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If Brodie was available at 9 i cant see us not taking him. Would have a few years to learn from the best in kennedy and then come into his peak when kennedy retires, or worst case if Kennedy leaves next year.

I have no problems with the idea that a club should be compensated for its loss, thats fine. My issue is it shouldn't come through the draft system in picks. Giving picks away isn't just compensating one team, it's penalising 17 other clubs, which is absolutely stupid. It's a bandaid fix for a...

The only player I'd take in a straight swap would be smith. If it gets done with picks I'd hope for a something in the top 10, as it stands I don't think 14 is high enough.

"Creative" handballs. * me. Not even trying to hide it Kingy. The story is more important than the game now. We should start thinking up some sob story bullshit for next year.

Buddy unfortunately was worst on ground, no awareness after that foot injury. Wood allowed to take out our players with impunity. Played a 'captains game' with so many dog acts.How the * were they allowed to slide into our players legs, it's been a rule all ******* year you can't take it out...

At the time he was starting his career fairly well, iffy kick at goal but his marks were brilliant and getting 7+ a game. At the time he was well worth the money to lock up his potential. He was the future of our forwadline. Then he never progressed, seemed to lose his ability to mark and with...

I dont believe Collingwood or Hawthorn would have won any flags without their picks (Pendlebury and Franklin) in 2008 and 2010. Poor Saints. For these teams the priority pick system worked well to get them of the bottom of the ladder. For others it has had less than stellar results.

Well its not like we couldn't, he's unrestricted isnt he? So he could go wherever he wants and doesnt have to be paid squillions.

Well, COLA's gone now so you don't have to worry about it. Just like priority picks brought your club from middling to a premiership I'm fine with it if COLA did the same for us.

Yeah I thought the same initially but they called for it before contact was made between the two contests. It was indeed a bad night for them last night, it happens though.

Anyone else see the incident where a free kick was awarded to Richmond for a push in the back with advantage payed, when both swans players were in front of their opponents? Unless the ump called for the wrong free and he meant something else. What the hell happened there.

Can't even imagine how hard it would be to judge throws at ground level if you can't clearly see it, otherwise we end up with a Simon Black incident where the umpire underestimates a footballers ability and awards a wrong free kick. Which is far more frustrating than an unpaid free.

You've got to roll the dice though, just like we did with Tippett and Franklin. I mean Mitchell might never get over his persistent ankle injury. It happens. Richards is a poor example of working superbly imo. It took him 5 years and a freak injury to LRT for him to finally click. Which is...

With the changes to the salary cap system allowing you to hoard space for next year, as well as the yearly increase of 500k in the cap, I wouldn't be ruling out your ability to land big fish just yet.

As much as I would love to keep Mitchell, and think he's going to be an absolute star in the future, I would seriously contemplate a trade for pick number 2 or 3. According to draft reports there are some exciting key defender prospects going to go early in the draft and it's an area we are...

2 years ago we only had Sam Reid and were saying the exact same damn thing. Have some faith it'll happen :)

Would really like to see both Membrey and Jones unlikely as that is, and send Rohan back to the two's, he's just not ready yet imo.

Commiserations to Port it was a tough game, thought they were going to win they were dominant all day in the midfield which didn't reflect on the scoreboard, really exposed Derickx. Just unfortunate for them Buddy seems to be able to pull s**t out of his ass at the drop of a hat. Looking forward...

On potential, the dirtiest word in sport, Martin. They're both good young players whose teams are in very different positions. Wouldn't trade for him though, ******* love Parker, gives his all and you know what you get each week. I think a tougher comparison would be Duncan vs Parker.

Wait up, how is Mitchell uncontracted this year? We signed him on a 5 year deal when we drafted him to keep him off GWS and the money they were offering to not go F/S. That was my understanding anyway. He shouldnt be out of contract until 2017.

Just have to hope for sunny skies for the next 18 games. Otherwise we're pooped.

Just remove it in 2 or 3 % increments each year until it's gone. Removing it all at once would be ridiculous. Then just keep the salary cap the same regardless of city. Seems like the only way to stop the hysteria.

First quarter's up :) http://www.sydneyswans.com.au/video/2014-02-13/swanstv-intraclub-q1

I'd completely forgotten about Everitt, can't even remember who he got traded to. Carlton or west coast?

What Wells reaction? haha

I'd look elsewhere if you want to see what love of a sport is. American universities have always seemed little more than cults to me, with sports used to create and maintain devotion.

That's it?

Also really hope its not true, I just don't see how a straight swap of one of the best small defenders in the comp for an injury prone forward flanker makes sense to us. Forward's are not what we need right now.

The word is saints will only offer 25, they have 18, 24, 25 and 4. Unless they package some picks we can trump them with our 15.

I hope we talked to Longer and see if he could have been persuaded our way, exactly what we need. We can offer more than the saints can in pick 15 which suits Brisbane, unless they offer their pick 4. Which they'd be mad to do.