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19 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

windscreens o'brien signed on at the crom for 3yrs so you’d assume draper to brisvegas

so the bears get:

  • oscar allen as a free agent

  • sam draper as a free agent

  • not 1, not 2, but 3 top 20 picks as 'nga' selections

a 'fair and balanced' system; good time to be a brissy fan

Their ex CEO is now AFL head of footy.

Their perks aren’t stopping anytime soon.

 
2 hours ago, SadDee said:

Heard Silvagni is possibly moving to Collingwood, so maybe up for grabs.

Wonder if he’s worth a look in for us?

I personally think he’s soft and injured a lot but what are your thoughts?

I think you just answered your own question.

 

The thing I find crazy is if Oscar Allen - a WA lad - is clearly now available it possibly implies he may have been in previous seasons and then how we didn't pry him loose then seems strange to me.

Goodie was the most empathic today about bringing in talent in the middle aged group that I've heard him ever be. So sounds like we may indeed trade or try to trade hard.

2 minutes ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

The thing I find crazy is if Oscar Allen - a WA lad - is clearly now available it possibly implies he may have been in previous seasons and then how we didn't pry him loose then seems strange to me.

Goodie was the most empathic today about bringing in talent in the middle aged group that I've heard him ever be. So sounds like we may indeed trade or try to trade hard.

we did; couldn't convince him to move to melbourne

dingley had no success dragging him across east either

he's made the choice of living anonymously in brisvegas and being paid a fortune instead of living under high scrutiny in melbourne...and still being paid a fortune

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3 hours ago, Redleg said:

Their ex CEO is now AFL head of footy.

Their perks aren’t stopping anytime soon.

That said we failed to capitalise whilst on top of the ladder and won a premiership. That is on the entire club coaches included.

We got Grundy , which was applauded at the time but didn’t work - fair enough for trying.

Other than that we didn’t get anybody of note. Not 1 person that consistently plays in the senior side.

That is gross gross mismanagement. Ultimately it starts from the footy dept that took way too long to change things up and adapt to the modern game. Then when they finally did change our game style we quickly fell out of favour as a destination club and are almost left with no choice but to rebuild through the draft right in the middle of a new club entry.

It’s going to be a long road to recovery unfortunately and one that may not proof fruitfull.

4 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

I think you just answered your own question.

Just my opinion. Maybe it’s across the board then.

4 hours ago, BDA said:

we should try to swap trac for curnow

He wants out of Melbourne, not sure it would work.

 
On 25/07/2025 at 12:00, Demonstone said:

How do you know we didn't consider them or attempt to get them to the club?

No one ever knows 100 percent @Demonstone but I hear things through a contact at New Balance who has decent intel and those names never came up.

1 hour ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

No one ever knows 100 percent @Demonstone but I hear things through a contact at New Balance who has decent intel and those names never came up.

we definitely tried for amon but he was always going to dingley cos impey was already there


Free agency was designed to help the lower clubs. 90% of free agents go to teams in the top 6 who are competing for the premiership. It’s a farce !!

39 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Free agency was designed to help the lower clubs. 90% of free agents go to teams in the top 6 who are competing for the premiership. It’s a farce !!

no, free agency was designed to encourage player movement and feed the industrial strength news cycle ABOUT player movement

articles / videos / podcasts etc about such generates far more clicks / views / listens than anything about the actual football itself

On 25/07/2025 at 19:19, Norm Smith's Curse said:

The thing I find crazy is if Oscar Allen - a WA lad - is clearly now available it possibly implies he may have been in previous seasons and then how we didn't pry him loose then seems strange to me.

Goodie was the most empathic today about bringing in talent in the middle aged group that I've heard him ever be. So sounds like we may indeed trade or try to trade hard.

His knees are cooked. Buyer beware

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