Demonland

Thank you for those kind words. I will use that review on the billboard I post in Times Square next season to promote the Podcast. Seriously though thank you for listening and thank you to all of our listeners, contributors and my cohosts @binman & @george_on_the_outer

And an easy photoshop job for the social media teams.

I hear they are a household name in New Zealand.

Some in 2022 too.

An Essendon supporters facebook group discussion about the trade came up on my feed and you would have thought they had just landed a unicorn. Can't wait to follow up in 6 months time. I guess I shouldn't really throw stones in this glass house.

There’s been some talk that there’s another Liam Jurrah in this year’s draft pool but in reality, there’s only one Warlpiri Wizard

Part Two - The Rose Garden by The Oracle Melbourne’s list manager Tim Lamb never promised us a rose garden prior to the AFL’s 2022 Free Agency and Trade Period but you won’t hear us little complaining about the following list of trades completed by Wednesday’s 7.30pm deadline - • Melbourne received a third round compensation pick (pick 52) as Jayden Hunt signed with West Coast via Free Agency • Melbourne traded picks 33, 43 and 53 to Port Adelaide for pick 27 • Melbourne traded Toby Bedford to GWS for pick 44 • Melbourne traded Luke Jackson, picks 44 and 67 to Fremantle for pick 13 and Fremantle’s future first and second round picks • Melbourne traded pick 27 to Collingwood for Brodie Grundy • Melbourne traded Sam Weideman, picks 54 and 72 to Essendon for pick 37 • Melbourne traded its future fourth round selection to Western Bulldogs for Josh Schache • Melbourne traded its future third round selection to Western Bulldogs for Lachie Hunter The combined effect of the above trades is to leave the Melbourne Football Club in a strong position with a combination of improved draft choices and the inclusion of what Lamb described as “battle-hardened senior talent”. The end of season changes were added to a day later with the delisting of Oskar Baker whose cards were no doubt marked with the acquisition of Hunter. The remaining uncontracted players, Michael Hibberd and Jake Melksham, are believed to have been offered contracts for next year. This leaves the club with the mandatory three vacancies on its Primary List, one of which will be filled in due course by the uplifting of rookie Kade Chandler onto the Primary List. The Demons take picks 13 and 37 into the November Draft and they will add a couple of rookies and possibly a Next Generation Academy player, again most likely as a rookie. There’s still a long way to go but the past fortnight has foreshadowed the possibility that the club could well emerge from its next big challenge smelling of roses. Bring it on. PRIMARY LIST: — Jake Bowey Jake Bowey Angus Brayshaw Ben Brown Luke Dunstan Bayley Fritsch Max Gawn Brodie Grundy James Harmes Michael Hibberd Blake Howes Lachie Hunter James Jordon Ed Langdon Bailey Laurie Jake Lever Tom McDonald Steven May Jake Melksham Alex Neal-Bullen Clayton Oliver Christian Petracca Harrison Petty Kysaiah Kropinyeri Pickett Trent Rivers Christian Salem Josh Schache Joel Smith Charlie Spargo Tom Sparrow Adam Tomlinson Jacob Van Rooyen Jack Viney Taj Woewodin ROOKIE LIST: CATEGORY A Kade Chandler Judd McVee Deakyn Smith Daniel Turner ROOKIE LIST: CATEGORY B Andy Moniz-Wakefield

