Hawks have this years first round draft pick (14) and next years first as well to trade.
Combine that with what we get for Brad Hill.
There is also potential for some other player movement from the Hawks as well.
Mitchell and O'Meara are in my eyes both must gets for the Hawks to replenish our weakest spot the midfield and the contested ball.
O'Meara nominating the Hawks pretty much guarantees he will be a Hawk next year. All the chest beating from GC about sending him to the pre-season draft is just that chest beating. Throwing him to the pre-season draft is totally counter productive for them to do so.
1. They don't get anything in return for him, they can't afford to be losing players for nothing.
2. No player wants to go to GC as they don't treat their players with respect (not that many want to go there anyway in the first place).
3. Interested to know how GC members feel about letting him go for nothing to the PSD. He's gone anyway you look at it so you would want to get something in return and the club cutting it's nose off to despite their face won't endear a poor membership base any further.
Tom Mitchell. For me the signs are that he would be ok in staying but they cannot afford his asking price, as their salary cap is stretched too thin with big contracts to other players. If he was prepared to stay on reduced coin he would have signed by now, so for me he is on the move.
Sydney will want the best deal but a few things to note is, he isn't contracted, and isn't paid as one of their top players. Just because it's Hawthorn they are dealing with means nothing. Sydney didn't want to lose Mummy either but did for the same reason and they didn't really want him to go to their cross town rivals either, but he did.
Mitchell has been linked to a few clubs Hawks, Tigers and Blues.
Blues will trade their first round darft pick for a couple of GWS players.
Richmond will give up its first rounder for Prestia.
Hawks have the salary cap room to make good offers to both players.
So using a combination of pick 14 this year, next years first rounder, what we get for Brad Hill from Freo will allow us to trade acceptably for the 2 players in question. There are many scenarios of other clubs and players/picks being swapped to make deals happen as well. If necessary we might lose an ok player but I think these 2 deals will happen.
Also Vickery we will get for nothing. He has basically walked from Richmond and all the postulating from Richmond supporters about matching offers and stuff. Seriously!!!
Hopefully Roughy is back next year as well and that should put us in what would probably be our last year for the premiership window with all the old guys.