North's got a big war chest now

3 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

North's got a big war chest now

Not sure who would want to commit to them for an extended period of time.. Especially with Scott resinging yesterday

1 hour ago, Xavierrodway said:

Slightly unrealistic but Steven Motlop. Haven't seen much of his footy this year and am aware that he is extremely inconsistent but has a real ability to break open games (Hawthorn rd. 4, Richmond rd. 21)

Thoughts?

Horrible!  He is weak as [censored]

9 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

Horrible!  He is weak as [censored]

Has the ability to be something special

7 minutes ago, Xavierrodway said:

Has the ability to be something special

Not at the Melbourne FC. If a consistently good club like Geelong can't get it out of him what chance a mentally week club like ours can.

1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Yes Motlop for nothing is a good free punt.

Still think ac chee would be a plus!

1 hour ago, Xavierrodway said:

Not sure who would want to commit to them for an extended period of time.. Especially with Scott resinging yesterday

Nor I particularly. Money has its own allure for some. 

North has a lot to lure with given whatever they had in mind for Dusty is now freed up. That's all.

1 hour ago, beelzebub said:

North's got a big war chest now

Watch them up there offer for kelly now dusty is off the market, can see him becoming the highest paid player in the history of the game 

We need good ball users.  Kelly would be awesome, but I doubt if we'll go there as he would cost an arm and a leg.  I don't know where else we'd find serious quality though. 

11 minutes ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

We need good ball users.  Kelly would be awesome, but I doubt if we'll go there as he would cost an arm and a leg.  I don't know where else we'd find serious quality though. 

I'm hoping No.10 in the draft. ?

1 hour ago, Demons11 said:

Horrible!  He is weak as [censored]

So was Garlett when he was a blue bagger, this year he was in AA conversations. 

Talent sometimes needs a different environment to grow. 

7 hours ago, Xavierrodway said:

Has the ability to be something special

Yeah 1 thing every 8 weeks 

First time poster...

I expect to see all of the rumours in this thread reported on SEN tomorrow.

11 hours ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

I have a Latvian background - I can tell you we are indeed good! ??

REALLY?  No way! My Father's side of the family is Latvian 

1 hour ago, GCDee said:

REALLY?  No way! My Father's side of the family is Latvian 

I once lived next to a Latvian bloke.

Hell of a nice bloke. Teacher.

I once ran over a rabbit bringing him back from a day of fishing. He excitedly called for me to stop the car. He jumped out, ran over to the rabbit, and proceeded to prepare it for dinner with his pocket knife.

The rest of the trip was made a little more entertaining with him wrapping the pelt around his hand (head and all) and using it as a finger puppet, with his finger stuck up inside the rabbits brain.

Him and his missus liked to sit in a warm bath, slurping bongs all night.

 

Yeah, Latvia. Must be an interesting place.

 

1 hour ago, GCDee said:

REALLY?  No way! My Father's side of the family is Latvian 

Sveiki! 

Yeah, although a small population, the bulk of Latvian post-WW2 migration was to Australia and Canada, so we're fairly well represented in those countries. I wonder how many are Melbourne supporters.....

10 hours ago, Xavierrodway said:

Not sure who would want to commit to them for an extended period of time.. Especially with Scott resinging yesterday

Resinging what song? The club song or somthing else?

My ideal (realistic) trade scenario would be as follows:

Trade One:

We send pick 10 & Jack Watts to Carlton for Pick 4 & a 2nd round pick.

Trade Two:

We trade Pick 4 and a 2nd round pick to GWS for Josh Kelly.

Trade Three:

We trade 2018 first round pick to Adelaide for Lever

Trade Four:

We send a 3rd round pick to Collingwood for Mason Cox

2018 team:

B: Jetta        OMac        Lever

HB: Hunt        TMac         Hibberd

C: Tyson      Oliver         Jones

HF: Trac         Hogan       Hannan

F: Cox          Weid          Garlett

R: Gawn      Kelly        Viney

Int: Lewis    Melk     Brayshaw    Salem

Depth: Pedo, Harmes, Bugg, Frost, JKH, ANB, Smith

That team is playing finals.

 

 

1 hour ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

Sveiki! 

Yeah, although a small population, the bulk of Latvian post-WW2 migration was to Australia and Canada, so we're fairly well represented in those countries. I wonder how many are Melbourne supporters.....

Probably not a lot I'd assume.. well my Dad and 2 brothers are so including me there's 4

3 minutes ago, Is Dom Is Good said:

My ideal (realistic) trade scenario would be as follows:

Trade One:

We send pick 10 & Jack Watts to Carlton for Pick 4 & a 2nd round pick.

Trade Two:

We trade Pick 4 and a 2nd round pick to GWS for Josh Kelly.

Trade Three:

We trade 2018 first round pick to Adelaide for Lever

Trade Four:

We send a 3rd round pick to Collingwood for Mason Cox

2018 team:

B: Jetta        OMac        Lever

HB: Hunt        TMac         Hibberd

C: Tyson      Oliver         Jones

HF: Trac         Hogan       Hannan

F: Cox          Weid          Garlett

R: Gawn      Kelly        Viney

Int: Lewis    Melk     Brayshaw    Salem

Depth: Pedo, Harmes, Bugg, Frost, JKH, ANB, Smith

That team is playing finals.

 

 

As good as all this sounds I really can't see us having the salary cap to acquire both Lever & Kelly, without giving up one of our "untouchables" eg Petracca or Oliver in years to come 

I suspect we have lever. Which is great.

But as deespencer notes we are likely to only bw ablw to land one gun player.

So whilst we desperately need q good quality outside mid with elite kicking skills we wont get one through trading this year. What we dont want is  b-c grader outside with average kicking skills.

Time for taylor to shine again in the draft

6 minutes ago, GCDee said:

As good as all this sounds I really can't see us having the salary cap to acquire both Lever & Kelly, without giving up one of our "untouchables" eg Petracca or Oliver in years to come 

I understand what you're saying, but we also have no real understanding of the salary cap issues so who's to say we don't have the ability to do this?

Has there been any whispers of Whitfield wanting out or is it just  a pipe dream?

 

Whitfield is a lock for the hawks. He's a melbourne boy and will ask for a trade to the hawks in the next month.

13 hours ago, beelzebub said:

@demonland   trade board...cough 

 

please  

Whispering Jack is usually in charge of that. I think he's still trying to come up with a clever name for it. We're in the process of trying to recall our premature creation of a finals board that was created for our members. Too soon?