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Yeah reckon we’ll look to draft one cheap-ish project KPF and recruit one cheap mature KPF. Reckon we’ll also ultimately see Turray as a KPF and pursue Smith, Heath, Knobel, or even Reidy for ruck coverage.

Yeah, if we truly see Turray as a ruck first and foremost we could be entering 2026 with Fogarty, Thilthorpe, Welsh as our only KPF. If we liken Welsh to Gollant, that’s like losing three KPF (Walker, Himmelberg, and Burgess). I’m guessing we’ll take 2-3 KPF next offseason.

ROB is getting on, so we’ve left developing a ruck from scratch too late. The ideal strategy would be getting ONE ruck that simultaneously serves as short term competition/coverage for ROB and a long term replacement. Someone like Heath or Smith.

Interesting to see the Rat only signed at Port for one year despite already having that one year to play out at Gold Coast. Shame we couldn’t do similar with Chris Burgess.

Like Milera, I think this board forgets how effective he was in 2023, particularly in helping us transition the ball. It’s great we now have depth in the outer area - I think Jones & Milera both probably have to prove their fitness in the SANFL first though.

That is partly my point, the post I was replying to suggested Butts was not required because we already have a 1v1 defender in Murray.

You could just as well argue we already have the playmaker interceptor role sorted through Worrell. I rate a fully fit Butts slightly above Keane but I think whoever plays ultimately comes down to match ups.

I feel like heat maps of low disposal counts don’t tell the full story - we definitely played him in a deep McAdam-esque role for parts of the season. And if we assume he was truly roaming, he’s still not accumulating. We either need to directly feed him more or accept he’s unlikely to make it.

The issue isn’t exactly ROB himself. It’s that we have no genuine ruck competition to hold ROB accountable to form.

Inclined to agree. Really liked the one game he played in 2023 where he played higher up the ground but we seemed to relegate him to half forward a lot more this year. Would be curious to see him in a role where he’s constantly fed the ball off half back but he’s probably too flakey on the...

Reckon we were more desperate for him to make it as a midfielder this time last year (which, while his ceiling, was always a bit of a stretch). Since then, we’ve had Rankine, Soligo, Peatling and Draper added to the midfield core. We’re now far less desperate for Pedlar to hit his ceiling...

Oppo mids loved to peel off Crouch and (especially) Laird, forcing them to actually move the ball themselves rather than feed others. They’ll be shooting themselves in the foot if they try that with Draper.

Think they’re especially overblown with our current midfield mix. Draper doesn’t need to be a great user when he’s surrounded by Rankine, Dawson, and Soligo.

This surely confirms Cumming will take 13 once Tex retires.

100%. If we want Rankine mainly playing midfield, it only increases our need for a forward that can kick goals and attack ground balls with speed, burst and evasiveness.

We didn’t have to delist Gollant for Welsh: in fact I think Gollant would have been better to keep on for 2025 than Burgess, and it’d have been an even stranger call to rate Burgess higher than Gollant in the 2023 offseason. The real kicker of the Burgess signing wasn’t that he was poor depth...

Last year he requested a trade to GWS but they never came for him this year. We could have easily retained Himmelberg until it became apparent we (rightfully) needed an extra list spot open for Peatling, a squeeze partly brought on by bringing in a VFL standard player. If Burgess was truly our...

This is something I’ve seen brought up a couple times now when I question our lack of one year contracts. Geelong and Collingwood both have 21 players coming OOC in 2025. We started this year with 14 players coming OOC and start 2025 with 13 players. It’s not about offering short contracts so...

IIRC we had a two year offer on the table for Himmelberg but retracted it late in the season (which lines up with us suddenly believing Peatling was gettable and needing the vacant list spot). From that narrative, it seems like our list squeeze and signing of Burgess directly caused us to lose...

Happy with retaining Schoenberg, Borlase, Strachan and Cook if we’ve exhausted other options, the issue is the multi-year deals mean we can’t explore other options. Were there seriously other clubs offering two-year deals? I don’t think it’s revisionism to say even in 2023 a Crossley type...

Fit and “playing with full confidence” are two different things, especially in Milera’s case. If we can get him playing a consistent patch with confidence then he’s certainly best 22.

It was a crows jumper that had the number pressed after selection. I suspect it was big as they weren’t sure whether we’d take Langford or Draper.

I agree - I think (whether we like it or not) all those players will be tried in a half forward role. If any are playing significant midfield minutes (mainly looking at Draper here) it would mean a fair bit of rotating Rankine, Dawson, Soligo, Peatling elsewhere.

I think his competition is more likely Draper, Taylor, Curtin, Dowling, Berry. I see three spots for them, including a sub role.

I know I'll get shout at for this but I can see Curtin starting the year out of the side and I won't hate it so long as we're developing him in an attacking position that utilises his weapons properly. Right now, if we don't want Draper in that half forward graveyard spot, we need to accommodate...

Our entire team sucked in that opening month and, unlike others, his season was derailed before he had a fair chance of redeeming himself. The role for a dynamic goal-sneak is there for the taking in our forward-line. If Pedlar can stay fit and recapture his 2023 form, he's good enough for it...

Bit unfair. Saints bidding on Kako wouldn’t be a reach, and they may have very well done it to screw Essendon over had they held onto the pick.

I get wanting to disadvantage Brisbane, but if they’re paying less for him it disadvantages several clubs with later picks. From a purely competitive perspective, we’d wanna disadvantage more clubs, no?

I know this post is tongue in cheek but I don’t see why we’d bid on Ashcroft. We won’t benefit from late picks being moved up. Yes it’d be benefitting Brisbane but it’d be disadvantaging several other clubs.

Sadly it's pronounced "ow" :(