mo64

Are you expecting Max to have 120 attempts at goal next year?

Roast Lamb!!!.🤤🤤🤤

At least the club recognised that Grundy was a salary dump, unlike some on here who were happy to give up a 1st rounder. Well done to Tim Lamb for not giving up anymore than pick 27. But the question is how much of Grundy's contract we are paying.

But that's the thing. Weid is contracted, so we don't have to trade him. At least Weid showed that he was competitive as a ruckman at VFL level. I haven't seen anything of Schache as a 2nd ruckman. But I would have thought a depth ruckman in Weid is more important than a depth forward/backman in Schache.

The Josh Bruce rumour was a smokescreen. We were after the "big fish" Schache the whole time.

Cats aren't going to move 6 spots backwards out of the top 10 for a F2 (Pick 30ish). We moved from 33 to 27 for around the same value.

For starters, what we got for Jackson and Bedford was spot on. Lamb doesn't have to appease the nuffie supporters. That's the sort of stuff that Dodo does. All he has to say is that we're still working through things. He'll cop more backlash now from supporters.

Is Lamb still looking like a hero to our fans because of what he said last week about the Jackson and Bedford deals? The bluster is pointless when the result goes the other club's way.

The club probably knew at the same time, which is why Clarry and Gus were signed to long term deals.

Beautiful. I hope they keep Grundy. Let's see who blinks first. Tim Lamb is 0-2 on his trade bluster to date (Jackson and Bedford).

I thought we'd get the 2 1st rounders, so the F2 was a bonus.

What do you mean? Jackson was bog ordinary this year.

Geelong aren't giving up pick 7 for pick 13 and steak knives. They'd only give up pick 7 for 2 1st round picks in the teens.

You're dreaming.

Where are all the posters that proclaimed that Grundy is worth a 1st round pick, so that's what we should give up? All of sudden the dual AA and BnF winner is now absent in the conversation. Even if we got a top 10 pick for Jackson, Grundy worth is pick 27 at the most as a salary dump by the Pies. What we got for Jackson should always have been immaterial for what we pay for Grundy.

Well that goes against the clubs strategy of moving up the draft.

Freo have a couple of highly rated young mids in Erasmus and Johnson, who'll get more game time. Lobb is a loss, but they're getting a generational talent (cough, cough) to replace him. It's folly to predict any teams rise or fall.

I seriously don't understand what our ruck list management plan has been. Last year we re-sign Weid for 2 years on presumably low money, and groom him as a backup ruck/forward. He was a failure as a forward at AFL level this year, but was playing as the 1st ruck at Casey, and acquitted himself well in the finals. If we don't see any potential in Weid as a ruck, why did we re-sign him? We could have drafted or traded for a ruckman in their early 20's, and groomed them under Max. Instead we got an aging Daw. What was more concerning was JVR playing in the ruck at Casey. If he is our backup should Gawn/Grundy get injured, then we've lost the plot.

Demonland is the only place where people think that Cerra wanted to come to Melbourne.

Cerra was always going to Carlton. We came to the party late, and he gave us the courtesy of a meeting.

Meek won't come to Melbourne. He's contracted and wants to leave Freo because he'll be sitting behind Darcy and Jackson. Why would he want to sit behind Gawndy? If Weid goes, we'll need a mature ager from the state leagues and a young rookie ruckman. It would be sheer madness if we use JVR as a backup ruck. T Mac and BBB look cooked. I'm not a Weid fan, but he is ruck depth.

I don't see under any circumstance why we should re-sign Baker. Another ruckman on our list is more important than a wingman/half back, who wasn't considered for selection this year.

Fox really getting into the guts of the trade.

The self appointed draft guru Knightmare works for ESPN and I'm sure he wrote that piece. He was pushing for Bailey Rogers to be drafted last year. I've watched a bit of WAFL this year, and you're right, Bailey Rogers wouldn't be high on any club's radar. He's a slightly better version of Jimmy Munro.

The players you mentioned did their knee in their teens/early 20's. I'm not saying that Bruce is chronically injured, but history tells you that it's less likely that an older player will return to the same level of mobility/agility. Based on your logic, we don't need Bruce because T Mac and BBB will be just fine.