Jaxons come on down

[The Recruit]

Pick 10 for weller and pick 23 (hill trade)....familys reunited makes a lot of sense now

this is a good get...weller pick 13 in 2014...he will be a player.

What picks do Freo have?
Hawks have 23.
Would have be a straight swap 10 for Weller.

yep my bad! sorry brain fade...yea straight swap works

[Legendary]

Mav would play for fifty bucks a year rather than leave the Saints.

Ain't going anywhere.

[Saint_J]

Do we really want or need Koby?

Has he done much at the Doggies?

[SuperDuper]

Do we really want or need Koby?

Has he done much at the Doggies?

well we clearly want him, or we would not have done a deal with him to come
Do we need him? Well, we need all good players so it now just depends on whether he delivers !

[bigred]

OK...

So we really need to pull something out of the bag here.

Steele and Stevens both nominate us....

We have:
10 (1395pts)
47 (316pts)
65 (90 pts)
83 (0pts)
101 (0pts)

Two fifths of very little.

Offer up 65 for Stevens?

47 for Steele? We must have something else cooking as surely that would not get over the line.

Really starting to think we will be giving up 10 for a player and a late first or early second rounder.

[Linton Lodger]

OK...

So we really need to pull something out of the bag here.

Steele and Stevens both nominate us....

We have:
10 (1395pts)
47 (316pts)
65 (90 pts)
83 (0pts)
101 (0pts)

Two fifths of very little.

Offer up 65 for Stevens?

47 for Steele? We must have something else cooking as surely that would not get over the line.

Really starting to think we will be giving up 10 for a player and a late first or early second rounder.

GWS & Bulldogs don't actually have much leverage, they need to free up cap space. I'm sure next year's 2nd round pick will get Steele over, and I reckon our Pick 50 should suffice to get Stevens.

[SuperDuper]

OK...

So we really need to pull something out of the bag here.

Steele and Stevens both nominate us....

We have:
10 (1395pts)
47 (316pts)
65 (90 pts)
83 (0pts)
101 (0pts)

Two fifths of very little.

Offer up 65 for Stevens?

47 for Steele? We must have something else cooking as surely that would not get over the line.

Really starting to think we will be giving up 10 for a player and a late first or early second rounder.

GWS & Bulldogs don't actually have much leverage, they need to free up cap space. I'm sure next year's 2nd round pick will get Steele over, and I reckon our Pick 50 should suffice to get Stevens.

65 for Stevens I recon

[St Ick]

Can't say I'm jumping for joy with Koby.

Will come cheap but pace and kicking are his question marks aren't they? If that's really the case, why go after him?

I will bide my time with this but I just don't quite understand the need for this one.

[Linton Lodger]

Actually I just read that Stevens is out of contract. Doesn't that mean we get him for nothing?

[samoht]

we are building a team with plenty of inside grunt -- we'll be almost unbeatable on postage -stamp sized ovals.

[prwilkinson]

Can't say I'm jumping for joy with Koby.

Will come cheap but pace and kicking are his question marks aren't they? If that's really the case, why go after him?

I will bide my time with this but I just don't quite understand the need for this one.

A bit more midfield Depth. Thought we were pretty lucky with injury this season.

[ace]

OK...

So we really need to pull something out of the bag here.

Steele and Stevens both nominate us....

We have:
10 (1395pts)
47 (316pts)
65 (90 pts)
83 (0pts)
101 (0pts)

Two fifths of very little.

Offer up 65 for Stevens?

47 for Steele? We must have something else cooking as surely that would not get over the line.

Really starting to think we will be giving up 10 for a player and a late first or early second rounder.

Out of date
As of COB yesterday we have
10 (1395pts)
50 (273pts)
68 (59pts)
86 (0pts)
104 (0pts)
However it is highly likely that pick 10 will slip due to academy picks lets say 12 at 1268pts or 13 at 1212pts.
Remember how our pick 14 slipped to be actually 18 during the call of the draft last year.
Then our late picks actually moved forward.

