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He'll either go to WC at 12, or the pick immediately before ours. Just watch it happen.

Adam Jones was predicting 20's/30's for Rodriguez. He had Farrow as 1st pick from WA, Swaddling and possibly Curtain being rated higher by clubs before Rodriguez. This is not taking into account that he's likely optimistic in his outlook given his role as WA talent manager. He also mentioned Pickett as a possible draft bolter.
 
I actually went to high school with Wallsy (he was a year above me loll

He is a quality lad.

Also being so called easy/flexible at the trade table will make it easier for agents to recommend their star free agent players to join your club btw, Essendon for example only recruited one big name star to their club during Dodoro's reign (Brendan Goddard) and that was because he was a free agent.

Being reasonable at the trade table will result in more big names be willingly traded to Freo (although granted, i understand your angst given Freo's previous trading history)

You have to give up quality to get quality in today's AFL (especially if you are in the premiership window like Freo)

Didn't Wallsy also engineer the fleecing of Geelong for Jordan Clark (which imo was low key one of the best value bargain trades in the last 10 years) ?

No recruiting manager is flawless or perfect, but I honestly happen to believe Wallsy's record in the last 5 years stacks up as well as a anyone else in the AFL, especially given your club's finishing position and lack of father son and academy picks.

I'll see myself out now, but i genuinely wish Freo all the best and think you guys should be very.excited/optimistic for 2026 and the future.

I am honestly jelly of your club's current list compared to mine
all good bud👍

Oh don’t worry we all well aware of wallsy’s good bloke status(that’s half the joke with these trades) - that’s hes TOO much of a good bloke lol

It’s just Freo as a club gets absolutely ZERO from the AFL so a lot of us feel the only way we can even compete is to get as much as we can from the avenues we do have available

And yes the big fellas drafting and talent ID is second to none in the AFL - we just wish he’d be a bit more ruthless (an entire club affliction unfortunately)at the trade table even just a little more

That all said I’m actually a bit meh over it all- may rage more if we miss out on a gun in that draft range of our original first but for now it’s more amusing than anything
 
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I appreciate another one knowing the trade is garbage, but the other picks they gave up arent nothing. You hate the base trade, then they gave up MORE on top of the shitty base trade. To quote one of the classics "it's the vibe, it's the vibe of thing"
True.

50 is nothing much but it didn’t need to be thrown in on top of the trade.

David Walls is very lucky he knows how to draft well but I fear his luck on draft night will run out one day and we’re gonna rue all these unfavourable trades.
 

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Future 4th if lucky

Yep dumb dumb dumb. Ive always been a Brodie supporter, poor bloke was starved . I was hoping now that Fyfe has retired he would get more oppurtunity but too little too late. He's gone.
 

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I come in peace yada yada..

Hey good to see you guys have your own Brady too.

Thought it was just us who enjoyed fisting ourselves at the trade table.

Welcome to the Brady club.

Mmmmm fisting. :tonguewink:
 
Wallsy is like that kid that that goes to the show and blows their cash within the first hour.

Then just walks around wishing they had more to play with.

I’m certain we could’ve done better.

We could’ve even waited until Demons traded Petracca. They may likely of had pick 14 or 17 from GC. Could’ve then downgraded 12 for one of those and 33.

IF we had to help broker a deal between them, then there just had to be more in it for us.

DUMB.

Also, no rush. Could’ve waited much longer and found a way OR if we didn’t find a way, then yes, be knobs and say best we can offer is 33.

This absolutely stinks of Brisbane and Eagles playing the system. Why the hell couldn’t they do the Allen deal earlier!? It’s all to rub each others backs with the AFL sitting there in the corner jerking off to it.
 
Cant do much with just 19 and 46 ,we need some more picks from future ones in order to get the players to make the total list.
We will have 19,46,68
There is also fifth, sixth and seventh round picks if needed.
Essentially our last pick will be Whan and we may decide to go with one pick and Whan or picks 19 and 46 and whatever late pick is needed for Whan.

The only way this convoluted pick trade is a bit better is if there is a future pick trade involved as well. Not holding my breath though.

12,33,44,50,F4 > 19,23,46,F3

Anything less and we have had an installed Rheem shoved up our clacker hole.
 

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The only Known we have from that trade that is a known known and not an unknown known(like pick 12) is Judd McVee.
Stop ya Crying ya bunch of babies, They know alot more about footy than ANY of you.
Yep, close er up Freo mods, the club that has achieved one GF appearance in 30 years is above criticism. No need for a discussion forum when we can all just meet at Cockburn, hold hands and sing kumbaya together.
 
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Wallsy is like that kid that that goes to the show and blows their cash within the first hour.

Then just walks around wishing they had more to play with.

I’m certain we could’ve done better.

We could’ve even waited until Demons traded Petracca. They may likely of had pick 14 or 17 from GC. Could’ve then downgraded 12 for one of those and 33.

IF we had to help broker a deal between them, then there just had to be more in it for us.

DUMB.

Also, no rush. Could’ve waited much longer and found a way OR if we didn’t find a way, then yes, be knobs and say best we can offer is 33.

This absolutely stinks of Brisbane and Eagles playing the system. Why the hell couldn’t they do the Allen deal earlier!? It’s all to rub each others backs with the AFL sitting there in the corner jerking off to it.
No, no.

Walls is an infallible expert.
 
Must admit I don’t know about all these point calculations, but if for some reason there has been stuff up on our part. If walls (or someone else in the trade team, who’s job is to calculate all the points ) realises there’s been a stuff up, because the papers actually haven’t been lodged yet and don’t get lodged till sometime tomorrow morning EST, can someone from the Freo team actually pause the trade, pull the papers back and request the extra/future pick ?
 
Yep, close er up Freo mods, the club that has achieved one GF appearance in 30 years is above criticism. No need for a discussion forum when we can all just meet at Cockburn hold hands and sing kumbaya together.
No discussion allowed! We must all just like the OP and turn off comments or GTFO.
 

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