Ted Lasso

High half forward

Absolutely rapt with this pick up. i reckon he's going to find his way into our team for round 1 and stay there. he's an upgrade on Spargo in every measure, he's got the kicking skills, but he will be 10 times more damaging and will slot more goals

Yes it is, we would trade our future first in a heart beat to upgrade pick 6 to pick 4. our future first is likely to be between 16-18 and after all the academy picks will probably blow out to early 20's the Hawks deal would be extremely compelling because if North don't want Curtin, the Eagles are almost guaranteed to get him.

Very hard thing to read, but does he come accross as a kid who could move to Melbourne and cope okay? if he's there at pick 6 he'd be the obvious choice, but i can only see him sliding because of go home concerns, he's too good to not go in the first few picks otherwsie i'd have thought

Knowing our luck Reid would love the Perth weather and Curtin would hate coffee

I think we should seriously consider Jack Darling. there is almost no doubt he would offer more than BBB or Tmac next year.

Yeah, i tend to agree to be honest, I don't think this one is over. if he does go i wouldn't sign off on less than 10, 14 and McAdam. if we're losing Petty lets at least make sure we get Harley Reid out of it 6,10,11 should get the deal done you'd imagine

Crows will cave, it doesn't benefit them to not trade McAdam when he doesn't want to be there, they're just not going to do it until they're 110% sure that Petty is off the table

your entire point is based on a baseless assumption of what North might or might not do. Pick 2, 15 and 18 North would say yes in 5 seconds flat i suspect, it'd be the Eagles that might knock that back. it sounds like they want 2 in the top 5 Hawthorn have pick 4, and their future first. 4, their future 1 plus Brockman which would trump 6, 11 and our future one fairly comfortably given they're likely to finish bottom 6-7 again next year

I think you'll find that while North Melbourne would love not to give up those picks, they more than likely will give up one of them. i know there is a lot of wishful thinking from the Dees fans on this for obvious reasons, but unless we offered up Van Rooyen or Rivers with our pick 6, i don't think we are any chance of trumping North Melbourne as it stands. Even Hawthorn arguably could put together a strong package that we'd struggle to top. with that in mind, i personally would consider trading Van Rooyen to get in pick 1, i understand he's ultra talented, but i rate Harley Reid as someone who's likely to be a long term top 3 in the comp player, and Van Rooyen is still someone who has a strong pull home and could easily leave in 2025. I know a lot of people won't agree and will be shocked by the suggestion, but i think we need a mini re-set as a club and getting Harley Reid in could make or break future premiership tilts

North Melbourne has 2, 3, 13, 17, 18 and early second rounders plus their future first, a 24 end of first round pick If they want Harley Reid, they will get him

@dazzledavey36 Do you still have a bit to do the the Bushies? What do you think of O'Sullivan and Wilson? are they good lads?

It's just about impossible to see how we get this deal done without offering a player up now.

I think it might be the bloke that wears number 2 that they're looking to offer a large extension to

Would you pay Harry Petty who is currently recovering from a very serious foot injury 800-900k a year? I rate the kid, but no way in the world i'd be spending that sort of money on him

If Harry Petty is being offered money like that i'd expect a formal trade request very soon

I think we kind of knew that though, the reality was to sign anyone close to A grade we would need someone contracted to decide they wanted out, and the club to be willing to do the trade. I do think we're building up a war chest of cap space for next year however and that's when we will be looking to make a splash

I'd like to see us play hard ball, set a price and just refuse to sign off on any other deal. Grundy and 27 for pick 11 or no deal,

i'd do that deal, as much as i rate Harry Petty, always risks coming back from the injury he's got and he did have a few injuries this year, that's a BIG return

i'm absolutely certain we would have asked the question but i think this is a bit like Clayton Oliver to the Blues, you introduce another club as a potential threat to get a better offer.

I think it would be perfectly reasonable to allow a player to nominate a state, but then the team is free to negotiate with all teams of that state for the best deal as long as they meet contractual requirements.

Huge yes, especially if the Saints are chipping in some of his wage, costs nothing and has played some really strong footy at times The Saints sadly haven't been able to develop a lot of the good players they've had come through, JB is one i still think can become a really solid AFL player

A good run with injury and finding our best form at the right time we were a lot closer to the mark in 2023 than we realise and i suspect the FD realises that. we lost, rathar than being beaten

I wonder if you could talk the Giants into a similar deal with bowes. If they upgrade our pick 13 to pick 6, and we take on his Salary given we're opening up some nice cap space I think this could be a smart move given we're clearly not planning a big signing in the next 12 months, he would at the very least provide some experience and depth and we could take on the 1.2 million or whatever it is for next year which would appeal to the Giants we could then dangle 5, 6 and our future first under the Eagles nose and see if we can still prize Harley Reid out of the Eagles

and Trent Rivers in the 30's who could well end up one of the best players out of that draft. his record is incredible especially with later picks