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7 minutes ago, Dwight Schrute said:

Not really relevant to MFC trades, but i have heard from someone i trust that Chris Scott is strongly considering walking away from coaching at the end of his current contract, 

I think now is a good time for the MFC to go hard at a couple of Cats vets with the lure of a flag

Anyone worth looking at though? Feel like majority of their veterans are cooked..

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1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Anyone worth looking at though? Feel like majority of their veterans are cooked..

Not too sure Dazzle, i reckon someone like Tohey or Duncan for their foot skills but not much else. 

 

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3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Anyone worth looking at though? Feel like majority of their veterans are cooked..

Reckon you are correct.

That Cats list will look horrendous once the pensioners realize their time is up.

If it doesn't happen this year, round 22 next year will see the cats lose a dozen players. The following year they will be struggling to avoid a top 4 draft pick.

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14 minutes ago, Dwight Schrute said:

Not really relevant to MFC trades, but i have heard from someone i trust that Chris Scott is strongly considering walking away from coaching at the end of his current contract, 

I think now is a good time for the MFC to go hard at a couple of Cats vets with the lure of a flag

No thanks.

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1 hour ago, Mickey said:

Sam Edmunds starting to get on board with Cerra to the Dees.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/09/18/sam-edmunds-trade-update-on-cerra-lobb-clark-and-more/

"I struggle to see how Melbourne would go to the trouble of being the only other club to compete with Carlton for his services if they didn’t have a plan in place or a possibility of getting the deal done. When you look at it, it has to involve a player.”

“Clearly Adam Cerra believes it’s possible because he hasn’t said ‘I’m definitely going to Carlton'".

I hope it's not the case, but maybe one of our WA players (i.e. Rivers) wants to go home, and has notified the club about that, and it's being kept hush-hush until the season has finished? 

A Premiership or even a top-notch season making a GF isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all for all of the players, even though it might be for us supporters. Remember Joel Hamling walked out on the Bulldogs after their 2016 flag to join the Dockers!

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2 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Anyone worth looking at though? Feel like majority of their veterans are cooked..

If we're picking through the carcass that is Geelong, I'd take Jack Henry and maybe Mark O'Connor, who strikes me as the consummate role player. They can keep most of the the pensioners

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3 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

if they can't facilitate a trade doesn't that automatically make him a delisted free agent if they are not offering him a new contract?

it seems big, lunky talls are REALLY out of favour - brander can't get a deal, weed is being left to wait til we see what else plays out, and there's minimal interest it would seem for either of them

this puff piece was published in may last year https://www.afl.com.au/news/612647/why-the-eagles-are-salivating-over-this-17-gamer-with-no-ceiling

clearly that ceiling got pretty low pretty quick...

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4 hours ago, Dwight Schrute said:

Not really relevant to MFC trades, but i have heard from someone i trust that Chris Scott is strongly considering walking away from coaching at the end of his current contract, 

I think now is a good time for the MFC to go hard at a couple of Cats vets with the lure of a flag

Harry Cooper on our half back line with a large supply or morphine would win the Norm Smith this year! Recruit him!

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2 hours ago, Roger Mellie said:

If we're picking through the carcass that is Geelong, I'd take Jack Henry and maybe Mark O'Connor, who strikes me as the consummate role player. They can keep most of the the pensioners

Jack Henry is a very very good footballer. Just as well too; heroically ugly.

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7 hours ago, Dwight Schrute said:

Not really relevant to MFC trades, but i have heard from someone i trust that Chris Scott is strongly considering walking away from coaching at the end of his current contract, 

I think now is a good time for the MFC to go hard at a couple of Cats vets with the lure of a flag

not surprising given his comments on SEN a while back in regards to brad ever going back in to coaching when he was initially being linked with the afl gig he officially began last week

3 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

if they can't facilitate a trade doesn't that automatically make him a delisted free agent if they are not offering him a new contract?

it seems big, lunky talls are REALLY out of favour - brander can't get a deal, weed is being left to wait til we see what else plays out, and there's minimal interest it would seem for either of them

this puff piece was published in may last year https://www.afl.com.au/news/612647/why-the-eagles-are-salivating-over-this-17-gamer-with-no-ceiling

clearly that ceiling got pretty low pretty quick...

idk if you've seen much of brander play but he's hardly "big, lunky", plays as a wingman has a great tank and good foot skills had 20+ touches multiple times, problem for him was he was too flexible. was sort of always a stop-gap, sort of became a defensive, forward and wing reserve and never settled and got the chance to develop in just one spot and now he's on the scrap heap

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admin can we request a mute on all comments including any reference to geelong and recruiting veterans, gotta be the least funny and most over used gag on this site ahaha cmon now fellas... yawnnnn

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8 minutes ago, Turner said:

admin can we request a mute on all comments including any reference to geelong and recruiting veterans, gotta be the least funny and most over used gag on this site ahaha cmon now fellas... yawnnnn

You must be quite young.

It's been a very long and painful time since we've been in the position to laugh at Geelong. They however have been stomping on us for what seems like forever.

Let everyone enjoy it while they can.

