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Yeah free agent fair call, makes sense. 2 firsts even for an out of contract still seems to rely on us being an average team to some degree.

How though? With a pick 10 next year and futures? Means we're paying 9, 10, 17 for Bolton and expecting to get another big name in with a heap less to trade with. I know there's lots of moving parts each year but doesn't quite fit.

What's the logic to giving up all 3 firsts (at least 1 extra) for cap space? Means we either can't afford him (which brings a fair bit of risk), or we're trying to preserve cap space, which we can't use anyway with all our key assets gone?

Yeah makes sense why you would price him like that, just makes him less attractive paying 9 & 10 comparatively for mine.

Agree with this. Although pickett feels expensive in comparison to the other options, so I'd almost bump Petracca if his medical is fine.

Where do we sit then in terms of preference to start next year? If we try blend Ras in to that role, it keeps Johnson as the 5th mid and splitting time off a wing. Alternatively if Johnson is the way forward we prioritise him, lose a bit of defensive balance, but perhaps as importantly there's...

I thought Switta was excellent tonight. One bad miss stung, barely put a foot wrong outside of it. Wouldve thought in a season on the line type game tonight he'd be one that gets a big tick.

JLo let slip (confirm) that Darcy will be in for knee surgery? I thought the question was will Treacy and Darcy need surgery, and it was Treacy wouldve been available for two weeks, Darcy umm not sure..

The wing was the 'send the kpd to the front edge of the square late in the game to play fwd' move, rather than actually play wing, but agree was interesting that he was the one they decided to roll.

More props to him then, as his workrate remained incredible with year on the line the last couple.

I think there's enough data to suggest there's not equal chance 9, 10 and 15 (or whatever they end up at) wash out or improve the best 22. That's like saying we shouldn't trade for Bolton because he might suffer a career threatening injury.

Yep. I'd love to see the list modelling on what we might look like if we went to the draft. I suspect in a perfect world there'd be an argument that just maxxing talent with our age profile extends the timeline to remain a top 4 squad, opens up future list management moves, giving us best...

They're still related though. If we've got no forward targets on the horizon our interest in bridging the gap between our offer and rival offer increases. If we've got multiple targets and cap space gets tight then we draw the line somewhere.

We've been linked to McDonald, Baker, Warner, Bolton. I'd say there's every chance Sturt can attract a decent offer from the east coast and we're not sure how far we want to stretch pending other targets?

What do you see his role being next year if hypothetically Warner came?

Was about to post same. Pretty big stretch to say they're the same profile.

What was the play today instead of subbing Fyfe? Like if the Tabs subbing messed our structure, the Fyfe sub was as good as we could do keeping our structure in tact. Drizz basically had to come in to the midfield. We desperately needed some run and carry through there. It was either sub Fyfe...

I'm sticking to plenty of positives. Brayshaw was enormous today. We've been questioning our leadership, our pressure on the ball, he brought that in spades today. Led us in CP, all but led us in clearances and score involvements, and maybe most importantly had a season high pressure act number.

To be fair its hard to plan for your KPD going lazy handover / caught napping, then giving away a 50, then watching cadman run away and float across the pack to go down 3 goals straight up.

We got beaten by a top 4 side away from home, missing three key planks, and we absolutely took them to the wire. We gave everything today and we're close. Frustrating, but gee, how could anyone say they were disappointed with our effort and/or pessimistic about our future.

Guys drizz run and carry is more useful than a wise head right now..

That's the right call isn't it?

Hes carrying us. Look at the CP numbers, compared to our other mids. If he drops off we're all over.

Walker enormous close. Saves a goal.

We've been excellent really. Not perfect, but hard to be critical of much from that half. Particularly given we were down 3 zip ten minutes in.

Brayshaw been out of this world good given context of this game.

Brilliant by Fred.

Voss worked really hard so far today.

I'm in the minority but I feel like we haven't been that bad. They could've punished us, but then Cox gifted them their first 3 goals.

Johnson htb was poor but surely fyfey can't just escort the opposition mids down the field.