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Clayton is a required player. But it's not unconditional. He has to decide if he wants to be a walk up hall of famer or a bloke who was very good at footy for a while. His choice.

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A job interviewer once asked me if I could perform under pressure. I said "No, but I'll give Bohemian Rhapsody a go".

Overpaying for a key forward like McKay is not what I'd like or expect the club to pursue. What I have heard from a couple of people including a family member who works in the media is the Tom Lynch one whisper that won't go away. We're interested. And that makes most sense given his age, the transition period that Richmond are in and our window with May and Gawn. We wouldn't have to pay overs and we'd still have plenty of picks to work with both to trade or hot the draft.

Never say never I suppose but a source much closer to him (than a minor sponsor at Hawthorn that is) has said he is happy at Dees and comfortable with the message that he is a required player. Can’t confirm this has always been the case but that’s how I understand it is at present.

McQualter confirmed. Coming to the Dees.

Clarry could be an assassin by night and dealing heroin to school children by day and I still wouldn't trade him....!!!

Not really hearing anything leaking out of the MFC. Hearing a couple of whispers but nothing really solid. Heard a couple of people say that they believe Flynn will get across the line to us. I think that would be a good result. Mc Adam move might be in doubt. No idea why and I do not rate this whisper. Have heard that the club has a few different strategies in play and that the direction they take will be dependent upon what trades fall early, and not just trades we are involved in. Harmes more than likely to stay along with Tomlinson. I did hear that there may be a key positional switch coming up during the preseason. Will keep the name to myself until after the trade period. Heard nothing re: Oliver except what has been on here.

From one trade breaker to another, it’s good to have you back @Chook in Perth.

Can confirm McQualter has joined

I don’t care how bad a year Oliver had. Absent destructive cultural problems, he remains a top 10 competition player. Trading him ends our premiership window instantaneously (yes, that’s a hill I’m prepared to die on).

The uh... second half of the season that he mostly missed due to injury? Expert appraisal.

Well Clarries second half of the year was his poorest on record (in my opinion) and against a sensational last 4 years of great years. His return from injury and finals were underwhelming and I thought one of Goodwins tasks during the off season was to not only change the game plan or focus of our chaos ball attack, but to get Clarrie to buy in and get re-energised within the team. Not necessarily an easy thing to do. Add to that Yze going, who the midfield team apparently loved and theres plenty of space for clubs and journos to see a chance of jamming a wedge into our fragile team ethos after straight set double exits. We can be guaranteed these sort of stories continuing to be shoved down our throat, just as sure as the feelgood stories will continue for the next 12 odd months about Collingwood. It will be MFC who will be held to account for Brayshaws concussion issues, not football hero Maynard. Finally Oliver has yet to become an adult. He might be off-side. These are big issues for us going forward and Kate Roffey through to Goodwin and Max and the whole playing list need to spend time and energy healing, re-focussing and uniting into a strong and driven club. We are in for a wild off season. Whether it's an unfounded rumour or not, it's our response that will count.

Can people please stop bring Lynch into trade discussions please, his tummy is full (2x Premierships) and won't recover from his foot issues. 900k- 1m on a player who will be sitting in the stands like Grundy, please! All we will be doing is topping up his super.

He was, but no umpires noticed.

Seems like you enjoy buying into the hyperbole yourself. Far out.

If you're after a meat petty, I'd suggest Auckland McDonald's.

I watched of few doggies games this year. He was dreadful. His attempts at contesting were truly pathetic. If Sam Weideman got on your nerves this guy would make your head explode.

Yes, hindsight is 20/20. With 20/20 vision, I have no idea why you would want to take Rory Lobb. He’s horrendously inconsistent, doesn’t work hard enough and isn’t tough enough.

Pretty sure I broke the story about Ben Kennedy coming to us.

A fabulous pick up. Personally think he managed the interum at the Tiges (on short notice) beautifully. Hopefully he has some significant impact tweaking some of our systems/methods in 2024 for the better. Welcome to the mighty Demons!

10 years at Richmond, knows success inside and out and hugely respected by the playing group. Fantastic appointment. Hoping he brings that flair and run that made Richmond so famous when they were successful.

He was involved in 3 flags at Richmond. Hardwick left a sinking ship. What did you expect him to do with a list as old as time?

no @Ethan Tremblay is #THEtradebreaker

Tom Lynch is definitely not recovering as well as expected from his foot issue. Take that to the bank.

I would rate Dees about 100-1 to get Harry Mckay. Blues will sell the premiership dream and ensure salary cap in order. As for Lynch, he’s body is now a problem and I’m not sure he’s got 2+ years left. Even if interested, Tigers probably asking for a round 1 pick and I’m not buying at that price at all.

Mr Chook.. im a bit if a Tmac convert. Thought he should have been considered more often for games ( and perhaps was ) Alas.. he's cooked. His greatest asset imho was his tank and ability to get to contests in a timely / effective manner ....but he's lost a yard. He's sorta a nearly there version of his prior self. Ok for magoos...gets found out at the top level. A marvellous servant of our club... but the bell looms i reckon.

