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Good to see more than one journalist turn up this week

We will miss him. From the outside looking in appears to be a genuine leader and hard worker. Seems like a top bloke off the field as well. Considering what he has given us, I hope we won't stand in his way of his desire to be closer to family. In regards to trade value, 2nd rounder seems reasonable. If tied into a Houston trade, I could see it being ANB plus f1st for Houston and f2nd.

Couldn't really tell you to be honest. I remember being impressed with him 2 years ago with his contested footy. Was injured for most of 2023. Havent watched much of Adelaide this year, maybe some SA dees/footy watchers could enlighten us about his deficiencies?

Wonder if Sam Berry would be worthy of consideration? Tacking machine that's been in and out of the Crows team a bit this year. Out of contract and Vic lad. Won't be a star but could really add to our midfield depth and shouldn't cost much.

Pretty sad state of affairs when a Tom Morris tweet generates 26 pages and 600+ posts of discussion and angst within 24 hours, yet the original thread on our generational skipper and one of our all time greats has a total of 2 pages and 46 posts in 14 years. Back to Max, what a legend and future hall of famer. It's been a privilege to watch his career and can only hope he has another few years yet in the tank. Agree with distrAction Jackson that he deserves a statue.

Demonland started a thread about this but it's hiding away in the other sports section. Jess Stenson just came 13th in the marathon not long ago. Bloody huge effort. Sister of Jack Trengove.

13th... bloody amazing effort.

That's what I hope for, but he's a damn good player and is contracted for another 3 years. Port aren't going to settle for chump change.

In before picket fence suggests Jefferson.

Sounds like we're trading for him and we're probably going to have to make peace with the fact it will cost us pick 6.

Could end up being pick 6 - 8 for Schultz. Freo are laughing. Let's also not forget that Collingwood traded out their 2021 1st round pick the year prior for picks 24, 30 and future 4th in preparation for Nick Daicos. Collingwood slid down the ladder and had they retained their pick they could've had Finn Callaghan as well as Daicos. They've been burned pretty badly so far on future pick trading.

Woewodin out, Billings in. Pup to the emergency list and Laurie removed from it. Can only presume Laurie is sick otherwise it's a big middle finger to him. Edit: Woewodin listed out with illness.

Looks like it will be streamed but does anyone know if it will be readily available on replay?

How tall is he when he stands up straight though?

JUH being JHF I presume

Where's this rumour about Riv coming from?

Interesting, could be pup straight in over Laurie and Howes or perhaps taking the emergency spot for one of them...

So about $1,500 per kilometre roughly?

Playing devils advocate here in regards to Dan Houston and trading out our first rounder. Perhaps this is the draft where giving up a top 10 pick for an established gun like Houston won't come back to bite us? Given the evenness of the draft pool and Cal reportedly saying its a deep draft but the top picks lacking last year's star power, I can see a world where we give up pick 6-8 and trade picks into the late first round/early second round. Not saying its the way to go, but if we turned pick 6 into Dan Houston and a mid we are happy with then it's perhaps worthy of consideration. Looking at Cals July phantom form guide, these are the midfieldeds in the back end of the first round currently/early 2nd. 16. Xavier Lindsay 19. Cooper Hynes 20. Tom Gross 22. Christian Moraes If we can somehow turn 6 into Houston and one of the above, that's doesnt sound like a bad outcome. Obviously there will most likely be more trade capital used to make that happen.

Port fans on bigfooty, so take with a grain of salt, believe Houston to Melbourne is pretty much a done deal and will likely involve 2 x first rounders. One apparently has a reputation for being itk. While I would love to get him, I'm worried about the cost and hope we have a plan to dilute our picks so we can take at least one first rounder ourselves to the draft. If it does eventuate, we need to talk to teams like Freo and Gold Coast to see if they have interest in pick swaps.

May out, Petty back, Jefferson to debut?

Don't forget those juicy St Kilda and Bulldogs 3rd rounders.

Perhaps some life still left in this ride?

Looks like Sydney forgot how to football