Diamond_Jim

You could make it work. For example you could have non tradeable draft picks rotating through clubs without reference to ladder position. Whether a club exercised the draft pick would depend on need. All VFL clubs would have an academy ruckman with guaranteed game time as well as the "normal ruckman". You could rotate these players between clubs and they would have say 3 years to be drafted before leaving the academy. Clubs would jump at it as training young rucks is such a hit and miss affair

To make 13 and 28 work we'd need to finish top 3

Total madness from an MFC perspective.... Possible pick 5 for Pick 13 and we throw in a high second round pick in what everyone says is a deep draft. Talk about mortgaging the future

can't see Smith going for free. He would need to bypass fourteen odd clubs. Only one needs to bite. It would make for an interesting watch though. It will happen one day.

Ranking surprised me. I would have thought Adelaide is up there and to rank Eagles and Dockers effectively even is amazing. Eagles are a real power brand held back only by onfield performance

Disappointed that he didn't get a senior game when our season was effectively over (Round 19 onwards??). Can't see him making an impact in 2025 but if he can have a 20 goal AFL season and take the pressure of Fritsch I'll be happy. His year is 2026 which will see Petty down back (post Tmac) and Jefferson and JVR as the two key forwards with Fritsch as the impact forward. He's still a 50/50 proposition for me at AFL level. Like most I got burned by Weid with that word "potential" not to menion "breakout."

Like many I watched McAdam closely at VFL level. After some passable early games (vertical leap and mark) he went way backwards in his return stint. No defensive skills and other than his marking he seems to have few other skills (ground skills especially). Hard to say it but Schache showed more at VFL in his first Demons year. I'm prepared to be wrong but if so I will be surprised. Very disappointed with our trading skills when Billings is head and shoulders in front of everyone else

Sounds like Richmond may do an early GWS... Draft lots and then trade the ok but not great players for more draft picks. Makes sense and gives you a much higher success rate. Amazing what GWS did in those early years but still missed out. Something tells me that Tasmania will not be given the run with draft picks that GWS and GCS received. You have to bear in mind they are not an "AFL conceived" team

Pick 10 is a reasonable swap for our F1 IMO. I project a finish between 11 and 4 next year which are picks 7-14 so okay with me if the List Management think that is where the value lies. Pick 13 was IMO not great value on a trade/risk/return basis. Doubling up on picks can have salary cap issues going forward assuming they are successful players. A nice problem to have but one to keep in the back of your mind especially if the media rights magic pudding stalls. Hope we have a medium term plan to get Harley Reid assuming he goes slow on his contract re-sign (Unfortunately every other Melbourne club will be working on the same thing)

NRL have a night grand final but because of daylight saving the pre-game entertainment (KId Laroi) is in daylight. (6:30pm) Strange

Did he play basketball ?

Tasmania aren't in the draft next year or the following year. These draft years are premium for the future of the club. We have a questionable forward line along with queries over our midfield. An injury to Gawn of over four weeks costs us 3-4 ladder places. Saying we will finish 5th or above in 2025 is a big punt From what I've read this is an even draft which does not make it deep from a future quality viewpoint

I'd say a betting person would say our future first will be between 6 and 14 so trading for pick 13 is not a great trade

Players won't accept them if they are "non standard". IIRC the Pies tried that with De Goey and they got nowhere

What I find amusing in this scenario is why Pert didn't use a "cut out". They're are a load of people he could have used as an honest broker which would have made the attributed leak a lot harder to report. We are very amateurish it would seem. Has probably cost 5k members and made sponsors jittery Go the Storm !!