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.
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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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Read into my post as to why.
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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.
