On 21/09/2025 at 20:45, Redleg said:

Weideman was like that as a junior.

He was a ruckman

9 hours ago, kallangurdemon said:

I suspect that the AFL compensation for Charlie will be somewhere between nil and zero.

I read somewhere end of 2nd round for spargypants ? Couldn’t tell you if it was credible or not, not even sure where I saw it

9 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

He was a ruckman

He was until 15.

At 16 he moved to key forward and won 2 B and F awards as a key forward, the position we drafted him as.

13 hours ago, The heart beats true said:

We’ve offered 3 years

Oh please not three years

Edited September 23Sep 23 by lorn

i thought we were offering a 2+1 offer, where if he hits his triggers in the first two years then the third rolls on accordingly?

Why are we even contemplating dealing with Collingwood ? ..They only give us the leftovers .Surely by now we have learned our lesson from Chris Dawes, Harry O Brien ,Ben Kennedy and whoever.Sure Henry Coles and Flash Gordon were good pick ups but that's hardly recent .

2 hours ago, lorn said:

Oh please not three years

Have an idea it would be a Third year option upon agreement of both parties.

1 hour ago, kallangurdemon said:

Why are we even contemplating dealing with Collingwood ? ..They only give us the leftovers .Surely by now we have learned our lesson from Chris Dawes, Harry O Brien ,Ben Kennedy and whoever.Sure Henry Coles and Flash Gordon were good pick ups but that's hardly recent .

unrestricted free agent

costs us nothing other than salary cap space

Sounds like we have offered more money plus perhaps an extra year

Not thrilled to say the least...

"He is 32, turning 33 next year. Melbourne is at the front of the queue. They've got a great offer on the table for him, and I don't think you could begrudge him (leaving). This is a guy that started his AFL career at 24. He's been a warrior, a premiership player for Collingwood, but they just can't match the money.

"And they probably can't match the years, given the age and stage. Some of the issues around his body in the last couple of years, clearly hampered by the dislocated toe from the qualifying final in Saturday's prelim."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/sydney-swans-player-floated-as-potential-replacement-if-brody-mihocek-departs-collingwood-054632621.html

On 22/09/2025 at 22:16, The heart beats true said:

Jon Ralph said tonight On The Couch that Brody was in tears in the rooms after the Prelim, which some teammates assumed was an indicator that he’d played his last game for Collingwood.

We’ve offered 3 years, Collingwood steadfast on 2.

Surprised Jon Ralph didn’t say he was in tears knowing he is going to Melbourne.

On 22/09/2025 at 09:07, picket fence said:

Other than a goal, Houston was bog ordinary on Saturday and has been the same all year! Massively overated player, glad to say, we dodged a bullet!

Crazy isn’t it, he either has dropped form tremendously or hasn’t adjusted to the team, state or gameplay.

Glad we missed out as you said.

5 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Sounds like we have offered more money plus perhaps an extra year

Not thrilled to say the least...

"He is 32, turning 33 next year. Melbourne is at the front of the queue. They've got a great offer on the table for him, and I don't think you could begrudge him (leaving). This is a guy that started his AFL career at 24. He's been a warrior, a premiership player for Collingwood, but they just can't match the money.

"And they probably can't match the years, given the age and stage. Some of the issues around his body in the last couple of years, clearly hampered by the dislocated toe from the qualifying final in Saturday's prelim."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/sydney-swans-player-floated-as-potential-replacement-if-brody-mihocek-departs-collingwood-054632621.html

We must supremely confident that he’ll still be reasonably productive in his 34th and 35th years.

I think we can get a good year out of him next year but you’d have to wonder about the two years after.

On the positive, we’ll have a reasonably deep medium-tall forward depth chart in Mihocek, Melksham, Fritta, JVR, Jeffo, Kentfield. Whether the last 2 are AFL standard remains in question.

Mihocek is 33 in Feb. A battered 33 as well.

Offering 3 years doesn't sound like a winner move.

1 hour ago, layzie said:

Mihocek is 33 in Feb. A battered 33 as well.