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13 hours ago, Northern Summer said:

I hope it's not the case, but maybe one of our WA players (i.e. Rivers) wants to go home, and has notified the club about that, and it's being kept hush-hush until the season has finished? 

A Premiership or even a top-notch season making a GF isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all for all of the players, even though it might be for us supporters. Remember Joel Hamling walked out on the Bulldogs after their 2016 flag to join the Dockers!


Hamling left Geelong after not being able to get a game ahead of Scarlett, Lonergan, Mackie, Taylor, etc. to go to Bulldogs for opportunity, but finding himself on the fringes behind Morris, Adams, Wood, Cordy, Roughead, et al, sneaking into the finals side as a result of injuries.
In spite of his talent, heading to Freo only prolonged a career that was sure to dissipate if he stayed at the Bulldogs.

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14 hours ago, faultydet said:

Looking at recent history (Lever, Langdon and possibly May) they were all discussed as having been in the Dees sights for years prior to coming over.

This is starting to smell like we've been into Cerra for longer than we are letting on. If we can fit him in the salary cap it makes sense that our list management team has been involved for quite a while.

Absolutely Faulty. Given taylors track record, this isn't soem random thought bubble. 

Fascinating to watch.  Also fascinating will be watching Cerra's presser outlining why he chose the Blues over the destination club (both performance and culturally), the Dees.   If he does.

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1 hour ago, Nascent said:

Sam Petrevski-Seton has requested a trade to West Coast.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/679045/blue-wants-out-former-no-6-pick-requests-trade-home

Good. Carlton fans can stop fantasizing about trading him for Cerra now. 

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11 minutes ago, faultydet said:

Good. Carlton fans can stop fantasizing about trading him for Cerra now. 

Here is my conspiracy theory.

If Cerra had told Carlton that he was nominating them, then at the exit interview for Petrevski-Seton, Carlton would have told him to keep quiet if he wanted to go home and they would try and do a deal to get him to the Dockers.

Of course all conspiracy theories have a get out option and that is in this case, that maybe the Dockers don't want P-S, or he doesn't want to play with them and then pick 6 and whatever they get for P-S from the Eagles would easily do the deal.

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On 9/18/2021 at 5:11 PM, Dwight Schrute said:

Not really relevant to MFC trades, but i have heard from someone i trust that Chris Scott is strongly considering walking away from coaching at the end of his current contract, 

I think now is a good time for the MFC to go hard at a couple of Cats vets with the lure of a flag

He has a mixed record.

He won a GF in his first season which appeared to be on the coattails of Thomson's work and a star studded list which virtually coached itself.  But he was their coach so deserves credit.

But in the 10 years since he is in the Ross Lyon category:  regularly gets teams deep into the finals but can't win a premiership.  And like Ross Scott would leave the club with an aging list lacking balance and talent.  At least the Saints had a few FA's they got decent picks for: Dal Santo, Goddard.

If he goes next year he will leave their list in a bit of a mess without a lot of draft or trade currency.  .  

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3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Here is my conspiracy theory.

If Cerra had told Carlton that he was nominating them, then at the exit interview for Petrevski-Seton, Carlton would have told him to keep quiet if he wanted to go home and they would try and do a deal to get him to the Dockers.

Of course all conspiracy theories have a get out option and that is in this case, that maybe the Dockers don't want P-S, or he doesn't want to play with them and then pick 6 and whatever they get for P-S from the Eagles would easily do the deal.

Can't see SPS being worth much. And West Coast are about to fall off a cliff.

I'm warming to the conspiracy theories. That he hasn't made an announcement yet says to me that all roads lead to the Demons. 

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2 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

He has a mixed record.

He won a GF in his first season which appeared to be on the coattails of Thomson's work and a star studded list which virtually coached itself.  But he was their coach so deserves credit.

But in the 10 years since he is in the Ross Lyon category:  regularly gets teams deep into the finals but can't win a premiership.  And like Ross Scott would leave the club with an aging list lacking balance and talent.  At least the Saints had a few FA's they got decent picks for: Dal Santo, Goddard.

If he goes next year he will leave their list in a bit of a mess without a lot of draft or trade currency.  .  

I wonder if it's a bit like his brother at North though where the club and coach aren't completely aligned on how to proceed, in saying that, if that's the case, i'd suspect Chris Scott is the one ruling the roost, 

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On 9/17/2021 at 10:32 PM, Chook in Perth said:

She's on like donkey kong boys and girls. 

Flag first. Then pump a bit of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons 

The phrase 'It's on like Donkey Kong' denotes a readiness for some fierce competition. While Donkey Kong's famed nemesis Mario comes from the Mushroom Kingdom, he's clearly of Italian stock. Less clear is what's inside the barrels that DK relentlessly hurls at Mario, but they may well be barrels full of cash. I'm getting distinct Lygon Street vibes here.

Meanwhile, Frankie Valli is also of Italian heritage, as is the name Cerra. I'm not sure what Cerra means in Italian, but in Portuguese it means something like 'closes', and I think can be used in a way similar to close your mouth (or Shaddap You Face) - or 'pipe down' in English, bringing us right back to Mario. I also recall something about Mario raising a 'flag first' when he reached the conclusion of a stage before taking on the end-boss? 

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