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Lol.. Edmund et al will just say whatever they like at this time of the year with zero accountability or real facts. Of Course Port will ask the question, reckon every side will.

And how in the heck would he know that Kozzy doesn't love Melbourne..  I mean, who would tell him that.. oh I know.. Port Adelaide

AFL Germilists are bad most of the time, but at this time of year.. its peak season for which tree wants to be the highest in the forest of F/wits

 

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    17 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Why the hesitation from kozzie?

    I said this a while back in the Jackson thread, but I’ll spare you the pain of having to trawl through 200 pages…

    Dont underestimate the impact of COVID on these young guys from interstate. Their mates at home were partying and seeing family while we were in lock down and scared to go to Coles. It tainted Melbourne significantly.

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    1 minute ago, The heart beats true said:

    I said this a while back in the Jackson thread, but I’ll spare you the pain of having to trawl through 200 pages…

    Dont underestimate the impact of COVID on these young guys from interstate. Their mates at home were partying and seeing family while we were in lock down and scared to go to Coles. It tainted Melbourne significantly.

    That was 12 months ago.

    They can do whatever they like now..

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    2 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

    I said this a while back in the Jackson thread, but I’ll spare you the pain of having to trawl through 200 pages…

    Dont underestimate the impact of COVID on these young guys from interstate. Their mates at home were partying and seeing family while we were in lock down and scared to go to Coles. It tainted Melbourne significantly.

    Well in that case Dan Andrews owes us a state of the art training facility within the MCG precinct

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    8 minutes ago, Demon3 said:

    Lol.. Edmund et al will just say whatever they like at this time of the year with zero accountability or real facts. Of Course Port will ask the question, reckon every side will.

    And how in the heck would he know that Kozzy doesn't love Melbourne..  I mean, who would tell him that.. oh I know.. Port Adelaide

    AFL Germilists are bad most of the time, but at this time of year.. its peak season for which tree wants to be the highest in the forest of F/wits

     

    Lot of pressure from their bosses to come up with “x” amount of trade snippets per day over the next little while.

    Imagine a Germilist telling his editor he has nothing. Can imagine the editor replying “you are telling me you have trawled the hundreds of pages on forums like big footy and demonland and you couldn’t come up with anything?” 

     

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    3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    That was 12 months ago.

    They can do whatever they like now..

    PTSD. Melbourne and our people are not the same unfortunately. 
     

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    1 hour ago, Lord Nev said:

    Sam Edmund on SEN: Kozzy loves the Dees, but doesn't love Melbourne the city as much. Port coming hard for him. Kozzy not in a rush with extending his contract despite the Dees already putting offers to him.

     

    How many players sign contracts late in the season more than a year out? Compared to how many players sign contracts over summer when their managers have had a chance to fully assess options.

    I’m not saying he isn’t a chance to leave but this is a fair beat up that’s really piggy backing on the Jacko situation. 

    I don’t think we should be worrying until at least April next year. If talks are delayed or not progressing by then it’s worth talking about.

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    20 minutes ago, Demon3 said:

    Lol.. Edmund et al will just say whatever they like at this time of the year with zero accountability or real facts. Of Course Port will ask the question, reckon every side will.

    And how in the heck would he know that Kozzy doesn't love Melbourne..  I mean, who would tell him that.. oh I know.. Port Adelaide

    AFL Germilists are bad most of the time, but at this time of year.. its peak season for which tree wants to be the highest in the forest of F/wits

     

    Sam Edmund is one of the most reliable ones in my opinion.

    Gee the media bashing on here is silly sometimes and this kind of name calling doesn't help your case.

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    With Griffin Logue seemingly on his way out of Freo, what are folks thoughts on snaffling him to add to our defence. Thereby freeing up Harry Petty to become our "best KPF since David Neitz"?

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    2 minutes ago, Garbo said:

    Seems Georgiades is in dees sights, great pick up if we can get it done.

    Huh? Since when?

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    1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    That was 12 months ago.

    They can do whatever they like now..

    Just because you don’t like the answer to the question you asked doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a factor Dazzle. Remember they are 20 year olds. 2 years of lockdown is 75% of their entire adult life to date. 

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    25 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Huh? Since when?

    To be fair I'd hope we're looking at any forward that is a chance to move clubs.

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    1 hour ago, 1964_2 said:

    PTSD. Melbourne and our people are not the same unfortunately. 
     

