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Yeah I can absolutely see a scenario where Macrae could go for a second rounder because of his contract. But people can’t expect us to get a first rounder along with him

I can see a world where the clubs might be able to come to a mutually beneficial agreement. But it would be harder to convince 2 seperate players that they both want to come here. Smith in particular will be in demand, as will Macrae if there’s a sweetener involved. So I’m not sure it’d be...

The Bowes deal was so dissimilar to any other trade there has been that I don’t think anyone should be using that as precedent. Macrae might go on the cheap. But people can’t expect that they’ll just throw in Smith for free to take him off their hands

I think both can be true. Our midfield group show great promise. Holmes in particular looks like a multi all Australian in the making. Bruhn shows good signs. Dempsey doesn’t really play that role atm but is clearly very talented and may move to the midfield in time. But on the whole it’s...

I’d probably take smith purely because of Oliver’s huge contract

I agree. But he’s in horrible form as a mid atm. Would rather he got more ruck time not less

I think Rohan could also drop out and then it's not THAT different to what we've had most of the year as OHenry plays tall anyway. Wouldn't be surprised to also see Cameron spend time up the field though. More interested in the ruck situation. Assume Stanley doesn't make the cut. But I feel...

True. But again, using that evidence would you rather more picks in the 10-25 range over the next 10 years, or in the 40-60 range? Because if it's the latter, I'm happy to play as much poker against you as you'd like.

Yeah I'm wary of taking any player on a long term deal where we weren't involved in negotiating the terms in the first instance.

Think the AFL will let clubs trade first rounders 2 years into the future. So we have 3 to play with at trade time already in that case.

I think you're right that trying to keep our midfielders fresh has been something we've tried to do the last few years in general. And I'll get ridiculed for this, but I think by 2022 Selwood wasn't an A grade mid anymore. Still a great captain, and a more than serviceable player. But not a true...

I’m not denying we’ve had success in the latter parts of the draft. But over 18 years you would expect us to have had some hits. You can just as easily make a list of players that have been picked in the first 2 rounds (Hawkins, Selwood, CGuthrie, Duncan) or brought in via trades (Danger...

I think perhaps people overthink/analyse the low possession counts, and low TOG of our mids. I think it’s purely because we are weak in that area. If we had some of the midfielders other teams had, I’m sure the MC would also want them to get >30 touches and play ~80%tog. But we don’t, so we’ve...

Im reluctant to get him mainly because he’s inconsistent. But also I think there’s merit in saying a midfielder should be our main priority. But the other point is that the way we approached the draft last year is not a sustainable way of building a list. We had 3 of the last 7 picks in the...

I think Zurhaar could be a good addition to the club who goes to another level in a winning environment. But he could also be a moderately well paid player who is never anything more than a guy who shows flashes of brilliance sprinkled amongst large periods of nothing. So it probably all depends...

TBH he's luck that Wilson played out the game otherwise he'd probably get 3 weeks. That's the textbook example of what they're trying to stamp out. If he gets it downgraded to 1 week, it would be a joke.

TBH this is a free hit game. Anything other than a complete belting will be ok. If we happen to snatch the win, even better.

He's still on track for another 40+ goal season despite his slower few weeks, so again that's not potential, that's results. Obviously improvement would be good as well. If he could kick 50 or 60 goals, that would be even better. But you can make that same argument about anyone. Is Stewart one...

He kicked 41 goals last year as a 20 year old. That’s output, not potential.

With Reid and Darcy becoming ineligible due to suspension, is Dempsey a chance if nabbing rising star now? Last night certainly wouldn’t have hurt his chances.

Our midfield performed better than they have for the past month. Best games in a while for Bowes, Atkins, Bruhn, and another good game for Holmes. But Richmond are one of the few teams weaker on paper in that area than us. Need that group to be able to do it against the midfields like we’ve...

Yes, we had 2 mids out and none replacing them. But Bowes was sub, so he plays a full game as a mid; I suspect Holmes plays mid fulltime this week also. So in a sense we are replacing them. And TBH I'd back Holmes and Bowes to outperform Clark and Blicavs currently, so we'll probably get a net...

I was surprised by that too. But it does say 5 players on an 'extended interchange' which perhaps infers it's from this extended group that the sub is selected? The same as the extended bench for Sunday games where teams name 8 on the bench on Thursday, then this 8 gets reduced to the 5 that are...

O’Connor and Rohan are the most logical ins. But Richmond are barely better than north. So if we’re ever going to try someone new, after the first time losing 4 in a row in 18 years, it surely would be this week. So, logical perhaps, but boring definitely.

I've literally never seen him play. So again not advocating that he does/doesn't get picked. But if you're going of VFL numbers he's been our leading disposal getter in 6 of 8 games (and second in another). So he's clearly accumulating more of the ball in the VFL than anyone else we've got. I...

I'm not advocating that he should or shouldn't get picked this week. But I think that stat needs context. Yes, he has only got 30 disposals in 3 out of his 8 games. But, he also has 2 games with 29, and another with 28. So, so that's 6 out of 8 games with 28 or more touches, going at an...

Conway will likely stay in with a chop out from Neale (although maybe SDK). But Nank is a very physical ruck who I imagine will try and bully Conway around. Its an area I imagine Richmond will try and exploit, so hopefully it doesn't impact the result too much.

Yeah fair. We're nothing like Melbourne were then, or North are now. But I was just pointing out that there are a few examples where a club is pretty happy to let a good player walk if they're going to get good compo. Even with us, almost no one here was saying we should fight tooth and nail to...

Yeah harsh on Mullin. It was very unlucky that the kick got smothered and landed in the hands of Greene in the first place. But then the fact that Mullin could turn around and had the speed to close the gap quick enough to apply pressure on the kick is something that not many others in our team...

The closest example I can think of is Frawley going to Hawthorn as a FA. Melbourne are ok with it because they get pick 3 and pick up Brayshaw along with pick 2 they already had (Petracca) and all of a sudden they're on a path to a premiership. Albeit it still takes 6 years, and the big...