Based on the cluster**** rule giving teams 1-5 a free pick - there is close to zero chance that Dougie or Walker aren’t taken at pick 1.
Given both carlton and will match, it’s going to come down to club politics, and probably who’s draft hand is impacted most by matching.
we currently are 11th so would hold pick 8.
we have carlton and our second rounders we would need to combine and get up to pick 17, then go into deficit 412 points. (that’s if he’s bid on at pick 1)
i’m no richo fan, but in his defence it’s a rough balancing act in this case working out how far you can push things. you can only fight city hall so far - i don’t know where that point is, but in the end they are part pf a law to themselves.
get them offside significantly here and they make...
Tried to use the rules to work out what we are up for based on us finishing in positions 15th up to 7th.
Theres two tables, the first shows the lowest second pick we would need to mathc a bid, based on out ladder position (shown down the left) - to match a bid on Dougie at anywhere in the top 5...
Unless my calcs or source data are wrong (I used the 2025 DVI taken from here: https://www.afl.com.au/draft/draft-order), it looks like picks 8 and 10 would get it done if he was taken at 1.
3000 (pick 1) less 10% = 2700.
1443 (pick 8) plus 1276 (pick 10) = 2719. (other options: 5 & 16, 6 & 13...
Sparrow is an UFA. If there was truth to this, you dont trade for Sparrow ... you come to an agreement with Melbourne that you will take him as a free agent and they give us whatever compo they receive for him plus the two first round picks for Butters.
So you do a 3 year deal activate band 1...
Doesn't remind me of Phillips, but theres no reason why he cant be a very high level tall back other than injury/concussion.
He reads the play well, so want he settles there and works out the angles as a defender, his positioning will improve. Having not played there much he also will learn...
My approach is going to be trying to get a 'best available' multi pass and accpet whatever Im given ... ifthat fails, focus on the Port game and ensure I at lerast get that.
imagine for a second the melts at north if we picked up Stephenson and he rebuilt his career from a local league player to the player they thought he was when they recruited him.
it would be the absolute mirror image of what they did to Jarrod Polec.
From memory, going back a month or so someone was sayingBroges and Tredders catch up regularly, so him saying the Baord has made right decison to me says something.
Has Warren really distanced himself from anything ... I dont really think so,and I dont really think he can without distancing himself from is wifes insta comments. There is a pretty strong correlation between her 'receipts' posts, and the people Warren has on his podcast.
I agree, why get an ex footballer that doesnt have any sport or business management training to do sports/business mangement. Much better to get a lawyer with no sports knowledge to do it. (FWIW, all player contracts and the like do go through lawyers).