I would definitely grab Brander.
We don’t have a plethora of forwards. The ones we do have are injury prone.
Lobb may still request a trade at the end of the year.
As much as I am excited about Treacy’s prospects, he is still very young and developing. The truth is he had virtually no impact in multiple games, if Tabs had those games he would’ve copped a bit of flak.
Any forwards we get at the draft are going to need a few pre-seasons. Brander has these.
Brander is very much a forward but behind Kennedy, Darling and Allen. Some would argue that all of these players are better than our three.
The Eagles must of seen something in him to play him on the wing, a position that he clearly wasn’t suited too, at the detriment to team balance. They are already a top heavy team. Treacy wouldn’t be playing in their forward line.
He is in WA and doesn’t appear to be a flight risk.
The price is right.
I think it’s silly to disregard a player purely and simply because he was at the Eagles.
We’ve had players like Giro, Valente, Bewley etc on our list for multiple years. Surely he’s no more speculative than this.