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From the Brisbane website: On the surface the Academy exists solely to provide draftable athletes to the AFL/W programs, however it is much more than that. As well as providing draftable talent, we also exist to keep the best talent in Queensland, to develop athletes to better the standard of...

I get that attitude, I'm not a fan of paying players to play against us. Reminds me of

Rivers has been officially announced (buried on https://www.afl.com.au/news/1223072/inside-trading-hawk-on-swans-radar-giant-weighs-up-new-home-saints-bolster-coaching-ranks). Wonder if one of Goddard or Harves will get parachuted into the Sandringham vacancy. SAINTS ADD TO COACHING RANKS...

I'd like us to channel our inner Bidney, definitely bid on Lombard if he's still available, can always have a go at Kako and Marshall too.

Pick 27 last year - was originally Gold Coast's future second rounder, traded to Adelaide in 2022 in a draft night pick trade, went back to Gold Coast as part of the Burgess deal last year. Funnily enough was then traded to us draft night and turned into Hastie.

They'll do a Gold Coast from last year and line up a few live trades for draft night using future picks. That's where we got the Hastie pick from

Easier to talk about us than say something nice about their own club

This is probably going to look worse over time given Essendon gave up the pick that was used on Mannagh.

So basically the pick GWS gave us for sliding back one spot last year, I'm okay with that. If we can convince them to make it a future, even better.

Hopefully future second special

Depends when the B&F's were won, player wins them during lean times then it's understandable.

Carlton had two swings at the top 10 and walked away with Dow and Lachie O'Brien. Unfortunately they picked up De Koning at 30 to save a little face.

Future 3rd - we need our picks this year

If Crouch really is that cooked, Macrae strikes me as a decent replacement

Van Es being delisted makes recruiting Cole a certainty.

Especially since we went shopping for runners last year and did pretty damn well

Houston's a quality player but it's a classic case of "is the juice worth the squeeze". Is a high quality player in a position where we're already well stocked worth the one or two high draft picks, that's a no for me. Wrong age bracket, too high a cost, too little addressing of needs.

So I'm gonna guess Pick 1 - Richmond takes Finn O'Sullivan Pick 2 - North does a pick split with Gold Coast. North get 6 and multiple sweeteners (depending on what survives trades), GC get 2 and some lower order picks to help with the Lombard bid. Could be one of those pre-arranged trades at...

Think it was more a combination of perceived talent and belief we could hang onto him - he was high enough on our draft board that we would've taken him with our first pick had the dominoes fallen differently. After all we managed to hang onto Nas and pry academy product Henry out of Freo.

I'd really love us to try to pull off a Stocker style trade - talk to one of the top 4 about swapping firsts next year (so we keep a spot in the first round) and get their current first. See if anyone's counting on us to plummet - unlikely but possible

Currently the Hawks. The idea of his brother subsequently joining us is an entertaining one - if we thought the Freo board melted at Henry leaving...

Happens more than you'd think in drafts, clubs decide they have a higher priority than a slider, especially when there's a big question mark. Joel Selwood, Brodie Grundy, Charlie Curnow, Tim English, Matthew Johnson, Daniel Curtain last year.

We can but they have to agree - it's rare (eg: Monfries) but has happened before. Problem is if they decide they want more.

Gold Coast will definitely be looking to move those on, no way they survive a Lombard bid.

When I spoke to Schoey at a club function a month ago he said Ross is getting him to play more on smalls than talls - he's not seen as a third tall internally

It could've worked out brilliantly for us if we'd read the tea leaves successfully and picked up Grundy instead of Lee or Hickey. It was a very average draft but overall we've done as well as anyone out of it - we scooped up Membrey and Mase from other clubs and got a little service out of...

Speculation, frustration, consternation, conversation, constipation

We got lucky with Nas in that Mason Wood worked his magic to convince him to stay, he very easily could have already yoyoed back to SA. As the wise man says: Better lucky than good.

It's possible AFL is being the bad guy on our behalf. Makes us look less petty that it's the big bad AFL House saying no.