New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nSYDNEY SWANS<\/p>\n
Jon Ralph says: \u201cThey need a key forward. I don\u2019t think Carlton should trade Harry McKay, but if I\u2019m Sydney I\u2019m throwing the absolute kitchen sink at him. I understand he\u2019s not a player who churns out 23 games a year, but he\u2019s averaged 19 over the last four years before a couple of issues and depression this year. He kicked 49 goals last year and he\u2019s won multiple games off his own boot this year. I still think he\u2019s a premier forward in the competition \u2013 and if you\u2019re Sydney, he\u2019s in that right window. I love Joel Amartey, but he doesn\u2019t play very often and Logan McDonald kicks a lot of goals but in that Ty Vickery mould, he doesn\u2019t crash a lot of packs. So Harry McKay is my No. 1 priority.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe (Jamarra Ugle-Hagan) is a hope for them. Scott Gullan did a deep dive on this bloke, but they should be doing the deepest dive of all-time \u2026 You\u2019d want to make a lot of calls to know this is not a bloke who would make your season challenging from an off-field perspective next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trade update: Nas and Harley | 02:59<\/p>\n
PORT ADELAIDE<\/p>\n
Glenn McFarlane says: \u201cThere\u2019s a couple of signatures that would be really interesting: \u2018Nas\u2019 (Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera) and Zak Butters. But the Josh Carr charm offensive needs to happen now. We know he\u2019s going to step in to a team who\u2019s not rebuilding, but they\u2019ve got a lot of work to do with that list. That\u2019s the thing I\u2019d be looking for with Port Adelaide.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jon Ralph says: \u201cEveryone says: \u2018How do they get a Nas deal done if he wants to come?\u2019 So you give away your next 10 years of draft picks. But then if Zak Butters wants to leave next year, you match that free agency deal, you get those 10 years of draft picks back. So there is a way where you\u2019re not basically mortgaging your future if you have to give the next three years of draft picks or multiple picks, given they haven\u2019t got a first-rounder this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
CARLTON<\/p>\n
Glenn McFarlane says: \u201cTotal game plan overhaul change. Let\u2019s blow it up and start again \u2013 because watching Carlton at the moment is the most labour-intensive you\u2019ve ever seen. I\u2019m exhausted watching it and I just think how would the Blues supporters be feeling? So they need a total game plan overhaul. Their run out of the back six is awful and they\u2019ve got to fix that in a hurry, but they need faster ball movement as well.<\/p>\n
Jon Ralph says: \u201cI\u2019d be asking about Bobby Hill \u2026 I know he signed a new contract there, but if it is that he decided to have a fresh change, there\u2019d be clubs out there right now looking at Bobby Hill and asking: \u2018Is he gettable?\u2019 They will bring back a lot of speed with the likes of Jagga Smith, Elijah Hollands, Sam Walsh and Matt Cottrell. So bring those four players into your side \u2013 and maybe you bring in the likes of an Ollie Florent \u2013 and all of a sudden you play a new game plan and you\u2019ve got the building blocks to be able to exhilarate the speed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Razor Ray explains 6-6-6 confusion | 02:51<\/p>\n
MELBOURNE<\/p>\n
Jon Ralph says: \u201cIsn\u2019t it remarkable that Carlton and Melbourne, both play \u2018contest and defence\u2019, both have got an old out-fashioned game plan, both have got coaches with leadership in spades but not able to really find the best way in, both have got teams who should win games then all of a sudden lose them, both of them are struggling in terms of their early picks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all love Simon Goodwin, we all like him as a person, we love the fact that he\u2019s a premiership coach. But it\u2019s a tough decision \u2013 and maybe in the end it\u2019ll be \u2018we move him on and we get fresh ideas\u2019. I don\u2019t begrudge them that decision or think it\u2019s easy, but that\u2019s the way it might eventually go.\u201d<\/p>\n
ST KILDA<\/p>\n
