Ted Lasso

I think it’s probably a bit much, maybe another sweetener added to that and it’s a good deal. I just can’t see Carlton moving pick 1 unless it’s for an insane deal. I suspect they will try next years first

Too much baggage sadly because he’s a great talent and bargain basement price.

Not sure how an offer to pruess has any bearing on the asking price for hogan. Key forward who is 23, rising star winner and stacks up with any key forward ever to play at the same stage if not better 5&6 is a good deal

If we could snag the swans pick 13 with some later picks and vanders and send say 12, Tyson and a 2019 second round for may, kolo &2019 third round

Potentially that and a sweetner might get us in with a chance if Jesse doesn’t end up in Perth.

But..... he is contracted... so freo pay premium which is two top 10 picks. Or we keep him.

Future first round they reckon. I’d have thought around 20. But they’re offering him 750k so not easy to do that and then argue he’s not worth a first rounder

That’s how I’m reading it. You don’t offer a guy huge dollars, have a 4 hour tour and then lose interest. Especially if you’ve chased that guy for years

Though by then Jesse would have been a decent part of likely multiple cracks at a flag and he may decide to stick around.

No. It couldn’t. Because Jesse is contracted and much more talented than lobb. Freo have leaked that to try and panic us into accepting less rather than miss out on May.

Josh Mahoney said we badgered them for a long period of time but even still, why express an interest if we couldn’t afford him anyway?

Financially we can afford both, the evidence for that is the offer we made to GAFF the reality is that we can’t trade our 2019 pick unless we replace it and even then we’d need to include a quality player to be any chance without hogan leaving.

Tom Browne reporting freos priority is lobb not hogan. I personally think this is garbage they’ve been chasing Jesse for years and just did a four hour facility tour with him where they no doubt discussed his gaff sized offer. Id suggest someone from freo has leaked this to him to try and panic Melbourne into lowering the asking price rather than missing out on May. Sadly for freo the only person who hasn’t seen through it is Tom.

Has been offered a 4 year deal and promised game time apparently.... not sure what we are up to with that.

No, and Jesse and his management have said they’re not interested in discussing one at this stage.

I wonder if our attitude would be similar to Steven may. If you wanna stay that’s fine but you have to sign on long term, if not let’s move you home now.

I’m not too sure, you’d think hogan would be their priority and they will play hard ball to try and retain a top 10 pick to land both which is why the trade with port would appeal. If they could say get hogan for 6&9 and trade 10 for lobb i hope and think they will still demand 5&6 hogan is probably the best young forward talent in the game and will be a superstar for a long time, I don’t think we should wriggle even a little on that asking price because not only is it fair, freo will buckle. They can’t afford not to sign hogan. They need something to convince members not to jump ship. my Ideal outcome would be using those picks on Steven may and bailey smith

5 for Polec and pick 9 from port red (on the assumption they held pick 9 at this stage)

There is no way in the world freo made there offer to hogan without knowing they would have to cough up two top end draft picks to get him. They probably didn’t expect Lobb to be on the market as well #5 &#6 for Jesse hogan or F off freo he’s contracted so pay up. #6 grabs Steven may who fills a significant hole for us. #5 is the really important one. I’m sure we are sniffing around for an established outside mid. Could we get in on the Polec chase at the last minute and offer #5 for Polec & #9 considering they were ready to accept #11 for him alone. i also love bailey smith as a player and have no objection to going to the draft and bringing him in to further build our already handy talent pool.

Very likely. It’s a bit like Gus Brayshaw last year, kolo has some exposed quality at AFL level but health and injuries have stalled his career. I believe any pick past 30 is a bit of a punt and 34 for a player with his upside is one I’m comfortable with.

have been told trade for our second round pick is basically locked in. Will be done pretty quickly. The first round pick suggestion is a joke. They’re pushing him out the door, and I’m really not sure why.

was told by a drunken port supporter we were keen on chad Wingard.... god I hope his drunken ramblings were just drunken ramblings

We should just set up an automatic voice mail for when the dockers call “5&6 or F off, no negotiation”

Also their horrifically outdated game plan and Ross consistently picking underperforming veterans and wondering why their younger players aren’t developing. I don’t see them playing finals for minimum another 3 seasons even with hogan.

The silly thing about that is May will be 28. He’s not going to get offered a 5 year deal. He would maybe get a 4 year front loaded on pretty good coin which wouldn’t usually guarantee top compo but it is the AFL so they’d get that if it were a 1 year deal