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That's the one thing I've noticed about American sports, despite being so heavily commercial they haven't tarnished the uniforms with sponsorship aside from maybe the apparel maker which is pretty much all Nike. It looks cheap with the sponsorship on back but it's the world we live in.

You cant carry ruckman on a list these day purely for insurance. With the mid year rookie draft next year we have exactly the right setup, in the event we did lose Gawn and Preuss then we take the best available experienced ruckman from SANFL, VFL, WAFL etc in the mid year draft.

I reckon he or someone similar who's been delisted will be picked up to see how they do for a year. I wouldn't be surprised if we go after Weller, averages almost 4 tackles a game this year which is what Goody wants. If he runs both ways and does the team things then he'll be in the mix.

Not quite. He's not qualified to be a free agent based on a service, if Melbourne were to delist him then yes he would become a free agent and go wherever he wants. If Melbourne have offered him a contract which it seems most likely seen as he wasn't delisted, then a trade must be completed for him to move. If no trade can be completed then he can nominate for either the national or pre-season draft where anyone can pick him with their pick.

James, he's got the premiership experience which has done wonders for us in the past.

Classic derail, thread titled Josh Kelly but there's discussions of at least 6 other players in the same thread.

He's going into his 4th season, restricted free agency is 6 or 7 years.

He's not a free agent so you have to trade. Either that or he walks out on GWS and you hope he makes through to you in the preseason draft which is no chance.

FFS.

This is highly underrated, Hunter virtually played CHB for the whole season and kicked 29 goals.

I hope he didn't get that scoop from Mission!

Really impressed with the kid, he doesn't play like a draftee with 0 AFL games to his name. He attacks the ball, hits packs, chases, tackles even managed a couple of sausage rolls yesterday. He's not slow either, we've all heard the type about Petracca... if he shows the same as what Oliver has shown in his 3 NAB games then we've got ourselves a couple of gems.

Was that meant to be a haiku? I have no idea how to read your post.

It works just like the AFL Draft, picks starting from the bottom placed clubs to the top. The benefit of finishing low is that if an out of contract player wants to move then you can avoid having to trade for them if your confident that no other team will pick them up first. Basically Carlton can get anyone that is out of contract and offer nothing to a players current club if a player wants to go to Carlton.

Like how we knew about Trengove's foot?

I don't agree with with that Matt Jones wasn't a liability but I get what you're trying to say. At no stage this year did Matt Jones as an individual cost us a game, when we lost and he played poorly he usually had 8-14 mates with him that played poorly.

How's Tom Lee going?

What about Brownlow quinella of Fyfe / Goldstein into Hogan Rising Star...

Zaharakis' best is probably better than anyone on our list, but for what he offers he would cost more than what he's worth. Personally I find him overrated, he plays 4-5 excellent games a year and the rest you wouldn't even notice that he played

He might of but then Mission injured him, he'll be right to go in 4 - 6 weeks.

The problem with Riley is he far to often goes for these charging rugby style tackles, yes they're going to hurt the opposition, but they don't prevent the player from getting rid of the footy as they're arms are not pinned.

He left the crows did he?

Cross is worth another year whether he plays seniors or not, him being a backup/playing coach at Casey would be valuable to any new mids we draft this year.