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A lot of Dlanders were on the Jack Billing’s bandwagon early 👍 I wasn’t aware of our interest until late today. Looks like another good pickup., certainly helps cover some of our depth concerns, hope he is as fit and firing as his manager suggests. Welcome to the MFC Jack Billings I hope you get a clear run at it at the Dees we could certainly use more skills in front of the ball, look forward to seeing you out on the G next year.

Not me TR-A I am looking forward to Tom being given the opportunity to provide a chop out for Max and spending a lot of time in our fwd 50 and rotating off the bench to provide some height, pace and goal kicking ability that we are currently lacking. We actually need to harness his 2023 VFL form (which is better than any of our youngsters coming through) and transition him into an AFL player. Good luck Tom Fullarton you need to find a way.

Welcome to the MFC Shane McAdam, thanks for choosing us and for your patience during the drawn out negotiation period. Very happy that you have come onboard we are really lacking fwd 50 fire power and I believe you have the potential to make a big difference at the Dee’s. Good luck, stay healthy and have a great time at our mighty club.

Pick 6 & 11 will help replace the quality we have lost, Fullarton adds ruck/fwd potential / depth, McAdam eases the loss of Jake, Kynan Brown 1/2 fwd,1/2 back quality depth plus a couple of rookies. Plus we need and expect a couple of - Turner, Laurie, Howes, Woewodin, AMW, Adam’s, Verall, Jefferson to step up and show a bit during 2024. We have retained our best 22 with some doubts around two of our top 5 players, we have also released salary cap pressure and will further improve this aspect at the end of 2024, which will allow us to recruit and lock down players we want to keep. Not sure who will take on the Michael Hibberd role maybe Disco, playing tall and small as McVee and Riv are required across HF line it will be a very interesting year, we will have injuries no doubt as all clubs do. Looking forward to seeing how Andrew McQualter tweaks our game plan and forward connection, he is a great get. Now just looking forward to the Draft and Rookie draft to inject some quality and depth back into the list.

That’s a huge improvement WCW.!!!

The thing is BD we don’t have our hands on the controls and what is the benefit of constant handwringing and constant criticism of our recruitment team and club.

I just rechecked the List LH has already included Shane McAdam, Daniel Turner and Tom Fullarton on the senior list.

I just love that church scene DD have watched it numerous times.😁😁

We shall soon find out d3165, however you would expect that an athlete who has played in a high performance environment would have a fair degree of grit, determination and will to win that other ingredient isn’t evenly shared around but hopefully he has some in him.!!

We seem to have given away a lot of draft options to help GCS get their full share of Academy players, I feel we got slim pickings in return.!!

Tom is 97kg, so about the same weight as LJ, hopefully TMac will get him onto some great steaks in the pre-season and get him up to 100kg’s.

Thanks mono I also promise that I will firstly thank Tom for choosing MFC as his destination club and also will encourage him to take a leaf out of Michael Hibberd’s legacy of always trying to find a way. Great size, athletic, former captain of the Australian U16 basketball team, kicked 6 goals against Bombers VFL team this year, there is a lot to like about the kid. Give it your best best shot Tom and you just might surprise a lot of people.!!!

Thanks g_o_t_o, very insightful comments, we have a great nucleus of small - medium players and are likely to lose TMac, BBB (Petty) and Tomlinson at the end of 2024. We should go big in the draft or we could be caught short.!! No pun intended.

As it turns out BB and TMac are the least of our worries they can be utilised to upskill our young brigade. The Club has encouraged others to make way for our next draftee’s and this may harm us more in the short term.

A lot of great memories in those names WERRIDEE and a lot of work from you, Thanks.

Good bye and good luck Brodie Grundy it sounded like it could work, one in the ruck one up forward, take a couple of marks kick a couple of goals. Sadly the experiment failed and Brodie has moved on. We have freed up $650k towards a replacement player we got back what we laid out, a wasted year and life goes on. No good sooking about it Or getting angry with each other none of us know what actually caused the breakdown .!!!

Thanks LH excellent work as usual still a bit to go then on to the draft, can’t wait.!!

Explains why Taylor Adams is being eased out.!!

It was mentioned on the B&F thread that one of our Demonlanders had a chat with BBB and he said that he was looking forward to going around again in 2024. However with Grundy, Hibberd, Harmes, JJ, Dunstan & Deakin Smith leaving there would be plenty of cash for a payout if that is what the FD desired or needed to free up an extra spot.!!

Mathieson No - McAdam yes, he is your old fashioned fwd pocket half fwd flanker, loves to kick goals, tackles to hurt and can mark & kick accurately, he won’t cost more than Harmes or JJ but will fill a niche role at the Dee’s. 183cm (6’) and 80kg.!!

Whether James Harmes stays or goes he will always be a Premiership player for MFC and will always be remembered for that laces out kick to Fritta to kick that momentum swinging goal that bought Dees back into the ‘21 Granny and for that I will always be grateful.!!

Tom Fullarton would help fill one of the glaring holes in our current list and he has nominated MFC as his destination club. No doubt JT and TL have been keeping an eye on him and have convinced him that we have a role for him at the Dee’s.!!

Thanks all the live stream is up on the MFC website now with a 7:35 start.!!

Good luck JJ hope you get a good run at Swans a bit sad that it didn’t work out with us.!!