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I've raised Borlase on the North board in the past as someone I'd really have a look at. Advanced stats back up your assessment as well. He's more than AFL standard. He's also an unrestricted free agent for the duration of his career given he was delisted and rookied by Adelaide.

I really think we don't need to get into the Ablett stuff, it's completely different, a different era, post playing days and to do with the HOF rather than his playing career. In terms of the rest. In that instance the player is not banned for life whilst playing AFL football, but is once not...

Well for starters Gary Ablett Sr's major infractions were post retirement. Secondly, I don't think you are going to get very far comparing professional and community standards with those of 30 years ago. South Africa was still an apartheid state...... Based on AFL rules, he should be banned...

Strange that isn’t it. Opposition supporters all melting over the summer about the compo, now apparently he’s a gun and North were idiots for letting him go 🤣 Same will apply for Zurhaar

Based on extremely similar guidelines he would be deregistered and not allowed to play in any football competition in any state in the country, ever again. Let alone just the highest level. The only loophole here is, his suspension wasn’t handed down by a tribunal, but the AFL executive...

Pick purchasing. It’s coming.

Multiple clubs interested at more than $800k per season according to Marc McGowan.

The bands only go up as players enter that band with new contracts, it’s not currently in proportion to the increase in cap space. Multiple clubs didn’t have automatic salary increases built into their standard player contracts with their CBA. Some clubs have record cap space and a “good”...

It won't be traded if LDU is in fact off. We will have lost Thomas and LDU inside of 12 months. Smillie makes much more sense if factoring in the LDU contract developments. Dyson Sharp having Harley Reid like wraps at this stage and Willem Duursma being one of the other #1 prospects of 2025...

Well prepare to get rooted. Peoples expectations of the pay ceiling clearly haven’t moved in the last 18 months. A very real chance both Hayward and Zurhaar pull band 1

What about him?

Another solution for Northern Academies may be, you can't double dip on the main pool if you match a bid in that round. I.E the McDonald/Campbell situation. In regards to the changes. Pick purchasing is probably going to have the single biggest impact on the comp since FA was introduced...

Yes, those were his combine results.

Sure, if you want to count his career stats from 8 years ago as relevant. He is in a pretty small group of players who get it over 15 times a game and kick it 1+ goal a game. He's also shown an ability to get up towards 2 goals per game in previous seasons.

Supposedly both Sydney and GC are coming very hard for him.

2.91 20m 6:38 2km

He's not falling through the cracks :drunk: and people passing comments here have probably watched 1 North game in the last 2 years. Do these numbers from last year scream absolute spud to you? 19 disposals, 4 clearances and 4 tackles a game. This is nothing like the Dow situation. Unless you...

Will Dawson is the long term big key defensive prospect, he’s looked excellent on Larkey in preseason but is a few years off physically. I’d probably just prefer to draft another prospect and make do with Logue. Kallan Dawson was excellent yesterday.

Don't think Zurhaar has ever been in danger in that regard. Believe both his parents are very prominent barristers in WA.

He didn’t receive the minimum, he well exceeded it. You also clearly don’t understand the compo process. You are measured against your peers in a ranking system, not a % of the cap or fixed figure. Your rank from 1-800 determines the compo category, not the actual dollar value, as age is a...

It’s amazing how some people look at a screen and never completely absorb something when it happens. Zurhaar was happy JHF left, he celebrated it. He got into him for his flogging behavior, not the fact he left.

He's going to be an above average key forward, but not what he was advertised as coming out of WA. The WA media had christened him the second coming in the 3-4 months leading into the draft. He's likely a Nathan Thompson style key forward. 300-350 career goals and 4 club goal kicking awards...

OK, it was that poster that referred to the last 30 years, not me.... If you want to talk about recent history, it should be commenced with the current strength of the Allies.

Lets not get over dramatic. There's dozens examples of the Northern States overlooking their own talent when available. Sydney had 3 picks in the top 8 in 1998 and drafted Victorian Jude Bolton and Crow Eaters Nick Fosdike and Ryan Fitzgerald instead of home grown Sydney Metro products (rare...

Sheezel's contract I think is enough of an indication of what we are doing.

Well blame the system and Essendon. McKay is one of the highest paid players in the comp this season (Ralph is saying potentially the highest paid player in the comp...) We got exactly as the rules enabled us. We are hardly the only club to benefit from over compo either, so the saltyness is...

Well no, because the previous CBA was in force. I don't think supporters wanting top dollar from FA compo is exclusive to North supporters. Seem to have read the same discussions surrounding Barrass last year.

Band 1 is reportedly around $900-$950k with the CBA increase now.

Well the entire point of a long term contract in the AFL seems to have gone right over your head. It’s not really about security but TPP management. You can’t front load contract durations that don’t exist. Given the age of North’s list I imagine Sheezelnwill be one of the highest paid...

This. I agree with most points, particularly, max 3 picks to match any bid and at least 1 pick within 10 selections of a matched bid. Ill add: Remove the 20% discount on everything. Add a 20% tax for academy players, as they circumvent all rules that apply to the rest of the talent pool...