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Oscar Allen. Throw the universe at him

19 years old. We potentially have 15 more years of this man.

As someone who has lived in the UK for most of the last 7 years and has had to live through waking up at 4am most weekends to watch us get pumped - it sure is nice to have a sense of excitement back in watching the football club I love each week.

Good. Create competition for spots and depth in position through the AFL and VFL and in a position that means Charlie is least likely to get injured. We can always swing him forward at a later stage, but we're in effect rolling the dice on a number of later speculative picks (Dawson Chom Pink...

Good luck. I'm sure you're about to get a measured response in return....

Is there anyone that you think is worth picking up from a KP forward perspective. Would you trade up for instance to get A.Reid? It feels like the most glaring hole in the list, particularly if Comben goes back, but at the same time I don't think there's any point in taking a forward just for...

It's not like they've slotted Reuben Ginbey there at 1. Ashcroft is a bloody good player, who had a bloody good first season before getting injured. Sure he was part of a really good midfield, but he was more than holding his own whilst he was there. We have to remember we bid on him ahead of...

Ok - but Brady was list manager of the Eagles at the time; so under his watch he got an AA and premiership winning small forward with Pick 26.

Yeah....but what ''AFL qualities'' does he have other than his ability to win clearances and contested ball, up there with many of the AFL's best at comparable stages of their career, fantastic tackling desire and ability (e.g. being the leading tackler and pressure acts player on the ground on...

Flog? 3 time Syd Barker Medalist who gave his all for the club. Just cause you may not think he's great as his job doesn't warrant that sort of stuff - particularly against a club legend.

Excellent inside 50 kick from Phillips. Looking forward to the balanced commentary.

For mine that middle stretch of the year when he was winning clearances at will was enough of a glimmer for me of a pure footballing attribute. It's one of the hardest skills in the game. To get 8 clearances in your 20th game shows me there's something to work with (and backing it up with 5...

I agree in that it's frustrating when you look at some good drafts (say 2018) and think "we should be getting a Max King" with pick 4. My challenge to you is on all available information now and given how everyone has performed across three years, who would you pick in that top 20 ahead of him...

He was decent. The issue is that he's clearly lacking a fitness base and gets pushed off the ball - which is probably owing to the fact he's not had a fill pre-season in the afl given he had a debilitating illness that sets any fitness or strength base to nil. History would show people with one...

Took an Uber to the Oval so I could watch the last quarter of our debacle in the West rather than miss it in the tube. Got one session of cricket before having to go home. What a day

Can we go all in on Oscar Allen. Pick 2 + + Exactly what we need

Really good point. The fact as well is that we save (assuming we'd match the offer) - a decent amount of cap space that we can bank. The idea then is to use that growing warchest in the free agency market in a few years time plus the bonus of pick 3. No brainer for me. Let him go if band one...

Absolutely immense. What a midfield core we are building; each complementing one another. There is something to be said that he does need to improve his kicking a bit over the upcoming seasons particularly to allow him to execute some of the kicks he's trying to pull off. Not sure it's ever...

Do you rate Moor Souup? He came in with big wraps this year, but interesting he hasn't broken through the Glenelg setup? Do you see Watson's height as being an issue at all as he transitions to AFL - particularly in spurts through the midfield?

It's interesting. The AFL rules dictate that an injury doesn't count to the overall interchange cup number. Shiels (interchange 76) clearly comes off with cramp. Who makes the call whether that player is ''injured''; and is cramp even an injury, that would then make Liam not subject to the...

You don't sound like a TruRoo at all....

The good thing here is that if we acknowledge Larkey is our number one key forward for the future, we're only talking about us needing the acquire a second key forward. That's also not considering we invested heavily in Edwards and CCJ recently as well - both of whom could be seen to be that...

Really really bloody good. There wouldn't be much of a make weight Port would offer if we got him. He'd complement the team extremely nicely. We'd be doing very well to get a top 10 pick on top of him.

Adelaide also absolutely has currency to get this trade done. Give me a combo of a couple from Rachele/Thilthorp/Berry and next years first any day of the week.

Gutted with the decision from Jason. At some point - I hope the club takes a step back; and reflects on what it could have done better to keep JHF, and ensures that we don't make the same mistakes. To point it only on a poor decision from him is too myopic. We need to figure out what went wrong...

And maybe it's Port's 8, Port's first next year and the Amon compo; with the Amon compo (plus a little bit more probably) going back to St Kilda.

This is much too simplistic a way of looking at it. You would need to look at the recent history of early KP picks (Schache, Patton, McCartin, Boyd (mitigating reasons), McDonald, Thilthorpe. JUH) - and the relative % hit rate to them becoming even top 20-30 forwards in the game. The Kings and...

Lot of talk about our list of needs, and that midfielders are lower on that list. We finished 17th in inside 50s this year. Bottom 8 for clearances. Absolutely spanked across the park nearly every week in any key midfield metric. There's still plenty of work to do, and a lot of speculation on...

How has El Nour kicked on post the mid-season Souup? Worth a pick up a bit later on (to potentially sure up the defensive stocks)?

Taking our blue and white coloured glasses off....it's not too far off - albeit LDU being very stiff Naughton is the best young forward in the game. Brayshaw was just voted by his players as the best player in the comp. Sam Taylor just won AA honours, and is the best key defender in the...