2 hours ago, old dee said:

Sorry I was referring to Lever.

Well he is certainly injury prone now, so I agree.

6 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Bit of a click-baity title, Edmund just states what most already know that the Dogs have no interest in May at this time. Still is a lot to play out, but he likely stays. We will only know for certain on October 10.

18 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I asked a few posters on the GWS forum what their thoughts were on Derksen and they all agreed that he was miles behind the likes of Taylor, Buckley and Alir. And this was before he got injured.

Sounds like a Casey addition if he comes over.

This 100%. I dont understand the infatuation with a guy that barely gets a go in the 1's. Especially after the collective experience on here regarding our track record. i mean it defies logic what people expect.

If they are not playing regular games in the 1's then its a pass.

Steven May got in a fight with Melksham over saying "If you had have played in the granny (grand final) we would have lost.”

Could start a much bigger fights at the dogs by saying "If you had have played the last 40% of the granny (grand final) we would have lost.”

3 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

I wouldn't say no to paying 25% of his salary if that got them interested

3 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

I wouldn't say no to paying 25% of his salary if that got them interested

You must be loaded Diamon_Jim.😁

1 hour ago, bluey said:

Poor communication from Gawn, he should have stood up and addressed the team from the front of the group, demanded their attention.

May like Kozi play their best footy hot and nasty.

Both have mellowed after suspensions.

Was an unorthodox and ineffective spot really to talk from 🤷‍♂️

But he dissed the speech from the mount!

Begone, Mr May!

9 hours ago, Adam The God said:

I'd rather we prioritise Jed Adams, who looks to me, to have decent 1v1 capabilities, a nice kick and a good ability to read the play.

Jed has just completed his third season and averages less than 10 disposals a game. But big fellas take longer and he is contracted for next year.

Not hopeful though.

1 minute ago, Fritta and Turner said:

Jed has just completed his third season and averages less than 10 disposals a game. But big fellas take longer and he is contracted for next year.

Not hopeful though.

Likely Full back players hold down a spot even if its a back pocket in their first or second years. What Jed has going for him is that by the sounds of it he wasn't personally doing enough off field and at training to give himself the best shot. So maybe he finds a bit maturity in his approach, which will translate to his onfield performance.

Starts with a massive pre-season.

20 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

Likely Full back players hold down a spot even if its a back pocket in their first or second years. What Jed has going for him is that by the sounds of it he wasn't personally doing enough off field and at training to give himself the best shot. So maybe he finds a bit maturity in his approach, which will translate to his onfield performance.

Starts with a massive pre-season.

I agree with what you are saying but Jed has just completed his 3rd season and played 1 game simply because he is tall. Banking on Jed to be a backline solution for the Dees is extremely high risk.

20 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

The best defender I've seen at Melbourne in my time and one of the most influential on-field players. Has single-handedly won matches for us with almost superhuman efforts.

With that said, there a bit of Akermanis about him; in that success covers up a lot of of problems. When the success dries up, people's tolerance of off field issues wears very thin, very quickly.

Absolutely spot on.

11 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Low hanging fruit. Also, seems like a pretty casual address; sitting at the back of the room speaking to the backs of the players. If this is what the ‘media’ are reporting on these days, then God [censored] help them.

Hodge was biting his tongue in that segment i thought.

17 hours ago, GS_1905 said:

This 100%. I dont understand the infatuation with a guy that barely gets a go in the 1's. Especially after the collective experience on here regarding our track record. i mean it defies logic what people expect.

If they are not playing regular games in the 1's then its a pass.

It's because they are the only players interested in coming over.

21 hours ago, Adam The God said:

I'd rather we prioritise Jed Adams, who looks to me, to have decent 1v1 capabilities, a nice kick and a good ability to read the play.

Adam I can't get my head around why it took us till Rd 22 to get Adams in. With the number of injuries and the season effectively done at mid-year, I would have loved to get a decent block of at least 6 or 7 games into him.

Would there be a valid reason why we didn't? Just seems like we missed a trick there.

