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I don’t know about we. But I certainly did

At least he wanted us enough to have a chat! Any idea what our chances are?

While strictly speaking they’re not wrong, pretty concerning when a professional sporting club is still rocking 50 year old plates haha

Would have thrived at Casey

Let’s make sure they win before we get too excited

Bro was running so fast even his last name got jumbled

We have a gym!?

Chris judds grandma just told me Bailey Humphrey is coming

@dazzledavey36 can you please post a tweet saying that BH has decided to come to Melbourne! Cheers

would you do Trac for Harley Reid or Sam Lalor?

Just to hammer this point home. BH is about the same age and upside as Harley Reid only he's done more, and done it in bigger games. If he nominates us, get his signature as fast as we possibly can and anything else is an absolute bonus.

say "Now we'll take Rowell too if you wanna start that rubbish."

AND the Saints will almost certainly pay a big chunk of his wages. it'd be nice to get some benefit from their spending spree.

Gotta give you some players to put in your best 22's big fella ;)

Totally. just sign it before they realise.

Nah gotta be greedy! they're stealing Trac. they can give me ALLL THEIR PICKS

I'd go further. if Humphrey wants to come with us, i'm asking for him plus pick 6. Trac is an established pro, BH is a talented young player who hopes to develop into a Trac level player.

Also worth noting pick 7 and 17 will actually end up something like pick 11 and pick 22

I’d be happy to give pick 23 to any club willing to pick up his entire contract

I would prefer the picks to be honest. Hardline that we want 6 and 7, even if we send something else back. This gives us 6 top 12 picks in the last 3 years which is a great start to a rebuild and then bank 3 mil in cap space. Give King 12 months to clean the joint up and then a war chest to hit the free agency market. we could bring in a combo of Bailey and Butters into an already exciting group. I love Humphrey, but i just can't fathom why a GCS all in on a flag would let him go.

The issue is the only things we have to offer him right now are money and his relationship with Steven King. which i mean Dimma has already coached him longer than king did so that's overstated. I don't want us to go full St Kilda and offer anyone that isn't an established superstar level player superstar money, but i feel that's the only way someone like Humphrey is going to consider us.

I don't think that's correct. It's a thin draft pool, but there is talent there. the issue is if there are 40 good prospects, maybe 15 of them are tied to other clubs or clubs will get bonus picks due to compo and such I don't think the issue is the talent pool so much as the AFL has scored a huge own goal in compromising the draft with so many academies and rules that give clubs free access to players. the draft, especially the first round needs to be absolutely free from compromise or the bottom sides are fighting a losing battle

I’ll apologise in advance because I’ll misquote him but Tim lamb said something to the effect of us not really being interested in this years draft in his most recent interview where he essentially echoed Guerra word for word on trac. I walked away thinking there is no way we’d accept a deal without a player involved

Food for thought. It’d be a waste of time, money and effort for BH to meet with any Victorian teams without the suns approval, because if they’re going to hardline no, it doesn’t matter who he’s spoken to. My guess is the suns recognise he’s the one who could unlock the real, might leave anyway and they might not get another shot at someone like petracca in the short term so they might sacrifice BH I wouldn’t do it if I was them, but they know him and have all the intel and if he’s really homesick or wanted to leave anyways maybe it works okay

Correct and it makes the fascinating case study of how to approach a modern regeneration. the saints have gone with a 5.1 million dollar spending spree to top up their list We’ve gone the other way with a 3.2-4.3 million dollar salary dumping process and the step back to go forward approach. It’ll be really interesting to check back in 5 years and see which worked and which didn’t