Mickey

I would suggest that I'm not being short-sighted, but that you are being wildly unrealistic. There are any number of well disciplined players that can go up there to show then how it's done. Our longest serving captain and future 300 gamer won't be it.

Zac Jones is as far from a leader as you get. Absolute knucklehead. Jones isn't one to drag a club out of a whole like that. He had PJ and Roosey to back him up. They need a Hodge or Callan ward type.

Would they get a top 10 pick, or a pick after their first, which may fall as high as 17. I agree that a sneaky trade won't work. Either they match and trade (in which case we are pooped), or they let him go. Personally, I think he'll re-sign with them.

Thanks Wise. Saw the article but couldn't access.

Given the supposed AFL sign off it's more likely any leak came from there

And this from The Age "He is understood to have beaten a field of internal candidates that included Demons football manager Josh Mahoney, chief financial officer David Chippindall and commercial operations manager George De Crespigny."

http://m.melbournefc.com.au/news/2018-06-14/melbourne-announce-gary-pert-as-next-ceo Official word

The article didn't say. Only said that we were close to announcing

More excited by that tidbit about announcing a new training and admin base!

I don't think Tyson would leave Melbourne the city. Far more likely to go somewhere like St Kilda or Carlton. That being said, I don't think he's leaving Melbourne the club either

17years old, 204cm, played rep footy before choosing basketball at 15. Sounds like a likely prospect

We technically won 4 in a row last year, with one win before the bye and 3 after. But 5 in a row would be something

I thought the thinking was that we wanted Lynch, and when GC took him BP freaked out and took another tall

Play Viney and Jones off a HBF, Jetta, Hibberd and Melksham back. They won't touch him

Probably won't agree to a trade. Also most hated for me now.

Barrett said in his sliding doors article we had been talking to Lever for 15 months

Dodo was on Trade Radio yesterday, saying he doesn't understand why people think they are difficult, and that they have given players away ?

Unfortunately I think the Blues miss out. A first rounder and watts for Gibbs and a 2nd rounder is a major loss for them

Thanks for the info. Any clue as to the other deals?

10 and 45 for Lever, 35 and 53 means we get lever for less than our first round pick. Would be astounded if that happens. 10 and our 2nd rounder for Lever and 35 or 53 is closer to the mark, I would have thought

While I think we could, if both chose us, there is a big difference between someone saying Gaff is 'gettable', and him asking for a trade. Not sure both trades will happen

"Are you keeping Buckley?" "Yes" "Well, thanks for the meeting. I'll just see myself out"

Whitfield was a number 1 pick. He would cost the world.

I think we do too well out of this, and the Crows get stooged somewhat

When the Kelly thing picked up steam a month or so ago, an article said North, Saints and an unknown team were keen. I thought at the time it could be us. That said, I don't think it is. But he is exactly what we need