Nascent

I believe it will be full once Hore comes onto the Rookie list. Having said that, I'm fairly certain we can move Melksham to the "inactive" list due to his ACL and can possibly sign another ssp player or someone at the mid-season draft. Not sure what happens when Melksham returns, presumably Melksham is the active player and his "replacement", so to speak, becomes ineligible for AFL games.

His kicking seemed to improve over the year, particularly his short 20-30m kicks. Really like his hands in close, weights them well out in front of the running player and makes quick decisions in tight. He's got a few tools to work with.

Made it through the draft, he's ours. Will be official at the Rookie draft tomorrow.

No, they packaged up 42 and their pick 40 for 27 from Gold Coast. That got pushed back to 28 which was used on Collard.

Would think highly unlikely. We already traded out our pick 42 into the future and with the 2nd round starting at 30 it would be a massive waste of currency to buy back in. We're done apart from promoting D. Turner and hoping K. Brown gets through to the Rookie draft.

Suspect we tried to get up for Caddy

No, we traded it out for saints future 3rd pick.

Our 2024 picks based on the final ladder of 2023 13 31 (Syd) 48 (WB) 50 (St kilda - trade on draft night) 69

Going by the list you'd have to ask Brisbane. Our original pick 42 got traded to St kilda (for a f3) and St kilda then packaged it up for Gold Coast pick 27. 42 then disappeared in matching Academy bids.

Cal usually does a write up of all the trades that fell through and who clubs were targeting a couple days after the draft. He mentioned on his recap video that we had a crack at Roos pick 4 for Duursma and Hawks pick 5 for Watson. Would also be curious to see if we made a significant play for GWSs pick 7 and who we had in mind there.

Twomey confirming on his draft recap that we attempted to move up for Duursma then Watson.

I think we can apply occums razor here Tholstrup wasn't going to be available at 14 and we traded up. There may have been other hopes and designs for that pick to move even higher, but I think it's wrong to say Tholstrup would have been available to us at our original pick. Multiple articles pointed to interest from rival clubs starting with the Bombers at 9, St kilda 12 and Sydney 13.

Guess we won't hear for a while but will be interesting to see what numbers all our recruits will receive. Don't think we did a # reveal like some other clubs did tonight? Perhaps #4 to Windsor and #6 to Tholstrup?

D- Collingwood A+

Pretty happy overall, was hoping we could trade up for Duursma but wasn't to be. Glad that we've retained our future 1st as well. I reckon both kids will play some games next year.

Loving your work dazzle

Anyone have access to the sun? They have a live late-mail article and headline suggests a deal for Curtin could involve 3-clubs... Edit: could be junk q&a style blog with suggestions from fans

No proofreading on that tweet. First I've seen Adelaide linked to Caddy.