Mt. Dee-Maaan

in more ways than one..

ahhh 2018.. i was living in Europe at the time (ooh la la), doing a uni exchange, and i remember watching games in the back of cabs and in summery backyards from amsterdam to athens.. watched the dreaded west coast loss at a little apartment on the island of samos (a greek island in the aegean sea, just off the coast of turkey). i don't actually recall watching this carlton game.. might put that down to being in amsterdam? damn melksham has been a servant hasn't he? 5 goals back then and 4 goals the other day..

casey second to the ball, kicking to contests where southport seemed to spoil with ease and then mop up and make us pay on transition. so freaking frustrating. the amount of players in our back half responsible for 2016-era T-Mac turnovers was horrific. JVR made to look like trash, but at least he appeared to be putting in effort and at least trying to spoil at times (got the impression that he gave up attempting to mark). sad to see how Koltyn played.. didn't mind the look of Deakon Wright and also Blake Howes looked good at times.. other than that, no goooooooood

I realise a lot of people have asked genuinely, but can anyway suggest what the new game plan that Goodwin keeps referring to is? i honestly cannot identify what the players are trying to do. they aren't taking risks, they seem to be doing the same thing, just slower and with worse footskills (if that is possible).. the kickouts at the moment and mistakes in the D50 are particularly bad atm too and no one seems to be referring to those. perhaps that is a result of trying to avoid the boundary line upon exiting our D50?

Just had an image of Tauru and Van Rooyen owning the forward line and causing absolute chaos.. Although I'd prefer we don't go him at 5, maybe it'll all work out in the end?.. Love to have him, if only we had another pick in the 10 :-P

love that you've referred to him as 'John' @Whispering_Jack very catty. 👏

mmmm.. not sure about this kid.

hope we do get him.. seems like a great kid.

one of the biggeet/strangest letdowns of 2024 (playing-wise).. he's always liked a goal, which might save him, but didn't even get many of those this year. seems a good young fella, but if it doesn't work out for him in 2025, i'd trade him back to SA.

good player, loads of potential. speed, hard and gutsy.

I'll be sweating if we go Smilie at 5 & Armstrong at 9 (or vice versa). I just don't see it. Smilie is arrogant and lazy. Word is we might have a few players already like that :-/.. Would love it Jagga slips to 5 (hello general consistency & good delivery to our forward line!) and if we could nab Tauru or Travaglia at 9, I'd be stoked. Tauru looks a weapon (prob as a KPD) and Travaglia has speed, dare and sounds as though he is an upstanding citizen. But, should they are all gone, Taj Hotton or Jobe Shanahan at 9.

Want the Swannies to win, but am afraid the Lions will get up by a 4 goals-ish :-/

hopefully swans get up and cats lose. can't stand port, cats or lions (mainly due to zorko and their [censored] against petty a few years ago).. joe is a weird unit, be funny to see him in the GF.

be great if we could somehow get two mids in the top 15 and then a slider KPF/KPB between 25-40 (somehow).. just have to see what we can do with playing around with pick swaps (including next year's picks).

Port vs Geelong Dogs vs Hawks Swans vs Giants Lions vs Blues