Jump to content

Featured Replies

Given ANB has left the building, can someone tell me how I change my profile pic and name please??

Edited by ANB Fan Boy

 

Had him for first goal kicker in the GF, he missed... 

Now a crow... he is dead to me.

 

 

Jokes. Thanks for everything Nibbler. Hope you play well and never beat Melbourne ever.

4 minutes ago, RedFox said:

The thing that annoys me with this trade is Adelaide managed to extract this pick from us for McAdam who has achieved 5% of what ANB has in his career. Think we need to get more ruthless in these negotiations, perhaps ANB is worth Pick 28 but I'll be stuffed in McAdam was.

Yeah, it's looking pretty horrible, but I would caveat that at the time of making the McAdam trade, we and they would have been expecting our future 2nd round pick to be more like high 30s, and being a future pick it also necessarily has a somewhat lower value. 

Nibbler has a value that can't be measured in contract dollars or pick position.  He is a big loss - I'll miss him in the red & blue terribly.

 
3 minutes ago, ANB Fan Boy said:

Given ANB has left the building, can someone tell me how I change my profile pic and name please??

I feel your pain. My previous nickname was "Dogga". 

Definitely a player that has improved year on year since 2020, and is in career best form.

Disappointing, but every club loses a best 22 player here and there. GWS have been smashed with Perryman, Cumming and possibly Peatling.


Let’s keep in mind pick 28 will equal the equivalent of pick 33 after father sons and academy picks. 

- He just finished 3rd in the B&F 

- Is an outstanding leader

- Is an outstanding trainer and sets the standards 

- Plays the high half forward as good as any in the game 

- Has many years of good footy in him.

- Has 2 years left on his contract. 

We have been push overs for years at the draft table. It’s close, but Pick 20-23 (pre f/s and academy) is where it should be at, not an eventual 33/34. Adelaide give us that, or we hold him to his contract. 

John Noble can’t get a regular game with Collingwood, and is a guy 20-25 on their list. Yet they will get pick 13 for him. Younger yes, not not as valuable in my view. 

8 minutes ago, WiseDeeMan said:

John Noble can’t get a regular game with Collingwood, and is a guy 20-25 on their list. Yet they will get pick 13 for him. Younger yes, not not as valuable in my view. 

Pies will definitely be giving up more than just John Noble for pick 13.

Not a chance a turnover merchant in Noble is valued at pick 13 alone.

 

Gus is gone 

Now it’s farewell to NIBBLER

Heart and soul player

A Leader

Best 22 each and every week 

Premiership player 🏆

tough call to only get “28” in exchange (effectively “33” after Academy and father son picks) … given finished 3rd in B&F and 2 years in contract to run…still he had decided to go and we supported this … no bargaining power 

😭effectively same pick we have Crows for 29yo 50 gamer Mcadam 😭

Let's be honest

He was average at best who did have a career best season in 2024

Before 2021 he was struggling 


  • Whispering_Jack changed the title to Farewell Alex Neal-Bullen
11 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

 

Colours actually don't look horrible on him which is a rare thing to say with Adelaide. All the best nibbler.

 

 

 

 

Edited by Nascent

Good luck Alex we will certainly miss your team first actions in ‘25 and beyond. But unfortunately you are now one of the enemy so wish you well but not against the Dees. ❤️💙😁😁


Fair deal for ANB

The Crows could have screwed us as he had to leave and named his club

Big loss for us, especially at the moment

1 hour ago, WiseDeeMan said:

Let’s keep in mind pick 28 will equal the equivalent of pick 33 after father sons and academy picks. 

- He just finished 3rd in the B&F 

- Is an outstanding leader

- Is an outstanding trainer and sets the standards 

- Plays the high half forward as good as any in the game 

- Has many years of good footy in him.

- Has 2 years left on his contract. 

We have been push overs for years at the draft table. It’s close, but Pick 20-23 (pre f/s and academy) is where it should be at, not an eventual 33/34. Adelaide give us that, or we hold him to his contract. 

John Noble can’t get a regular game with Collingwood, and is a guy 20-25 on their list. Yet they will get pick 13 for him. Younger yes, not not as valuable in my view. 

Further "slipping" is BS though because the F/S and Academy players that make that happen aren't freely available to us anyway so our position in the open draft remains the same.

Yes the FA compensation for Battle, Perryman and Cumming did legitimately push the pick back 3 spots.

