Called this the day Daniher retired. It’s one of the most obvious moves in footy right now for 2025.
Lions are specialists in this type of deal. They will be all year wooing him across as a free agent.
Game Day 2024 Trade Period - Lian Yu - that liminal space between trade and draft.
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Lions are specialists in this type of deal. They will be all year wooing him across as a free agent.
Haven’t had a chance to comment on the Bolton trade all week. Actually had to do some work this week of all weeks 
Overall I think we paid overs, but can understand the logic. Thought walls probably folded slightly when you consider nearly every other deal on Tuesday went to the last half hour and was settled for pretty much the original speculated price.
Tigers would have taken 10 & 18 for sure by 7:10pm on Wednesday.
However a slide from 11 to 14 isn’t too bad when you add the F3, though the hyper inflated values on picks 10-15 in this particular draft make me think we’d be paying a lot more than F3 if we wanted to move up from 14 to 11.
If we’d swapped pick 30 for 24 as well in the overall deal it would have been just about right.
Anyway it is what it is. Down to Bolton now to perform to close to his best - if he does it will be a win for us. No doubting his talent - has he still got that inner drive and desperation that is required to play a big role in a flag win for freo? Time will tell
As for 14 and 30 in the draft, we are clearly looking at forward half talent based on Walls interviews (thankfully) so I think something like Berry or Hannaford at 14 then Hamish Davies or Datolli at 30 is likely. Hopefully we’ll have a pick in the late 50s too.
The F3 of Richmond could be very handy if we get to pick 25/26 on draft night and there’s someone on the board we can trade up for from 30 using the F3.
Overall I think we paid overs, but can understand the logic. Thought walls probably folded slightly when you consider nearly every other deal on Tuesday went to the last half hour and was settled for pretty much the original speculated price.
Tigers would have taken 10 & 18 for sure by 7:10pm on Wednesday.
However a slide from 11 to 14 isn’t too bad when you add the F3, though the hyper inflated values on picks 10-15 in this particular draft make me think we’d be paying a lot more than F3 if we wanted to move up from 14 to 11.
If we’d swapped pick 30 for 24 as well in the overall deal it would have been just about right.
Anyway it is what it is. Down to Bolton now to perform to close to his best - if he does it will be a win for us. No doubting his talent - has he still got that inner drive and desperation that is required to play a big role in a flag win for freo? Time will tell
As for 14 and 30 in the draft, we are clearly looking at forward half talent based on Walls interviews (thankfully) so I think something like Berry or Hannaford at 14 then Hamish Davies or Datolli at 30 is likely. Hopefully we’ll have a pick in the late 50s too.
The F3 of Richmond could be very handy if we get to pick 25/26 on draft night and there’s someone on the board we can trade up for from 30 using the F3.
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I don't see it with Datolli, tbh. Just looks like a guy who's too small to play inside mid.
I saw a phantom draft with an Evan Bradley in the top 30, supposedly a small forward from South Australia I believe, but stuffed if I can find any footage of him.
I saw a phantom draft with an Evan Bradley in the top 30, supposedly a small forward from South Australia I believe, but stuffed if I can find any footage of him.
His best game was Sth Australia vs Allies, if you want to watch that or the highlights of it.
5 Evan Bradley (North Adelaide)
Small Forward | 174cm | 17/01/2006
Stats: 10 disposals, 2 marks, 3 goals
Said to be a player who gains confidence from early scores, Bradley would have been full of beans after his two opening quarter goals. The classy small forward displayed sharp finishing skills to split the big sticks with the inside and outside of his boot, before levelling the scores with a third major over the mark in term three. In between, the North Adelaide prospect worked high up the ground and backed his speed en route to goal, even helping himself to a few running bounce
If we delist him he is always a free agent when OOC.
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Pretty soon we will be giving away farms down the coast like Geelong
And both of those pickups looked like good depth selections, it was just a shame that McDonald copped a long term injury that seemed to be different to his past history, although I guess some players are just more prone to that.
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And then trade out pick 2 for pick 16, Luke Pedlar & Sam Powell Pepper
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I would rather cut Emmett than Odin Jones. We know what we get from Emmett and bringing in Bolton and having Sturt doesn't leave much room for Emmett. Jones missed a lot of footy through that extended concussion and as a 19 year old has a lot of upside. Big bodied aggressive players that can roost the ball long and accurate don't grow on trees. Give him another year. With development can play KPF (not really required), Ruck or KPD if we need to find a replacement for Pearce, Cox or Ryan.
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I have seen very little of the guy but on face value I agree. We've boned Kuek, Tabs and Corbett. There seems to be room for a developing tall forward
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If this guy had a pie or a sandwich in his hand at the time this is quite plausible.
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Thought we were already throwing Dale Alcock homes into deals.
Most likely out of our best 23 anyway.
Jackson, Amiss and Treacey are 20 to 22 years old with Voss and Cox as back ups. Reidy was recruited as forward/ruck.
That’s is enough for tall forwards.
I don’t want Cox or Reidy anywhere near the forward line tbh.
My preference would be to keep Jones but if we don’t I’m probably saying we’d ideally add another KPF to the list. I wouldn’t lose sleep if we waited until next year to do it though.
If I had to guess what’s happening I think both Knobel and Emmett will be moved to the rookie list. I’d rather move McDonald but more recently the club has favoured moving out of contract players to the rookie list rather than contracted ones.
I actually think the club will upgrade Worner to the senior list. We don’t have to under the current rules but we re-signed him before that so it’s just whether the club wants to honour any informal commitments made at that time - Again we don’t have to honour anything but I expect us to.
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I know we're tight on spots, but is Charlie Clarke worth a look? Pick 24 in 2022, only the one game, hard side to break into for a small forward though.
Different positions. They were looking at Jack Martin so I’m pretty confident Emmett will get a reprieve via Rookie list. It then comes down to whether Jones is a better option than a new developing key forward.
Jones had a pretty rough year with that concussion issue and a few other soft tissue injuries.
I wouldn’t be surprised if both are re-signed to rookie list. Perhaps both will be delisted and the club will go to the rookie draft to consider them there or via SSP.
2024 Rookie (cat-A) Worner, Sharp, Voss, Kuek, Stanley, Jones
Delisted Kuek, Stanley
If Emmett is rookied that leaves 1 spot.
Looking at recent history - Freo have always used their first rookie selection on a new player.
If it was me I’d go the following
Delist Emmett (With view to select as Rookie with second Rookie pick)
Re-sign Knobel
Take 3 selections in ND
Take first selection (9) in Rookie draft
Either re-sign Jones or delist and have him back with a few other KPF for SSP train on. Select the best KPF from the summer training.
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We can sign Odin after the draft right? See if Gerryn gets to 30?
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