Without a second round pick so far this year we may need to bring forward some of our 2nd, 3rd or 4th round picks from next year into play.

[magnifisaint]

The fact that he's rejected Essendon to come to us is a positive

[ace]

The fact that he's rejected Essendon to come to us is a positive

When Essendon showed him the size of needle they use to administer supplements he fainted.

[St Ick]

Can't say I'm jumping for joy with Koby.

Will come cheap but pace and kicking are his question marks aren't they? If that's really the case, why go after him?

I will bide my time with this but I just don't quite understand the need for this one.

A bit more midfield Depth. Thought we were pretty lucky with injury this season.

Two things concern me, he isn't there for depth - ie VFL playing waiting for an injury, yes would give depth to our midfield but does he just push out a kid? Second thing is it was reported a while ago we offered 450k pa - surely hope not.

[minneapolis]

That's season bloody auto spell

The man who invented predictive text died yesterday. His funnel is next Monkey moaning.

Love it.

[prwilkinson]

Can't say I'm jumping for joy with Koby.

Will come cheap but pace and kicking are his question marks aren't they? If that's really the case, why go after him?

I will bide my time with this but I just don't quite understand the need for this one.

A bit more midfield Depth. Thought we were pretty lucky with injury this season.

Two things concern me, he isn't there for depth - ie VFL playing waiting for an injury, yes would give depth to our midfield but does he just push out a kid? Second thing is it was reported a while ago we offered 450k pa - surely hope not.

Maybe they're thinking depth as in for example being able to use Billings more as a forward flank/forward pocket with less minutes in the midfield rotation. Hmm... Just say Steele and Stevens get a game in the starting 22... who misses out? Meatball? Wrighty? Personally... I like Wrighty's grunt work.
Hmmm... Not sure how much has been offered. Do we have to pay 100% of our salary cap this season? I'm not really sure how all that stuff works.

[bigred]

no way known we would be paying $450k.

No way.

[Beno88]

Koby Stevens only finished behind five St Kilda players in this year's Brownlow. Same amount of votes as Armo. He's no hack. Depth is everything if we're going to press for finals.

[minneapolis]

See Mav Wellers twitter? Somethings up today. Reckons theres a bit on today trade wise.

Can you post the contents? Twitter is blocked here in China. (So is independent thought. I wonder why when three people sit down at a table the waiter brings two plates, one serviette, three spoons, four sets of chopsticks and one menu.)

[magnifisaint]

See Mav Wellers twitter? Somethings up today. Reckons theres a bit on today trade wise.

Can you post the contents? Twitter is blocked here in China. (So is independent thought. I wonder why when three people sit down at a table the waiter brings two plates, one serviette, three spoons, four sets of chopsticks and one menu.)

Maverick Weller ‏@Maverickweller 7h7 hours ago
Yerr theres a bit on #AFLTrades

[Playon]

Brett Thomas ‏@BrettT_SEN 3h3 hours ago

Brett Thomas Retweeted Maverick Weller

Steele & Stevens in hopefully doesn't mean Mav is on the move! Saints up to something though

Brett Thomas added,
Maverick Weller @Maverickweller
Yerr theres a bit on #AFLTrades

[saintsRrising]

Second thing is it was reported a while ago we offered 450k pa - surely hope not.

Reported, or rumoured?

Dogs did not offer him anything. Also evidently the Dons did not either.

I would imagine that we are offering him a fair but not over the top deal and well under $450K.

[longtimesaint]

Actually I just read that Stevens is out of contract. Doesn't that mean we get him for nothing?

That only works if he nominates for the PSD and then Essendon and 8 other teams have access to him before us.
If we want him we have to trade with the dogs.

[Bardon Saint]

Koby Stevens only finished behind five St Kilda players in this year's Brownlow. Same amount of votes as Armo. He's no hack. Depth is everything if we're going to press for finals.

He didn't poll in the top 10 for the B&F for Dogs. I think he's good is very good, he just requires consistency.