John Demonic

It's all happening @DeeZone Calm those nerves!

A premiership and 3 1st round picks. They might give us a trade ban and ban future first trading league wide if we added a 4th It's a really good idea, well worth thinking about. Even if we use it this year, we can still conceivably trade Freo's 1st, Our 1st and a (2024) Future 1st next year for a very high pick, or a trade for a gun key forward out of contract.

GWS just spent a week manoeuvring their way to pick 1 to I assume get Cadman, and North got themselves two bites at the next best. Even with Ports pick 8 early last week we'd be no chance. Oh well!

Bit confused by all of this really - they bring in the injury sub, limit the rotations, want players fatigued, get the game looking pretty decent as an overall product with the stand rule and 666, but now they may add a change that could alter everything they've done in the past 5 years? Just let both teams use their sub either any time, or if one team uses it. And then there's no need for a 5th player on the bench. But yeah, smells like posturing of course - it's been a stalemate all week, nothing has changed - we should've let Collingwood pressure Freo for that Nth 2nd round pick, maybe they'd be better than us at getting their way.

Missed all of todays news, but a quick browse of reddit suggests that there is a rumour that 5 player benches are coming next year and that is why Collingwood want to keep him now? Has there Been a discussion on this, or is it fluff?

I thought we were well past the need for a Messiah

The FD's review of the season concluded that "We do not have enough man-buns in the forward line to convert our entries"

If I'm WCE I'm asking for 13, Freo or Melb f1 and NM F2. With a potential future 3rd coming back to us. And even then that deal is too weighted to the future, i'd ask the Dees to trade a F1 to get a pick 8-12 this year There's just no incentive otherwise.

If its a toss up between one or the other for impact, then I'm taking Grundy - It's a gamble that contains a far higher ceiling. A fit and firing Grundy alternating with Max is just going to re-shape the look of every single match - something that could re-shape the league if it works. Whereas with Whitfield - he may be a skilful and lightning quick hb/wing that sets up a lot of good ball at his best, but I feel his strengths are far easier negated, and even if he allows others to get more of the ball, or upgrades our ability to link with one another and get better entries, the difference between having him in the club or not will not decide whether we can win the flag or not. He's an outside player that cannot impact on a match if it isn't going his way. I would say a a functional forward line, upgrading our bottom 6 and the fitness of our stars are the major factor for us contending next year. Add Grundy and it might be the edge that pushes us ahead, Whitfield I just don't think he is that impactful enough. How about we magically fit both of them in though!!!

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.