dazzledavey36

God awful selections one again.

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I'd love to watch this but I'll be playing footy myself. Will you watch Chaser? Berry is a gun mate. Has come through the development ranks and certainly spent time with him in our under 16's program (I have no role in the under 18's) He reminds me so much of Toby Green with his skillset and ability to provide X factor in big games. He likes to pushes up the ground and be creative around the midfield stoppage as well. Last few games at Coates level He's played midfield and still find time to push forward and hit the scoreboard.

I don't think Rivers leaves. I'm still a big watch on the Oliver situation, in my opinion his contract is too big to take on but I don't think it stops clubs asking the question.

Jesus who cares.. you're literally only person on here who questioned it. Out of all footy conversations that is happening in this thread you nit pick the smallest of detail when I was describing someone's employment and that impact that could have in player movement.

He's not wrong.

Ok

What? Explain what's so negative about what I just said.. I made the supermodel reference purely because I thought she was Melbourne based and that she would be tied up with all the fashion model shoots that is popular within the Melbourne lifestyle. Melbourne is the heart of all this stuff. My reasoning would be perhaps that I would be hoping she wouldn't want to leave Melbourne due to her work commitments which is being a model as I stated.

You're becoming my new favourite poster with all this inside info of late.. Keep it up. The Rivers one certainly catches me by surprise considering how settled he is in Melbourne with his supermodel Melbourne based girlfriend. Very big off season coming up for the dees.

Yep, agree!

You'll get unhappy players in every club regardless how successful they are. That can come down to team selection and probably a number of other factors as well.

Don't think we'll ever see him back to his best again to be honest. There'll be a lot of psychological hurdles that will really take time to get over and then the physical aspect of being hesitant of getting another knock in that area. Just another note and not wanting to start any controversy, but I bumped into a current players folks at the local footy two weeks ago and we discussed the current state of the club etc. We got on the topic of Petracca and they stated that apparently there is still tensions between the Petracca camp and the footy club. Christian isn't overly happy still but they put that down to him just being so isolated from the footy club environment and his mates. But clearly there is still some underlying issues there that need to be amended from both parties. Also confirmed that there are a number of players certainly not happy within the club and that's senior players included. This is based around number of factors including team selections, current game plan and obviously the aspect of now missing out on finals as examples. I personally wouldn't be surprised if we have another off season where a top line Melbourne player attempts to seek a fresh start elsewhere similar to Petty last year.

Langford is a beauty. Bigger bodied mid too at around the 191cm mark. The type of player that would be a round 1 starter without hesitation.

He would have been perfect maybe 2021/2022 but for the now and the future, no thanks. Give me a Sid Draper or a Sam Lalor who are going to be bona fide midfield stars for the next 10-12 years.

Cal Twomey said that he thinks he'll be playing at Melbourne next year and it will take our pick 7 and next years first as a starting point. I'll be absolutely mortified with the club if we part with pick 7 for a 28 year old half back flanker and next years first.

That wasn't your original point. Both Mason Cox and Darcy Cameron are bigger lumps then Peter Wright and still got the job done in the grand final. You don't need to be quick or nimble to do what they were able to do. How you can say that Mason Cox is a better player and more efficient up forward then Peter Wright is laughable.. the stats say otherwise.

So Darcy Cameron and Mason Cox who were Collingwoods main ruck/forward combination last year in their premiership year, are regarded as more athletic and quicker then Peter Wright? Interesting.

His first year of playing AFL footy which was 2023 just to make it clear enough.

It's to join Burgess team.

Has played 16 games this year and has kicked 29.19 If you want to include last year, he's played a total of 36 VFL games and has kicked 52 goals in the two years he's played VFL.

Fingers crossed this doesn't happen this off season.

Yep agree. JVR has been on record saying that those AFL games in his first year gave him the insight into how hard he needed to work in the off season in terms of his strengths and fitness. Pretty much said that getting a feel for senior bodies is what set him up for a strong pre season in terms of knowing here he had to get to compete against the bigger bodies.

This was an article from Fox dated May 2019

His AFL and WAFL bio has him listed at 200cm. Trusting a wiki site is like like trusting a drug dealer managing your life savings.

First I have heard of this..? Is there information or facts to back this up? I know there for a few off season surgeries, but having only 2 players complete pre season is a bit far fetched to me... Have to be corrected if you've got information that states this.