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Taylor Adams to Sydney has just been dropped by Tommy Morris on Trade radio.... Hats off to @goodwindees for dropping the rumor first....

He’s sitting outside on a park bench as the sub.

I have sizzle, Benny told me his knee is good and he’s playing next year

A remarkable human being and one of the best people you could ever hope to have at your club. He brings so much to our club and we should be incredibly proud that he plays for us. Even if he doesn’t play another game, his contribution next year will be immeasurable. If every young player at our club models themselves on Ben, they’ll be better for it.

Hear me out. Rookie spot for Mathieson just to play 1 game against Collingwood, matching up on Maynard. No specific instructions of course beyond 'just be yourself'.

Quality person. His effort and commitment was never in question. I hope he goes on to play plenty of senior footy at the Swans.

Perfect signing IMO. Won’t get a game if Gawn’s fit, but a good break glass option on the cheap. Can play a bit. I love the work goodwindees and Chook in Perth do on here, but also find it interesting that some other “ITK” posters didn’t mention this one or McAdam at any stage. Very interesting indeed.

I think we underestimate how hard being a key forward is at that age and doing it basically alone for so many games because everyone else is falling over injured. And then being thrown in the ruck as well. McVee had a phenomenal year, but he was also incredibly well supported by stars like May and Lever. Roo was often a lone hand and did remarkably well under very difficult circumstances. Both are very worthy winners.

Is it a sign of my riveting social life that I'm planning what time I have dinner based on the breaks in the Best & Fairest livestream?

Just saw Clarry arrive on his own. Head down.

Love JVR but that should have been all McVee's this year.

McVee & Roo share the best young player award.

Despite coming second in the BnF surely this was Viney's best ever year for us.

Welcome!

Gonna miss Hibbo. A true character who gave his absolute all every time he played. A really fantastic pick up!

McVee 5th after 16 rounds. Love JvR but reckon McVee deserves the Best Young Player outright!

All premiership players & senior coaches will now be given lifetime membership, regardless of whether they play 100+ games. Includes AFLW.

Really like this move. Exactly the right fit for us. Cheap, young, developing forward/ruck. No expectations of him being a world beater, but can't be any worse than both Jackson and Grundy have been as forwards for us over the past 2 seasons. Thankfully there'll be no fan or media scrutiny if he's playing at Casey.

Tom Fullarton requested a trade to us.

Oh shut up Peter Maynard has been a pivotal, if not one of the best person in turning the Casey/Melbourne into one of the the best AFL/VFL alignment in the country. It's his work behind the scenes which has seen us upgrade our facilities out there into a first class sporting centre for both womens and men's footy. Not only thay he's been a huge contributor in growing the VFL women's footy from scratch to a pretty competitive team in the VFLW league. Take it out on Brayden sure, but don't drag the rest of his family into it.

Nah, I spend all my Friday nights going around critiquing really bad school plays. Heckling the kids is the best part.

appropriate we have melksham doing the club farewell speech for hibbo

Well deserved, Benny!

Rivs won the Norm Smith Memorial Coaches award

There's our back up ruck option. Has decent form forward in the VFL too. Edit: also want to say I put his name out there a few weeks ago in a other thread, complete guess but you're welcome

VFL this year: 18 matches, 30 goals, 15.3 disposals, 4.5 marks, 4.6 hit outs (Lions often played 2 primary rucks). He’s discount discount Luke Jackson. Id be concerned he doesn’t hold up as a starting ruck, nor does he make a consistent impression as a forward ruck. But he’s well suited to cover both roles and I can’t imagine he’ll cost much as a contract or a trade.

Hibbo you bloody beauty. Sure gonna miss this fella running around doing his stuff. Amazing player for us. GL piggy and thx a million!

Ben Brown winner of Ian Ridley community award

Where are all the Hunter haters? Currently third even tho he apparently can’t kick and is a bad player 🙄

Is Schache there or did they forget to invite him?

There are only so many times you can listen to pimply teens butcher classic songs before you wish to burn your ear drums. My ears haven’t suffered this much since I was listening to inbreds cheering while Gus was knocked out.

Absolute rubbish as he has requested to come to Melb the city and team so that's quite smart he has done some homework. I have seen him live at the Gabba ( go to about 7/8 games a season when not coming to Melb for about 6/7 Dees games at the G) and us quite a good mark and is not overwhelmed in competing in the ruck. Bring 24 and 200cm he could blossom like Maxy at 23 in 2015. I reckon he has the skills and mobility to be a chance for a key position player forward or back also if we need one. He has not had a lot of games and even in those only quarters or halves or some bench time. Good mark and better in air than Jacko was. I am predicting he will be quite a surprise. Please don't compare him with the Shack he is farbmore competitive with out being a beast. From memory a reliable kick for goal and has reasonably good mobility for a 200cm. unit. In summary very good pick up and adding McAdam and Tom while not considered stars if they are good to reasonable AFL will add two more styles to our forward line to utilise plus assist Maxy most importantly at times. Also those who want to discourage JVR from rucking are not thinking this thoroughly. It's all experience for him and he is so competitive he will end up getting ruck infringement frees plus he is not hopeless on the ground where so many other rucks are not very good. He will be going for second efforts like Jacko did and be a regular on the assist score figures. He needs this opportunity to learn tuck craft at this stage of his career even if there is a chance he may be injured. My take is that it will be the other player that is more likely to suffer than JVR solely due to his style of play and instincts in excess of the other players. It also will keep himself honest as he competes with defenders for marks plus at any time he may be switched on down back to assist our boys down there to mind someone doing some damage. Two trade recruits already who knows who else may Bob up or be traded before the closing date.

All the Best Jimmy J, i wanted you to stay but can understand why you're off. All the best young man, except against the Red and the Blue

i’m case you didn’t see May it was the best speech of all time “[censored] we are better than the Pies watching those [censored] win the flag was torture” loved it!

Haha Maysie sticking it to the filth! Love it

Hahaha May is the best We are a better team than Collingwood. Damn straight we are!

Gus win Ron Barassi Jnr Leadership Award, Sparrow won James McDonald True Demon award

JJ will definitely be there. Hope Grundy is too This school play is literally the most painful thing I’ve sat through since we lost to Carlton 🫠

Edited for accuracy.

The guy is a beast. Dropped two legit rumours/facts well before even the best journos caught wind of it.

The missing link. Ruck and forward back up and capable of claiming a position in the side, if he works hard in the pre season.

I saw him kick 7 for the Lions at the Gabba the year before last - they had huge wraps on him then. Daniher in and Fort as 2nd ruck behind Big O has kept him in the two's. Lots of talent....opportunity and development - not sure

I wonder if you could talk the Giants into a similar deal with bowes. If they upgrade our pick 13 to pick 6, and we take on his Salary given we're opening up some nice cap space I think this could be a smart move given we're clearly not planning a big signing in the next 12 months, he would at the very least provide some experience and depth and we could take on the 1.2 million or whatever it is for next year which would appeal to the Giants we could then dangle 5, 6 and our future first under the Eagles nose and see if we can still prize Harley Reid out of the Eagles

End of round 2, currently 39

Two times zero is still zero.

Yet probably twice the IQ

As the great Mark Neeld once said ‘We did not see that coming…’