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    Another good reason not to trade pick 5. I just want this nightmare to evaporate!

    GWS will be working big time to get pick 3 from the Dees to ensure they get the double dip. Problem is they'll need to now give up pick 6 and will struggle to pay for Green when he gets bid on at pick 4/5 unless they do some late trading for a couple of picks in the 20s. They may have outsmarted themselves this time, we hope!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 707 View Post
    Another good reason not to trade pick 5. I just want this nightmare to evaporate!

    GWS will be working big time to get pick 3 from the Dees to ensure they get the double dip. Problem is they'll need to now give up pick 6 and will struggle to pay for Green when he gets bid on at pick 4/5 unless they do some late trading for a couple of picks in the 20s. They may have outsmarted themselves this time, we hope!
    Man. GWS traded for 6 in expectation we would trade 5 for Daniher? Ha.

    The play seems so obvious. Hold 5, pick the 'Josh Kennedy successor', see if a fit and in form Daniher wants to come in 12 months, move bloody on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattW View Post
    Man. GWS traded for 6 in expectation we would trade 5 for Daniher? Ha.

    The play seems so obvious. Hold 5, pick the 'Josh Kennedy successor', see if a fit and in form Daniher wants to come in 12 months, move bloody on.
    They (ie GWS) will still match. Just means they won't be able to draft another top 5 player first. Unless they can do a deal with Melbourne (or maybe Adelaide).

    To position that as "severely disadvantaging" GWS seems twisted in the extreme.

    Maybe tomorrow they can publish an article about how we are "severely disadvantaging" St Kilda by not just delisting Jones so the Saints can pick him up as a DFA. Or "severely disadvantaging" Carlton by not trading them Papley for a 5th round draft pick. Or severely disadvantaging just about any other club by not offering up Mills, Heeney, Dawson, Florent, Hayward, McCartin, Aliir et al for a raft of 4th round draft picks.

    In any case, if we do trade pick 5 to Essendon, Green fits a need for them too. There's plenty of time for the Dodo to travel to Canberra to Chez Green, where he, too, might come away mightily impressed by Tom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattW View Post
    Man. GWS traded for 6 in expectation we would trade 5 for Daniher? Ha.

    The play seems so obvious. Hold 5, pick the 'Josh Kennedy successor', see if a fit and in form Daniher wants to come in 12 months, move bloody on.
    Or, why don't we try to trade up to pick 3 to completely price GWS out of Green?

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    Quote Originally Posted by liz View Post
    They (ie GWS) will still match. Just means they won't be able to draft another top 5 player first. Unless they can do a deal with Melbourne (or maybe Adelaide).

    To position that as "severely disadvantaging" GWS seems twisted in the extreme.

    Maybe tomorrow they can publish an article about how we are "severely disadvantaging" St Kilda by not just delisting Jones so the Saints can pick him up as a DFA. Or "severely disadvantaging" Carlton by not trading them Papley for a 5th round draft pick. Or severely disadvantaging just about any other club by not offering up Mills, Heeney, Dawson, Florent, Hayward, McCartin, Aliir et al for a raft of 4th round draft picks.

    In any case, if we do trade pick 5 to Essendon, Green fits a need for them too. There's plenty of time for the Dodo to travel to Canberra to Chez Green, where he, too, might come away mightily impressed by Tom.
    I'm not sure I have any faith in Adrian's good taste.

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    Why don't GWS trade picks 6 and 40 for our picks 5 and 54? We can use pick 40 or 44 for Taylor and take the other one to the draft. It makes it a little less painful if we have to give our first pick to Essendon. We could offer Essendon picks 6+40+Hayden McLean. Take it or leave it.
    Last edited by Ludwig; 14th October 2019 at 07:49 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck'n'Roll View Post
    It all sounded so plausible, right up to that last point. Unfortunately the Nobel for literature is for a body of work not a single work, no matter how exalted it's literary merit.
    Yeah, but you're forgetting that some of his earlier RWO musings, have been anthologised into a couple of volumes: 'The Barassi Line Is In Thailand, Now', and 'Centre Square, Golden Triangle'.

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    Could we re-recruit Capper and then trade him to Essendon plus pick 40...
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    Quote Originally Posted by MattW View Post
    Or, why don't we try to trade up to pick 3 to completely price GWS out of Green?
    Because

    a) it won't price Green out of GWS's reach. They'll still probably match.
    b) it will cost a lot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludwig View Post
    Raphus cucullatus* is particularly strange subspecies.



    Thought to be extinct. Hibernates all year until early October, when for a couple of weeks he makes everyone he comes in contact want to kill him, eventually forcing him back into hibernation.


    *Modern taxonomy: Tullamarinus dodorus
    Tullamarinus Dodorus? So this modern dodo can fly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Big Cat View Post
    Article in the HUN behind paywall suggesting GWS will be severely disadvantaged if Swans don't land Daniher. Can I humbly suggest that a way to avoid this happening is to send Patton to Essendon instead of Hawthorn. The injectors say they want a big forward to replace the pubis one. Deal done.

    In the same issue of the paper, Jay Clark surmising a three way deal involving picks 5 and 9 to North for Ben Brown who goes to Essendon who then trade JD to the Swans. This he said would be win-win-win. (maybe it would be better to for the Swans to just take BB?)
    We couldn't take BB. SCG isn't long enough for him to be able to fit in his ridiculous goal routine... would have to open the gates behind the goals to squeeze it in or angle it so he could go down the race.rofl
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruck'n'Roll View Post
    It all sounded so plausible, right up to that last point. Unfortunately the Nobel for literature is for a body of work not a single work, no matter how exalted it's literary merit.
    No worries. I've already written 3 other books.

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