I like it! I'd rather Carlisle even if he has to sit out a 1 year suspension, then Jones on our list for another two.

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My silly thoughts,
Henderson will go to the cats =probably pick 10
Pick 19 probably for Aish
Pick 37 for Rice
Pick 3 hopefully for Schache
Pick 10 another tall
Yarran will stay, maybe go next year under FA, who is going to offer a top 15 pick when he is so lazy
2016
Buckley Jamison Simpson
Tuohy ???? DVR
Boekhorst Cripps
Menzel Casboult Aish
Everitt Schache Rice
Kreuzer Murphy Judd
From; Jaksch Graham Whiley Bell Smith Holman Sheehan pick 10 and SOSS
One more year for; Walsh Fields Foster Byrne and Giles
Delist/Retire everyone else..

Sorry Gibbs not Judd

Possible.

If we got a Schache/Weitering I would use pick 10 on a mid and hopefully Curnow will slip through. I think he is a star in the making.

Would we take pick 15 for Menzel? Could easily get another potential gun tall like McKay, Hipwood, Collins or Weideman or mids like Partington, Tucker, Lovell, Ah Chee. No matter what you think of Menzel IMO trading a mid size HF for a potential key position player or gun mid is the right thing to do to advance our list.

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I agree completely.

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Can't see us getting Schache or Weitering - unfortunately it is looking increasingly likely that our first selection will be pick #3.

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Rumour on BF that Rice will play for the Northern Blues when they play Collingwood in the curtain raiser on the G in a few weeks.

Given its a bye for the NBs this week I haven't been able to confirm whether this is true or not from someone at the NBs.

Privately preparing? Lachie was told in April that he was being shipped off for draft picks and to find himself a suitable home.

On Curnow, Terry Wallet had his rolling top 20 today on Future Stars and he had Curnow at pick 11 for Collingwood.

Is that right?
There have been conflicting stories regarding Henderson. Some saying he was shopping himself around during the pre season, others saying he wants to stay but the club has told him he will be moved on.
Others have suggested the club has put a contract in front of him but it is not enough.
Don't know what to believe but if the club told him that in April then we have completely lost the plot.

Putting a contract to someone when you know it is significantly less than fair value = forcing them to leave.
Telling someone you're not a priority to keep must do wonders for their performance. Lachie is playing like someone who has been told he will be traded if they get a first rounder.

*waiting for psych to respond with some conflicting report*

I thought the 23rd man had to come from the linked junior club, i.e. Nothern Knights?

Who are the Stingrays affiliated with? Frankston?

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The 23rd man has occasionally come from Northern Blues listed players this year. I'd say its age based.

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Moore played for Collingwood's VFL last year.

Luke McDonald played for Werribee for North in his draft year.

I don't think you need to be affiliated.

I do know that the club was working on Rice playing for the NBs at some point but the rumour on bf was the first confirmation of this - hoping to find out its validity soon.

They can be development squad players as well as I understood, but regardless of where they came from they can only be 23rd man 3 times in the regular season.


McDonald and Moore both came via Oakleigh in terms of the TAC, but McDonald spent his final year outside the TAC system and trained with North, playing with Werribee as a listed player in 2013.

So it really comes down to what, if any, affiliations there are between Oakleigh and Collingwood, but it sounds like the rule might be flexible as you're suggesting. Something to remember is that both players were fully committed to being drafted via the F/S rule, and that Moore played with Collingwood's own VFL team, while McDonald was on a VFL list.

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20 ways to see the world,
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hey Em, you always seem like you have the good mail, but geez i hope you're wrong in this. he aint playing like he wants to be here, but surely Sos is smarter than that, talls don't grow on trees, i really don't want to lose him.

he needs to play in the backline to replace Jamo or Rowe, who arent the future

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Agree, I find it staggering that the club would tell our only decent KPP in April that he will be moved on for draft picks.
Surely we are not that stupid.

i kinda hope we can break into the top 2 for our pick. there's weitering, then alotta daylight to schache, and then more daylight to number 3.

and there's a good chance the lions will take schache, which would be a monumental blunder letting weitering go.

right now i'd trade menzel, and yarran and try to keep henderson, but it looks like henderson is all but gone.

Yes, I am aware of that thanks Jim.

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can someone tell me If we lost Hendo as a FA would we get a pick after our first rounder?

same goes for Yarren?

id take picks 1,2,3 or 2,3,4

ps outside of Cripps, Docherty, Murphy, Kruezer everyone should be tradeable. we are in a complete rebuild and need as many picks as possible

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