just hope it’s not 24 and 28

Wardlaw* misses a lot of games and Sheezel gets moved around. No shame not being ahead of those 3 but there’s a problem that he isn’t 4th or 5th

Take your pick from older than our preferred age range, expensive contract, prohibitive trade price and not good enough to play in North’s midfield

If Carlton wanted him he’d be in the Curnow deal without being told to look around. Sydney can’t ask for more than pick 40 I’d imagine, less if his contract is big and they don’t trim it down to value. He’s a bit positionless since he lost a step of pace. Doesn’t defend well enough for a back pocket, doesn’t bounce it out like a back flank. A bit of experienced depth could help us down back but if it’s a rebuild we probably shouldn’t bother.

Mould exposure!!!

Ben King would be interesting, somewhat surprised there’s not more talk of him given he’s a pre agent. But I suspect he holds out until his free agency. Mac Andrew, Jed Walter, Ethan Read of course. A wildcard - Will Graham is a beauty. Not for Tracc straight up but certainly as part of a deal.

Because Melbourne comms! But also because they announced the Casey coach via the Casey account

61 was the 3rd round swap from Brisbane we threw in to the Sharp trade last year. Now it’s off to Collingwood. It could’ve been 47. 47 might be in range of a useful pick and/or used with Oliver or Tracc to boost our return there as it has points value. Instead, it’s gone

61 for 71 is meaningless until it isn’t. Which is kind of the Tim Lamb special. Just giving a little bit more than he needs in every deal until it adds up over time and the list is shot

A fair result - we pay 3 million: 1M, 1M, 333 x 3. GWS pay the rest. We get a pick in the 30’s or one of the GWS small forwards of equivalent value.

Yet there’s only 2 players who self destructed their careers and I’m not sure the club had any role in it. It’s disappointing for sure, but I think a lot of people at the club will be relieved it’s over (besides the wage bill).

Welcome Moose, may you combine the marking ability of Max Gawn with the gritty determination of Shelley Heath.

2025 - 1861 (10th) 2024 - 1952 (14th) 2023 - 1697 (4th) 2022 - 1714 (6th) Not really that bad a run considering their lack of consistency around Weitering, lots of turning in the 2nd and 3rd talls especially and lackluster forward pressure to help the backline out. My bigger concern than defending tho is Carlton are in the same boat as us as a team that doesn't use the ball aggressively from the backline. Backline at the Saints. He likely beats out Hamill for that role with us. Backline - Rivers Mids - Jones Forwards - Chappy Development - Whitford Scarlo and Hawk as part time key back/key forward mentors. Hopefully room for one more, either a senior assistant, or a VFL coach/development 2IC

Because he's terrible one on one and with Disco, Lever and Petty we have that role covered not to mention we have Adams, May and McDonald as key backs. St Kilda were reportedly offering 700k a year. Let's not blow that cash. We need to bank some up and chase mid/flanker talent and/or a quality tall who really improves us when the time is right.