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It's murky until you realise all the traded players on the list were originally top draft prospects too, and two of them were traded for early draft picks, on big contracts. That they were eventually traded is immaterial to the fact that you aren't getting these guys without committing...

If there was only 8 slots the difference in valuation, one would think that there's obvious far fewer key forwards available in any draft, and considering we apparently "just miss out" on the key forwards we rate every year after expending our top picks on mediocre midfielders who don't pan out...

They didn't prioritise it in last year's draft, preferring to take a fairly middling midfielder/flanker at their first pick and then just wait around for all of the key forwards they rated to get selected before their second pick. From a behind the scenes on draft night for us last year: "If...

I literally cannot fathom how someone has watched Derek Hine and the list management team operate in the past two decades and still thinks that they'll go get a key forward simply for the reason that we desperately need one. We'll do nothing and be told that there's no good key forwards in...

That's as high praise as you can get.

That 3 of those goals were against us in Rd 1 2022 - Best game of his career, seems to convince people more than you'd think if a player's best game was against your team.

Seems fairly obvious that they coached him to say that he "insisted" on going back out there after he was hurt, to try to absolve themselves of responsibility.

Stupid to dig into him after the free though - It doesn't look like the umpire reversed the free, but you could tell he was very close to doing so.

If anything it should be the other way around, where there's ONLY compensation for UFAs, not RFAs. GWS could claim that they deserve compensation for Perryman as a UFA leaving because there is nothing they can do to stop him. As it currently stands, if Perryman was a RESTRICTED free agent...

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Except that the cap has gone up by more than 25% since then, so it's not even remotely as significant a contract... And the numbers you've given aren't what he's actually getting.

If by "offloading" you mean taking advantage of broken free agency compensation rules, I guess you're right.

The cap has gone up by 25%, and this contract is 25% higher, so it's essentially the same as the McStay contract.

They also have no idea what we can actually afford, or the ways that we can structure the deal to reduce the impact of the extra money that's functionally a free agency signing bonus.

A wizard.

12, 20 and Richards for Houston would probably get it done, but I don't think I'd want to do that.

The Dogs weren't interested in retaining Lipinski, nor were they particularly optimistic about his chances of playing senior footy with them. We have an offer on the table for Richards that we recently increased. Our primary intention is to retain him and play him in our best 22. That makes...

I think Wil Parker is a big one - He was literally still playing cricket until the end of preseason last year, and still looked quite good at times. I think his level of performance is one of the things they're counting on to be able to cover the loss of Noble at half back.

3/4 were spuds - One of them was Deledio, who was a jet in his prime, which unfortunately did not coincide with Richmond being any good at all.

Elliott isn't a good comparison because he wasn't even drafted - He was a pre-selection precisely because he was an overager playing for the Bushrangers. So it wouldn't be an accurate comparison age-wise until McGuane is entering his second season. Bianco was too one paced, and despite seeming...

There's not 75 great players in this draft. A strong draft means that it's two full rounds deep. And we're talking about guys who are on the rookie list, so obviously their spots are completely irrelevant to this "strong draft". "Shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic" refers to something...

What is this going to cost us in terms of opportunities? It doesn't stop us from doing anything else we might do, and you're acknowledging it's an upgrade, so why would we not do it?

Unless we are flat broke and unable to get the deal done, in a year when we have no first round pick and we're bringing back a lot of older players, going hard after a free agent who can make us better in 2025 is nothing but sensible. Saving the money until we're bereft of options and our...

Well, it was a tribute to Winmar AND a rebuke of vile racist comments that he had received, which had nothing to do with Collingwood.

Bobby Hill had no hesitation coming here and has thrived. Times have definitely changed.

Even being half-Mick it's surprising. There's no way to rule out divine intervention.

With all due respect to Mick McGuane, and he was a magnificent player - I was at the Carlton game where he took that infamous run... But it is an absolute miracle that his children look the way they do considering who their father is.

It never was, nobody ever should have thought it was, and if anyone thinks that professional AFL coaches and assistants can't discern another team's game plan by watching them play and going over tape, then they're a moron who doesn't understand how the game works. Footy IP is only as useful...

I remember people during this very season claiming that we should draft Patrick Farrant from our VFL side because he might be able to kick goals at AFL level, despite not being consistent at VFL level and not being KPF size. I hope every last person who considered that a good idea is in favour...

Yes, 16 year olds are famous for being unable to put on any weight from that point forward.