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Farewell Brodie Grundy

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1 hour ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

We’ve been keen on Mitch Georgiades since his draft year…  

 

Thanks @TeamPlayedFine39, I wonder if we're still keen though? Especially now that @Jaded No More has put Butters on the table (sounds a bit controversial when you say it out loud).

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    the thing with recruiting collingwood players, is even when they make the squad of 25 its headline news. its just ridiculous week after week how many non-stories are posted about Grundy.  The stories this week are he may or may not be back, riverting news. Geez I hope he plays in a finals against them and we win. 

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    3 hours ago, Megatron said:

    Hmm I’m not so sure. Petty might play forward and keep Tomo in.

    And Tomlinson named in the 18 which normally means they will not be an omission when the final team drops.

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    Grundy for georgiades is a fair swap I reckon.

    that said I would be very surprised if Grundy is traded. He’s Maxys successor so we’ll just create a problem for ourselves if we trade. 

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    6 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    It's not really a third straight week is it?  I though Casey had the bye two weeks ago.

    Casey played a scratch match against the Saints on that bye weekend.

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    6 hours ago, BDA said:

    Grundy for georgiades is a fair swap I reckon.

    that said I would be very surprised if Grundy is traded. He’s Maxys successor so we’ll just create a problem for ourselves if we trade. 

    An AA ruckman for a not proven forward with an ACL injury is a fair swap? 

    Ok Peter Bell, tell me more. 

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    3 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    An AA ruckman for a not proven forward with an ACL injury is a fair swap? 

    Ok Peter Bell, tell me more. 

    Comparing me to Peter Bell! I'm deeply insulted.

    Not proven is little unfair i reckon. He kicked 32 goals in 2021 and 23 last year (although he was wayward and kicked a lot of behinds. his yips are fixable though). Was a first round pick. Eagles were apparently chasing him last year. At 22, he's much younger than Grundy. ACL's are far from career ending compared to back in the day. obviously any trade subject to a proper medical 

    And i reckon he'd be playing in our first team at the moment while Grundy languishes at Casey.

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    3 hours ago, Demonland said:

     

    It means that they don't have a lot of faith in Tomlinson playing well consistently, and are happy to throw Petty forward this week, then next week drop Tomlinson when he is slightly below par and swing Petty back and put Grundy forward after two strong weeks in the VFL.

    Edit: I think Tomlinson has been pretty good, but based on selection patterns this year the selection pattern don't think he is the answer.

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    6 hours ago, Bay Riffin said:

    the thing with recruiting collingwood players, is even when they make the squad of 25 its headline news. its just ridiculous week after week how many non-stories are posted about Grundy.  The stories this week are he may or may not be back, riverting news. Geez I hope he plays in a finals against them and we win. 

    ... and cleans up bloody Cox 🤓😎🇺🇸in the process

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    4 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    ... and cleans up bloody Cox 🤓😎🇺🇸in the process

    Urgh those “USA” chants 🤮

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    Damian Barrett( I know I know) on the radio just now, very adamant the Grundy is gone this trade window. Sounded more like he has info that’s the case other than just speculating. 

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    2 minutes ago, Colm said:

    Damian Barrett( I know I know) on the radio just now, very adamant the Grundy is gone this trade window. Sounded more like he has info that’s the case other than just speculating. 

    🥔

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    On 7/28/2023 at 11:12 AM, layzie said:

    Extended bench but gee that would be cruel if they nobbled him from here.

    Well @Neitz the Great,  it appears I was as wrong as anyone can be. 

    I'll let myself out..

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    15 minutes ago, Colm said:

    Damian Barrett( I know I know) on the radio just now, very adamant the Grundy is gone this trade window. Sounded more like he has info that’s the case other than just speculating. 

    It could be a complicated deal if it happened, as Dees won’t want to pay any of his contract and Pies money might not be transferable.

     

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    12 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    It could be a complicated deal if it happened, as Dees won’t want to pay any of his contract and Pies money might not be transferable.

     

    He did mention that the payment structure would be complicated to work out by was confident it wouldn’t stop the deal from getting done. 
    Really if he does decide to leave it would be down to his management and whatever club decides to take him to sort that end of it out as I think we would be reluctant for him to leave. 

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    1 hour ago, Colm said:

    Damian Barrett( I know I know) on the radio just now, very adamant the Grundy is gone this trade window. Sounded more like he has info that’s the case other than just speculating. 

    Won't happen.

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    35 minutes ago, Colm said:

    Really if he does decide to leave it would be down to his management and whatever club decides to take him to sort that end of it out as I think we would be reluctant for him to leave. 

    He can't leave without MFC letting him go, Dunkley wanted to leave the Bulldogs a couple of years ago, Papley wanted to leave the Swans a few years ago, neither would agree to let these players go.

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    49 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    It could be a complicated deal if it happened, as Dees won’t want to pay any of his contract and Pies money might not be transferable.

     

    This was mentioned in the media a few weeks back. If correct sounds like some sloppy paper work. Not quite as bad as the Dogs and Pies with Treloar but up there.

    Hopefully they covered off the scenario plus others such as smoothing out his contract.

    As salary dumps become more common it's perhaps time that the agreements became less opaque

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    17 hours ago, monoccular said:

    ... and cleans up bloody Cox 🤓😎🇺🇸in the process

    You might be waiting a while for that

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    On 7/28/2023 at 11:19 AM, Katrina Dee Fan said:

    The thing is, we need leadership in the forward line.  Brown was providing that.  Petty is still young, and hasn't played enough in the forward to provide leadership.  

    Melksham is capable.  Has the experience plus finals cred.

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    1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    This was mentioned in the media a few weeks back. If correct sounds like some sloppy paper work. 

    Why, I don’t think we ever considered he would leave if he came to us.

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    1 hour ago, drysdale demon said:

    He can't leave without MFC letting him go, Dunkley wanted to leave the Bulldogs a couple of years ago, Papley wanted to leave the Swans a few years ago, neither would agree to let these players go.

    Better to get rid of BBB and TMac really.

    Grundy will likely play 1st ruck for MFC in good time and can be a "ruck rover" in the interim if Goodwin can fix the line up forward.

    Fortunately he's the coach, not I

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    24 minutes ago, IRW said:

    Better to get rid of BBB and TMac really.

    Grundy will likely play 1st ruck for MFC in good time and can be a "ruck rover" in the interim if Goodwin can fix the line up forward.

    Fortunately he's the coach, not I

    Both BBB and Tmac have contracts for next year and I don't see anyone taking them. 

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