Don't know why people think McKay would cost multiple high first rounders. He is paid $1 million per year, but Carlton play just as well when he is missing, with Curnow as the clear #1 man, DeKoning playing forward ruck, and Pittonet as a pure ruck. That million a year of salary could be used to make significant improvements to their team in other positions. When Collingwood got rid of Brodie Grundy, at the time a 28 year old two time all australian, they only received pick 27 and they agreed to pay $1.5 million of salary for him.

Just on an interesting one. I heard this on the SEN trade bell few weeks back but someone had texted in at the time saying that Melbourne are trying hard to get Riley Thilthorpe from Adelaide. I obviously didn't take much notice of it because many things get said with zero substance on those Trade bells that random people just text in. Listening to trade radio just then and it was mentioned one again that someone has texted in saying we are trying desperately hard in gaining Thilthorpe from the Crows. Again, I'm not putting any substance to it but it's interesting that it was mentioned again but on a different platform. Certainly a good discussion to have. 200cm key forward who was a pick 2 in the 2020 draft. Certainly makes sense.

Highly rated by Hardwick and Ross Lyon. St Kilda wanted him.

If Oliver gets traded there will be one less 35 year member signing up next year

Yeah righto... And we are weighing up whether to make a play for Nick Daicos, the Bont and Walsh FMD 🙄

Not a rumour, just an easy target: jackson hately. Was on trade radio pleading his case and daresay there wouldn’t be many fighting for his signature. Nothing particular flashy about him but with JJ and Dunstan out I think he could be easily sold on playing for Casey as a low contract player. Need to keep shape in the reserves, can’t develop players without some guys taking the hits, and can’t see us drafting an inside mid so would be a good stop gap.

I get the concern/interest in planning for life without Gawn and May in 2-3 years time but that has to be a distant second to winning premierships in the next 2-3 years. Maximise outcomes now, draft sensibly and remain an attractive club for free agents and we can stay in the top third for a long time just like Geelong, Sydney and others.

Tomlinson to the Hawks Adam is very unhappy with the dees and his treatment. Fills a need Source Hawks minor sponsor

Bizarre decision by the doggies to trade in Lobb last year. He's been poor and played some genuinely pathetic games for them. Not surprised they are trying to offload him.

Remember hearing the same thing. I get why they're making the link, but I don't get why we'd pursue Lobb whilst ignoring Chol. Whatever flaws exist in Chols game, Lobb has the same in spades (echo that for strengths). From a long game perspective, if it's true that having Lobb on the books is making it difficult for Dogs to re-sign Naughton, Ugle-Hagan,etc., I'm happily letting them struggle and see if Naughton can be lured over as a FA in 12 months time. There's no one else taking Lobb and his contract off their books, they can keep and we should have a crack at picking off bigger targets from their list. Decent odds on it being reasonably messy at the Dogs this time next year.

Lobb, McKay…. Surely we’re not that stupid.

Oohh boy, now it’s real.

Gee @Redleg, you might have been on to something without even realising. You’ve gone and manifested Clarry trade rumours!

The general consensus is that footy is 90% between the ears; confidence, self-belief etc. We have a very experienced and accomplished player at our Club and people are questioning the decision to keep him on. 🤷‍♀️ Despite being routinely maligned by fans of his own club, Jake is extremely well-respected and highly valued by his teammates and coaching staff. He is much-loved by the players, in particular the younger players who look up to and admire him. This will undoubtedly be an asset next season, even though he won’t be playing. Nobody at our Club would consider him a waste of a spot on our list.

FMD the [censored] they come up with: Rivals weigh up move for Dees superstar CLUBS are weighing up whether to make a play for Melbourne superstar Clayton Oliver in this year's trade period. Oliver signed a massive seven-year contract in the middle of last year through to the end of 2030, but had a challenging year. He played 15 games but missed 10 weeks with a hamstring injury. Rival clubs are considering the cost of a trade attempt for Oliver, a four-time best-and-fairest winner with the Demons. It is unclear if the brilliant midfielder would be open to any move and there has been no indication Melbourne would be willing to part with him. – Riley Beveridge, Cal Twomey

The Oliver story is classic click bait. ’Clubs are weighing up whether to make a play…’ - so no club named, no details at all. This is designed to get a huge players name out there and a photo attached to drive clicks. Don’t believe me? Go check out AFL.com right now. Front page - Clarry.

I think we'd be silly to try and NAB him.

No thanks, I’m not over beer

RE: Rory Lobb, can’t remember where exactly (podcast?) but I heard it from Gawn’s mouth that when we initially introduced Gawn to the idea of recruiting Grundy, he was told we had someone unexpectedly available lined up to replace LJ, and his immediate response was “oh, please don’t tell me it’s [censored]ing Rory Lobb.” Cant take the suggest seriously but scared of the proposition at the same time.

Had we kicked straight we could have been premiers. We played both finals without Petty and one without JVR. Yes we had some other issues but none of them need McKays presence to fix. Carlton would be laughing at us for years if this was to eventuate.