John Demonic

Could we not trade Brayshaw? I know this comes across as being keen to off the load the guy, but perhaps a horizontal trade move (like for like) provides more of a benefit in freshening up the midfield dynamic between players. And a fresh change for each player at a new club. Could be win/win. Otherwise there really is no market for Brayshaw in terms of finding an outside mid/forward that has the same trade collateral.

If Ollie Wines is indeed gettable ... then the Dees should take a close look.

2nd in the entire league for goal assists in 2016, 1st in 2017. 20th last year and in 2015 and 27th this year. There are plenty of things to pot Walker over in terms of his leadership style and inability to impact big games or for his current run of inconsistency, but you can't pot him for not sharing the ball and taking pot shots.

Agreed. It came across more like a job interview with the bloke spruiking his wares. Which you'd probably want to do so you dont get left behind by the industry, given the year we've just had, and with him leaving. "Ive had 10 years experience at Essendon" - Weird flex, but ok

Greatest Western Surplus is about right.

Weren't Tom Doedee's too? .... Maybe we should be recruiting Talia and Hartigan ?

Judd on Classified mentioning that we should trade pick 2 for Ben King and helping them draft Rowell + Anderson, followed by Caro saying we think GCS will get pick 2" Judd: "Well "we" don't. My professional opinion is that I think they'll get pick 10" - It was his response to Lloyd after he asked if Judd knew anything.

Harry Himmelbergg just re-signed, but he's a player i'd love to have in the forward line.

Tim Kelly is causing all sorts of problems for us with the opening up of positional space at the Cats, and potentially the collateral for a Brad Hill 3-way trade with Saints.... Or maybe just finishing 17th is causing it.

I missed many of these junk time highlights including Omacs goal, by turning off at half time.

The interesting thing that's happened since is that Doedee slotted in immediately and was in line for the Rising Star. And with Doedee's injury, Keath has stepped up and made the spot his own. Perhaps indicative of a decent tall defender brigade in Talia & Hartigan? Time will tell.

Yeah. I see him more of a rolls royce, than someone who hits and damages forward with force. If he was to reach his potential, i see him more as a Robert Harvey type of player that learns how to be a one paced endurance mid that just runs all day and gets to the right spots. He's far away from that though.

This trade or the Ross Lyon/Nat Fyfe combo, i can't work out which dream is better.

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"Gee, we could really use a top draft pick out there" ... Izak Rankine watches from the sideline

Meanwhile over on reddit:

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2019-dermott-brereton-has-urged-collingwood-to-consider-trading-jamie-elliott/news-story/b4148866f7a5c6bbe55edb7c2023beea Hmm. I thought he was an unrestricted free agent that comes out of a 1 year contract at the end of the season? In career best form with a clean bill of health, Can play small and tall. Great mark overhead, and decent goal sneak. Can't be on much and could possibly be lured over with a decent offer? Would have to be a sneaky offer though, would not touch with a ten foot pole if Buckley actually put him on the table (with his duplicitous history)

The club is going to have to have a pre-season camp in Colombia, If we're adding Jack Watts, Harley Bennell and Jake Carlisle in the off-season.

Did you by chance see the /r/afl reddit pre season round by round prediction results? Richmond ended up 21W/1L and Melbourne were 20/2 - The majority weren't predicting that ladder, but the ladder was more a result of there only being 1 circumstance that a 50+% amount of pollers could see Richmond lose one of the games and Melbourne two. I think Richmond and WCE at Perth were our losses. So not alone there.

If you think that, then they'd possibly want more than pick 20 and Gus ? a 38 coming back perhaps?

I wonder if his ability to play tall and small means he has longevity built into those legs and we can expect 5-7 more years.

Do you remember one of his tweets on the way out. Paraphrasing but "I guess they don't want players that can kick after all"

I watched yesterdays game with Brisbane and Richmond thinking we never looked close to matching it with the best team in the league in 2018 and never once looked as composed, skilled and as fluid with ball in hand as the Lions after quarter time when the heat was really on. We have not only been leapfrogged by 13 more clubs this year, but the teams in the top 8 have played better footy this year than we ever did. Essendon probably line ball on that, and like us, their maximum is probably two good finals, not that they'll beat WCE. So to get back into the finals is going to be a very tough ask, especially if we're overhauling a game plan to keep up to date with this years trends. I'll be cautiously optimistic about next year, but the expectations are very low and any whiff of stagnation early on will be met with a ten fold increase in anger on this year.