John Demonic

4 years since he was last in an AA team, which was his first and only gong. The price is only justified if it's another salary dump!

Acquiring free agent Zaine Cordy after 3 days of trade week, as a club on a 56 year premiership drought while stuck in the mid-table with a pick that barely scrapes into the top 10 each year.

No it won't. There will be yearly surgery for the next 5 years to the tune of 1.5 mil.

I don't mind it tbh - We'll undoubtedly get to play the 6th placed team (Freo) twice, so we have a chance to give them 2 losses - it will go someways to helping us get a top 10 pick - I think they are underestimating the impact Mundys absence will have on their midfield, if they're not actively recruiting another midfield gun - and their defence has always been held together by tape, they're one Alex Pearce injury away from becoming a mid-table defence. And keeping Lobb against his will for another year to pair with the most subbed off player in the league, Mr Tabener? Ripe to fall down the ladder. And North 2nd is guaranteed pick 19-20.

Even if I blissfully bicycled around Amsterdam all day and hung out in coffee shops getting legally high, I reckon id still log onto demonland every hour in trade week to see if the dees had done any deals Doubley so if someone legitimate posted a rumour about a key forward we've been linked to! What's that quote "Wherever you go, there you are"

So do we recruit Dusty, DeGoey, or Stringer?

Demonlanders have gone wacky for Schache?

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Every team does in different degrees. There's also a danger we overreact on this year and stuff our cap up next year. How many teams are bringing in a Tom McDonald and Jacob Van Rooyen? We might be underestimating the impact a functional forward line might've had on this season. Instead of being up by 25-35 by half time, we might be talking insurmountable leads. Confidence to convert scores also breeds confidence in skill and speed.

And when we go left of field with a 2nd half Tom Sparrow tag to "surprise", their midfield gun gets off the chain.

Bad for us if Freo were wanting to swap for Ports pick 8 with their pick 13 and acquired 20 pick for Logue

203cm in a ben brown perm

Bearhugs*

Jetta was a clamp. Underrated and unique player that bucked the trend. Every indigenous footballer has been described, for better or worse, stereotypically as either "magic" or "explosive". And yet he was the neither, a stable and ultra competitive lock down defender that beat the best small forwards in the game regularly. Perhaps if he'd played at that level for the first half of his career, he'd be more highly regarded? But also just the nature of his position means he goes under the Radar🤷‍♂️ Back Pocket respect.

Yup. I think that the Hunt departure and the nonchalance about Tomlinson exploring his options, given we won't offer him another contract, are more about to do with the future Pickett offer, and not about bringing in Grundy + another trade target on 600-800k a year. Although I'm sure we could be willing to backend something if someone we wanted was to openly ask for a trade to us in the next few weeks.

only thing im interested in is the compo

Goody probably thinks an increase in clearances from the centre and around the ground stoppages will give us 10-20% more inside 50s, which will result in those half time leads being 45 points rather than 35? And he might be right. I'm not expecting anything radically different to this year. We just hope for better conversion with personnel change and fitness

I'd pay Diamond Jim a backended 2 million bucks over 4 years deal to live like the King Of Thailand, if it meant we got pick 7, but one less list spot. Get it done Dees!!

I think the onus is on the Lion's to fight to the death in a prelim next year to be taken seriously, despite how good a regular season they've had each year, or any players they add. Let's not forget they're at the equivalent stage to us if the furthest we'd gone was: TWO v WCE preliminarily final beltings. Their biggest weakness is defence, and while Dunkley is an upgrade on Lyon, Gardiner is apparently out the door and (Edit: Marcus Adams) is battling concussion. I don't see the fundamental structure radically changing on that end. And we haven't even mentioned Fagan.

How can you get sick of a bloke that gets excited about newly discovered exo planets?

If he leaves, we can blame the Ill-fated 500k Tomlinson 4th year that 95% of us demonlanders thought would initially come back to bite us eventually.

We will see. Hitch your wagon to the Daniher train at your own peril. I can see the [censored] falling out from under them with a higher probability, than I can see them lifting up the cup or being competitive on a Grand Final day. They've been up for awhile now, while in my opinion, never truely being a premiership threat. But you are correct, the perennial chokers can turn it around. Do you not feel an intuitive soft underbelly to their squad? It would take a miraculous turn around for Dunkley, Ashcroft and Gunston and the rest to be in serious premiership calculations/the frame next year. As I said just my opinion. And as for the glasses. We have a far higher upside. You can't deny that.

...So the point is they're not in the premiership frame, and never even were this year or last. 2020 is debatable but they were also roughed up by a bigger bodied Geelong in a similar prelim belting. Either way, them being in the premiership frame next year is debatable. Brisbane making these moves is more akin to St Kilda topping up on trades because they think they're in the window, when fundamentally there are deeper issues with personnel, desire and gameplan that will never get them a premiership. Putting aside that they got us at our weakest in the semi final. That's just my opinion anyway

Dunkley's not Dangerfield and Gunstons not J. Cameron. Ashcroft might be a Daicos, but I still can't see those 3 players making up the gap vs a Geelong side. No tactical shift or positional upgrade can make up that difference imo.