Some observations.

Tim's interview yesterday was quite telling imo. Seemed to speak about Oliver and Petracca in very different lights. My take was that unless we get a great deal for Trac he will be in our team next year. On the flipside I got the impression that there is less reluctance to move on clarry. All inference from my perspective but thats my take

4 minutes ago, DemonWA said:

Some observations.

Tim's interview yesterday was quite telling imo. Seemed to speak about Oliver and Petracca in very different lights. My take was that unless we get a great deal for Trac he will be in our team next year. On the flipside I got the impression that there is less reluctance to move on clarry. All inference from my perspective but thats my take

My take too, but this would also be our goal. If they are to leave, it's not a firesale, we'll need to get something in return.

We [censored] up the messaging on Clarry by allowing that leak to beat our press release, but Lamb's press conference yesterday went some way to reframing the situation.

19 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

With the likely 💔Trac and Oliver trade departures (and with May likely now to stay) here’s the list segmented into likely positional structures. Of course, players are flexible and can shift like Rivers to running mid or Laurie to small forward.

I’ve add Mihocek. Hopefully we can get Max Heath onboard too

For me, the need for skilled running midfielders will be the primary draft priority

MFC TEAM update

key defenders: May, Tmcd, Adams

tall defenders: Lever, D.Turner, Howes

med/sml/running defenders: Rivers, Bowey, Salem, Lindsay, AMW

inside Mids: Viney, Langford , Laurie

outside Mids: Langdon, Windsor, Woey jnr

Mid/fwd: Kozzzy, Kolt, Sparrow, Culley

key forwards: Mihocek , JVR, Petty, Jefferson , Kentfield, Johnson

med-tall forwards: Fritsch, Melksham, Mcadam

small forwards: Chandler, Sharp, Henderson, Mentha

Rucks: Gawn,  Campbell 

Why is there a likelyhood of Trac leaving? They won't give us Humphrey we won't give them Trac.

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

What's a realistic trade for Petracca in your opinion?

Lets keep Humphrey out of the picture for now.

Honestly I think we would be thrilled with a straight swap for Humphrey.

We'd also be thrilled with 2 first rounders. We would have got more last year if he was willing to go anywhere other than Carlton or Collingwood.

Now I fear we will get pick 7 and change. He's obviously worth more but I don't think we will force him to come back and will end up being the ones that blink first.

I'll also add that I think that the Suns are probably slightly overvaluing Humphrey.

31 minutes ago, Redjacket said:

Honestly I think we would be thrilled with a straight swap for Humphrey.

We'd also be thrilled with 2 first rounders. We would have got more last year if he was willing to go anywhere other than Carlton or Collingwood.

Now I fear we will get pick 7 and change. He's obviously worth more but I don't think we will force him to come back and will end up being the ones that blink first.

I'll also add that I think that the Suns are probably slightly overvaluing Humphrey.

If you watched Humphrey for the last two years?

Yes there has been improvement, and he is a good kick, but he hasn't got what Petracca's got. Peripheral vision, mindset, enters contests, and rarely loses balance.

1 hour ago, WERRIDEE said:

Why is there a likelyhood of Trac leaving? They won't give us Humphrey we won't give them Trac.

Yes I agree. Trac has 4 years to run. He’s a star player and we need to receive appropriate high quality compensation. Unfortunately once a player nominates they are leaving, it get done. If the Dees tough talk, they have to stand by it.

I know this draft is meant to be highly compromised, but we're going to have to rethink everything if the first round extends to at least pick 53!

This is what the AFL Trade Tracker currently states:

Just now, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I know this draft is meant to be highly compromised, but we're going to have to rethink everything if the first round extends to at least pick 53!

This is what the AFL Trade Tracker currently states:

Don't tell the Gold Coast about this loophole.

Is there an conversation to be had that these three prime players CONTRACTS of ours are actually reflective of their true value and therefore no one is prepared to not get a bargain in exchange?

What stuff is Lamb on? During the presser Lamb was moving around swinging the head like a toddler on red cordial. Me thinks he is under real pressure , it shows.

i think what seperates good sides and average ones is when you can draft ahead of your needs, lions already had morris and even henry smith on board when daniher left and already had gallop when hipwood went down, or already had fletcher when kiddy did a knee and had the ashcrofts when berry does a shoulder and neale does a calf.

geelong did it with shannon neale into hawks spot, he was already 3 years in and ready to go.

so i look at our list next year and we have mcadam, sparrow, melksham, fritsch, chandler, mentha, johnson and hederson out of contract, so we should be adding small forwards this year like dovaston or latrelle pickett so they are second years when we move on a bunch of those names (obviously some stay)

we didnt do this well with ben brown handing over to JVR and El Jefe and we aren't doing it well in the rucks either. We may get away with it for our key backs because petty did his apprenticeship and was right to go when tommo went down initially but also finding turner was a saving grace otherwise we would have been in some form of all sorts there too. the most important part of a rebuild is the spine, the roos did this wrong in the last 5 years and until they picked whitlock last year they were relying on stop gaps and NQRs in key spots, coleman-jones, teakle, pink, corr, dawson all busts. they took one tall in the first round shotgun dawson and he's struggled to come on after a good first game.

dons got unfortunate with injuries to reid and hayes and i suppose to cox (hes just not very good too) they still paid up for caddy but need him to be two years more advanced than hobbs/perkins/tsatas rather than vice versa so probably need to reassess there so that when the talls are peaking they have what the blues had with weitering tdk curnow mckay and then build around that with walsh cerra and co, thats obviously burnt to the ground now however i think they followed the process correctly

Coming up with Cal and Riley.

Did they say what time, Daz?

2 minutes ago, 3183 Dee said:

Did they say what time, Daz?

Nope

Here is the interview from Today (9.10.25)

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Here is the interview from Today (9.10.25)

Straightest of straight bats

No movement on Petracca other than initial conversation with him

No conversation re Oliver with GW$

May won’t leave

Heath will happen; Derksen will not

Getting the impression Dees will not trade out Trac for draft picks alone, even if it is both 6 and 7 for Trac. They should be telling GC it's a player (Humphrey or Andrew) with a draft pick or it's no deal. You don't trade a player like Trac for picks, it takes years to develop a player of his calibre, and I don't want to have an unfilled hole in the meantime. GC can bleat on all they like that Humphrey is contracted, well guess what? so is Trac!

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Here is the interview from Today (9.10.25)

well its already thursday and Oliver hasnt declared what he wants to do yet. besides behaving like a child publicly and saying he doesnt like us.

1 hour ago, Bay Riffin said:

well its already thursday and Oliver hasnt declared what he wants to do yet. besides behaving like a child publicly and saying he doesnt like us.

Rather telling. Starting to think both Trac and Clarry will be Demons next year.

Clarry probably left his phone charger at home and hasn't been able to call his manager

He will be a Giant soon enough

“We aren't being aggressive, Christian came to us. We are open to looking at certain things that will help us win our next flag." Tim Lamb

“We were disappointed, we made a number of different contract offers. The value was that early 20s selection. We worked through that and we were able to come out with a pick we were happy with." - Tim Lamb on Judd McVee

“I do." - Tim Lamb on whether he expects Steven May to be at the club next year

“At this stage it is looking likely he could be a free agent. We are talking to Collingwood on a couple of things. We are comfortable bringing him in a free agent." - Tim Lamb on whether Brody Mihocek will be brought in as a free agent or a trade

“Really preliminary discussions at this stage. We have said all along we love Trac. We told him we'd look at it but as long as it's in the best interests of the club." - Tim Lamb, Melbourne List Manager