Is he on a steep decline or injured and out of form? l say its mostly form and injury with a hint of getting old. Play him full forward and push petty back or play tmac more

Edited August 27Aug 27 by Demons1858

23 minutes ago, layzie said:

Adam I can't get my head around why it took us till Rd 22 to get Adams in. With the number of injuries and the season effectively done at mid-year, I would have loved to get a decent block of at least 6 or 7 games into him.

Would there be a valid reason why we didn't? Just seems like we missed a trick there.

I'm glad he got one look in and he wasn't embarrassed. Perhaps the FD felt he wasn't quite ready. I'd rather the FD set up our players to have the greatest success, rather than throw them to the wolves like old times.

7 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

I'm glad he got one look in and he wasn't embarrassed. Perhaps the FD felt he wasn't quite ready. I'd rather the FD set up our players to have the greatest success, rather than throw them to the wolves like old times.

100% ^^^^ this is the Geelong model unless you’re exceptional. They take time with their players on average 2 years VFL and they step into a system based team. Yes they have their guns and keep replenishing with the mature ones whilst continuing to develop the soldiers. It is IMO the best policy to have

58 minutes ago, layzie said:

Adam I can't get my head around why it took us till Rd 22 to get Adams in. With the number of injuries and the season effectively done at mid-year, I would have loved to get a decent block of at least 6 or 7 games into him.

Would there be a valid reason why we didn't? Just seems like we missed a trick there.

I concur. There were obvious gaps in the teams ability, but Goodwin was stubborn and never seemed to want to change up the team despite excellent VFL form. Would've been good to leave Adams in for the last 3 games to get a taste of what's to come. We were done at that stage of the season so leaving Jefferson in and maybe giving Kentfield a crack would've given us a better idea of how these kids will go next season.

1 hour ago, Chadda79 said:

I concur. There were obvious gaps in the teams ability, but Goodwin was stubborn and never seemed to want to change up the team despite excellent VFL form. Would've been good to leave Adams in for the last 3 games to get a taste of what's to come. We were done at that stage of the season so leaving Jefferson in and maybe giving Kentfield a crack would've given us a better idea of how these kids will go next season.

Or maybe Adams, Jefferson and Kentfield weren't ready for more than a few games at AFL level and the latter had a horribly interrupted pre season.

54 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Or maybe Adams, Jefferson and Kentfield weren't ready for more than a few games at AFL level and the latter had a horribly interrupted pre season.

I hope it was this.

After three seasons I'd like to think they'd be ready for more games but not always the case as we know.

3 hours ago, layzie said:

Adam I can't get my head around why it took us till Rd 22 to get Adams in. With the number of injuries and the season effectively done at mid-year, I would have loved to get a decent block of at least 6 or 7 games into him.

Would there be a valid reason why we didn't? Just seems like we missed a trick there.

Our priority was winning games rather than playing kids which then drops the performance of the team and takes away the high performance mindset.

But aside from that Adams wasn’t ready for a long block of games. He’s a good VFL performer but he can still lift and become a great VFL performer at which time he demands a run of games.

He has the talent to do so and is starting to get the frame to do it too. Next step is concentration and the belief to own a game of footy in the VFL (or in training over preseason). Not much point having him smashed in AFL footy until he makes that mental leap.

The problem with trading out May is that paradoxially it hinders the development of our backs, unless we bring in a mature key forward and move Petty back.

This is on the basis that May, Lever and Turner are our first choice tall defenders with TMac ideally playing in the VFL to help develop Adams, White etc. I think our key forwards of JVR, Petty and Melksham are starting to work well together and I like that Petty plays forward but can swing back of and when needed.

In short I would only look to trade out May if we bring in a mature key forward who would be our number one forward target.

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36 minutes ago, chookrat said:

The problem with trading out May is that paradoxially it hinders the development of our backs, unless we bring in a mature key forward and move Petty back.

This is on the basis that May, Lever and Turner are our first choice tall defenders with TMac ideally playing in the VFL to help develop Adams, White etc. I think our key forwards of JVR, Petty and Melksham are starting to work well together and I like that Petty plays forward but can swing back of and when needed.

In short I would only look to trade out May if we bring in a mature key forward who would be our number one forward target.

Mature back ..

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