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Fair effort there. You can see how compromised this draft is and potentially can be. Makes me further keen on trading up for Reid. If North get pick 3 I reckon that opportunity shuts. If we opt out of the draft @Lord Travis I presume you mean with our later selections. We are unlikely to do better than pick 4 unless we can nab a future first off West Coast or North. Even then, bird in the hand and all that.

Think this is only true for Friday and Saturday games where the 22 are named with emergencies. Sunday we have an extended bench where the sub and emergencies will come from and Smith is a part of that.

Further to the Kangaroos compromising our draft hand discussion, one factor that hasn't been talked about much is that the roos have the right to match a bid for him due to his status as a RFA. Given logue has done his ACL, they are really short on Key defenders on their list. If they choose to not match a bid in favour of a high draft pick, they are essentially writing off the next few years waiting for junior development to come through while Corr and Young man the backline. They are in for a world of further short term pain. Why should the AFL encourage such stupid list management decisions. At least match the bid and force a trade like the mechanism is designed for.

Remember when we were denied a priority pick because the afl stated we had exciting talents such as Kennedy-Harris and Toumpas on our list. Good times.

The media hasn't referenced Brodie or his camp once when talking about a potential 3rd change of club. I find the whole thing quite disrespectful towards his character, who himself said he's a professional and will act as such when quizzed by a reporter at Casey.

Interesting bench. Petty, Woewodin, Harmes? One of McVee or Hibberd you would suspect. Smith for sub again. Think spargo makes us too small and if Petty is in I can't see Grundy being brought in just yet. Interesting that Laurie was carry over emergency and not named on the extended bench, they probably want to give him a full game at Casey again for fitness reasons.

He wouldn't have seen it coming.

Maurice Rioli jnr ruled out due to concussion protocols from s a training incident this week.

But the picks they receive can change. 8th make the grand final they get pick 17 or 18. Prelim lose would get them 15. Semi lose get them 13 and straight elimination lose gets them pick 11. Anyway, I digress. How about that Harley kid hey... looks good in a dees jumper.

I get that part. I'll try and clarify my question with another scenario. Say the 6th place team land there on percentage only at the end of the H & A season (equal points with 4th and 5th). 1st week - 4th lose their first final and 6th win theirs. 2nd week - 4th team lose their semi (to winner of 5v8) -6th team lose their semi (to loser of 2v3) Both teams knocked out in the semi finals. Is the 4th team ranked higher regardless due to their finish at the home and away season. Or does the 6th team rank higher because they've won 1 more game than the 4th team (both in the finals and in total if added to the H & A season games won total) I.e games played 4th games played 25 - W 15, L 10 6th games played 25 - W 16 L 9 My understanding is thats its still the 4th team at the end of the H & A season that's still ranked higher but never looked that closely at it. Cheers.

Just to clarify on the finalist finishing positions. Is it essentially the ladder carries over from the h&a season and the team with the highest points (percentage if the same) the deciding factor? Or is it like a new ladder starts for finals and goes straight to percentage based on each finals result? Edit: obviously elimination finals decide picks 11 and 12, semi decides 13 and 14, prelim 15 and 16.

Lol. He signed a 2 year contract extension to remain with us until at least the end of 2025 in that very same year. Seems footy personalities can just make up whatever they want these days. Nothing new there I guess.

That's some 4d chess right there.

Finlay Macrae is another mid that isn't getting a look in at Collingwood due to their midfield depth. I'll confess I haven't seen him play in the VFL this year so perhaps there are other reasons he's not getting a game as well. Seems to appear in their bests and has high numbers more often than not though. Anyone here have a view on him a couple years into the system? Might be an option if JJ leaves.

I disagree. If we can land Reid with those picks and still keep our first rounder for next year then that's a win in my view.

Might just be me, but if I was a freo fan I wouldn't be feeling optimistic of him staying after reading that.

Some interesting list management decisions coming up. We currently have 36 listed senior players and 6 "A" rookies. We can have any combination of 37 and 5 or 38 and 4. Not sure if there is a difference between Cat B vs Cat A rookies in terms of max length on that list. If it's the same rules then AMW can stay for a 3rd year while KFW can remain for a 2nd. D Smith is playing in his third year so a decision will have to be made there to promote or delist. K Turner has unfortunately been injured all year but perhaps may be given another year. In an ideal world, Jordon (reported that dees want to keep him earlier in the year) and Woewodin get new contracts. With D Turner to be promoted to the senior list in 2024, that means it's highly likely all of Dunstan, Melksham and Hibberd will be off the list. I think D Smith will probably not get a senior spot unfortunately. In this above scenario, that makes... Out: 3 x senior listed playersr, 1 x "Cat-A" rookie In: 1 x senior listed player (D turner) We would then have 34 senior listed players and 5 "cat-A" rookies As it stands, that would give us 2-3 senior spots for the national draft and 0-1 on rookie spots depending on how we choose to fill the list. Of course it gets complicated with potential trades of contracted players like Tomlinson, Harmes and Laurie while Jordon may yet leave as a free agent.

Still mad at Hawthorn for losing to Richmond.

I have zero Intel sadly. Just trawl the footy forums like most here. @Chook in Perth is the poster to listen to but don't think they visit this site much these days. There are others here with seemingly good Intel as well but doubt much would get leaked re trade and draft targets just yet.

Absolutely it could. Also discussion around North getting the ability to pre-list Sanders and Callinan. I think it will be one or the other.

Perhaps a player or two might come in via trade?

Change it to West Coast giving back their future 2nd and it might be more reasonable.

I'm not advocating for extra assistance to North but nearly beating 2 very average teams isn't a convincing counter-argument for those that are. Eagles won a flag only 5 years ago. No chance they receive draft assistance.