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Kozzy Pickett Re-Signs for 4 Years

Timothy Reddan-A'Blew
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Very similar noise to Jackson last year where the club was very confident he'd sign lol.

 

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    4 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

    GONE

    Conjecture or inside info?

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    3 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

    Out of interest, is there anyone in the industry other than Kane Cornes who is discussing the possibility of Pickett leaving us at the end of the year?

    Is there anyone in the industry besides Pickett who is out of contract at the end of 2023?

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    Just now, Dr. Gonzo said:

    Is there anyone in the industry besides Pickett who is out of contract at the end of 2023?

    Tom De Koning, Ben McKay and Mitch Geogiadas are the 3 that would be thr most popular. 

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    Losing a generational ruckman and small forward in the space of 12/24 months would be pretty disgraceful let alone just after winning a flag, club will need to have a look at itself and what went wrong if it ends up that way. We haven’t even started talking about Rivers yet who is also out of contract and from WA
     

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    11 minutes ago, Lewis said:

    Losing a generational ruckman and small forward in the space of 12/24 months would be pretty disgraceful let alone just after winning a flag, club will need to have a look at itself and what went wrong if it ends up that way. We haven’t even started talking about Rivers yet who is also out of contract and from WA
     

    What's there to look at?  We drafted 2 players that played in a premiership team.  Those players are so good, other teams are throwing bucketloads of cash at them and capitilising on a go home factor to lever them away from us.  It's part of the game.  There were 5 players that started at other clubs that also played in our premiership (Hibbo, May, Lever, Langdon and BBB).  Yes it sucks and we'd prefer it to be another way, but it's more a sign that we are doing things right than wrong.  Would you prefer we only drafted players that no other clubs want?

    Hopefully if Kozzy leaves, the club that gets him pays overs for him, in terms of both his contract and the trade.

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    On 2/10/2023 at 3:58 PM, Dee Zephyr said:

    The first play of this draft highlight package is one people probably won’t ever forget, I would have drafted him for that alone.

     

    Gulp!

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    5 hours ago, McQueen said:

    Don’t let Kane steal your energy. 
     

    Find out where he lives and take your dog around to [censored] on his front lawn. 
     

    You’ll feel better. 

    Pfft, the dog is not needed

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    2 minutes ago, Vipercrunch said:

    What's there to look at?  We drafted 2 players that played in a premiership team.  Those players are so good, other teams are throwing bucketloads of cash at them and capitilising on a go home factor to lever them away from us.  It's part of the game.  There were 5 players that started at other clubs that also played in our premiership (Hibbo, May, Lever, Langdon and BBB).  Yes it sucks and we'd prefer it to be another way, but it's more a sign that we are doing things right than wrong.  Would you prefer we only drafted players that no other clubs want?

    Hopefully if Kozzy leaves, the club that gets him pays overs for him, in terms of both his contract and the trade.

    And hunter and Grundy will play in a premiership this year.

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    And out of interest has Cornes outlined how port will get this deal done given they have no picks.

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    7 minutes ago, BDA said:

    And out of interest has Cornes outlined how port will get this deal done given they have no picks.

    They have zero capital.

    Our best bet is West Coast

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    He’s a Melbourne player until he’s not. Until then we block out the unsubstantiated noise and enjoy watching him play.

    Leave Kane Cornes to disappear further up his own [censored] and keep shouting into the cavernous wreck.

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    Ahhh, gonna get sucked in like Dogga thread. Hot topic, enter and nadda.

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    3 hours ago, Travy14 said:

    Cornes is hanging onto a comment made last year during trade period. "In love with Melb, but not the city."

    That was almost 6 months ago now, im sure that the Dees and even Kossie himself are doing everything to make sure he is happy and enjoying himself.

    If he hasn't signed by mid season we'll then get worried.  This time we have to be serious about bringing the crows into discussions, ports Draft hand is not going to get it done!

    Let's hope it doesn't get to that!

    Since then his two housemates have left. You cannot underestimate the impact that this may have had on him. Its hard to get a read on friendship circles within the club (as they are all not best mates), but we can only hope that Kozzy is being smothered by those that stay behind. 

    He needs a GF and housemates that bleed red and blue. 

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    3 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

    Since then his two housemates have left. You cannot underestimate the impact that this may have had on him. Its hard to get a read on friendship circles within the club (as they are all not best mates), but we can only hope that Kozzy is being smothered by those that stay behind. 

    He needs a GF and housemates that bleed red and blue. 

    He does have GF.

    But agree entirely with your post 

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    14 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

    Since then his two housemates have left. You cannot underestimate the impact that this may have had on him. Its hard to get a read on friendship circles within the club (as they are all not best mates), but we can only hope that Kozzy is being smothered by those that stay behind. 

    He needs a GF and housemates that bleed red and blue. 

    Then why would he go to a club full of strangers ?

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    1 minute ago, loges said:

    Then why would he go to a club full of strangers ?

    Let me know when you have an answer to that.. because my guess is that you would have cracked the nut that will save this thread from spiraling out to 100 pages by end of the year. 

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    40 minutes ago, Vipercrunch said:

    What's there to look at?  We drafted 2 players that played in a premiership team.  Those players are so good, other teams are throwing bucketloads of cash at them and capitilising on a go home factor to lever them away from us.  It's part of the game.  There were 5 players that started at other clubs that also played in our premiership (Hibbo, May, Lever, Langdon and BBB).  Yes it sucks and we'd prefer it to be another way, but it's more a sign that we are doing things right than wrong.  Would you prefer we only drafted players that no other clubs want?

    Hopefully if Kozzy leaves, the club that gets him pays overs for him, in terms of both his contract and the trade.

    To look at how we are accomodating interstate players? Why don’t Jackson and Pickett like living in Melbourne enough for them to leave the club ? The idea that we’re fine with having these players for 2-4 years and then getting high draft picks for them is ridiculous. They’re nowhere near their peak yet. We don’t want an 18 year old replacing Kozzy or Jacko, we need to win another flag with the list we have. We need Kozzy kicking 40 goals every year and we needed Jacko to be our #1 ruck for the next decade, a first year player isn’t going to help us push towards another flag right now. We haven’t brought JVR in for 2-3 years to just get a good pick out of him, he needs to be our KPF for the next 10. So yes the club needs to have a look at a few things if we end up losing the entire 2019 draft class after just 4 years, or it’ll just keep happening over and over again? Doesn’t sound like Jason Taylor is keen to stop drafting interstate if they’re the best talent available 

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    32 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

    Since then his two housemates have left. You cannot underestimate the impact that this may have had on him. Its hard to get a read on friendship circles within the club (as they are all not best mates), but we can only hope that Kozzy is being smothered by those that stay behind. 

    He needs a GF and housemates that bleed red and blue. 

    Rest assured, Kozzie is well-loved by all of the boys.

    He also has a girlfriend who isn’t from another state. They’ve been together for quite a while and her family are all here in Melbourne. 

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    30 minutes ago, Lewis said:

    To go back and live in the state where his family and friends are? 

    Well he could have still done that if his mates had stayed.

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    8 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Rest assured, Kozzie is well-loved by all of the boys.

    He also has a girlfriend who isn’t from another state. They’ve been together for quite a while and her family are all here in Melbourne. 

    Well loved by all the boys sure, but the club is obviously aware that he’s feeling the loss of his two closest mates Toby and Luke by bringing in Burgoyne over the summer and thinking about Liam Henry in a trade. Let’s be honest, we don’t need either of those players and it’s all Kozzy related

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    19 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

     

    And every club has a story of a player that left and went on much smaller and worse things...Nathan Buckley springs to mind.

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