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Further support to the 'job for the boys' proposition. From The Age: "We were intrigued to learn, amid the furore on Wednesday over the brief tenure of Andrew Thorburn as boss of the Essendon footy club, that the Dons director assigned to support consultant EY’s work on the selection process was Dorothy Hisgrove. That’s because Hisgrove worked with Thorburn at NAB in the noughties... so it is interesting, to say the least, to ponder what position such an accomplished executive and a champion of women’s rights took on EY’s recommendation to hire a bloke who is chairman of an organisation – City on a Hill – that doesn’t allow women to sit on its board because “Eve was created Adam’s helper” and “eldership belongs to men”. We sent questions to Hisgrove on Wednesday but have not had a response". Very difficult for her to spin away that commentary. So it was Hisgrove that championed Thornburn as CEO, to the Ess board. Her professional and personal credibility are shot. Can't see her lasting long on the Ess Board. I'm guessing their AFLW team will be pretty upset by her role in this. They can't stop kicking 'own goals'!!

Toby not happy according to Tom Browne trade-news-rumours-whispers It looks like click bait because he says: “I've checked with sources directly aligned to Greene tonight, there’s no prospect of a trade, there’s no prospect of a trade for Greene this period. “He’s got four years to run on a deal worth north of a million dollars a year, he’s also the Giants' coveted co-captain.” Non-story!

Looks like we will have competition to go up the order. Carlton have put #10 on the market and will use future picks to sweeten the deal. So if our highest pick from Freo is 13 we will need to add more 'sweeteners' to a deal than Carlton does.

Fair point that 27 will slide to 25. But Brisbane didn't have 25 at the time I made that post in which I was saying to just give Coll 27. So I agree no need to sweeten the Grundy deal I could only see a sweetener for Coll optics and give them 54 which we won't use.

He sounds happy but I think his heart still beats true 😢 "Part of Hunt’s signature style West Coast fans might be familiar with has been the Demons-coloured headband he has worn in games, but the new Eagle is still deciding whether he will continue that tradition with a blue and gold accessory out west. “I don’t know about that. It might be a good opportunity to go back to a normal, conservative black one,” Hunt said with a laugh. “I don’t know yet. I’ve got to think about it.” hunt-ready-to-bring-back-attack Eagles keen from the middle of the year and other clubs interested.

And the second part of my post: What then is LJ worth?

Technically Eagles must use a first round pick this year, unless AFL give them an exemption

Once the eagles pick 2 is gone there goes the WA competition for LJ!! Freo laughing!!

How on God's earth is JHF worth pick 2!!! Then what is LJ worth...

Like I said in the LJ thread:

I wish there was some news out of Freo. The silence seems like they are doing side deals but ignoring Jackson. Meanwhile their potential pick swap partners are doing other deals, players traded and Freo is playing in its own little pond, by itself!!

The problem is that the Cats need to find two first round picks for Henry and Bruhn so pick 2 doesn't help them do those trades. Of course they could offer it to GWS and get 12 and 15/19 back. So many permutations! I wish next Wednesday would come round quickly!!

They could swap with GWS for 12 and 15 +/- equalisers. Use 15 and give us 12 and their own F1st!!

#7 is gone with Bowes to Geelong

Agreed. Meanwhile Freo are weakening their draft hand wanting to trade in 2 GCS players. Unless they can somehow swap F1st round picks (and others to get the right balance) as part of the trade their chances of getting a deal done for LJ are slipping. So we get pick 13 and GCS F1st. It works in theory but can't see them doing that.

They also have 15 from the Brisbane swap. And the Hopper deal, while stalled, is yet to come.

Hmmm, Not quite the same thing. There are no blends in real Italian cheeses. Worth tracking down the real thing otherwise it is like 'chalk and cheese' no pun intended but its true.

I'm impressed someone on DL knows what that is!

Make Hawthorn pay for it!!! They have all that lovely poker machine money just rolling in the door...

Looks like GWS #21 is gone in a pick swap with the Lions. News Corp’s Marc McGowan reported on Wednesday afternoon the Lions are set to send pick No.15 to the Giants in exchange for pick No.21 and a future second-round selection

Interesting there is no mention that the proposed TofR have been supplied to Andrew Newbold's legal rep... Equally interesting is that the panel will be 'assisted by' the Gordon Legal law firm. They do so much work for the AFL they could be considered an extension of AFL Legal so is it truly an independent process....

Maybe so but let's find another way to sweeten the Grundy trade than giving Bedford away for a mere 6 spot slide.

Isn't that like giving Bedford away for next to nothing? It is 6 spot slide in a very even draft. Every chance a player we would take at 21 will be there at 27. And if we get 21 Coll will demand it. Let them have 27 and we get a fair deal for Bedford.

And on it goes: From The Age Here’s what employment lawyer Josh Bornstein told ABC Radio Melbourne a few moments ago: Based off [media reports] there’s a prima facie case of religious discrimination. If you say our values are that we don’t want to employ people who are gay or don’t like having women working for us who are pregnant ... then your values or your contracts or policies may run headlong into discrimination law. It’s a fundamental [point] that you can’t contract out of anti-discrimination law. You can’t have a contract that says if you fall pregant, you have to leave our organisation, for example. LOL. How stupid is that club to give Thornburn the 'Church Chairman or Club CEO' ultimatum. Blind freddy could see the religious discrimination in that. It would have been smarter but not by much if they used his forced resignation from NAB, after the Royal Commission, four years ago as the reason to stand down. The smartest thing would have been to do a proper search process and proper due diligence. Instead it looks like 'job for the boys' as the guy hasn't been able to find a job in the corporate world since the NAB resignation. But as always their cesspit is of their own making.

Thank you. I shall delete my post.