Trade Whispers / Rumours and Confirmations

[Ludwig]

Good point Lud. Its been done before, so....wouldn't it be a feather in your cap if you have made an early call!!

Thanks Prim, but feathers in caps are not a good look in Thailand.

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On the draft pick upgrade, what would you think about White plus our pick 33 for Collingwood's pick 10, or if Collingwood get an end of 1st round pick for Daisy, White plus our 3rd rounder for pick 20. I think some of the picks will slip down a few notches once the compo picks are announced. Who knows what Hawthorne will get for Buddy.

If we don't get a KPD by other means, I think it is quite possible that we will use our pick 14/15 for Darcy Gardiner, rated the best KPD in this year's draft. The several picks before ours are from teams unlikely to take a defender. So I don't think it pays to upgrade our first pick.

[Triple B]

On the draft pick upgrade, what would you think about White plus our pick 33 for Collingwood's pick 10...

Take that in a heartbeat. Gives us 2 first round picks and room to upgrade Rampe, Perris, BJ and Biggs.

[Ludwig]

Take that in a heartbeat. Gives us 2 first round picks and room to upgrade Rampe, Perris, BJ and Biggs.

It sounded fair to me, but I rate Jesse. I wonder what Collingwood would think.

If we don't do any other trades, that would probably mean we add Perris, Darcy Gardiner (Ted replacement) and another midfielder with pick 10 (Bontempelli, Freeman, Salem). There aren't any decent KPPs between Boyd and Gardiner in this draft except perhaps for Cameron McCarthy, but 2 KPPs in the first round is a bit much.

As for the rookie upgrades, I would put Jake Lloyd ahead of Biggs and BJ. Was clearly our best reserves player this year. I think he'll be every bit as good as Hanners. Even though he's never played a senior game, I wouldn't hesitate throwing him in right now. Just oozes class.

[swansrob]

Biggs has to be elevated or delisted doesn't he (or is it three years)?

[Matt80]

Like the idea of improving our position in the draft in exchange for Jesse White. This allows us to save up some salary cap

According to this thread Ben Reid will be a free agent at the end of 2014. If he does not sign for Collingwood if would be good to go for him and unite him with Sam!

I read in the paper that Jesse has a business in Melbourne! Is the business T-Shirt design and production?

[BillyRayCypress]

Exactly Liz. I once told Jesse I thought he could be a Gun (early game in Ressies), and I have been waiting and waiting.

Show the world what a true gentleman of the game looks like.

Primmy, he didn't realise you wanted him as your Man Friday.

I imagine this season has been hard without the oozing testosterone levels you used to be exposed to in the Brewongle.

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I read in the paper that Jesse has a business in Melbourne! Is the business T-Shirt design and production?

Didn't Jude and Amon have a similar business before Bucky went to the Lions?

[Steve]

Good luck to White if he can get 3 years elsewhere. 12 months ago Collingwood were keen on Quinten Lynch for that same role, so I think there would still be a lot of pressure on him and he could easily fall out of favour quite quickly.

We should also just give Mumford what he wants - it would be a much greater risk to go into next year with only Pyke (who will also be 30 and is hardly a long-term option), than retain Mummy on a big contract and worry about his body holding up.

If we let him go, we'll end up paying over the odds to recruit a ruckman for 2015 and beyond anyway.

[The Big Cat]

Jon Ralph saying on radio this morning that Mummy is Gawn! To GWS and Swannies will ultimately finish up with two first round and two second round picks in the PSD.

[mcs]

Jon Ralph saying on radio this morning that Mummy is Gawn! To GWS and Swannies will ultimately finish up with two first round and two second round picks in the PSD.

Surely that would be the national draft, not the Pre season draft?

[liz]

Jon Ralph saying on radio this morning that Mummy is Gawn! To GWS and Swannies will ultimately finish up with two first round and two second round picks in the PSD.

Surely you must mean in the ND, not the PSD?

[DK_]

Any idea who's got a young, but AFL standard, ruckman who might be wiling to participate in a three way trade? Geelong perhaps? Didn't they have three competing for the ruck this year?

[Untamed Snark]

Jon Ralph saying on radio this morning that Mummy is Gawn! To GWS and Swannies will ultimately finish up with two first round and two second round picks in the PSD.

Realistically how reliable is that?

[Ludwig]

If true, it sounds like the Pies will offer around pick 31 for White. So that would give us picks 9, 14. 31 and 34. Doubt it will end up like this, but certainly White and Mummy going is quite likely.

We could use 34 to probably get the best young ruckman in the draft. We will all be crossing our fingers that nothing happens to Pyke or Naismith turns out to be a revelation. But after 2014, I suspect we will be fine. We'll have the ruck situation worked out.

[BillyRayCypress]

Well if Mummy is off to GWS, we should go for Pick 1 by adding another player.

[The Big Cat]

Surely you must mean in the ND, not the PSD?

Yeah. I would have sworn on a stack of Bibles that I typed ND.