Uncle Fester

Having fast players is great when you don't have the ball, or trying to open up (and I hate this phrase, but you know what I mean) the fat side. But mostly having quick thinkers will win the day. Hawthorn wasn't the fastest team when they their flags, but their kicking would leave you stranded. Geelong ditto, but they would do it in handballs until the world opened up for them. I'll take a team of slow of foot but quick of mind players over a team of Hunts. Speed is nice, but it will never beat talent

I think that is really what it is. He kicks 2.1 in a game then he has had a good game (with the running etc). He kicks 0.3 then he has had a bad one. All sport is decided on moments and millimeters. He has to make them count. My take is that he is a good player that has a bad case of the yips.

Rather roll the dice on a cheap Bennell then an over priced Martin or a DH like Murray - tho a cheap Murray might be worth a roll too

Not sure. It just seems to be that everyone is assuming that it's a given. But what if it isn't? Who of the two would we want or need?

Without really knowing I wonder if he was offloaded because he just wouldn't follow team rules. Goodies 'Frostball' comments make me think he went off sailing by himself one time too many.

So what happens if GC don't take the expected 1 and 2?

I'm hoping we have zero interest in him but want Carlscum to pay waaaaaaaaay overs for a so so player

The whole team had that

OK. So he is there and we can make a play... if we want... but do we want him? Does he fill a need? Is he worth the coin? He strikes me as a ball tickler. Big on potential but not much on action. As it is spring and racing season I'd say 'prefer others'. Let Carlton pay overs for someone that won't make a difference to the team, and may cost them a good player come next contract signing time. Edit - and pretend we are going to go hard at him to drive up his price

I liked it. B plus I guess. We got what we wanted, and did it early. We obviously are backing ourselves to bounce back next year, and don't rate our chances of our next years pick being close to what 8 this year will bring. I don't know enough about the kids to know who we'd be looking at, but I think we are pretty switched on with that these days so I'd expect at least one of them to be a very good player for us.

OK. I must have misheard or misunderstood. I thought we offered a lot more.

Was Elliot 7 8 or 9 hundred K? Just asking for a friend

Papley... it might explain the pick 8 trade. And we have the cash as evidenced by the Elliot chase. Double and he is what we need.

I agree. I was just throwing up possibilities. But some odd late deals get done every year

Keep what we have. We have done well. Two top tens and promote Dunkley with pick 100 or whatever. Or (and I think he could be a dodgy pick but for nothing we might do it) for Murray

Daniher >>>>> Hogan. At his best Daniher tears backlines apart. He just can't kick straight often enough

The whole thing was trite, and a blow off. A couple of hundred words to satisfy the editor. Sure. We do have problems. I'm 80% convinced that last year was a combination of injuries, no pre seasons and a bit of bathwater drinking. The other 20%... dunno. but the off field moves may tell us a bit about that. But I really don't know. We have talent. We have a pretty good team looking after us. We have a game that can scare the best on our day. What we don't have is belief. I expect us to [censored] it up. As do you. And that permeates into the club. Richmond had it for years, got it right, and now they don't believe that they can get it wrong. I don't know the answer but I do know basket case is not it

You want that crazy uncle in the family... then ok

Putting people on your list that are [censored] is risky. Very, very risky. I've played and won flags with guys that the team hated, but they had talent. They'd get [censored] after the game and want to fight with teammates. They'd try and poke teammates wives. God I had one bloke that thought it was funny to bite a pot glass and then tell us a bouncer punched him for no reason. Nearly got a bunch of us in an all in. Thank god cooler heads prevailed. A good team can carry one... maybe... but a team like us... nah. We are just asking for an infection doing things like that. Pass. Let him play out his days being an idiot in the country league

You can call me Unc if you want.

Words will be eaten

Essendon seem to be interested in Green, and want 5 as part of the Joe deal. Gives us something to play off GWS and Ess against each other

Is it OK if I don't care. Good player sure, but geez the chances of getting 50 games from him was not ever looking good

This is not the droid we are looking for

I think the prelim hurt us more than we care to admit. A 20 point loss and things would have been hungry. That loss made us question a lot of things, no matter the voices from the club that it didn't. And yes a shocking pre-season on top of that. On our day we have a certain something. But last year was unfit players / injured players running around in an incoherent mess - filling holes they were not made for and with a game plan that was made up on butchers paper. A good preseason with clear direction from the top... and hey.. we are back in it. A bad preseason and more clear as mud ideas from the top and we are in for another decade of pain. This year will make or break a lot of things IMHO