John Demonic

Starting to feel like these "Dees looking to upgrade", "Dees aggressively pursuing" posts are harbingers of doom. Because every other club has the time and space to also be doing the same. Similar to last year with the Dogs trumping us for GC's pick. I just want a post to pop up one day out of the blue saying a deal has been done for Pick 0-20 from X Club!! Then no getting hopes up. It's just done!

My feeling towards McClure...

Does that sound similar to a player like Brodie Kemp's backstory? He was touted as a top 10 pick, with his own post on demonland (13 pages) but due to injury in his draft year, slid to Carltons pick 17. Thankfully we took Pickett! I wonder if we would have taken him instead of Rivers if he was still available? Also Thankfully he wasn't! Maybe a cautionary tale?

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I just wish they'd give us the double up Collingwood game in round 1 instead of in the later rounds. The kind of game where we can make a very big statement by coming out firing straight up !

I still remember the morons on reddit saying it was a regulation "easy" dribble goal. Sure many of us grew up practicing that inward curbing dribble and would kick it half the time. but the push off, the time of the game, the fatigue and pressure, but also the rarity of it: I don't think I see that many dribble goals like that each year, despite the morons saying it's easy. If it was, everyone would do it. Anyway, it's a decent goal of the week type of goal. That being said, id be more impressed if the Cat player gathered it, ran 10 metres and Fritta chased and nailed him in a HTB tackle and then kicked it from the boundary. I'd take that over it every day of the week.

If anyone besides Gawn took a pack mark in the forward 50, I'd nominate that. Just for how rare a sight it would be for this club.

All? So no qualifiers? Goodwin is about a twice as good a coach as Paul Roos?

Sheesh it will be 35 by the time we use it

Hell yeah, this is a great move. I think it also might tap into Hardwick's psychology. The Tigers era has been and gone, and he's jumped ship right before it sank. Maybe they think we're in a similar boat to them: footy has moved passed us, and we're delusional about having the personnel and the buy-in to play the speed and skill of 2025 footy. Buy shares in our death-ride! Conspiracy Theory Time: What if the events of the past week were a concerted effort to play up this image of an unstable club going into next year with two stars that don't want to be there, to convince the Suns, who we're currently in talks with for Pick 13, that we're a basket case and our future 1st is hot property. Hotter property than their pick 13 this year. Surely, no club is that cunning. Pert, Clarry, everyone in on it, trolling Geelong and Gold Coast simultaneously. I'd love to think we're playing 4D chess and we're not a basket case. What a wonderful pre-2023 fantasy. Joking aside, if our current crisis could actually benefit us in some way by getting us pick 13, that's a pretty big positive to take into next year and we'll be better equipped to make that Future 1st a measly later pick.

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How do you know it wasn't a body double?

This bloke looks like he's been through the wars. Specifically Iraq and Afghanistan

Any truth to the rumour that Clarry loosened a salt shaker and ruined Gary Perts dinner?

Well that was yesterday. Today's a whole new day for a different crisis! Thank [censored] sanity has reportedly prevailed and Geelong's paltry offers were laughed off the phone.

If you only got your information from melbournefc.com, you'd be a walking lobotomy.

Pretty sure Sam Edmund was reporting it when discussing the review about to take place. Of course we do not have any facts. It's not going to be a contract written on a piece of paper.

How can I know? Rumours that the project would fall over if Pert was sacked, were reported last month. Just like 'rumours' of Clayton Oliver wanting to play for Geelong, are being reported now.

The project falls over if he loses his position at the MFC, is enough of a red flag to me.

Pert sounds like the kind of power hungry politicking guy that uses a home base development project to service his own personal needs and wedge himself into an either/or sack me and it collapses ultimatum. That really sounds like the kind of fake two-faced person that develops shallow interpersonal relationships that slowly crumble as more and more people cotton on to the grift over time. And we're where we are now. That can't be good for "culture"

What happened to the power being in the clubs hand with the writing of a long term contract? If Geelong are desperate enough they can move the pieces to get it done. I don't see why 'we' have to accept what is offered when the long term contract permits us the lee-way to keep him and repair the relationship without fear of him walking to the draft. Is sitting out really such a fearful scenario that we'd accept so little compensation? Of course the full picture is not clear and we dont know how unified the 'we' is that's pushing him out the door and whether things are beyond repair or not. The ball is in the Cats court to come to the table with something substantial imo.

DeeSpencer already educated on me on that point, and far more eloquently. "Way too" chime in pointlessly.

The point is simply that if a club does not have the value to make a trade, they need to ruffle the feathers of some of their own players and their fan base, to come up with the value. Why should another club make NO concessions or sacrifice any relationship (to an up and coming star) to make a trade happen? A future 1st is not worth the sacrifice we are making, if thats all thats on the table to take his contract and his playing ability. We called them, if they want it to happen, find your player that wants to come to us. The hardline approach is the trade demand, or it doesn't get done.