Uncle Fester

He is a gun and will only get better. And if he doesn't get 25 plus touches a game then I won't care, because most of what he does other footballers wouldn't even think of doing. He is very, very good at the 1% stuff.

I doubt they have the slightest idea what we are planning

3 and 8 at the draft. No trades. Bid on Green if we rate him as worth 3, otherwise take Young and let Adel / Syd make GWS dance. Best ball winning talent at 8. No sorta ruckmen / sorta forwards. No 'might kick 2 goals in five minutes and then pick daisies' midgets. Best ball winner. 25 touches a game when they mature. If that is Kemp then take him. We can wait a year for the next 12 he will offer.

Don't mind it. At worst he is depth. At best he gives us another target. And won't cost much.

How many times have you come back early from your holidays? FFS

... and most of them stink

Yeah, I think he was a bit older than that when he said that.

From a seventeen year old future football star I'd be happy if they could grunt the words 'I like football and girls'. The rest we can work on over the years.

You just have to have faith that the admin and leaders don't allow those dead hooker moments to happen. Or if it does they smash it down ASAP. It's a balancing act. If we bring a kid to the club that has the ball on a string, but is an out and out moron, what do you do? Cut him loose and watch him win flags for other teams or back yourself to get the best from him without it screwing the rest of the team? And look I don't really know but I'd go with the later. Good teams can do that. Bad teams can't. I'd like to think that despite last year, we are actually a good team.

Talent always beats the DH policy. In any club. If you are a Buddy type you can get caught with a dead hooker in the boot of the car and the club will try to cover it up, but if you are # 36 on a list and smoke a joint then out you go. If Murray joins us and sneezes the wrong way he will be booted. If Bennell joins us and shows he can play then he will be allowed to sneeze many times before we boot him. If Gawn or Clarry were found with dead hookers we'd hire lawyers for them. The way it is, always has been, and always will be, right or wrong.

Flash is... well Flash. Changed the game. Well deserved. Wheels was very underrated outside the MFC. One of the best small defenders I've seen in my almost 50 years of watching the game. Well deserved too, and I'm glad he has been given that recognition.

It's a great time of the year. We haven't lost a game in months, and I can't see us losing one for at least another 4 more

I think we stuffed Cale. He looked the goods in his first 40-50 games. then he got hurt and the club turned toxic... so bye bye Cale. I don't look at it as a bad pick, rather a waste of good talent.

Why would we give up so much for 8 to then downgrade it? 3 I can see us maybe doing something with 3 if the offer is good enough, but we payed overs for 8 for a reason.

DFA... should be free, as I understand it.

Always liked Jesse, but I don't think he was ever going to be the great white hope we all wanted. But he is Freo's problem now.

If he is best available at our pick then you take him. You have to back yourself. Rationalising defeat before it happens won't get us anywhere

I'm not sold. Potential is such an ugly word. At 24 he should be established, and when he puts a big price on his head and noms a club, I say let him go there. Daisy MKII.

Maybe he just doesn't want to live in Geelong. I know that I'd want an extra 50% on my wage to even think about it.

I hope not. It's big $$$'s for someone that has never really done anything.

Hmmm. Why not? If his brain and body is right then we have a cheap gun. If not we rolled the dice and didn't use pick 97 on some kid that probably won't play a game.

Don't be surprised if we don't bid. Our pick 3 will only be bid if we want him over all others. I don't think we do, and if GWS says take him we've shot ourselves in the foot. In any event Adelaide and Sydney will bid so it's not really our concern... unless we really want him. And agreed on the ruckman thing... I'd rather us take a rookie punt than use a top pick that has... maybe... a 10% chance of making it.

What? You don't know the rules? You have to discredit the poster you disagree with, not do all that fact stuff. Troll them and then claim the win no matter how stupid your plan was. Sheeesh. I't in the T&C here somewhere.

I don't know if Kemp is the one, but I think we are really looking at someone at 8. I think if they are gone we might go talking during the live trade for (say) a couple of mid teen picks. That said I hope we don't. I hope that we do what we have done over that last couple of trade / draft periods - know what we want and make it happen. I think we have a better team and admin than the average supporter gives us credit for. 2019 was a blip for many reasons, so I'll back the team to be better and smarter in all parts of the game from now.

I was hit by a car riding my bike last Jan, and I can say that these things are really [censored]. I get sad when I shouldn't, angry over nothing things, despondent over little things. And this is from someone that never took life seriously... always the joker and the clown. But it can be worked out. With the right people around me things are getting better. Not perfect, and they probably won't ever be, but at least I know that it is not me, but rather me just not processing things the right way, and that means I can take a breath and let whatever it is wash over me. Best of it all Paddy. The game is really a very minor thing in life