deespicable me

Please if we take 7 & 8 to the trade table can we rule out Pickett. He is speculative and a worthy pick post 30, but not for our top 2 picks

I preferred the other medium tall in SA's National side who won everything. Mitch Marsh. I reckon he's got more upside than Schubert. Schubert 5 years in for 15 games and a touch of promise, then he wants to go home. Oooh yes please.

My rank amateur opinion has seen enough to pray that Taylor passes on this bloke. He will need 4 years in the system filling out etc, etc. Haven't we been tortured enough.

I'd like to give a bit of love to Phillipou. Been mentioned a couple of times only and in my completely uninformed and useless opinion (with so little research to the point that I really shouldn't have an opinion) but heck, every bloody half informed fool and his dog have put forward their two cents, so Phillipou for me

More than the bozo's in our footy department. Worst all-time deal. Ever

A lot of the interstate teams aren't old enough for Father/sons yet. They will be coming through in the next 5 or so years. Then we're really fu##ed

Get him back and put him through rigorous weekly testing for anything illegal running through his system, catch him out then sack him on the grounds that he broke the conditions of his contract. Or threaten to unless he takes a pay cut, or a payout. Sounds a bit messy eh. Oh well lets go with the 3rd rounder.

What!!? He's not the same player. Has he morphed into someone else. Taken some poly juice. He had a down year in 2025 at 22, suffering injury for the first time. He has so much footy in front of him. He is a great pick up by Fremantle and we just rolled over.

Pick 23 for a best 22, 22 year old with upside to become a top 15 player is not good enough Lamb. We have never got above what we should have and consistently get below what we would like. Look at all our players playing around the league that we have got peanuts for. Bent over yet again. Honest Lamb could never be a used car saleman, he'd go out of business.

Nothing less than a pick in the teens. 20 at worst. There's very little value in picks further on, they become extremely speculative. Taylor has a scout in WA who is obviously very good with good intel and we have recruited well from WA. But when they go the other way it's always to Freo and we always get reamed. It's time to make a stand. Let him go to the pre-season draft. A pick at 25+ makes it easy to say f### off.

I have always liked Judd as a player, thought he was humble with a good work ethic and a desire to fit in. A good team player. I know we haven't seen it this year but obviously this decision affected him this year so Freo buying at the right time. I would play hard ball and think the points from a pick 20 would be about right. We do have a player who had a serious knee injury though in AMW, who has the potential to be better at the back pocket role. He is good one on one and is attacking. I look forward to his rise into a lock in our best 22.

I think Trac and the club have learned lessons from last year and are approaching his potential trade a lot more professionally this year. (mind you considering what happened last year it would be almost impossible to [censored] it up worse this year). This means Trac isn't ranting and raving about a need to get out, and Melbourne aren't having to defend it's integrity at every turn. Thank God for that. I do however think Trac wouldn't mind a fresh start at a new club. But he is understanding that 1. Melbourne will want fair compensation and 2. He will not come out publicly and state a club, thus making it harder for Melbourne to broker a deal, until the behind the scenes thrashing out of who pays what and how the deal looks is virtually done and sits comfortably with all parties. It won't be easy for him to move on as Melbourne hold most of the cards, and it will take a fair commitment from any new suitor to get him to their club. Consequently I also think Trac is okay with that and if it doesn't come through he will be happy to play for Melbourne next year. If this is the case then I think all parties should be congratulated for a more mature and professional approach.

I think you will find if this comes to pass he will be on at least 800 a year for at least 4 years and to pay for this we will need to trade on Petracca to make salary cap space. If we take a little off our salary cap and end with a clean swap Petracca for Windhager I think this would be a good deal. Mind you this is all semantics until Geelong sign off on it. We all know they have first dibs on any talent looking for a new home. It's just a matter of working through issues such as what size farm they want.

Nice, RTG

I actually saw Dillon with his wife out at Vic Park for the game against Collingwood. I think he gave a nod and a wink to the umpires before they went on that free kick spree that nearly got the Pies over the line. Or that could be just a viscous rumour