Rumour Bluemour Discussion XL - ‘Silly Season’ in full swing 😱

[Aphrodite]

#BUMP from February


Re: 'Alleged' rumours resurfacing ...

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Thanks all!

 

[LegendaryBlues]

According to a lot of the draft rankings, gc first 2 bids could come as early as 2 and 3. If picks 7 and 8 are going out, they'll definitely need something more.

 

[katmanblue]

I think it’s be quite the opposite… Charlie seems like a guy that would “go with the flow”, so to speak…

Add momentum to a runaway train

 

[Matty411]

People in the media can joke and say we are calling him a Hall of famer before he’s played, but we know what we have

He’s a standards setter, a culture changer and will get the absolute best out of himself. We will have the last laugh with this kid

Jagga will win a Brownlow one day. Learning from Walsh, he and Cody will become the Trac/Oliver of their time but better.

 

[Moon]

This Humphy's fetish is Pav 2.0. All positioning wishful thinking as a basis of fact. No evidence he even wants Carlton.

Austin Announcement

Apologies to all Carlton supporters ... unfortunately we didn't land Humphrey or even Hayward

As consolation ... I give you Buku Khamis. Are we good?

Yeah ... Thanks Champ...

 

[BrisbaneCFC]

If Humphries is a pipe dream Hayward would be a good inclusion.

If Humphreys were to happen would rather pivot to McInerney or Bice.

Chesser and McInerney on the wings would be a nice change up.

McInerney has always suited us better IMO.

 

[BrisbaneCFC]

Just means he'll be free to roam the field like he used to when he played his best footy. Much more rigid role at the Suns the last couple years under Dimma.

Id have Ainsworth running through the midfield tbh

 

[ajs071]

Anyone ITK gives us a realistic chance of getting Humphries to Princes Park or is this just more
internet fluff ???

Most Definity fluff

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

am i alone in thinking 7 & 8 for petracca seems massive overs? gold coast also have 15 and 18

Its a terrible draft

 

[SurreyBlue]

Id have Ainsworth running through the midfield tbh

Perfect high half forward. Wins the ground ball, runs and delivers well. Kicks goals!

 

[BluesRule]

Tom Morris reporting Suns will give 7 & 8 for Petracca with 24 coming back.

Would leave them with a draft hand of 15, 18, 24, 29, 36 & 52 totalling 3268 points.
If Uwland and Patterson get bids at 2 & 5 that’s 3848 points after the discount.

Something will have to give you’d think.

It’s a pipe dream but get the Charlie deal done with Sydney and then 10 & 11 to the Suns for Walter or Humphrey and 18 back gives them what they need for Uwland, Patterson and a bit more to cover some of the other academy kids if they want em.

Would value Humphrey/Walter at pick 7, which is probably fair value for Walter but unders for Humphrey, possibly a later pick back than 18 if it’s him but maybe the overvaluing of Ainsworth is taken into account in all of this.

Big 3 days here, go you Baggers

EDIT: I didn’t take into account pick 37 they’ll get for Budarick.. but this still won’t cover them off

I thought they had a few more academy boys to select t as well, so even more points required after the big two....

 

[Large Hawaiian]

Gawn and Lever have both said they have had multiple blowout on field with him, but it's usually heat of the moment stuff and they know it's because he is a 'hot head' trying to cover defense rather than a bad egg.
Mind you, I don't think the Melksham would agree.

Hardest of passes on May, ordinary conveyance. Untrustworthy in the extreme.

 

[Broadside]

If Humphries is a pipe dream Hayward would be a good inclusion.

If Humphreys were to happen would rather pivot to McInerney or Bice.

Chesser and McInerney on the wings would be a nice change up.

If that were to happen could Ollie Hollands become a defensive midfielder/tagger?

 

[Dramoth]

Binns is contracted for 2026 - do you think he gets traded or paid out?

West Coast were interested in him.

 

[Abers]

Would much prefer Walter over Humphrey. Gives us the gun key forward to build around for Jagga and Cody.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Yeah i spoke to bailey Humphreys best mates mate, said he's definitely coming to Carlton

Tongue in cheek?

 

[Ninja Worrier]

Tongue in cheek?

Or for a DOC pizza

 

[RPCB]

Its a terrible draft

There will still be plenty of players that will have good AFL careers. Next years draft is spoken up as a super draft, like 2018 was and 7 years later Pick 12 Zak Butters would be a top 2 pick in a redraft of 2018.

Don’t be surprised what gems can be found this year.

 

[RAPPA]

Ainsworth and Elijah on the HFF. Charlie in the middle of them. And I don't mean Curnow.

 

[kingkingston]

Charlie Dean would be a nice delisted free agent pick up to bolster the defensive depth

 

[Magruder]

Or for a DOC pizza

and not a pineapple in sight!

 

[reubsblues]

Humphrey would be such a game changer, can’t remember the last time we had a player in his role with so much potential.

Key word potential that's what makes me nervous id rather go the sure thing with Butters if there is any chance

 

[Matty411]

Got a big feeling that one of Walter (with JUH coming in) or Bailey (everything mentioned) have to be the guy/s involved to break open this Charlie/Swans deal. They need more firsts and that Pick 10/11 could be the tough call they need to get Zeke/Patterson etc and still get Trac.

My best throw at the stumps with a few days to go:

Swans give: Hayward, Pick 10, F1
Swans get: Charlie, 67

Suns give: Humphrey, Pick 29
Suns get: Pick 10, Pick 11 (TDK compo)

Blues give: Charlie, Pick 11 (TDK compo), 67
Blues get: Hayward, Humphrey, F1, 29 (on-traded to WB for Buku)

Overs to us? Yep. Deal that blows us away? Also yes.

How does that get us Dean and Ison? Not sure. Picks in for Acres/Gov/Binns I suspect.

 

[Blue Heart]

Most Definity fluff

Thank you for your perspective !!!

 

[Gingerbread man]

With all due respect to Moir, he's not a Charlie replacement positionally. Kemp would be the obvious one to play that role alongside Harry. And he did kick 5 against the dogs in a limited sample size up forward.

He has a long way to go, but I'd give him a bit more credit than you, I think.

I don't think we want a direct replacement for Charlie, our forward line was not working the way it was. In a perfect world, I think Ainsworth provides us with a good high half forward who covers alot of ground, harry as the big forward, moir as a leading marking small. Unfortunately for whatever reason E Hollands removes some X factor but hopefully Humphries adds that plus some.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

There will still be plenty of players that will have good AFL careers. Next years draft is spoken up as a super draft, like 2018 was and 7 years later Pick 12 Zak Butters would be a top 2 pick in a redraft of 2018.

Don’t be surprised what gems can be found this year.

Theres always gems to be found, but the Suns would likely prefer the proven talent in Trac to go with their academy kids even if it means overpaying.

They've got picks coming out their arse thanks to the AFL, no need to worry about overpaying when they've got an infinite supply of them.