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A lot to digest and Very funny Demonstone!!

Well spoken young man, shows that you have a lot of class and your last two years were very important to you and your teammates. Good luck with the rest of your footy career and life ahead.!!

I am surprised that Goody didn’t snaffle him for our senior FD obviously knows his stuff. Cats should be renamed the Poachers, I suppose it is a backhanded compliment but hell they don’t muck around. Could set us back a bit at Casey.!!!

We still have two newbies to come plus possible 3 extra Rookies not to mention the continual improvement of our list fitness and health wise plus our younger brigade. Yes we are Firmly in the Window.!!

Thanks again LH great effort keeping up with Tim Lamb & Co what a superb effort, we started out with LJ and a glad bag of picks and ended up with Grundy, Hunter and Schache, picks 13 & 37 and 2 first rounders and 2 second rounders for 2023. Brilliant effort.❤️💙✅🤘💕

Welcome home Adam Tomlinson you provide great depth and if all goes well you may enable Petty to be tried forward or at worst you can come in for May, Petty or Rick if any are injured or out of form. Hope you have a great pre-season and get full confidence back in your leg, 2023 is going to be a huge year and we will need all of our experience, stamina and luck to finish top four again. Glad that you are still with us.!!!

Ha ha I still cringe a little bit when I see Gus cannon into Schache slightly late and then lay on the ground as if wounded and BT saying he didn’t get away with standing under the ball.lol.!!!

Jeezuz he can run all day, take a mark and is an excellent kick to boot, Tim might have done alright with this one. Just need to get him in with the boys and get his head straight and look out in 2023. I trust our FD to get Lachie firmly into the fold.🙏✅💕

Welcome Josh Schache 200cm, didn’t realise you are that tall, hopefully you can play a role on hF line or next to JvR if TMac or BBB are injured or out of form or CHF / FF at Casey whilst you provide that critical depth for our mighty Dees. Good Luck young man you are surely going to need it.!!! Thank god that Clarry is a bestie, follow his lead and who knows??

No he is a F4th , we still have 37 up our sleeve, he has cost us nothing and we picked up 37 for Weid.

Good luck Sam Weideman we all hoped your success would be with us but that never came to fruition, thanks for helping us win the flag at Casey this year. Take care Sam.✅💕

At the start of the Quest the figures being mentioned and never denied was MFC $600k, Pies $300k over 5 Years - we pay $3m, Pies pay $1.5m. Pies needed to offload the money so they could fit DeGoeys salary into the cap. There has been a bit of too-ing and fro-ing happening on DL but think the original scenario would be closest to the pin.!!!

Well that feels a bit better if we can get Max and Brodie superfit look out 2023 and beyond. Just need that extra big forward and backup ruck and we will be on a roll.!!!

Is it just me, I feel exhausted by this trade period so far, as it appears that everyone has achieved their goals bar us. The Hunt trade for steak knives from the AFL left me feeling angry, Bedfords trade helped get Jacko deal over the line and we still didn’t crack into the top 10 ( for a Unicorn?) and we still haven’t completed the trade for Grundy. Now Weid has been dropped into the pan for what gain? And we are still trying to offload Thommo. I am hoping that Weid and Thommo will be player swaps to help ease my anxiety levels.!!!

Yes just watched him on Ch7 Perth caught up with Freo mid season met the coach and players and decided that’s where he was going. No wonder his form dropped off at the pointy end of the season he knew he was outta here. Bit sad but that’s how things go sometimes.!!!

AFL trade tracker.

You are correct Demon17 LJ will be MFC LifeMember when he retires, he won the Rising Star and Premiership Medallion as a 19 Year old and that was extra cool for our club and Recruitment team. We do get Pick 13 and their future 1st and 2nd rounders next year so something to work with in 2023. Good luck LJ and Toby but not when you play the Dees.

I guess my main query is why did we change our strategy from being a high running high scoring second half side to being a higher scoring first half team that couldn’t run the game out. Was it team structure/ team fitness or change in game plan? How do we address our poor second halves, do we have the right mix in the FD? To play deeper into the finals in 2023 where do you think that our improvement will come from?

Although I am sorry that Sam didn’t work out for MFC I wish him all the best at Bombers he could do alright as a lead up forward standing next to Wright in their forward line. Good luck Sam safe travels.!!

I don’t want to bang on about our Ruck/forward depth but I have thought that it was our greatest weakness even with LJ/Sam/Majak and Mitch on the list. So I am hopeful that JT / Tim Lamb are Focussing on suitable replacements, we fell over in latter stages of this year due to a lack of suitable options. Majak to injured, Mitch to light, LJ mentally checked out and Sam on the never to be played List. Now is the time to be bold, go after a competent forward and a young ruckman that we can develop under Gawn and Grundy’s tutelage and forget about bringing smalls in on the Rookie List. Get the best talls available to fill the holes or we could be in the same position again next year. As previously mentioned, there are some VG options at state level and Casey, Ellison and Bell leap to mind. We are freeing up salary so must have someone on the radar for next year so let’s top up sensibly this year.

The pressure is really starting to build and that is what Freo want, same with Lions and Bulldogs and Lobbe is in the middle. It’s a house of cards Freo want us to sweat and second guess their intentions as we have the most to lose, they are hoping that we buckle. Eagles are sitting on the sidelines waiting to see who blinks first knowing that we have a weak hand going into the draft and may have to get a deal done to save face and get something back. LJ has gone from the Golden Goose to Xmas Pudding according to Freo and Eagles. Grrrrr.!!

Apparently he was excited to get to the Dees until he real DL. Lol.!!!

Toby was really liked by his teammates and I would have liked to have seen him given more opportunities particularly in the second half of 2022 hell we could have used those fresh legs. I hope he goes on to become a GWS regular and makes a stellar career for himself.

Really liked Jayden I liked him as a person and as a MFC player and agree with Poita best 22 and shouldn’t have been let go.!!!

Our recruitment team pushed hard for Fraser and I was hoping for that special 6’4” fast wingman that could run, mark and kick long. Sadly not to be.!!!