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With all due respect, not a chance. More off field issues and well past his best with age and body working against him.

Quite possibly, there are so many balls up in the air in this 18-club swingers fest.

From the AFL website (Bucks beat me to it) :- Inside Trading: The 12 biggest deals of this year's Trade Period "The key forward has elected Melbourne as his preferred club after Essendon expressed interest. The Demons are not willing to part with pick No.25, however, which could make a quick deal difficult. Told he was surplus to requirements at North, reducing the possibility of a prime draft pick in return." Interesting that we don't want to use pick 25. Think someone suggested on here that we intend to offer our future 2nd instead. Can see multiple picks being swapped in this deal.

If that's true then, pending due diligence, we'd be silly not to look at it.

Would add a point of difference to our midfield, but just can't see how we can afford him in terms of salary and by trade. Pies wanted pick 5 from Suns. Can't see us satisfying them with what we've got, particularly with them looking to ship out their future first next year for the next daicos.

Just spitballing an idea here. In the hypothetical event that Tom doesn't find a new home, perhaps there's a way we can ease his contract burden and free up a bit of space by re-signing him for another 1 or 2 years. He's 28 now so along with senior opportunity he is probably also after financial security. Putting out a random figure here, but say he is on $700,000 over the next two years for a total of $1.4mil. We then extend his contract and say we will re-sign you for another year and give you a total of $1.6mil over three. We front end that deal and pay him $1mil for next year (sounds ridiculous I know) but then we're only left with 2 years to pay below AFL average wage. This frees up valuable space to do our major re-signings of Oliver and co as well as possibly giving us room to make a play for a free agent next year. Now obviously this will be dependent on whether we think he can regain some form and be a solid role player for us whether its part of the backline, forward line or just solid key position depth.

Sorry Dr. Evil but you've proven yourself to be untrustworthy. Therefore I don't believe you are joking and are indeed 100% factual in your statement that Brown is coming. Happy days. Also can you tell me where I can find some orange sherbet? I went across the street but couldn't find any.

Money has clearly won out there

True, I think it's more likely for us to get first round pick than Clark but who knows. Worth asking the question.

Would be keen, are we more interested in young Macrae though?

I'm happy with Giants matching. It may cause a few delays but not only does it mean Geelong don't get a freebie, but it will bleed them of at least one and possibly two of their first round picks. Giants don't want to draft 7-8 kids in one hit so will try and pry a young talent like Parfitt out of the cats. If that fails, which I think it will, it will mean they have plenty of 1st and 2nd round picks and could be open to swapping one for a package deal we can offer. There have been a few permutations thrown around here, but a future 2nd, Preuss and Avb - or whatever is the latest mail is - could get us back into the first round.

I trust the dark knight

Haha, my apologies. By potato I mean I think they'll play like spuds next year. Don't get me wrong, if they take on all of T-Macs salary then I'll be expecting nothing but a token pick in return. But if they want us to contribute a significant amount then it slides back to giving us a more valuable pick in my opinion. My prediction is that they'll be in the lower half of the ladder and either a future second or third could wind up being fairly valuable. Having said that my preference would be for them to absorb his entire salary, giving us a token pick in return but giving us salary cap space to re-sign the likes of Oliver and Petracca to long term deals and potentially target a quality free agent like a Zach Merrett next season.

If McDonald goes to Essendon I would be hoping we push for a future second pick or the pick they get for fantasia (likely 28 or 34). I reckon they'll potato next season and could give us a pretty good chip next year. Outside of their early picks this year they only have 47 and 66. If we accept either of those I hope we are absolved of his entire salary.

Aidan Corr has joined the Kangas on a 5 year deal netting the Giants a 2nd round compensation pick, currently pick 30.

Zac Williams has joined the Blues on a 6 year deal estimated to be worth $800,000 per year. Giants received a first round compensation pick, currently pick 10.

Can someone please explain this quote from Dodoro for me that was in the age this afternoon. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/joey-was-really-close-to-staying-bombers-ceo-20201030-p56a2l.html “I would like to thank Brisbane for their dealings in recent weeks. We feel we have reached a fair deal," he said. Why would they be dealing/negotiating with Brisbane? As a RFA wouldn't Brisbane just put forward an offer to Joe and his management to which the bombers then review and decide to match? Isn't that how its supposed to work? With my conspiracist googles on, it reads like they have been trying to engineer a first round compensation pick through what I can only imagine would be a form of either draft or trade tampering. I'll be keeping an eye out for a lop sided pick swap or some sort of transfer of player dirt cheap.

Our trade with North is looking much more even as they now have pick 11 with free agency compo. This will at least go out a minimum of 1 spot given the Bulldogs academy player likely to be taken at pick 1 or 2. We've essentially only given up a third rounder that we had no intention of using anyway to get Kozzie and a years development into him.

I was being facetious :) Nothings a given until he's signed on the bottom line but love the mail and looking promising, cheers for sharing ?

900% confidence?!

Haha, eggplants suck.

Joe Daniher officially a lion after agreeing to a 3 year deal. Bombers receive a 1st round compensation pick, currently pick 7.

Indeed. Smith to Geelong on a two year deal ($$$ not specified) Hawthorn receive a 3rd round compensation pick, currently pick 42. As a side note, our pick 47 has now slide out to pick 49 and this is before compensation is handed out for Williams, Corr and Daniher (if bombers don't match). This will change further with academy bids and may even come in slightly as 2nd and 3rd round picks get swallowed up in the process.

Good stuff rjay. From memory he got in a bit of trouble with betting on a game. Might be a bit of a simplistic view but perhaps Goodwin might be good mentor for him considering his indiscretions as well. Not to say that it's an ongoing issue.

Rumours of unprofessionalism and attitude problems, can't speak to the veracity of those claims but raising red flags for me.