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That’s Haggas ’s 2027 draft early rankings and is obviously just where he sees it at the moment. I’ve been saying for a little while how Abbonizio and Walsh rate highly but as far as I know we don’t have any 2027 NGAs who could be considered in the top 50. ROYAL EAGLE might be able to provide a...

There’s going to be a huge market for him if Oscar chooses to explore FA. How acceptable compensation is will obviously depend on our finishing position. Personally I don’t think Oscar will want to leave provided we offer him a decent contract. If he’s open to a move to Victoria you’d think the...

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The other question of Duursma is which position is he playing to crack the top 5? If we’re talking bout versatility sure, but otherwise I agree 6-10 is more his range to date. I like your top 5, I’d leave Onley out until he (hopefully) improves his kicking and I think Sam Cumming is going to get...

They have one promising young ruck developing and zero young KPPs apart from McDonald who is hardly setting the world on fire. If Sydney don’t ask for an unmatched Oscar FA offer as part of a potential Warner deal they are f**king nuts.

Swans missing Gulden, Mills, McDonald, first game under a new coach and their forward line looked totally dysfunctional. This game said more about Sydney than it did about Hawthorn for mine. Hawthorn will be a good team but let’s take a breath before announcing them as premiers.

Phil I see your argument but I don’t think we’re as flush as it seems. Allan and Ginbey will start there but at some point will likely move up the ground, Hough and Grego are possibly in the same boat. With 3+ NGAs/FS plus 5 picks list spots are going to be tight, is Tom Cole guaranteed to be...

Jamie Cripps is still available

Hadn’t considered Hough in that role but if he played it better than Stinger you’d take that every day of the week. 👍 Whatever role Hough settles with, Starc would give him a chance to be more than a lock down defender. A couple of reports thst Starc wants to play midfield too, perhaps there’s...

I’d be reluctant too, Barnett cops a bit more than he deserves on here. Our midfield is so young and light in depth that I think we’d just need to balance up losing a player like Barnett with growth left vs making sure we give our mids a chance of getting first hands to the footy. Going to be a...

Petch, along with Cole and Hunt are all free agents, we can’t offer them per se. Best case scenario we get a band 4 offer which would be a pick in the late 30s. More likely would be band 5 which would probably end up early 40s. Agree on Cameron, someone mentioned Soldo before. I’d happily trade...

Agreed, Hough is too good to spend his career playing as a lock down defender. More attacking HBF or even a wing might suit him. If Oscar goes, Brisbane would be an ideal landing spot as we can work a trade in our favour with the Lions for Starcevich as to not dilute the Oscar compo whilst not...

Walsh looks a huge talent, would love to see him developed as a KPP but at 201cm at that age he’s probably going to be played in the ruck. Have you seen any of the U16s champs footage?

Our 1R and late picks (4R+/rookie) have been very good over the journey. It’s the 2R and 3R that we’ve been absolutely terrible and I think some recent selections in that zone will continue that pattern.

Agree with all this, had we kept the two teens picks I would have liked Murphy Reid as a pure mid and Harrison Oliver as the HBF you described, there seems to be one each draft: 2024-Harrison Oliver 2025-Josh Lindsay 2026-Garrison Kenh

Strong decision.

Further to Keys post here’s a summary. Pretty good for a little over a week out from our first game.

If Allen does want to go to the Lions and Starcevich wants to come home the Lions can simply match the bid then the clubs can do a trade heavily in our favour. The compo pick via FA would likely be tied to Brisbane’s 2R so could do a 2027 F2 and F3 for Starcevich and get our 3R back and don’t...

I’d be happy to let Petch, Hunt and Cole explore free agency, even if we got band 4/5 for all of them they are most likely picks around 40. Sydney will be after points in a Warner trade and they could be very useful. GCS will also be looking to get as many points as they can from their early...

Except for Adam Heuskes, who was measured in stilettos.

Excellent. Less money to throw at WA players that may be returning home.

I believe the argument NM put to the AFL was that Sanders qualified for their NGA as he was in the NM Tasmanian zone before he was 15 but it got shut down due to COVID. Had it remained open, they argued he would have been signed up as it only re-opened in 2023...

Even just not talking I’d be happy with

We’ll be offering Warner close to $1.5m x 6 IMO. Jackson is on about 900k/year.

Warner’s for next year? Not even close. This year Jackson is probably on a bit more

I’m confident a deal will be done, let’s revisit it later in the year. 👍

Darling must have done more rucking than I gave him credit for. Still our best player. Despite the 3 extra ruck contests on those numbers Flynn still hade a better %HTA than Xerri. As you say Flynn’s acquisition was supposed to be a tap ruckman and apart from going nuts in a couple of bursts...

This is the stat that actually matters in terms of the ruck contest itself. Flynn would have attended less ruck contests to so his %HOA would be better too.