Offering 3 years doesn't sound like a winner move.

It doesn't but if its 2+1, who knows what the triggers are.

43 minutes ago, roy11 said:

It doesn't but if its 2+1, who knows what the triggers are.

Let’s get specific

kicking the winning goal after the siren v Collingwood in the 2026 GF after knocking Maynard out

Now THAT’S a trigger baby! (Say in Costanza voice, yelling)

Why on Earth would we consider recruiting Mihocek? It would be an admission that we are not confident that we can develop JvR into a key forward.

Furthermore, in Steven May, we already have a player similar in size and experience to Mihocek, albeit one year older, who could assist in JvR's progress by way of 'occupying' a big defender.

2 minutes ago, M_9 said:

Why on Earth would we consider recruiting Mihocek? It would be an admission that we are not confident that we can develop JvR into a key forward.

Furthermore, in Steven May, we already have a player similar in size and experience to Mihocek, albeit one year older, who could assist in JvR's progress by way of 'occupying' a big defender.

Or its an admission that he needs some onfield leadership around him..some direction on how to play the role.

5 hours ago, layzie said:

Mihocek is 33 in Feb. A battered 33 as well.

Offering 3 years doesn't sound like a winner move.

Offering 3 years is madness!!!! Should be 1 with triggers otherwise we'll be paying his super!

16 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

Or its an admission that he needs some onfield leadership around him..some direction on how to play the role.

May has led our back six admirably. I see no reason why he couldn't translate his leadership skills to our forward line.

Furthermore, JvR has on-field coaches in Melksham and Fritta. Hopefully King will play him as a permanent forward and he'll get an assistant coach who can progress his skills. Something both Stafford and Chaplin have failed at.

BTW Petty takes May's spot in my team.

Edited September 25Sep 25 by M_9

His performance in the Prelim was awful

Stats: 0 Behinds, 0 Goals, 0 Contested Marks, 1 Mark, 7 Disposals. I can't believe we're offering 3. Please say it isn't so.

Instead of exposing players who are not good enough or ready - we should have thrown too much money to players like this since 2022.

Jefferson shouldn’t have played this year, I won’t go on, but we threw people to the wolves 2008-2013 and I thought we did that with our talls in 2024/25.

The only reason for Mihocek would be if he could fill a similar function to BBB when he came across from North. BBB never took the competition by storm when with us, but he was vital to the structure and system. He was never a strong contested mark but if you didn't respect him he kicked goals and created goals around him. Perhaps having Mihocek and JVR as forwards, with Fritsch, Kozzie, Chandler etc... around them appeals to what new coach King wants to build?

Seems that Elliot is exploring a move from Collingwood to GCS for more money and an extra year.

Must be some real salary cap pressure at the magpies

Collingwood have only a certain amount to spend under their salary cap, having outlaid more than $850,000 per season on long-term contracts for both Dan Houston and Harry Perryman last year. They have a squad replete with mature players, and relatively few youngsters on the minimum, compared with rivals.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/billy-over-brody-why-the-pies-have-to-make-elliott-their-priority-20250925-p5mxtq.html

Edited September 25Sep 25 by Diamond_Jim

My hope of the situation now is we make him do a medical and than instantly and publicly withdraw all offers knowing he’s cooked. And have him crawl back to Collingwood. Nothing good comes from trading with them. We give them steel men of value like Howes and Dunn who are serviceable until beyond expectation and they give us wilted picks like Kennedy or headaches like heritier. Let’s not forget the damage Neeld did to the club. Lose their number. Better yet block it.

6 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Seems that Elliot is exploring a move from Collingwood to GCS for more money and an extra year.

Must be some real salary cap pressure at the magpies

Collingwood have only a certain amount to spend under their salary cap, having outlaid more than $850,000 per season on long-term contracts for both Dan Houston and Harry Perryman last year. They have a squad replete with mature players, and relatively few youngsters on the minimum, compared with rivals.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/billy-over-brody-why-the-pies-have-to-make-elliott-their-priority-20250925-p5mxtq.html

we should be going after Elliot not his poorer cousin mihocek