DistrACTION Jackson

You can if the player chooses to retire. The club won't force him off the list, but he may have told them he isn't up to AFL anymore and wants to go back to WA. Anyway it's all speculation at the moment.

TBF the level of speculation aimed at Clarry or Trac was immense compared to a comment that he hasn’t been back to training so perhaps he’s quit the club…

If a spot opened up I believe we would have until Feb 19 to sign someone. This would require Luker and the club to agree to a contract termination I’d imagine. If he’s decided he doesn’t want to continue in Melbourne that could be possible.

I guess I can eat more burgers if I have to

Ahhhh right. I was wondering what that meant. Yeah seems he may have a bad hammy injury…. Not great signs given he’s already had multiple issues

He was in training pics from Monday, so maybe illness today or something like that?

Tbf I'd rather Lever not be calling for short kicks in the backline... he's a bit of a turnover merchant. Would much prefer a Bowey, McVee, Salem, Windsor be the one calling for short passes.

Laurie also stood out at a session I went to in December with his fantastic field kicking. I really hope he makes it but he seems to struggle with the step up to AFL. If I had a choice though I'd give him a crack ahead of Sparrow Round 1, he adds something different to our mix and Sparrow is very similar to Trac, Clarry & Viney.

Even stranger that in the photo they posted of him on instagram he is wearing a Casey Demons hat...

Adams also looks to be putting on considerable size now...

I'm not so sure they would match if he really wanted to go. If the Eagles finish bottom 3-4 they would net them two picks inside the top 5, which they desperately need. They are miles off at the moment, especially considering their best players last year were Jeremy McGovern (33 in April) and Elliott Yeo (31).

He’s a free agent and if the Eagles finish bottom 4 and get band one compensation they aren’t matching. The biggest cost is salary.

I used to think the same…. Now I love them. Also, if you haven’t tried the HFC chicken bites do yourself a favour and order them!

This is definitely the reason, but if people dug a little deeper they would see we lost to Carlton by 1 point, Brisbane by 5 at the Gabba, Giants by 2 points & Port by 2 points. We had some very poor losses as well against West Coast, Freo x 2, the Dogs and the Pies, but I take some confidence out of those other games that we weren't too far off.

Haha making it picture 34 can’t be a coincidence! Clever

Wonder if he was also down here signing some paperwork with Tim lamb 😉

I can’t view that for some reason 🤨

I see Kalani was training today with the boys…

So the 21st century commenced on 1 Jan 2001. Can we move on now? 🤪

does this answer everyone’s questions?

Don’t think anyone picked him up

Roy George is a mature age player who has been overlooked by all AFL clubs so far. It would be great if we picked him and he makes it, but he’s also a completely different player to Verrall so we would be looking at replacing someone else with George. Realistically you need 3-4 ruck options on your list

I agree that Verrall probably won’t make it at AFL level, but seriously he was a speculative rookie selection. It’s really not a big deal if he doesn’t make it and I’d imagine 80-90% of rookie picks wouldn’t make it. Not sure why people are getting worked up about that.

If Spargs is a long way off they can put him on the LTI list to get George

2021? Obviously that’s a pisstake and I agree for a lot of the last 30 years we’ve been very poor, however the past 5 years we are in the top 4 for total win percentage. So we have been doing something right and it should be acknowledged.