Sad to see him go, hard working, humble and a great addition for Adelaide.

I will cheer him on next year.


Sheez . . . we're going to have a fair bit of salary cap space available with Nibbler, Kosi, Clayton, Trac and JV gone. We might be thinking of bringing in Nathan Ablett.

3 hours ago, WiseDeeMan said:

Let’s keep in mind pick 28 will equal the equivalent of pick 33 after father sons and academy picks. 

- He just finished 3rd in the B&F 

- Is an outstanding leader

- Is an outstanding trainer and sets the standards 

- Plays the high half forward as good as any in the game 

- Has many years of good footy in him.

- Has 2 years left on his contract. 

We have been push overs for years at the draft table. It’s close, but Pick 20-23 (pre f/s and academy) is where it should be at, not an eventual 33/34. Adelaide give us that, or we hold him to his contract. 

John Noble can’t get a regular game with Collingwood, and is a guy 20-25 on their list. Yet they will get pick 13 for him. Younger yes, not not as valuable in my view. 

I never understand why people make a fuss of a pick being lower after academy picks etc. We will get exactly the same player at 33 as we would have got at 28 - the whole point of those picks is that we don’t have access to those players 

 

Probably lost our fittest player today. ANB was a Blue Collar worker, but he went all day… will be missed big time….

20 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Probably lost our fittest player today. ANB was a Blue Collar worker, but he went all day… will be missed big time….

Maybe just maybe some others could get as fit or more fit now that ANB has left 


Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

Featured Content

  • NON-MFC: Round 15

    As the Demons head into their Bye Round, it's time to turn our attention to the other matches being played. Which teams are you tipping this week? And which results would be most favourable for the Demons if we can manage to turn our season around? Follow all the non-Melbourne games here and join the conversation as the ladder continues to take shape.

      • Like
    • 140 replies
  • REPORT: Port Adelaide

    Of course, it’s not the backline, you might argue and you would probably be right. It’s the boot studder (do they still have them?), the midfield, the recruiting staff, the forward line, the kicking coach, the Board, the interchange bench, the supporters, the folk at Casey, the head coach and the club psychologist  It’s all of them and all of us for having expectations that were sufficiently high to have believed three weeks ago that a restoration of the Melbourne team to a position where we might still be in contention for a finals berth when the time for the midseason bye arrived. Now let’s look at what happened over the period of time since Melbourne overwhelmed the Sydney Swans at the MCG in late May when it kicked 8.2 to 5.3 in the final quarter (and that was after scoring 3.8 to two straight goals in the second term). 

    • 2 replies
  • CASEY: Essendon

    Casey’s unbeaten run was extended for at least another fortnight after the Demons overran a persistent Essendon line up by 29 points at ETU Stadium in Port Melbourne last night. After conceding the first goal of the evening, Casey went on a scoring spree from about ten minutes in, with five unanswered majors with its fleet of midsized runners headed by the much improved Paddy Cross who kicked two in quick succession and livewire Ricky Mentha who also kicked an early goal. Leading the charge was recruit of the year, Riley Bonner while Bailey Laurie continued his impressive vein of form. With Tom Campbell missing from the lineup, Will Verrall stepped up to the plate demonstrating his improvement under the veteran ruckman’s tutelage. The Demons were looking comfortable for much of the second quarter and held a 25-point lead until the Bombers struck back with two goals in the shadows of half time. On the other side of the main break their revival continued with first three goals of the half. Harry Sharp, who had been quiet scrambled in the Demons’ first score of the third term to bring the margin back to a single point at the 17 minute mark and the game became an arm-wrestle for the remainder of the quarter and into the final moments of the last.

    • 0 replies
  • PREGAME: Gold Coast

    The Demons have the Bye next week but then are on the road once again when they come up against the Gold Coast Suns on the Gold Coast in what could be a last ditch effort to salvage their season. Who comes in and who comes out?

      • Like
    • 111 replies
  • PODCAST: Port Adelaide

    The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 16th June @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we dissect the Dees disappointing loss to the Power.
    Your questions and comments are a huge part of our podcast so please post anything you want to ask or say below and we'll give you a shout out on the show.
    Listen LIVE: https://demonland.com/

      • Like
    • 32 replies
  • POSTGAME: Port Adelaide

    The Demons simply did not take their opportunities when they presented themselves and ultimately when down by 25 points effectively ending their finals chances. Goal kicking practice during the Bye?

      • Haha
      • Like
    • 252 replies