John Demonic

At this rate, we're going to give the Saints a real shake in the pre-season premiership decider

I think Joel Smith getting over the annual injury and playing footy is just a bonus from here on out, and we should not be planning our team around him being in it. Same goes with VDB. We really should be 'replacing' them with comparably good players. If they return to fitness then great, they can fight it out for spots, or we have surplus and trade value going into the future be it. I would not put Hore in the same category as Murray, Hore is more your Jetta type of lock down or 3rd man up defender and Jordon is speculative at this point. If we took Young as you said, then yeah probably Murray will be surplus though, but who knows if we take him.

Looks like the Sydney Swan incarnation of Stinga. I opened the video expecting the surfie long blonde haired shirtless Demon Stinga!

Chuck him on the MFC Basics Card to make sure he doesn't spend his money on gambling, booze or drugs you say? ?

What date and time does Viney's Northern Adventures air on the telly?

Friday Night Melbourne vs Sydney will be postponed for a few years. A spectacle so truly awful its rumoured to have prompted the AFL/7 to introduce flexible fixturing for 2020

Every chalet will have a copy in each bedroom drawer

Nailed it much? I couldn't imagine an inconsistent footballer with unfulfilled potential getting along with a serious full back for a captain that demands accountability and players knowing their role.

My 5 Demons to watch in 2020 are: Tracca's gluttony for an extra serving of nonna's pasta Angus' slothful running back to defence Jayden Hunt's envy of Ed Langdon's magnificent hair May's wrathful head high bumps The 22's pride in playing a good quarter of footy

In summary, the D's need to grow some B's and seek clarification from the AFL

Agree with everything you've said, but where is your opinion of our recruitment of Jordan Lewis?

MFCSS talking here but i just had a vision of our two saviors running directly into the centre for our first bounce and knocking each other out and injuring themselves for the season.

The Panasonic Cup has our name written all over it.

I think i'd rather see Gold Coast take him and beat Carlton after a lengthy 'restraint of trade' arbitration process. Gil makes up rules on the fly, surely he can engineer them holding onto JM until he nets them RFA compo. Aren't we going to pick up Sam Murray in the PSD anyhow?

Where's the box for NFI

The thread title was a year old and related to losing Hogan and his 40-50 goals last year and adding another tall to pick up some slack. The premonition about both Smiths not being a reliable bet to hedge on came true with their injury histories. And also Pedo & Keilty are departed. Why exactly haven't we even replaced them with a depth kpf/3rd tall in the trade period even if they won't get a game if not for injury or poor form? Will we do it at the draft with a WAFL/SANFL/VFL player? or in the PSD? If the club is going to gamble on a clean bill of health all year to our forwards and have Tomlinson, Gawn or Preuss drop forward if need be, so be it. I just hope it doesn't backfire.. again. As a repeated mistake is the definition of stupidity. And no matter how fit our entire team gets, having TMac or Weid injured if they even get back to their best, will rule us out of winning a premiership if we make it to the latter stage of the season and have to go up against Grimes/Rance/Astbury, McGovern, Barass, Davis, Haynes etc. I don't care for finishing 2nd-8th, but that's as high as we'll possibly be able to make it imo. 50 goals from 5 forwards is fine, but you can't rely on that week to week and it all falls apart if you lose your two kpf forward structure. Agree with all posters though, we have to gamble on Weid for another year or two to find out if he's going to take the next step with consistent footy, just wouldn't mind another tall to provide us with a safety net.

About time we had Another Wizard in the forward pocket

He might've been sick of having Steven May in his ear about defensive efforts all career already! ?

Nice to see a bit of media that isn't Andy Maher arrogantly gushing over Carlton picking him up in the PSD re manager interview yesterday

Seems to be a bit of contraditory info out there. All i know is we have a minimum two year contract, and camp A says it can't be front loaded and has to be x amount of dollars over 2 years and camp B says it can be something ridiculous like 1.5mil 1 year, 100k 2nd year. Or even 2.4 million for 2 years, and then 200k/year in a new contract offer in 2021 for years 3 and 4 "A player (other than a first-year draft choice or a second-year player) may specify in the nomination form the football payments he will require over two years if selected at a Draft Selection Meeting."

Dan Menzel mustn't be happy with this change of strategy.

Same position up forward as last year again. Can't see us contending for a premiership at all. We'll have enough trouble making the 8, but we all know it's premiership or failure every year from now on in..

Lockhart will do fine. Will be 24 next year and as tenacious as ever to keep his place in the team.

It's Keeffa, but you can call him Keeff

Yeah, but so can Gold Coast