Liam Jones to the saints for Billings...?

Liam Jones to the saints for Billings...?

Liam Jones to the saints for Billings...?

With Port looking likely to miss the finals this year their first round pick is now looking appealing.
What if, say, they offered their first rounder for this year and next year in exchange for pick #1?
Or maybe they might decide that their premiership window is closed and offload some players - who would we be keen on other than Wines?

So, I went to the pre-match function at Optus in Perth last week, and Cain Liddle got up and fielded questions from the people there. The big thing that I took away from it was that we are paying under 95% of the cap this year - and even more surprising - is that we can carry over that 5% cap space to pay 105% next year. I did not know this and goes to show what sort of 'warchest' we are sitting on.

If McGovern came, would we do Weitering for saints pick 6

With Port looking likely to miss the finals this year their first round pick is now looking appealing.
What if, say, they offered their first rounder for this year and next year in exchange for pick #1?
Or maybe they might decide that their premiership window is closed and offload some players - who would we be keen on other than Wines?

If McGovern came, would we do Weitering for saints pick 6

I have also wondered why it is that when people talk about us trading pick #1, it's almost only ever to Adelaide.

There are two talented young players from SA near the top of the draft, but would Lukosis even appeal to Adelaide? They have Walker, Lynch and Jenkins up forward and Fogarty and McGovern (for the moment) as depth. They might be keen on Rankine, but is a talented half-forward-type what they need in the short-term? They need mids (as do we all), so surely they'd be tempted to pick Walsh with no. #1.

Port, on the other hand, would probably be in the market for a young tall to go with Dixon and Westhoff. They probably wouldn't be as keen on Rankine, because he'd be behind players like Gray and Wingard. And they have inside mids with Wines and Powell-Pepper.

So, if the idea is that Lukosis is too good to pass up for a South Aussie team, then that team is Port.

Walker is 29yr old, Jenkins 30yrs and Lynch (more a flanker) 28yrs at the start of next year so why wouldn't Adelaide want Lukosis?? McGovern is also probably gone.

If we got an end of first round priority pick and were keen on doing a deal involving pick one. Package the priority pick and Weitering for 6.