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You can now rule Miles Bergman out of coming to the Dees. He’s signing a two year extension at Port.

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    12 minutes ago, adonski said:

    Is a Jake Lever / Zane Duursma straight swap on the cards...?

    I was wondering about Duursma the other day. Too talented to be playing in the seconds at the roos. Wonder what's happening there?

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    27 minutes ago, Random Task said:

    I was wondering about Duursma the other day. Too talented to be playing in the seconds at the roos. Wonder what's happening there?

    It would be hard to get ahead of Curtis and Zurhaar and now Sheezel is playing forward.

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    31 minutes ago, Random Task said:

    I was wondering about Duursma the other day. Too talented to be playing in the seconds at the roos. Wonder what's happening there?

    Joey Montagna said over the weekend that “he is disgruntled with the club and the club is disgruntled with him”

    Haven’t heard that reported from some of the more established trade/draft focused journos but interesting nonetheless

    Have seen some North fans saying they don’t think he applies enough pressure to maintain a spot in their fwd line which sounds all too familiar to us, but he’s definitely got more talent than most

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    1 hour ago, Heart Beats True said:

    You can now rule Miles Bergman out of coming to the Dees. He’s signing a two year extension at Port.

    We are doomed…

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    Trade of Jake Lever for Zane Duursma… get me a pen !!! Jake unfortunately is showing extreme wear and tear on his body and I fear might only have 1-2 years left in his body to compete

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    Disappointing re: Bergman although hopefully we come calling again in another couple of years

    Difficult to see who is going to be available to make us better this off season (of course them actually wanting to come to us is a different question entirely)

    Would love to Lamb pull a rabbit out of a hat but it’s been a while since he’s done that…

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    Hopefully the FD is smart enough to recruit similar to what the dogs have recently. have done well with what they paid for Bramble and Kennedy, even Harmes etc.

    We have pretty much no one contribute from another AFL side since May. , and we paid a lot.

    Only Langdon could be argued as a bargain.

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    Reckon Duursma is best suited to the wing

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    2 hours ago, demoncat said:

    Joey Montagna said over the weekend that “he is disgruntled with the club and the club is disgruntled with him”

    Haven’t heard that reported from some of the more established trade/draft focused journos but interesting nonetheless

    Have seen some North fans saying they don’t think he applies enough pressure to maintain a spot in their fwd line which sounds all too familiar to us, but he’s definitely got more talent than most

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    On 01/08/2024 at 09:21, Roost it far said:

    I’d take JVR, Fritsch and Petty(and he’s a backmen) ahead of Waterman. If he’s chasing a 5 year deal at 900,000 tell him he’s dreaming. My feel is he’s trying to extract more from WC but we’ll see

    U are kidding right, other than Fritsch's lucky 6 goals in the 21 Gf he has done little else and has not improved at all this year. In fact he, like a lot of others, have deteriorated under Goodwins coaching and has become a lazy, selfish footballer! Petty give me a break... gifted games for the last 2 years and apart from 6 vs richmond has done SFA. HE IS A PREMIERSHIP defender.... play him there!! Van Rooyen will struggle to make it. STILL gets under the ball in marking contests and another , who has been destroyed by having to ruck, again under this coaching regime! Even Jeffo in the ruck last Sat again due to shocking selections JAHHHEZUS! A BIG YES TO WATERMAN over any of these three!

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    Typical re: Bergman. This player would have injected some good transition. Although you can’t rule anything out with players these days. Let’s see what happens at the end of the year.

    But I think it’s safe to say we have joined the ranks of St Kilda and Carlton in that we are not a destination club.

    There’s a part of me that thinks Goody still thinks he can turn it around with this list.

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    Just now, GS_1905 said:

    Typical re: Bergman. This player would have injected some good transition. Although you can’t rule anything out with players these days. Let’s see what happens at the end of the year.

    But I think it’s safe to say we have joined the ranks of St Kilda and Carlton in that we are not a destination club.

    There’s a part of me that thinks Goody still thinks he can turn it around with this list.

    He will think that till the inevitable sacking that must occur at the end of this horror season!

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    1 hour ago, picket fence said:

    U are kidding right, other than Fritsch's lucky 6 goals in the 21 Gf he has done little else and has not improved at all this year. In fact he, like a lot of others, have deteriorated under Goodwins coaching and has become a lazy, selfish footballer! Petty give me a break... gifted games for the last 2 years and apart from 6 vs richmond has done SFA. HE IS A PREMIERSHIP defender.... play him there!! Van Rooyen will struggle to make it. STILL gets under the ball in marking contests and another , who has been destroyed by having to ruck, again under this coaching regime! Even Jeffo in the ruck last Sat again due to shocking selections JAHHHEZUS! A BIG YES TO WATERMAN over any of these three!

    "Lucky 6 goals" brainless flop.

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    6 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    every player at the moment becomes 'one of the best paid players in the competition' the minute they sign a new contract

    such is the nature of the current salary cap boom

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

    He isn’t that good Geezuz. The comp is loosing the plot. Every player is becoming greedy and wanting long term deals.

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    4 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

    He isn’t that good Geezuz. The comp is loosing the plot. Every player is becoming greedy and wanting long term deals.

    Eh?

    He’s signed a two year deal to take him through to free agency; Wanganeen-Milera likely to do the same

    Bergman’s port pay packet will likely be top ten in the club; as it should be, as that’s what he is while NWM should see him be the aints best paid player, right until TDK takes him over

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    Bergman is a good player, but fancy him earning more (potentially) than Kozzy. Chalk and cheese IMV.

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    12 hours ago, dondemon said:

    "Lucky 6 goals" brainless flop.

    Yep. 5 time MFC leading goalkicker. Equal with Fred Fanning. Only Neitz (7x) ahead of them.

    Must be incredibly lucky 🙄

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    Who wants to come to this club ? Goody and co. need to be gone (stale , backward thinking etc.).

    We need a system to develop young players especially those that are playing reserves along with a decent coach.

    Somehow we need to cull players in order to recruit new ones.

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