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So let me get this straight. North are offering Blakey a contract worth almost $1.4 Million a year, and they want to give us pick 6 as the highest with lower picks to come?

These guys are fucking morons. I know these things generally start low and escalate as they work through it, but that's just insulting.

IF we take pick 6, even with lower picks, I'd be demanding a player in return. This likely means they're trying to split pick 5 to get both Murray AND Blakey. We bette make em pick one or the other.

We take on Carlton at home, may be tough with the injury list building up but let’s go girls!

My understanding of the situation is as follows.

Late 2025: Blakey enquires about a move to the Suns because his partner is relocating there. Nothing comes of it and he plays for us in 2026.

2026: The Pullman incident occurs. In addition to the partying, he remains a person of interest in a criminal investigation. He is not downgraded to a witness unlike Riley Bice.

Late 2026: Blakey is upset at how he is treated by Swans management following his club suspension and is now attempting to force a move out. He expresses interest in playing with various clubs, including North, Geelong and Gold Coast.

Can someone objectively explain why he would be so frustrated following his, at best, deeply unprofessional conduct at the Pullman hotel? Will we ever actually know?

Hamling has signed a one year deal. Reliable as they come and great to have him cover us for another year.

If this is true, then I expect North will be offering something almost as big

Wowza

It currently looks like should the Blakey deal happen it will give us quite the draft hand. With Tasmania coming in access to high end talent will be difficult over the next few years aside from anyone academy tied (and even those rules got severely tightened). Is the best course of action to keep and use the picks, or is there some key defensive stocks in the vein of Sam de Koning that we should be targeting. It feels like the one position, maybe paired for lockdown small defenders that we are struggling for depth with. Tmac is amazing and had an unreal season, and it was a great 12-odd games for Wed. With Will out to start the year the Hammer and the Pelican don’t leave me comfortable. I think Melican had been great for a few years before having a stinker last year. Hamling fight hards and can be good in the air but doesn’t really have the composure you want from a defender with the ball. SDK is a physical freak with plenty of upside as both a second ruck and a KPD.
- Any other names to thinks about, or do we take the picks

Is there a spot in our best 23 for Jordan with the ascension of Serong? With all the guns back in the middle you surely have Serong as the tagger theses days, he can go with any player bar a key forward or back.

Bit of nuffie chat here, but with the 3 and 7 (most likely 22 as well) now available, who in the squad will be taking these numbers. I would say Juzzy moves to the 7 and Kyle moves into the 3.