Jump to content

Farewell Brodie Grundy

Ouch!
Ouch!
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

This thread will end soon if what Gerard Healy said on SEN is true. He said that he will not be surprised if LJ re-signs. He heard  this from inside the club. 

  • Quote
    • Shocked 1
     
    1 hour ago, djr said:

    This thread will end soon if what Gerard Healy said on SEN is true. He said that he will not be surprised if LJ re-signs. He heard  this from inside the club. 

    Well that work experience kid in membership has good info.

  • Quote
    • Haha 5

    It'll be interesting if LJ stays. I wonder, could we play LJ, Max and Grundy? Play LJ as a midfielder..

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Haha 1
    • Shocked 1
    • Vomit 1
     

    WA SEN commentator Paul(?) Haselby said on radio today that he feels Freo may be getting cold feet on the idea of investing so much money into recruiting LJ because of his very average year. It’s a huge risk for them and it would impinge significantly on their efforts to recruit or retain other important players.

  • Quote
    • Like 6
    • Thanks 1
    • Love 1
    5 minutes ago, A F said:

    It'll be interesting if LJ stays. I wonder, could we play LJ, Max and Grundy? Play LJ as a midfielder..

    Absolutely, positively and unquestionably no. 

  • Quote
    • Like 3
    • Love 1
    • Haha 2

    2 minutes ago, joeboy said:

    WA SEN commentator Paul(?) Haselby said on radio today that he feels Freo may be getting cold feet on the idea of investing so much money into recruiting LJ because of his very average year. It’s a huge risk for them and it would impinge significantly on their efforts to recruit or retain other important players.

    Sounds unlikely 

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    10 minutes ago, joeboy said:

    WA SEN commentator Paul(?) Haselby said on radio today that he feels Freo may be getting cold feet on the idea of investing so much money into recruiting LJ because of his very average year. It’s a huge risk for them and it would impinge significantly on their efforts to recruit or retain other important players.

    Is that a way of saving face if LJ has decided to stay at the Dees.

    Edited by Lucifers Hero

  • Quote
    • Like 5
    • Love 1
    • Haha 1
    1 minute ago, adonski said:

    Sounds unlikely 

    Which part sounds unlikely?

    Do you have a new avatar ready?

  • Quote
    • Haha 3
     
    12 minutes ago, A F said:

    It'll be interesting if LJ stays. I wonder, could we play LJ, Max and Grundy? Play LJ as a midfielder..

    If LJ stays the offer to Grundy would disappear IMO. The Pies desperately need Grundys salary off their list, he could end up somewhere else. All this is depending on these reporters actually being right. Hmm my gut feel is they are guessing at best. 

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    18 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    Which part sounds unlikely?

    Do you have a new avatar ready?

    I have several thousand avatars lined up, FYI

    Just sceptical that a club would offer a 5? 6? 7? year multi million dollar deal to the player then get cold feet after 6 crap weeks  

  • Quote
    • Like 4
    • Haha 2

    25 minutes ago, joeboy said:

    WA SEN commentator Paul(?) Haselby said on radio today that he feels Freo may be getting cold feet on the idea of investing so much money into recruiting LJ because of his very average year. It’s a huge risk for them and it would impinge significantly on their efforts to recruit or retain other important players.

    You know it's possible that LJ has said no to Freo, so Haselby, a former Freo man, plays some media games to downplay LJ.

  • Quote
    • Like 3
    5 minutes ago, adonski said:

    I have several thousand avatars lined up, FYI

    Just sceptical that a club would offer a 5? 6? 7? year multi million dollar deal to the player then get cold feet after 6 crap weeks  

    I agree.  It would be like leading him on then pulling the pin.  Their cred would be shot if ithey got 'cold feet' at the last minute.  Which is what makes me think that Freo 'changing their mind' is to do with Jackson not Freo.

    Edited by Lucifers Hero

  • Quote
    • Like 2

    This thread is hilarious - he’s going , he’s gone, Grundy in , Grundy out , Freo hot , Freo cold 

    And all the time still not a single word from the man himself - he’d be rolling around in stitches reading this 

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Haha 2
    9 minutes ago, Sydee said:

    This thread is hilarious - he’s going , he’s gone, Grundy in , Grundy out , Freo hot , Freo cold 

    And all the time still not a single word from the man himself - he’d be rolling around in stitches reading this 

    It's a fan sight, what do you expect no comment until a decision is announced? Fans on a fans site discuss things is that a surprise? 

  • Quote
    • Like 6
    • Thanks 1
    • Love 1

    15 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    I agree.  It would be like leading him on then pulling the pin.  Their cred would be shot if ithey got 'cold feet' at the last minute.  Which is what makes me think that Freo 'changing their mind' is to do with Jackson not Freo.

