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It suspends the poster for a year
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Iām pretty sure Reid is OOC in 2026, not next year as top 20 draftees get three years instead of two years now. So in that case, I donāt think itāll help much.
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It should be more than fair to offer our best 2 first rounders 2025 and future first 2026. If we get compo for Draper going, or some sort of trade happens and we get an extra first in 2025 Iād keep that. West Coast should take 3 firsts and be pretty happy. With their own draft position theyād get a very good injection of youth into their squad.
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2025 is supposed to be more stacked with WA kids as well, so would be a good draft for them to take the picks.
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Surely - This guyās a dead ringer for Hurls - Mick Hurley needs to check with his dad, for a long lost brother from another mother!
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Iāll tell you who he is a dead ringer for
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It will if he requests a trade.
We are soooo getting Harley Reid.
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Heās more a dead ringer for the bloke from Blink 182ā¦ 
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There you go, learn something everyday
My problem is that I forget something everyday
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And of Peter Knights, with a haircut from Knightsās era.
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But WCE can still say no and it could end up another Dunkley situation.
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Of course they could.
Clubs also look at the opportunity cost to maximise their assets on any given year.
Letās say Harley says he wants to go to Essendon next year and our draft hand is pick 4 (our pick), pick 8 (Dees pick), Future 1st 2026, Future 1st, 2027. If he declares he wants out in advance WC have the opportunity to clean up with high end talent in 2025 and beyond.
The alternative is they wait until 2026 where they lose leverage in negotiation and dealing with us for example that only hold our 2026 1st, 2027 1st and 2028 1st which you would assume with our list age demographic shouldnāt be top 3 picks, even if we arenāt elite we have enough good young talent not to be a basket case.
Biggest mistake we made back in 2019 was not trading Daniher at the time for multiple firsts and holding him to his contract.
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The question is whether the pendulum will start to shift away from small forwards as teams work out tactics etc.
Itās only been the last few years that small forwards have become such main pieces. We need to make sure our coaches and list management are into the next shift first, rather than just doing bad copies of recently successful teams
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Old school but you need a dominant CHF to win a flag. Great suggestions above about small forwards.
Maybe itās Caddy.
Lucas, Vander like.
Caddy might be Vander, but Iām not sure Vander was a CHF on those 80s teams.
Those teams were huge (for the time) with all of Merrett, Madden, Salmon (when not injured), Daniher, Vander Haar spending time in the forward line. And then you had Weston, Walsh, and Duckworth matching up on the bigger forwards. Watson was as tall as Brereton, Hawker and Weston were big on the wings, Foulds and Dunnell etc etc.
If we were trying to build a 1985 equivalent team weād basically need every player except for a targeted number of āsmallsā (Ezard, Williams, Thompson) above about 195, with a 215cm full forward and 3 other tall forwards between 198 and 205. Caddy could play the Mark Harvey role!!!
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probably need to up our offer then.
most would take Dunkley over Cox + Hobbs
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Iād give up our entire list just for Reid.
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