AFL silly season commences as Crow, Tiger find new homes

:laughing: :laughing: That's brilliant Power!

How about 7, 17, 28 and Coleman Jones for Number 1?

Yep, you should put the shovel down .. and the bong for that matter

Your on the money Thom. Talk is we package up 17 with 7 and exchange for pick 3 with the Suns - see what happens!

He got the best apprenticeship possible in the AFL and like CCJ he is AFL ready. This is where we need to fight hard for compensation as we lose depth in our team which gets exposed during high injury times e.g. this year.

As a Tiger supporter I’m actually happy for Marbs. I think he is a perfect fit for the Suns and I think he knew it was a tough call when Soldo a Premiership ruckman was coming back in the lineup fully fit.

I mean, that if he is playing a lock down defender on an opposition half forward, he can follow him into the midfield. And if he played a tagging roll on a Toby Greene like player, he would have to give the dons some run forward as he is stopping Greene from receiving the ball, and he plays a half forward-midfield role.

What? He's never played in the midfield in 110 games to date. Put the shovel down mate

Neglected to mention that Chol played 63 VFL games for Richmond, kicking 61 goals as a ruck/forward, not including scratch matches last year or his underage games in the NEAFL. Shows he's got a lot of footy into his legs.

I know many. We sponsor a group of them and I tutor 4 of them. I am certainly unaware of any issue relating to AFL footy.

Not defending the AFL here, but Chol is the youngest player to ever test free agency, so clearly age will have something to do with it in future. The thing about free agency is that they have lifted the NFL model, which comes after a player has spent 3 to 4 years at college, then been drafted and played 4 to 5 years, so they are hitting the same age bracket in the AFL after 8 years, which is proving too long. In the NFL, teams have lists of 53, so at the end of each season they resign their free agents, and cut or trade players, the same as the AFL, except free agency is much bigger. If a team loses 3 free agents and only gains 2, the NFL decides (months later, not trade by trade) what each club's compensation will be overall. Most clubs have either the same number or fewer free agents leaving, so they get zero compo, but 30 to 40% of teams get some sort of compensatory picks that are usually very underwhelming compared to the players they've lost. If anything, the AFL needs to encourage more free agency and give clubs a more transparent compensation model, perhaps even an independent body to decide who gets what at the draft, rather than telling clubs what they'll get IF they let the player walk and how much they have to pay to get them to stay.

This is the Roar, not the One Nation Groupchat. I think you're lost. See your way out.

If you aren't aware of intercultural barriers faced by South-Sudanese refugees then maybe you should talk to one. I'm fortunate enough to teach some of them, so I have a lot more insight into the daily challenges they face in society. In Melbourne, you have this fake narrative of Sudanese gangs, which is in fact a community policing problem of racial profiling rather than an inherent community problem.

I am opposed to the NGA being restricted. The whole purpose is to provide the support of a club right through their drafting stages. The entire thing will now be defunded and we'll see fewer migrant players given a leg up to access elite pathways. So what if clubs have access to top talent that they have nurtured? If the system wasn't working, they should have changed the criteria to include some sort of hardship. They don't actually have NGA in Queensland, but if you look at the Academy graduates from the Lions and Suns, including Mabior Chol, there are plenty who would qualify for NGA in another State so at least they are being caught up in the junior recruitment process.

Yeah I'd like an explanation on the intercultural barrier your taking about also?

He can play in the midfield if they need him to. If he takes a half back, then he can run through the midfield in order to tag them.

Some real top shelf material there, ‘Power.’ But seriously, you need to get some help. Not just with the pathetic, witless material, but with everything it would seem. There’s no denying it.

No inter-cultural barrier at Freo. Are you suggesting there is a barrier from within his culture or from without? What, then, is the barrier?

Not necessarily. If there are enough picks used by Collingwood, Bulldogs and other bid matching clubs used in the first and second rounds so that the number of bids equals or is less than the picks used to match then pick 38 will retain its place. Here's how that could play out. Collingwood uses its pick 36 and trades for two more second rounders to match Daicos, that's 3 used for only 1 extra place. The Dogs do the same for Darcy, that's 6 picks to only 2 extra places. Say there's 4 Academy or father-son players matched using 4 picks inside 38, then it will actually be pick 34. End of second round is actually pretty good, but Richmond should probably trade it to the Dogs for 17 Dogs 17 (which slides to 19 or 20) for 38, 41 and 46.

Kelly is lock down defender. He won't be providing any run and carry out of the midfield. He will probably still be a handy in defence for Essendon though