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DistrACTION Jackson
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Houston is already a whipping boy and he doesn’t even play for us yet  

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My mail is that Houston is off to the Saints. 5/6 years at $850 per year. 

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Demonland Exclusive (Embargo till 1500, 19/07/2024) The Melbourne Football Club has made the following first and final offer to the Port Adelaide Football Club through an intermediary, former Por

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7 minutes ago, layzie said:

Honestly, is this trade period even going to be much to write home about? The last thing we need to do is get involved in trading in for the sake of trading in. 

Houston was the one proven quality player that could make a difference, after that who? Kennedy? Owies? Macrae? Everything else is speculative.

We need to strengthen our draft hand and put in the hard yards now. A couple of picks in the top 15 with potentially one in the 20s would be desirable. 

 

Hopefully we're involved in the background of a few deals in order to move up the draft order. The true hope is that we're under the radar for the majority of the week, but end up with a decent draft hand, that we can even use to our advantage under the pressure environment of draft night.

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2 hours ago, ChaserJ said:

North are prepared to offer their future 1st, which could be quite high next year.


So it’s idle speculation.

Much like Carlton trying to get GC’s pick 12. What can they possibly offer that would be enticing to GC?

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2 hours ago, Dr. Mubutu said:

Hopefully we're involved in the background of a few deals in order to move up the draft order. The true hope is that we're under the radar for the majority of the week, but end up with a decent draft hand, that we can even use to our advantage under the pressure environment of draft night.

Agree Dr M.  Dees need to reassess after JT has worked through the best options and strategy.  Might not be worth jumping 5/6 spots if we give up a lot.  

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2 hours ago, ChaserJ said:

North are prepared to offer their future 1st, which could be quite high next year.

I’d imagine they’d want Port’s future first back and are probably planning to give over a pick from 3-8 for a pick from 9-15 back, it’s not a bad idea at all.

I suspect he’ll choose Carlton but good on North having a decent crack. 

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19 hours ago, Sir Windsor said:

Rivers - Fast and agile but avg by foot
McVee - Slow but evasive (not to be confused with agile) and ok by foot
AMW - Avg pace, agile and avg by foot
Bowey - slow not agile avg by foot
Salem - slow not agile avg by foot

Yikes.  This seems a bit harsh!

I actually think McVee is faster and more agile than Rivers - just doesn't (yet) have the tank to play midfield.

If Bowey and Salem are average by foot, then why are they in the team - surely that is their strength?

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2 hours ago, deelusions from afar said:

Yikes.  This seems a bit harsh!

I actually think McVee is faster and more agile than Rivers - just doesn't (yet) have the tank to play midfield.

If Bowey and Salem are average by foot, then why are they in the team - surely that is their strength?

Average AFL by foot is not necessarily bad, it just highlights that they are not exceptional which is what a Houston or Sicily is.

Also if we made the comparison internally then they are in the team because they are probably our best kicks. And therein lies the issue, our best ball users in the club are really only average at AFL level.

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1 hour ago, Deetective Sgt. Taggert said:

Does the word Duh mean anything to you…

Nice throwback. Definitely one of their better albums.

Like your moniker [insert AF laughter ]
 

saw them at the Princess in Bris last Oct (ex Melbournite - seen them lots at HiFi, Metro, falling on stage with them at Barwon club) - they still have it. Ripping show 

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