John Demonic

Draper doing the LJ 3Q GF with the centre clearances

Not sure if you're on whiskey or Thymosin beta-4 tonight WWS

Was replying to DubDee about the horrific idea of an April fools post about Clarry doing a knee

he'd still get 30 touches in a wheelchair

Be that as it may, its been reported that we've got strong interest in Ben King, and so any media related to him is going to be posted in a Trade Rumours thread, where the same conversations are being had so early in the season anyway.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/tradies/id1676700145 Alright new pod on trade stuff, McClure and Cleary. Had stuff on King, Darcy Parish and Fyfe

And if they're from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

I think you mean Allen Jakovic 😉

Norwood Peckers

From all reports this guy will go at pick 1 and they'd be crazy to do it, so its pretty unlikely. I think clubs like North or West coast might be more ready to bite on deepening their list and speeding up their list rebuild, with three first rounders at the expense of a pick 2-5 - if they don't think there is much of a chasm between 2 and 8. The only way we do it, is if we would have a gun earmarked in that 2-5 range who we do think is a massive step up from the player at pick 8, and they don't. And you'd back us in there, given we have the runs on the board. It would be hard for us to part with a future 1st as well unless the kid is a very big step up from 8. Pick 8 + 15-18 + 2nd round pick/s I would hope would be our highest bid. Winning the flag this year, I'd want to protect next years first, given how hard it is to go back to back, and given our list demographic.

If Gus is going to captain after Max, you'd think it would be a very brief transitionary role before passing it on to the leader of the next brigade in the 20-25 age range right now, as I don't think he's the kind of player that has too many years left in his legs/body in 2025. I also cast him in the loveable rascal mould like Max, so I think the club might be ready for a change after Max. Tracc on the other hand is not only a player who I can see with 5+ years of great footy left in him (With Clarry) - but also seems to be a natural leader on and off the field with the way he carries himself in the footy and social media. I can see the next evolution of his on field game being the brave and fearless captain that can turn a game in the middle or up forward. Also the kind of person that could be the President of the AFLPA But I do echo similar sentiments about getting the leadership group right. I think its fair to say we (compassionately) get a mulligan for last Friday due to how massive a person Gawn is the the club on and off the field - but if it happens again in a final, then we need Jack and the new vice / leadership group, to steady the ship before the break so we don't concede a heavy score and flush our season away.

He needs to do 3 years of purgatory at GWS first. So I propose a 3 way trade involving Hogan to us and our 4th to Freo

Jacob Van Rooyesing Star ⭐

You'd have to take that up with your local council

I think the success of Sheezel and Daicos suggests we should just draft a hard working and skillfull pure footballer high iq mid and play them off the half back line straight away. Either that or we trade both firsts and potentially next years for the best kid in the draft, and they're pretty much ready to alternate with Viney in the middle and replace him in the future. Would Hawthorn or another bottom club want a 2 or 3 pick package given their aspirations to build a deep list of first round picks immediately? I'm guessing the FD will want to draft a KPD with one of those first rounders though.

So if Spargo is having a shot from 40m out after the siren down by 3, to win the game. Whether he kicks the goal or not, will decide whether we are doing much this year? Strange logic, I would've thought its more about 'how' the game is played next week, rather than the result. It's a round 3 match against a red hot team coming off a grand final, without our captain the most influential player on any football field. Take a breather!

Demonland right now

LDU is a gun. What's shocking is that the Kangas are standing up in every tackle and disposing of it by foot. They seem to have 5 Petracca's out there with the way Freo aren't sticking anything.

That Ashsoft kid has a big career ahead of him, as my most hated Lion

Not that it would've changed the result, but It's nights like these where the strengths of a leadership "group" of 4/5 players could've come to the fore, and been more attuned in that 1st quarter to keeping our collective minds on everyone playing their roles, rather than being confused and lost out there wondering about Gawny. Who even is our VC now that Viney is Captain?

Remember when we swapped Luke Jackson for Brodie Grundy, Mathew Jefferson and Harley Reid?

Have we beaten them since?

You misrepresented my point. I said if May is 1 or 2 weeks away, then Tomlinson and Petty should be competing on form over the next week or two, if the club is going to select on form and not reputation. I also said if Petty has a bag (or two) kicked on him them, it would be logical to bring May in to play his position. This is obviously a highly unlikely circumstance, and it is a very slim possibility of occurring - but no player is immune to a dip in form, even 23 year old key position players. If there's no selections made because of selection pressure, then we're back to where we were last year. Apologies for shooting Bambi.

Like clockwork, the week a Melbourne player is in trouble, is the week everyone in the AFL Media decides "Enough's Enough" </myvictimcomplex>