Cripps has to stay.
Still the best clearance beast in the AFL. Who cares if he can't run and spread.
Cripps just needs to spend half his time in the middle and the rest being an awkward matchup for the opposition in the forward line. Just got to work on his set shot goal kicking.
Nothing is "confirmed".
I could see Dean sliding to his original predicted pick 8-10 if we trade our Round 1 picks out. There won't be the satisfaction from WCE or Essendon to damage our draft hand.
Harry Dean is not rated a top 3 in anyone's books. For him to be taken in this range would be purely tactical.
I'm sensing some whispers are getting out to the likes of Twomey etc that WCE are still undecided on Dean so that pick 9 can be shaken loose. And weirdly there is probably some...
I'd rather keep 9 & 11 and let 11 get downgraded by 4 or 5 picks and then just get the best player.
They must be concerned that Dean is getting bid on within the first 5 picks and Ison around 20. Bit of a shame we have lost currency from the Curnow trade.
haha no.....we're not deducting points out of our 2026 Round 1 selections or trading backwards.
2026 is a considerably stronger draft by all reports plus there is a certain Cody Walker we need to pay for.
We have picks 9, 11, 43, 54, 67, 72, 87, 105.
Not so sure you can shuffle those umpteen picks after 43 into a second rounder. Twomey is predicting there will be somewhere between 55-60 picks taken this year.
During trade period I would have preferred we didn't give Swans both 31 & 42 in the Curnow deal. The Ison pick would not even be the slightest issue.
As has been said, feels like our compensation for players lost is watered down if we walk away with just our father-son & academy pick which we...
If you look at the deal again, it’s not any better than what was rejected yesterday. I can't see any real difference.
Just a shame we wasted time spinning wheels in the last 24 hours rather than doing a deal earlier and getting creative with our draft picks.