    If I was in Freo's shoes, I wouldn't have any issue with pulling the pin. Freo have probably been courting Jackson for 12 months, and probably put a serious offer to him 6 months ago. In the ensuing 6 months, Jackson's form hasn't warranted the sort of money that Freo had allegedly offered. Plus Freo's own unexpected rise may have them having 2nd thoughts. They may think that retaining Acres and using their draft capital and salary cap elsewhere is more prudent.

     

  • Quote
    • Like 6
    3 minutes ago, adonski said:

    Their feet were ice cold re Hogan too!

    Yep, Bell said they were stopping their due diligence. Pretty sure the trade went through 2 days later

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    3 minutes ago, mo64 said:

    If I was in Freo's shoes, I wouldn't have any issue with pulling the pin. Freo have probably been courting Jackson for 12 months, and probably put a serious offer to him 6 months ago. In the ensuing 6 months, Jackson's form hasn't warranted the sort of money that Freo had allegedly offered. Plus Freo's own unexpected rise may have them having 2nd thoughts. They may think that retaining Acres and using their draft capital and salary cap elsewhere is more prudent.

     

    If they pulled the pin on Jackson having offered a significant deal then they lose all cred and no player manager or player would consider them in future. 

  • Quote
    • Like 6
    19 minutes ago, old dee said:

    It's a fan sight, what do you expect no comment until a decision is announced? Fans on a fans site discuss things is that a surprise? 

    What ? Am I not allowed to find it funny 

    Take a chill pill 

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    Please note: I heard all this directly from the mouth of Max Gawn's accountant's hairdresser's dog. In a dream.

    Luke Jackson to accept a highly unusual 1 year top-up deal, with complex arrangements for a second and even third season but also capacity for an amicable future move.

    Fremantle can't get the trade value required and Jackson won't leave if Melbourne will be stiffed. He is also perfectly capable of committing his enthusiastic best to the moment he is in, not some uncertain future. He's a good kid that way.

    As a result, club is losing interest in Grundy and focusing on moving into the mid-first round of the draft to secure dynamic forward/ruck Isaac Keeler, who they believe they can maximise under the influence of Gawn & Jackson.

    Also talk of giving up a 2023 first round pick (again with the future pick trading!) in order to acquire a specialist contested marking target for the forward line. Not necessarily a gun, but someone who attacks an incoming high ball consistently.

    Dunstan may be doing  Preuss and moving on to a more secure opportunity, with full blessing from the club. Gold Coast continues to court James Harmes. Club is okay with him leaving as they have a lot of confidence in the future of both James Jordon and Bailey Laurie, while Gold Coast has a big surplus of early second-round picks so a deal would be easy to make.

  • Quote

    24 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

    Please note: I heard all this directly from the mouth of Max Gawn's accountant's hairdresser's dog. In a dream.

    Luke Jackson to accept a highly unusual 1 year top-up deal, with complex arrangements for a second and even third season but also capacity for an amicable future move.

    Fremantle can't get the trade value required and Jackson won't leave if Melbourne will be stiffed. He is also perfectly capable of committing his enthusiastic best to the moment he is in, not some uncertain future. He's a good kid that way.

    As a result, club is losing interest in Grundy and focusing on moving into the mid-first round of the draft to secure dynamic forward/ruck Isaac Keeler, who they believe they can maximise under the influence of Gawn & Jackson.

    Also talk of giving up a 2023 first round pick (again with the future pick trading!) in order to acquire a specialist contested marking target for the forward line. Not necessarily a gun, but someone who attacks an incoming high ball consistently.

    Dunstan may be doing  Preuss and moving on to a more secure opportunity, with full blessing from the club. Gold Coast continues to court James Harmes. Club is okay with him leaving as they have a lot of confidence in the future of both James Jordon and Bailey Laurie, while Gold Coast has a big surplus of early second-round picks so a deal would be easy to make.

    Your source is still more credible than GNF.

    I'd be sad to see Harmes leave. Seems like a great clubman.

  • Quote
    • Love 1
    2 hours ago, joeboy said:

    WA SEN commentator Paul(?) Haselby said on radio today that he feels Freo may be getting cold feet on the idea of investing so much money into recruiting LJ because of his very average year. It’s a huge risk for them and it would impinge significantly on their efforts to recruit or retain other important players.

    No way would they backtrack if they've put an offer out and got an in principle agreement. Would make their name mud with player agents.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    2 hours ago, joeboy said:

    WA SEN commentator Paul(?) Haselby said on radio today that he feels Freo may be getting cold feet on the idea of investing so much money into recruiting LJ because of his very average year. It’s a huge risk for them and it would impinge significantly on their efforts to recruit or retain other important players.

