Demi Dee

That Hogan kid is doing alright! Maybe we should ask the question?

Could he do a Jordan Lewis and leave for the team he barracked for as a youngster? (I think I remember hearing that?). He and Maynard would be great depth!

To be fair to Stanley, it did look like he was told to go back to the goal line by a senior player. Hawkins was guarding grass nearby. Stanley looked around after and looked furious at his teammates call.

😂 A well balanced and humorous response, although I’m not sure how your girlfriend would feel about being featured so prominently. I guess she’s used to cleaning up your messes.

I understand your desire to enjoy the game in the vacuum of your moral sanctity. However, seeing you feel the need to attempt to trump a perfectly reasonable discussion on how best the show support for one of our own players with illiberal ideology, I’d like to take the opportunity to call out your cynical use of the term political correctness as a fig-leaf of naked prejudice and a smoke screen for regressivism. To demonise the term, is not a passive cry for freedom of speech or political thought, but a means of suppression for those who care to think outside their own bubble and more specifically those who face discrimination on a consistent basis. The antonym of political correctness is political incorrectness, a concept that one who usually writes in an intelligent and well meaning way, I’m sure sees as an oversight.

Interesting to see James Tomkins in twice. Perhaps he was a fan of the proposed merge back in the day?

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Yze: brings kicking skills and Avant- garde strategy. Williams: self belief, knows the ropes of a grand final journey, kicking skills, slightly crazy. Burgess: first full season to show player fitness superiority. Belief Goodwin: hope he finds the keys to those MIA quarters and draws on the experience of those now surrounding him. id love to see us play games where fundamental skill errors are a rarity and the game plan can evolve outside hitting the ‘hotspot’ up forward. Bitter, but, optimistic.

Is it just me or does it seem like Yze might have had some influence on the type of player we were looking for this draft. Not very Melbourne-like to draft good ball users with speed. Not one inside mid, messiah or ‘athlete’ with potential. Are they signposting a coaching transition? Anyway, good to see needs being addressed and I look forward to a season where our players either, execute the game plan correctly or the plan is exposed for what it’s worth.

Ruthless! This deal is the zephyr, billowing the sails of our merciless journey, till shores of 2021 we embark, to pillage and vanquish our foe. Remorse has no kin here. Our enemies will rue the day we wrenched pick 43 from those hapless fools.

The blood red snow seems to be a good fit. A bit of advance marketing to get the project ticked off?

Wow! I’m sorry for Jack, he’s put his heart and soul into the role, but, it might be time to focus on becoming the player he is destined to be, rather than forcing a hand that wasn’t as strong. Max will be a breath of fresh air and hopefully the beginning of a new era. Go Dees.

Hi DV my old user name is Demi Dee

Hi DV, Team: Demi Dees Coach: Stuart Thanks for organising, it’s been a couple of years since I last played, so go easy on me.

I’m hoping May feels like he can bring out Oscar’s aggression and appetite for the contest. A cohesive, non injury interrupted pre-season may be the miracle cure our backline has looking for. Optimistic? It’s pre-season. Of course, I’m optimistic.

This deal suddenly got very interesting i wonder what's changed

That would be one hell of a midfield if they could keep them all at the club and on the field.

I'm not sure what I thought of this guy when we drafted him, but, I'm damn sure now. Clarry, your a gun, through and through. W.O.W. !!

I love watching him think in traffic. He seems to love trying to read a couple of moves ahead. I've noticed a couple of times him harassing the player trying to get the ball out (making him think he is being tackled) while looking to assess what the options are and throwing himself at that option to effect the next tackle. He's still young, can you imagine what his vision is going to be like in 5 years, if that is how he reads play now.

Dead ranger

Suck it up princess. He's ours now. The irony of this guy being part of breaking the Norm Smith curse, would be gold. I'm not generally superstitious, but, on his 100th birthday.... Grand final 2016? Too much? Now is the time of pre-season optimism. I'll be over it round 2.

Genuine surprise and excitement over this announcement. Hats off to the club for playing their cards so close to their chest this trade period. Wow! I love the romance of the preseasons' endless possibilities. The drums are sounding and it feels great.

So there's a chance we might get Kennedy and Franklin? No wonder Roos is smiling.

My Guess, for what it's worth, are Kennedy and Bennell. That would make me content. In fact, any of those guys from up nor would do. Ox was sounding smug about us nailing some from up north the other day. I'd like to be wearing a smile like Roosey too. Will test my patients.

Might be time to start the 'Big Fish' thread.