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Although I'm already familiar with the Gunston comparisons does a forward like Gunston prove as valuable without the necessary ingredients in the forward line that help him thrive in the first place? Does Gunston have the same output without players like Buddy, Roughead, McEvoy to help ease the...

After seven seasons, the apprenticeship is finally over for Joel. Last year, he finally cracked double digits for games played in a single season and went even better by notching up 25, playing all but one game in a deep finals campaign. The reason I write this is because it was clear Joel had...

Almost 23 come round 1, five seasons in, I expect a little bit more than 'steady improvement' of a top 5 draft pick to be honest. Is that necessarily fair? Possibly not but we do build our cap around players like Logan and get charged a premium for having top-five draft picks on the list when...

If you look at our list and the best 25 players from last year, then he absolutely has to be one of the biggest improvers over the summer if we are any hope of solidifying our top 4 status well into the future. We don't have a danger man inside 50 yet and Amartey's consistency is still...

Andrew's wingspan and jump more than makes up for his perceived lack of height. I've been saying this for years but I wish footy followed in basketball's footsteps of measuring and listing a player's wingspan, particularly for the medium and tall forwards. It's part of what makes players like...

I forgot, Joel Cochran was a tall prospect. We don't go for those.

Oh my!

Having calmed down a bit since the live picks, I don't mind the players we've taken but I'm still miffed that we didn't go for a tall. Dattoli looks like he could play a role for the present while Bowman is definitely a player for the future. The former seems to have plenty of footy nous...

When you have the swag of picks that the Tigers have you can reach from wherever you like. Our key talls are all questionable and we needed to use one of those picks on a big. The melting is justified.

If I hear from Kinnear one more time that, “we didn’t rate this year’s talls” I’ll jump off a f*cking bridge!

Jonty close to worst on ground in front of the mic. He and Brody would have never got along.

Dammit, I was almost convinced Faull was heading our way.

It looks like the key talls will really shape the second half of the first round. I hope we take a tall with our first pick and hopefully it's not our least favourite left standing. I'd be very curious to know what order the Swans would rank Shanahan, Armstrong, the Whitlock twins, Faull and...

Don't know how good Mark Blicavs was during his junior footy career before he decided to focus on his athletics but if Cochran has the same desire to learn and develop like Blicavs did we could certainly end up with a similar type of prospect. Tom McCartin still has his deficiencies and is prone...

I thought I heard through the grape vine that Weddle was playing the Archie Perkins card with non-Victorian clubs. Not much you can do if a bloke spells it out that he doesn’t want to go there.

Yeah no thanks, if I wanted to hear this rubbish I would have stayed in hospitality and kept serving the pricks that spoke to people just like this. Any logic, constructive criticism or counter argument you may have in relation to my post is completely tainted by the drivel that you packaged it...

Ultimately, we have to make North’s pick count to alleviate any of the concern. We spent $350K of cap space for a second round pick so clearly Kinnear values the depth in this draft or has plans to keep dealing on draft night, potentially for next year’s draft?

Descent or ascent?

Probably more in the ‘way forward’ thread. However, our GF performance certainly does make one evaluate the shape and composition of the team and overall list leading into the draft. Otherwise, we’re doomed of repeating the cycle…again.

Sadly for us it wasn’t a great vintage which is just the way the cookie crumbles unfortunately. Campbell got top 10 billing because of his day out in the futures game before COVID wiped out most of the next season. Campbell was probably more in the teens range which can be very hit and miss at...

Lions were down by 44 points against the Giants and flicked a switch, we didn't. Anything can happen in football. Look at Richmond's last home and away game in 2016. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/match-centre/AFL20162306 Anything can happen in football.

I think they'll look at the makeup of the midfield and forward line and move some magnets around to see if the team is better equipped to handle and respond to potential blow outs. I hope the list management team is ruthless enough in their pursuit of a big forward that they'd be prepared to...

Probably what a lot of Lions fans thought after last year's defeat to Collingwood. Brisbane had been in the mix for a number of years but couldn't get over the hump. Now it's our turn to overcome the same narrative. We have the talent to be premiers but we have to get our mindset right to reach...

We stuffed up a COVID draft, it happens. Konstanty did more for the club than most will ever value though. Without him, Mills wouldn't have had to surrender his midfield time to Heeney and then we wouldn't have one of the best players in the comp playing in his rightful position!

Sad Parker couldn’t leave with a premiership medal around his neck and 300 games notched on the locker but it doesn’t change what he did for the club. Ultimately, putting emotion to the side, it’s the right decision for both player and club to part ways. Gives our depth players more of a sniff...

Correlation does not necessarily equal causation. For what it’s worth, I do think we could use a fresh outlook on the football program once Horse’s contract expires. But the first thing we should be exploring is Sheldrick and Cleary in the middle for a point of difference.

I think this is one of our most emotive threads. How much can a coach influence the players winning the ball at the coalface? Motivation is important but at the end of the day it’s on the players to perform and we folded again.

You’re not gonna believe which style of footy I prefer…

Game day baby! I joined this forum six years ago to investigate who we might be picking in the upcoming draft as it felt like the end of an era in many respects. Now here we are, back again, on the biggest stage. Obviously the talent was there two years ago but the side has matured...

Plenty of Swans merch on at the airport. Go the Bloods!