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On 9/22/2023 at 12:12 PM, Nudge said:

Yeah I make it up.. cus as a workaholic, 4 kids, a huskey and an unhealthy reading habit I have time to make things up for the reason of.. if dunno.. catfishing???

 

I report what I hear and always have/will, and even then it’s a MINUTE amount, sooo much gets thrown up and tossed aside, some of the crazy stuff I don’t list ends up true ie Grundy mid last year. The more you Know peeps in the industry the more you realise how much is muted about, go watch the player agent docos — LOADS of stuff gets leaked and talked about. My rule is if it’s single source, unless directly club linked I don’t share — if it’s same topic multiple ppl then I share, but even that’s limited! Go ask any afl list manager how many players per year they talk to agents of or to other clubs about.. it’d be 30+ EVERY year 

Don’t even listen to downiedavey, he’s the biggest flop since Mason Cox

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Part trade rumour/ part trade anxiety: I worry about Petty’s name coming up during the period.

Some murmurings of Adel throwing his name in the mix for McAdam trade (which we all scoffed at) but if you think about it, as a rare, flexible tall who is on the up, I’m pretty sure his market value would be much much higher than his current pay packet… 

Also you’d expect our plan is to groom him a forward to suit our needs… who’s to say that doesn’t suit him?

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Not a rumor but just wanted to ask what are we going to down about replacing Grundy?

Can't really afford to bring in a trainee with Max getting on a bit.

Also it's much more preferable to also get an established big bodied fwd  or two with Tmac and Bbb futures  in doubt.

Fix those three problems successfully and I'm confident we will make top four again.

 

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7 minutes ago, godees said:

What is this about? Sam Edmund and Whateley on trade bell

https://x.com/melbournefans/status/1706482479966908429?s=46&t=hl7B0Qahn7STKrEZVzEeow

I have no insider info but this picked up my ears as well. thinking we'd go after another ruck... is Sean Darcy on the move?

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I hope we are up to something on a number of fronts:

coaching replacements and switches - forward and midfield coaches, new ball movement plans.

Some better ball users and elite talent (both new via draft and trading in).

Ruck replacement for Grundy, if he goes as planned.

KP players for FB, CHB, CHF.

No rumours here, but if what the jungle drums are signalling (by no signal), I hope we are going to make a big splash this trade/draft period.

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8 minutes ago, godees said:

What is this about? Sam Edmund and Whateley on trade bell

https://x.com/melbournefans/status/1706482479966908429?s=46&t=hl7B0Qahn7STKrEZVzEeow

two nuffies talking rubbish

they openly admit they have no idea what we're doing

which, i suspect, is just the way that tim lamb likes it; we don't leak

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2 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

Not a rumor but just wanted to ask what are we going to down about replacing Grundy?

Can't really afford to bring in a trainee with Max getting on a bit.

Also it's much more preferable to also get an established big bodied fwd  or two with Tmac and Bbb futures  in doubt.

Fix those three problems successfully and I'm confident we will make top four again.

 

I'm coming around to the idea of throwing a 2 year peanuts deal out to Levi Casboult. Can play ruck, back and forward, is great in the air and should have no issue spending time at Casey. Plus we wouldn't even need to play him in the ruck at Casey so as not to interfere with Farris-White and Verrell's development, however could walk straight into ruck in the seniors should Max get injured.

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47 minutes ago, MadAsHell said:

I'm coming around to the idea of throwing a 2 year peanuts deal out to Levi Casboult. Can play ruck, back and forward, is great in the air and should have no issue spending time at Casey. Plus we wouldn't even need to play him in the ruck at Casey so as not to interfere with Farris-White and Verrell's development, however could walk straight into ruck in the seniors should Max get injured.

signed up at gc17

chol is the one on the market, and he's going to north - i suspect as part of the deal for their new magical future firsts for pick 4 etc. 

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Big Bang?

Not that many I would have thought. Given a key forward is where we’d try to splash, even fewer. Cameron, Oscar Allan or one of the King twins probably the only one’s Big Bang worthy. Naughton wouldn’t quite get to that level for me.

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17 hours ago, No10 said:

It seems the done deal is Grundy to Swans.

Must be relatively simple if as agreed upon as it appears. Do we not even know what that trade is?

Demonland intel is broken.

I’ll pretend I know something…

Grundy +p24 for p11

Oh. And no chance Nth get p3 for McKay, sets unworkable precedent.

That would be an incredible win for us, but I don't see it happening.

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1 hour ago, djr said:

Oliver on the move? No intel.

Don’t even joke about that. The only way we’d let him walk from a 7 year contract is if we were given picks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Even then we’d probably ask for 11 too.

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11 minutes ago, ChaserJ said:

Big Bang?

Not that many I would have thought. Given a key forward is where we’d try to splash, even fewer. Cameron, Oscar Allan or one of the King twins probably the only one’s Big Bang worthy. Naughton wouldn’t quite get to that level for me.

I reckon it's Naughton.

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What’s a big move?

Trading for pick 1?
Trading for pick 4?

Targeting a key forward (feels like we’ve covered them all. But I’ll add a name if we’re just taking wild guesses , Riley Thilthorpe)?

How about trading for midfield class? 

Can we convince Tim Kelly and his partner to come give Victoria another go and play finals rather than rebuild at 29?

Can we convince Zach Merrett that Essendon aren’t going anywhere?

Richmond need picks to kickstart a rebuild, what if we offer the world for Shai Bolton?

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