    Finals are the big stage and right now LJ was very ordinary. How does FREO justify big dollars to the rest of a very well performing team after watching the QF on Friday. I'd be cooling on him too. . He'll be great but maybe now not a unicorn.

    Last Friday, IMO, Steven May spelled the end of Buddy's career or attaractiveness to others.  Last year Bailey Fritsch wrote the end of Easton Woods career.

    2 hinys now that he may be staying put.

  • Quote
    •  
    3 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

    Finals are the big stage and right now LJ was very ordinary. How does FREO justify big dollars to the rest of a very well performing team after watching the QF on Friday. I'd be cooling on him too. . He'll be great but maybe now not a unicorn.

    Last Friday, IMO, Steven May spelled the end of Buddy's career or attaractiveness to others.  Last year Bailey Fritsch wrote the end of Easton Woods career.

    2 hinys now that he may be staying put.

    Easy to forget LJ put together one of the most significant patches of football in the history of the club to turn the 2021 grand final. the reasons to target Jackson from Freo's perspective are as obvious as the reasons we're so desperate to keep him. 

    Edited by Dwight Schrute

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    5 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

    Finals are the big stage and right now LJ was very ordinary. How does FREO justify big dollars to the rest of a very well performing team after watching the QF on Friday. I'd be cooling on him too. . He'll be great but maybe now not a unicorn.

    Last Friday, IMO, Steven May spelled the end of Buddy's career or attaractiveness to others.  Last year Bailey Fritsch wrote the end of Easton Woods career.

    2 hinys now that he may be staying put.

    He's 20. Will only keep improving. Won't hit his peak for 5 years. This downplaying of his ability is ridiculous.

  • Quote
    • Like 3

    Join the conversation

    You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

    Guest
    Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
    Reply to this topic...
    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • REPORT: Hawthorn

      There was a time during the current Melbourne cycle that goes back to before the premiership when the club was the toughest to beat in the fourth quarter. The Demons were not only hard to beat at any time but it was virtually impossible to get the better them when scores were close at three quarter time. It was only three or four years ago but they were fit, strong and resilient in body and mind. Sadly, those days are over. This has been the case since the club fell off its pedestal about 12 months ago after it beat Geelong and then lost to Carlton. In both instances, Melbourne put together strong, stirring final quarters, one that resulted in victory, the other, in defeat. Since then, the drop off has been dramatic to the point where it can neither pull off victory in close matches, nor can it even go down in defeat  gallantly.

        • Clap
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Footscray

      At twenty-four minutes into the third term of the game between the Casey Demons and Footscray VFL at Whitten Oval, the visitors were coasting. They were winning all over the ground, had the ascendancy in the ruck battles and held a 26 point lead on a day perfect for football. What could go wrong? Everything. The Bulldogs moved into overdrive in the last five minutes of the term and booted three straight goals to reduce the margin to a highly retrievable eight points at the last break. Bouyed by that effort, their confidence was on a high level during the interval and they ran all over the despondent Demons and kicked another five goals to lead by a comfortable margin of four goals deep into the final term before Paddy Cross kicked a couple of too late goals for a despondent Casey. A testament to their lack of pressure in the latter stages of the game was the fact that Footscray’s last ten scoring shots were nine goals and one rushed behind. Things might have been different for the Demons who went into the game after last week’s bye with 12 AFL listed players. Blake Howes was held over for the AFL game but two others, Jack Billings and Taj Woewodin (not officially listed as injured) were also missing and they could have been handy at the end. Another mystery of the current VFL system.

        • Thanks
      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: Brisbane

      The Demons head back out on the road in Round 10 when they travel to Queensland to take on the reigning Premiers and the top of the table Lions who look very formidable. Can the Dees cause a massive upset? Who comes in and who goes out?

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 122 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PODCAST: Hawthorn

      The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 12th May @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we dissect the Demons loss to the Hawks. Your questions and comments are a huge part of our podcast so please post anything you want to ask or say below and we'll give you a shout out on the show. If you would like to leave us a voicemail please call 03 9016 3666 and don't worry no body answers so you don't have to talk to a human.

        • Clap
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 51 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • POSTGAME: Hawthorn

      Wayward kicking for goal, dump kicks inside 50 and some baffling umpiring all contributed to the Dees not getting out to an an early lead that may have impacted the result. At the end of the day the Demons were just not good enough and let the Hawks run away with their first win against the Demons in 7 years.

        • Clap
        • Love
        • Like
      • 353 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • VOTES: Hawthorn

      After 3 fantastic week Max Gawn has a massive lead in the Demonland Player of the Year award from Jake Bowey, Christian Petracca, Kade Chandler and Ed Langdon who round out the Top Five. Your votes please. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1.

        • Thanks
      • 34 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland
    View All