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Bit complicated to figure out - but it ended up being 33 I think.

Gutted :(

I suspect the argument would be that one extra goal a game last year would have made us the highest scoring team in the league - and the 2nd stingiest defence. I think that's the problem though - by aggregate, our scores look fine. They just are so grinding in practise - particularly against...

The only opportunity to get up higher then would be if North were keen on 5+10 for 3. I'd pay it - but I can't see them going for it as they have loads of other decent picks to not have to sacrifice 3. The McKay compo and their concessions together have really screwed our hand.

I'm not so sure - I feel the footy department had a plan for how to deal with this - the board were either required to be briefed or demanded a briefing and walked it back... bold moves do not typically come from boards, they come from an individual who has the agency to make them. As soon as...

They both were uncontracted though - which typically would make a difference, however in this instance I think his contract is far more a negative than a positive for a buyer. It's certainly a hard one to price - particularly with no details of his issues available.

Agreed. Can't see it happening the cost could only be afforded by two maybe three clubs in terms of picks - would need to be two guaranteed top 5 picks or 1 and WCE F1 to make them think about it. Or a team is giving up its own star to do it - can't see that happening either.

That was right for last year but not this year. We won 7 of our last 8 Home and Away games and lost the pivotal final by just 7 points to the eventual premier. We played a both finals with half a forward line - our two match winners down there - one back after a long layoff and the other a...

He'll be worth pick 13 next week at this rate.

9 and McAdam for 13 and 25? I wouldn't have thought McAdam is the piece to make a move up with - but it gives Adelaide the 'usable' piece it's after. Feels a bit light for them still.

10 and 17 is not worth it for GC - as they are high value picks that just get eaten by bids. They're better off with two seconds, a third and a future 1st for pick four... something we'll be more than happy to provide. Take 4, 5 and 15 to the draft or pull an unexpected value trade out.

He's had a few games like that in his career (Adelaide a couple of years ago another example). If that was every third or fourth week, he'd be the best player in the game bar none.

I thought it would be Clarry making that leap this year - he showed glimpses in 2021 of not just being a contested possession and clearance beast - but a few games where he launched us forward and kicked goals. I thought he'd build on that, but he's stagnated on that front...

I get the feeling that with our offensive outs, Goody figured the only way we could win was to scrap and grind. And he was close to being right. I dont know if that will be seen as a good outcome or not... I hope not, that we go back to the half back turnover we played for a bit later in the...

The only way 11 happens (even with change) is if Melbourne covers a bunch of his contract.

Wow. Brayshaw fault for Maynard's reckless attempted smother. Shocking call.

I would do that. I would do it more if North get that juicy compensation that's been floated. We're obviously keen on Reid, but if he's not available then I'd say we're looking at Duursma who the Hawks are also keen on - so we'd be getting ahead of them. We also have a long history of doing...

I agree with Bluelegs - JDGs best is significantly better than Brayshaw, but his career has been lesser - too injured, too patchy, too ratbagy. It's almost Sylvia like. One step up.

I think 15 would likely get replaced by F1, and if it were me, would try to move up 4 to one of North's picks (if they get 2 and 3) with the inclusion of 15 (or at a stretch, 11). If theyre the larger pieces would expect some later picks back. It would be a big price to pay - but Melbourne...

I think Melbourne are likely to go 24, 34 (or whatever the Grundy pick ends up) and F1 to GC for 4. If that gets accepted or wins the bid, then 4 and 5 as an offer to WC for 1. Might include North shuffling if required to get 2 to sate WC. We have 15 and another likely second as well, so we...

GC won't want 10 - gets eaten up. They get better value pushing that for two seconds, one this year and next.

Agreed - finals blow outs happen typically because one side gets completely overawed (2018 PF, 2021 Port PF) or one team breaks the other in a grind part way through the third quarter. Otherwise they're low scoring grinds til the end... Which is good for us.

But that's the rub isnt it? Port don't have a pick in that range - so it either becomes a pick upgrade for Melbourne to your F1 - or Melbourne takes unders on the arguments presented. Even something like your second and fourth probably holds little interest (unless we've bundled a bunch of...

Interesting point youve made. In comparison, Collingwood are also 6-4 against top 8 sides (2-3 against top 4) - but won 4 in a run early in the year (3 against Sydney, GWS and Carlton when they were all awful). Port only played 8 games against fellow finalists (2-2 against top 4) which...

6 of those 10 scores resulted in wins and the there 4 barely hit a combined 20 point margin. We tend to grind other good sides - because your right, our forward line functioned properly for about 2 rounds for the whole season. But in the grind the other team doesn't score either. If we get...

That's not how a cap works. Those long term deals would have been budgeted with those savings you've called out already projected into them. I'm not saying there will be nothing in the tank, but 2m is close to 20% of the cap - which is a significant underspend when you are forced to pay 95 and...

Yep - I think a Melb/WC deal will only happen if Melbourne scrape together a deal for 4 with GC (and so have 4 and.5) and NM don't get pick 3 compensation (but they get the NGA exclusion instead). I'd guess it's 50/50 for those two conditions to occur at this stage. It might need a 3 or 4 club...

Concise.

I was going to post this AND this exact same GIF! Nice work!

I put up the three R1 picks we had last year as a play for Sheezel. Clearly not worth it now with Freos pick tanking - but probably would have pulled the trigger then too. I agree with TK about stars winning your flags - and we need one or two more. Hopefully Pickett becomes one - and packaging...