Part Two - The Rose Garden Melbourne’s list manager Tim Lamb never promised us a rose garden prior to the AFL’s 2022 Free Agency and Trade Period but you won’t hear us little complaining about the following list of trades completed by Wednesday’s 7.30pm deadline - • Melbourne received a third round compensation pick (pick 52) as Jayden Hunt signed with West Coast via Free Agency • Melbourne traded picks 33, 43 and 53 to Port Adelaide for pick 27 • Melbourne traded Toby Bedford to GWS for pick 44 • Melbourne traded Luke Jackson, picks 44 and 67 to Fremantle for pick 13 and Fremantle’s future first and second round picks • Melbourne traded pick 27 to Collingwood for Brodie Grundy • Melbourne traded Sam Weideman, picks 54 and 72 to Essendon for pick 37 • Melbourne traded its future fourth round selection to Western Bulldogs for Josh Schache • Melbourne traded its future third round selection to Western Bulldogs for Lachie Hunter The combined effect of the above trades is to leave the Melbourne Football Club in a strong position with a combination of improved draft choices and the inclusion of what Lamb described as “battle-hardened senior talent”. The end of season changes were added to a day later with the delisting of Oskar Baker whose cards were no doubt marked with the acquisition of Hunter. The remaining uncontracted players, Michael Hibberd and Jake Melksham, are believed to have been offered contracts for next year. This leaves the club with the mandatory three vacancies on its Primary List, one of which will be filled in due course by the uplifting of rookie Kade Chandler onto the Primary List. The Demons take picks 13 and 37 into the November Draft and they will add a couple of rookies and possibly a Next Generation Academy player, again most likely as a rookie. There’s still a long way to go but the past fortnight has foreshadowed the possibility that the club could well emerge from its next big challenge smelling of roses. Bring it on. PRIMARY LIST: — Jake Bowey Jake Bowey Angus Brayshaw Ben Brown Luke Dunstan Bayley Fritsch Max Gawn Brodie Grundy James Harmes Michael Hibberd Blake Howes Lachie Hunter James Jordon Ed Langdon Bailey Laurie Jake Lever Tom McDonald Steven May Jake Melksham Alex Neal-Bullen Clayton Oliver Christian Petracca Harrison Petty Kysaiah Kropinyeri Pickett Trent Rivers Christian Salem Josh Schache Joel Smith Charlie Spargo Tom Sparrow Adam Tomlinson Jacob Van Rooyen Jack Viney Taj Woewodin ROOKIE LIST: CATEGORY A Kade Chandler Judd McVee Deakyn Smith Daniel Turner ROOKIE LIST: CATEGORY B Andy Moniz-Wakefield

Jordan DeGoey double checking that he actually signed with the Magpies & not the Saints.

The three-club club Blake Acres (St Kilda, Fremantle, Carlton) James Aish (Brisbane, Collingwood, Fremantle) Josh Bruce (GWS, St Kilda, Western Bulldogs) Jon Ceglar (Collingwood*, Hawthorn, Geelong) Tom Campbell (Western Bulldogs, North Melbourne, St Kilda) Billy Frampton (Port Adelaide, Adelaide, Collingwood) Sam Frost (GWS, Melbourne, Hawthorn) Hugh Greenwood (Adelaide, Gold Coast, North Melbourne) Jack Gunston (Adelaide, Hawthorn, Brisbane) Joel Hamling (Geelong*, Western Bulldogs, Fremantle) Bradley Hill (Hawthorn, Fremantle, St Kilda) Jesse Hogan (Melbourne, Fremantle, GWS) Alex Keath (Gold Coast*, Adelaide, Western Bulldogs) Rory Lobb (GWS, Fremantle, Western Bulldogs) Jarryd Lyons (Adelaide, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Stef Martin (Melbourne, Brisbane, Western Bulldogs) Sam Menegola (Hawthorn*, Fremantle*, Geelong) Tom Mitchell (Sydney, Hawthorn, Collingwood) Jaeger O’Meara (Gold Coast, Hawthorn, Fremantle) Andrew Phillips (GWS, Carlton, Essendon) Jared Polec (Brisbane, Port Adelaide, North Melbourne) Braydon Preuss (North Melbourne, Melbourne, GWS) Adam Saad (Gold Coast, Essendon, Carlton) Josh Schache (Brisbane, Western Bulldogs, Melbourne) Will Setterfield (GWS, Carlton, Essendon) Tyson Stengle (Richmond, Adelaide, Geelong) Adam Treloar (GWS, Collingwood, Western Bulldogs) Josh Walker (Geelong, Brisbane, North Melbourne) Four-club club Tom Hickey (Gold Coast, St Kilda, West Coast, Sydney) Departures from the three-club club Mitch Brown (Geelong, Essendon, Melbourne) Josh Caddy (Gold Coast, Geelong, Richmond) Shaun Higgins (Western Bulldogs, North Melbourne, Geelong) Tom Lynch (St Kilda, Adelaide, North Melbourne*) Paddy Ryder (Essendon, Port Adelaide, St Kilda) *Didn’t play a senior game for this club