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So pick 12 and 19 for Taranto Seems to be likely a future 2nd from Collingwood for Hill Hopper looks to be centred around a future 1st and pick 30 from richmond Mentioned Soldo to head north, presumably to GWS. Bruhn specifics not mentioned but would presumably involve either Geelongs pick 18 or a future 1st. GWS could have pick 3, 12, 18, 19, 21, 30 Plus future 1st from Richmond and future 2nd from Collingwood.

Would be win if we can maintain 2 x 1st rounders for Jackson and trade up our 33 from beford/Hunt compensation for a pick that nets us Grundy.

Melbourne also looks set to bring in a free agency selection, with Jayden Hunt on the verge of joining West Coast on a multi-year deal. The Eagles' interest in Hunt, revealed by AFL.com.au last month, is likely to be enough to garner a compensation selection for the Demons in the second half of the draft. from afl.com.au End of 2nd or 3rd round pick most likely.

Tsatas has a far better contested game and has genuine speed.

Highlights from the last Championship game for those that are interested in the key forward. If I'm North Melbourne I'm not passing him up considering the amount of mids they've invested in recently.

GWS currently has picks 3, 21, 40, 58, 60. Without considering future picks and just looking at a straight swap I think GWS would want to give 58 while we would he angling for 40. Out of contract outside of best 22 player so we don't have much leverage. However, with GWS about to have an influx of picks with Hopper, Bruhn, Taranto and Hill leaving, who knows where their draft hand will fall. When all is done they may only want to take 1st round picks into the draft which may mean they will be happy to move on their 2nd round picks for Bedford and perhaps a future pick swap into next year that favours them. Another poster suggested Bedford and 32 for GWS pick 21 which would be a good outcome. Would be somewhat similar to our Frost deal in 2014 where GWS got our pick 23 for Frost, 40 (ANB) and 53 (O-Mac). Frost at the time wasn't best 22 and from memory most here were surprised and annoyed we gave up an early 2nd round pick even with other picks coming back.

Unofficial progress so far. Out: Rosman, Hunt, Bedford, Jackson, Daw*, Brown* In: Grundy Would be surprised if we kept Baker meaning we could have up to 4 selections in the draft pending potential trading in of other players and how split or list totals with senior vs rookie numbers. Rumours are Melksham and Hibberd to get a further year each and Weideman possibly has interest from St Kilda.

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Shame its a hypothetical and not genuine speculation. Edit: yes that's an oxymoron.

Can't see it happening but would gladly take it.

Interesting that, unless I've missed it, our alleged "in the know" posters have gone to ground lately. Which could mean a few things. 1. We have something brewing that the club is keeping tight lipped on. 2. Outside of Grundy we have no other trade targets. 3. The posters are bored of the same old player discussion/rumour threads and view most demonland discussions as the quality of trade radio.

Wow

It makes more sense when you read the rest. Edit: actually not so much, some picks are wrong and I thought I saw further picks going back to the bulldogs but can't see them now. They aren't giving up 11 and 29 for Lobb and Tomlinson.

Plus a deadpool 3 teaser, nice.

I listened to it for about 20 minutes on my way to work today. Got about 10minutes of ads and a discussion on Henry vs Bruhn trade compensation with one of the blokes stating Henry is worth more but admitted to not having watched much, if any, of Bruhn. Quality stuff.

All the noise is we'll be giving up a first rounder for him which is disappointing but I'll reserve my judgement until the trades are done. Wouldn't surprise me if it gets a bit convoluted with multiple pick swaps. One hypothetical I could see being somewhat reasonable is as follows... Say we get a top 10 pick and Freos 13 for Jackson. We could trade 13 and 32 for Grundy and 16. This values grundy at pick 26 and we maintain 2 x first round selection at the expense of a 2nd round pick which we may not use.

Perhaps bulldogs pick 37. Lobb will most likely require their 2nd round pick, 29, and their next one is a pick in the 60s. Futures obviously an option as well.

https://7news.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-utility-adam-tomlinson-in-the-mix-for-shock-move-to-third-afl-club-c-8330309 Tomlinson did a medical at the Bulldogs according to Mark Stevens. With salary dumping all the rage at the moment, it will be interesting to see how this plays out if he does move. Do we pay the dogs with a later pick to take his full salary on? Is it that much of a burden that we would give up draft capital? Or do we pay 100-200k of his contract and get a token 3rd or 4th round pick? Or given the dearth of Key Defenders on the market and that he's contracted, do we drive a hard bargain and try and extract a 2nd round pick from the dogs? Our key defender depth will be whittled down to Turner and Joel Smith in the absence of any replacements which has me concerned.

My understanding is that clubs that will take on Bowes and his contract in full will likely receive a pick, most likely a 2nd rounder. Akin to the Brodie trade last year in which freo got him and pick 19 with some later swaps. No idea about how tight our salary cap space is for this to be a realistic chance but I would suggest it's unlikely.

Meek is keen to go to Hawthorn. Freo ruckman keen on Hawks move, another Docker nominates North - https://www.afl.com.au/news/847382

Probably makes sense when you look at the players out of contract next year, most of which we will want to keep. Trade in Grundy and acquire 2-3 players via the draft as high as possible this year, have added depth for another year before the form part of our mandatory delistings I'm 2023.

Rosman never quite looked comfortable at the level despite having some great attributes. Shame he missed out on the VFL granny with concussion.

This is the first I've read anything about the possibility of a 5 man bench next year. Has it been reported or speculated on in the media or is this an educated guess on your part?

Darcy Tucker officially requesting a trade to North Melbourne with one year left on his contract. Dockers happy to facilitate if it's a "mutually beneficial" outcome. With the newly awarded assistance package one would presume either Kangas assisted future 2nd or 3rd will be involved for one or both of Tucker and Logue. Another Docker seeks move to North Melbourne… https://www.afl.com.au/news/847382/another-docker-seeks-move-to-north-melbourne