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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.

Do it in real life.

Rory Atkins officially a Suns player after accepting a 5 year deal worth approximately $400,000 per year. Adelaide have been compensated with an end of 2nd round pick, currently pick 36. They've done well out of the compensation in my view.

With Geelong forming a dad's army with Higgins and Smith, maybe we can pry a quality young player out that may be starved of opportunity either this year or next. Maybe Clark? Would love for them to fall off a cliff with an ageing list and then lose their young talent in the process.

So we can confirm that at least one Tigers player has a brain then.

Does seem a bit ludicrous on its own, particularly when T-Mac is being talked about being a "salary dump" situation. However if you throw in a future 2nd from us, then GWS may deem it worthwhile. Could end up looking like T-Mac, Preuss and a pick between 19-36 for pick 13? - which will probably slide back to 15-16. Probably wishful thinking on my part but not outside the realms of possibility.

This is a strange one. Seemingly good player who played a lot of footy early and a former 1st round pick with another year to go on his contract. So why are Richmond happy to show him the door? Something seems a bit off about this.

We have a bit of a history of keeping tabs and recruiting players they were keen on in there draft year with the likes of Lever and Langdon as recent examples. I wonder/hope we have kept the lines open with the management of Butters and Georgiades for future years. Hard to see them leaving anytime soon though.

We can cross Xavier O'Halloran off the list with the AFL website reporting he has re-signed with the Giants for another 2 seasons.

Is he under contract?

I really hope this burns Collingwood. What young player would trust them to honour their contract commitments given how this is playing out?

Thanks Dr Evil, love what you're bringing to this off-season. Seems we're aggressively targeting mature age players to have a genuine tilt at a premiership. I am absolutely on board with this as I believe our core "elite" talent is there and acquiring experienced role players will make us a far more consistent side. Also love the fact that it seems we've kept one eye to the future by bringing in 3 quality players in Jackson, Kozzie and Rivers last year and allegedly targeting a quality ball user in McRae this year. Hopefully we can pull this off. Looking forward to finding out who our 2nd target is and hopefully it comes to fruition.

I agree that his disposal has let him down at times this year, but his in close contested work and handball skills over the last 3-4 years has largely gone unnoticed/under-appreciated. On his 2020 statistics - a step back in your words - he is ranked #1 in contested possession #1 in clearances and #9 in total disposal across the entire competition. From your list I would say that Neale, Boak, Bont and Dusty are the only ones he wouldn't displace as number 1 mid. I'd argue that he is at least on par with Cripps if not ahead based on this year. Dangerfield and Fyfe spend more time split between the forward 50 to be counted as genuine midfielders. Pendles has slowed with age and is not as damaging as he used to be, and I'd take Oliver easily over Adams, Steele, Shuey, Yeo, Kelly as well as the rest of the teams you named. All semantics really, but fact is Oliver is a star and not widely appreciated as such in the media.

Does he have any hamstrings left?

Not sure how Oliver can be anything but A. Would be a walk up start as number 1 mid in pretty much every AFL team bar a couple. It's actually ridiculous how underrated he is in the media and part of me is sceptical that it's because he plays for Melbourne. Put him in an Essendon or a Collingwood jumper and I bet people would be raving about him. The fact that Petracca and May aren't listed as A-grade also suggests that his opinion is not worth much. p.s. Langdon as C?? really? As deanox has pointed out he has been top 5 in BnF's three years running. Not sure how that puts him in the 18-30 group.