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Plus Vanders!

Nice prediction of Weideman and Oliver. How prophetic!

Petracca, Brayshaw, Salem, Hogan.

Leaving us with Curnow?

Missing pre-season with OP makes me think of Colin Sylvia. To think we were punting a Premiership with him and Brock Maclean as two top five picks. We thought at the time that they were the top mids in the draft.

YES it was as we drafted Cook, Watts and Molan whereas we traded in D, P & C from other Clubs, which was your suggested strategy in picking up established KPPs. It was our fault if we made bad choices and/or failed to develop their potential.

Are you seriously comparing these three with Hogan (who has three years in our system, two under Roos)?

Like Pederson, Dawes and Clarke! I'd rather develop our own like Hogan.

We were always going to swap picks 3 and 10 from the Gold Coast for an exchange which involved our pick 6. They were going to retain a pick ahead of pick 10 (6) and the later exchange with GWS which landed us 7, merely bought the picks closer together. I am sure that we discussed the exchanges at length with both GC and GWS before each Club signed off!

Don't you think that our FD discussed this at length when GC agreed to exchange picks 3 and 6? I am sure that we came to an understanding as to who we both were going to target. (Not so confident about Essendon playing ball though!)

That would leave us with neither Curnow or Weideman (contrary to every single Phantom draft that is going around).

Hopefully they take WEIDEMAN and Francis, leaving us CURNOW!

Remember we are pick 7.

I just like the idea of us beating Collingwood on the Queen's Birthday by a point through a goal kicked by WEIDEMAN after the siren!

Are we fully committed on pick 25 (vs. pick 29)? According to this morning's paper, it still adopts the wording of 'a second round pick' suggesting that we can utilise 29 and retain 25. Also, I cannot see why we cannot use 50 to get Bugg and either utilise 25 in the draft or use it on another player such as Plowman or Tomlinson (both of whom seem to be up for grabs)!

As Bonkers points out, over the last two years (post Roos) we have utilised our top ten picks to gain four long-term players who will represent our future going forward. None seem to be duds. I trust our recruiters to make the right call again this year, whether it be Parish, Francis or Curnow!

With us it's usually in the last two hours!

So what do you think of a straight swap (without steak knives)?

Aren't we doing a straight swap for Dawes (who reportedly is out the door)? Seems like he would be handy for them with Carlisle going! If we hadn't been so hasty to delist Fitzy, then he could have been added for steak knives.

With Jones and Tyson for depth!

Did it occur to anyone that he may just not be one of the 34 players? Does anybody know for sure? In any event I am sure that the MFC and other Clubs dealing with Essendon players will have pretty creative escape clauses.

Does anybody know whether he was one of the 34 doing drugs? Maybe there isn't a problem (but in any advent I am sure negotiations would cover it)!

My advice today from a very good MFC source is that Watts is going nowhere. The fact that his image (along with Hogan's) is offered by the Club one of the options for the 2016 membership card seems to support this advice.

Despite all the posts about Watts being traded the MFC offers Watts (along with Hogan, Tyson, Brayshaw and Jones) as one of the limited options for player images that members can have printed on their 2016 membership cards. Do you really think that they would promote this option if they were planning to trade him? (On the other hand, Howe isn't offered as an option!)

Unless you are Sir James Hird ($1Million holiday in France)!