Glenn McFarlane says: \u201cIt\u2019s three words, with a hyphen: Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera. And three words again: Tom De Koning. The three-word signatures, get them done now. If they get those guys in, are they a fluky chance for top eight next year?\u201d<\/p>\n
Jon Ralph says: \u201cJudge Tom De Koning on his first 10 weeks of the year when he was superb. I understand it\u2019s outlandish money, he won\u2019t justify it, but they\u2019ve got to get some of those stars in and that will help them with Nas Wanganeen-Milera and the stars of the future, who will see that some players are staying and coming to this football club.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trade whispers: The ruck merry-go-round | 04:54<\/p>\n
ESSENDON<\/p>\n
Jon Ralph says: \u201cI\u2019m getting the absolute star (high performance boss). They can\u2019t get someone like Peter Burge, who\u2019s amazing at Hawthorn. If it costs them as much as it costs their senior coach, if it\u2019s an $800,000 person whoever it might be, if it is Darren Burgess who\u2019s in contract \u2013 you just go and get that person in. Not only because they\u2019re the best, but also because they give those players some confidence that \u2018OK, we\u2019ve got the best here\u2019. Their defensive structure in Round 1 next year: Jordan Ridley, Zach Reid, Ben McKay \u2013 all of them are basically done for this season, all of them have got massive recurring injury problems right now. That sends shivers down the spine of Essendon fans: \u2018Are we ever going to get these blokes right?\u2019 That\u2019s a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
RICHMOND<\/p>\n
Glenn McFarlane says: \u201cMore picks. They\u2019ve just got to do it again. They\u2019ve got more picks than the biggest building site in Melbourne.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sheezel on Roos’ situation, backs Clarko | 03:29<\/p>\n
NORTH MELBOURNE<\/p>\n
Glenn McFarlane says: \u201cThey just need a defensive structure. Desperately need that.\u201d<\/p>\n
WEST COAST EAGLES<\/p>\n
Jon Ralph says: \u201cSign up Harley Reid. You lobby, you push hard, there\u2019s a little bit of brinkmanship and you say: \u2018We\u2019re not going to pay $24 million. We\u2019re going to pay $18 million for Harley. If you want to go to St Kilda, who might be offering that money, go for your life.\u2019 So you try and bluff them and if they say \u2018no he\u2019s going to go\u2019, you pay the money. But at some stage, whatever you pay Harley Reid, he will be worth that money many times over. He\u2019s going to be that good a player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While nine teams remain in the finals hunt, nine others are about to enter full off-season mode. Some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[29663,638,29654,14405,64,63,689,55,639,16716,29651,3423,14349,29647,29662,29648,29661,29658,1119,18664,29641,28450,29656,29657,3489,681,27709,29650,15631,29652,28454,29645,647,3257,3480,14437,7204,677,29642,29660,29644,6082,28885,29643,29659,1138,29653,8014,1124,85,1122,26889,7200,28457,12920,29655,660,29646,29649,23510],"class_list":["post-31649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-absolute-star","tag-afl","tag-agency-deal","tag-alastair-clarkson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ball-movement","tag-ben-mckay","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-bobby-hill","tag-bold-trade-plays","tag-bottom-nine-club","tag-bottom-nine-clubs","tag-defensive-structure","tag-finals-hunt","tag-football-club","tag-game-plan","tag-game-plan-overhaul","tag-glenn-mcfarlane","tag-injury-problems","tag-issues-bottom-nine","tag-jagga-smith","tag-jon-ralph","tag-josh-carr","tag-judge-tom-de-koning","tag-lauren-wood","tag-logan-mcdonald","tag-looming-merry-go-round","tag-matt-cottrell","tag-melbourne","tag-michael-voss","tag-multiple-games","tag-ned-reeves","tag-north-melbourne-kangaroos","tag-oceania","tag-offensive-needs","tag-performance-boss","tag-peter-burge","tag-port-adelaide","tag-premiership-coach","tag-pressing-issue","tag-razor-ray-chamberlain","tag-sam-walsh","tag-scott-gullan","tag-simon-goodwin","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-sydney-swans","tag-trade-update","tag-trade-whispers","tag-ty-vickery","tag-victoria","tag-young-stars","tag-zach-reid","tag-zak-butters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}