1 hour ago, bush demon said:

But explain Eagles, Carlton and Essendon, mega-clubs of yore. According to my (incomplete) theory of quantum mechanics they are heading towards entropy. Everything else is going down the Geelong freeway.

Old world, new world. We were never at war with Eurasia.

Media have Geelong, Collingwood and Hawthorn as the only Vic clubs good players should go to now. Saints picking off the B graders with ridiculous $$$.

3 hours ago, Clintosaurus said:

Old world, new world. We were never at war with Eurasia.

Media have Geelong, Collingwood and Hawthorn as the only Vic clubs good players should go to now. Saints picking off the B graders with ridiculous $$$.

I don't understand that as the media really does well in an even competition where games are exciting.

Wanting more of the better players from lower clubs to go to the bigger clubs, is counter productive to an exciting competition.

5 hours ago, bush demon said:

But explain Eagles, Carlton and Essendon, mega-clubs of yore. According to my (incomplete) theory of quantum mechanics they are heading towards entropy. Everything else is going down the Geelong freeway.

Geelong are the solid ice, the others are the melting ice.

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

I don't understand that as the media really does well in an even competition where games are exciting.

Wanting more of the better players from lower clubs to go to the bigger clubs, is counter productive to an exciting competition.

I don't either, yet it is par for the course. Having 9 [censored] teams this year didn't seem to impact much.

Rumour: the umpires will be holding their formal end of season get-together the week following the grand final. It is on this night that they vote to see which team they will support next season.

2026 First round pick & Koltyn Tholstrup for Jye Amiss

16 minutes ago, adonski said:

2026 First round pick & Koltyn Tholstrup for Jye Amiss

One of those changes surrounds a 22-year-old key forward who struggled to find his feet in 2025 after promising 2023 and 2024 campaigns.

“I think they could get aggressive with Jye Amiss,” King told SEN Fireball.

“If they’re looking to put one up, I think he’s superfluous to needs. If they could trade that player for another line-breaking mid, that’d be a sound investment I would say.”

35 minutes ago, adonski said:

2026 First round pick & Koltyn Tholstrup for Jye Amiss

Seems overs to me, our 2026 first round is more than likely a top 10 pick and possibly in the 1-4 range. As for Koltyn you are effectively giving him up for nothing. Think you would get much better price by splitting them up if that’s the way to go

53 minutes ago, roy11 said:

One of those changes surrounds a 22-year-old key forward who struggled to find his feet in 2025 after promising 2023 and 2024 campaigns.

“I think they could get aggressive with Jye Amiss,” King told SEN Fireball.

“If they’re looking to put one up, I think he’s superfluous to needs. If they could trade that player for another line-breaking mid, that’d be a sound investment I would say.”

Coincidentally, I’m pretty sure WA footy media suggested that Trent Rivers should be a player of interest for Freo not that long after they talked about this on SEN.

Merrett confirmed to have met with Dingley

5 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

Merrett confirmed to have met with Dingley

Might be about time to ship whatever is left of that club up to Darwin for the 20th side.

6 minutes ago, poita said:

Might be about time to ship whatever is left of that club up to Darwin for the 20th side.

Feels a harsh penalty for the poor old NT

19 hours ago, adonski said:

2026 First round pick & Koltyn Tholstrup for Jye Amiss

Absolutely no fn way. Amiss is Weidemen 2.0 why in earth would we give up a first round pick let alone Kolt for him.

We’d be doing Freo a favour taking him off their books.

Do we really nead a dedicated topic to Rumours given that this time of year more than 90% of posts are centred around rumours, with the remaining 10% bout our AFLW teams stellar start to the season and on news that is reported by the club.

Most of these rumours are ridiculous not much is going to happen until the new coach is announced & put in place!

10 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

Absolutely no fn way. Amiss is Weidemen 2.0 why in earth would we give up a first round pick let alone Kolt for him.

We’d be doing Freo a favour taking him off their books.

What are his main flaws? in his last 3 seasons he's averaging 36 goals a season and he's not the main man.

34 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

Absolutely no fn way. Amiss is Weidemen 2.0 why in earth would we give up a first round pick let alone Kolt for him.

We’d be doing Freo a favour taking him off their books.

To suggest Amiss is Weidemen 2.0 is a big stretch. Is he worth a first rounder plus Tholstrup I'd say probably not.

But Tholstrup to date hasn't really fired a shot and the jury is still out on whether he will.

Amiss is an upgrade on anyone we currently have on our list as a tall KPF (Fritta is not a KPF). This has and continues to be an area of need that so far, we haven't fixed.

18 minutes ago, Sydee said:

To suggest Amiss is Weidemen 2.0 is a big stretch. Is he worth a first rounder plus Tholstrup I'd say probably not.

But Tholstrup to date hasn't really fired a shot and the jury is still out on whether he will.

Amiss is an upgrade on anyone we currently have on our list as a tall KPF (Fritta is not a KPF). This has and continues to be an area of need that so far, we haven't fixed.

Amiss has as much presence as Fritsch tho, he’s a lead mark player in a cumbersome big body. He might get it together, but it wouldn’t shock me if he ends up just a meh player on a lot of cash.

Pies are apparently chasing Jack Buller. I reckon he offers about as much as Amiss for a far cheaper price. If we cheap playable upgrade I’d get him, but it kind of depends how much we want to turn the forward line over to the young guys.

5 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Amiss has as much presence as Fritsch tho, he’s a lead mark player in a cumbersome big body. He might get it together, but it wouldn’t shock me if he ends up just a meh player on a lot of cash.

Pies are apparently chasing Jack Buller. I reckon he offers about as much as Amiss for a far cheaper price. If we cheap playable upgrade I’d get him, but it kind of depends how much we want to turn the forward line over to the young guys.

Fair call - I'm not worried who we are chasing but if we get to next season with no new faces/options in our KPF stocks I will be seriously worried.

If you look at our current options on the list I doubt very much whether any of them would get a start with any of this year's finals teams. That must be a concern for everyone I would have thought.

brad scott sounds utterly defeated by the merrett shenanigans and extremely aggravated by sam mitchell

If Merrett leaves just shut Essendon down.

I have to say I hate Essendon but I have no respect for contracted leaders who pull this [censored].

You are a captain. If you have no belief in the club don’t sign a long deal.

44 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

If Merrett leaves just shut Essendon down.

I have to say I hate Essendon but I have no respect for contracted leaders who pull this [censored].

You are a captain. If you have no belief in the club don’t sign a long deal.

Yep he was agitating when he signed his current deal. Should’ve either moved when he was out of contract or done his job and honoured the contract.

Just now, JJJ said:

Yep he was agitating when he signed his current deal. Should’ve either moved when he was out of contract or done his job and honoured the contract.

Bizarre thing was that wasn't it only 12 months ago he added more money to his contract after the saints came calling?

Edited September 10Sep 10 by dazzledavey36

51 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

If Merrett leaves just shut Essendon down.

Let’s shut them down, regardless! 😂

Thank god for the Bombers drama with players jumping ship as it takes the focus off from our club issues

Edited September 10Sep 10 by Demonsone