    Certainly has had a knock on effect. 

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    1 hour ago, Lord Nev said:

    Sam Edmund is one of the most reliable ones in my opinion.

    Gee the media bashing on here is silly sometimes and this kind of name calling doesn't help your case.

    Maybe. But he's also the journalist who said Carey and Stevens "came to blows", then had Carey say he didn't touch Stevens, then had to say "the dictionary defines "come to blows" as including stern words".

    He dominates trade radio and associated media. He will be saying a hell of a lot over the next few weeks. It won't all be right.

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    57 minutes ago, Garbo said:

    Seems Georgiades is in dees sights, great pick up if we can get it done.

    I would assume he would more likely to head West.   

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    Why aren't we being linked to Oli Henry? He's a very athletic marking type who would add a lot to our forward line. We desperately need another goal kicker and he could provide that for us and would be relatively cheap to obtain. Him in tandem with Fritsch would be a nightmare for opposition defenders. 

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    1 minute ago, titan_uranus said:

    Maybe. But he's also the journalist who said Carey and Stevens "came to blows", then had Carey say he didn't touch Stevens, then had to say "the dictionary defines "come to blows" as including stern words".

    He dominates trade radio and associated media. He will be saying a hell of a lot over the next few weeks. It won't all be right.

    Sure, none of them get it 100% right, but I think abusing them on the internet doesn't ended up reflecting on them as much as it does the person doing it. There's often over the top vitriol towards the media on here, yet who are the first people posters go to for their information?

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    2 hours ago, The heart beats true said:

    I said this a while back in the Jackson thread, but I’ll spare you the pain of having to trawl through 200 pages…

    Dont underestimate the impact of COVID on these young guys from interstate. Their mates at home were partying and seeing family while we were in lock down and scared to go to Coles. It tainted Melbourne significantly.

    Weren’t most of our list interstate in hubs (like all other sides) during the majority of lockdown?

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    12 minutes ago, The Jackson 6 said:

    Weren’t most of our list interstate in hubs (like all other sides) during the majority of lockdown?

    Only during the season, and even then under extreme guidelines. Folks in WA in particular lived a very free life in comparison. His mates there would have been into him about it. My friends in WA where. It was annoying.

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    6 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

    Only during the season, and even then under extreme guidelines. Folks in WA in particular lived a very free life in comparison. His mates there would have been into him about it. My friends in WA where. It was annoying.

    Yeah I understand your point about regular Victorians feeling like we drew the short straw on the Covid front but WA players in the AFL were;

    - in hubs during the season (remembering ALL AFL players were under some form of restriction during the season)

    - then they went straight back home to WA from September - December (from memory I think Luke may have even stayed in Perth until January)

    - vic didn’t have much lockdown during the pre-season months WA players were required in Melbourne…

    I don’t believe Covid is the reason Jackson is going home.

     

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    2 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

    Sam Edmund is one of the most reliable ones in my opinion.

    Gee the media bashing on here is silly sometimes and this kind of name calling doesn't help your case.

    Sorry Lord Nev, i will agree to disagree here, i cant stand the majority of them. Sam, might be a lovely bloke, and good at his job most of the times, but they are the most unaccountable people you can come across. They say, they write whatever they like and no one will ever know if its true or not, and they simply say their information changed. Shocking profession.

     

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    6 minutes ago, The Jackson 6 said:

    Yeah I understand your point about regular Victorians feeling like we drew the short straw on the Covid front but WA players in the AFL were;

    - in hubs during the season (remembering ALL AFL players were under some form of restriction during the season)

    - then they went straight back home to WA from September - December (from memory I think Luke may have even stayed in Perth until January)

    - vic didn’t have much lockdown during the pre-season months WA players were required in Melbourne…

    I don’t believe Covid is the reason Jackson is going home.

     

    Yeah, I agree. It’s not the reason.

    I posted this specifically in the context of reports that Koz loves the Demons, but not Melbourne as a place. 👍

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    It looks like many second and third year players are leaving their clubs.

    I sometimes wonder, what's the point of the draft then? You invest in a prospect, develop that prospect only to lose it to an interstate competitor?

    It really sucks to lose Jackson at age 21,; if you ask me, it can't be good for the league  What if we lose a flag playing against the team that poached a potential star like Jackson?

    In our case we took the risk with Jackson and now another team will reap the rewards of having Jackson on their list.

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