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    1 hour ago, Rocknroll said:

    I just love kozzie, I don't care about the $$$ it would break my and my kids heart to see him in purple

    1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

    This is a very important point to harp on about.

    The money Kosi makes the club by getting people to watch games, and his marketing value, is totally underrated.

    He is a guy your kids want to watch play, and keeps them connected and invested in the club as they grow up.

    There is more to this than just keeping a bloody good player in the team.

    If this contract gets signed, we should all be extremely happy! It would be sensational news for our club.

    Absolutely. My 10 year old kids were totally mortified at the prospect of Kozzie going to another club.

    He's the main reason they're interested in the MFC (aside from my relentless brainwashing since birth, haha!)

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    31 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    L.Birch does NOT like Melbourne (see today's Age tipping).

    (I'd be interested if anyone here has insight on that...)

    She's got a perpetual chip on her shoulder that we traded her out. She was cooked and playing awful footy in her last year with us and she wasn't alone - we did a big list turnover that year.

    She needs to be a bit more professionally objective if she wants a media career I reckon. Oh....that's right....

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    3 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    By JAY CLARK 💩💩💩💩

    “Clayton Oliver would look over the fence at what could have been.

    The fresh start at Geelong. The chance for more premiership success. The renewal and resurrection of Bailey Smith.

    There was a belief last year that Oliver was the missing link in the Cats’ premiership quest this season alongside Smith, but now he is in danger of falling by the wayside at the Demons in their push into a new era.

    One of the best ballwinners in the game a few years ago has polled only one AFL Coaches Association vote, averaging 28 touches and seven clearances across seven matches in 2025.

    The coaches’ trophy is an award he has won twice, but Oliver’s drop-off over the past 24 months is as steep as anyone’s in the game.

    And for this once blistering onballer, the slow walk towards what feels like another inevitable trade request has taken its toll on the player, as much as everyone at Melbourne has lauded his commitment and involvement over the past year.

    Oliver, 29, is a much better teammate, the Demons all say, after some serious talks and guidance in recent years, and captain Max Gawn deserves much of the credit for helping keep his mate on track.

    They play chess before games and on Monday night had a sauna together at Gawn’s house, the skipper said.

    And while the club is adamant Christian Petracca is staying, the door is clearly more open on Oliver and the prospect of off-loading his $1.2 million-a-year salary for a key forward in the exchange period.

    But as things stand, the Dees would be lucky to get even one first-rounder for Oliver, as that ship may have sailed – unfortunately for everyone – last year.

    It is no secret that when Oliver travelled down the highway to Rhys Stanley’s farm last year after Melbourne dangled him as trade bait, the midfielder saw, and wanted, a future down the coast.

    But now he is stuck, to a degree, as harsh as it sounds.

    Or at least he could be stuck, pending how hard Melbourne is prepared to keep him at the club for next season, and how much of his bumper wage the Demons would be willing to pay to send him to Geelong in return for a middling draft pick.

    At the heart of any Oliver trade is an important sliding scale.

    The more of his wage the Demons are willing to pay, the better the draft return they would expect from the Cats.

    If the Demons don’t pay any of his seven-figure wage, the Cats would likely either reject the deal entirely, or offer up a late pick in the draft to absorb all of his money.

    And the Cats might have the most disciplined pay structure in the game, meaning if Melbourne are at all interested in off-loading Oliver they will likely have to chip in several hundreds of thousands of dollars at least, like Collingwood did on Adam Treloar.


    The dump kick at Melbourne is ineffective and out under the “new way” to play under Simon Goodwin. Precise ball use is king in 2025.

    That hurts Oliver’s style and role, and he remains no certainty to stay in the senior side this year as first-year jet Harvey Langford’s growth continues.

    He’s the future, clearly, Langford.

    And the club has re-signed hard nut Jack Viney for four years, so he is locked in.

    Oliver is the expendable one.

    There is a real prospect Oliver may not keep his spot this year pending his form and it would be difficult for a four-time best-and-fairest winner to head out to suburban grounds in the VFL in his prime.

    If that does happen this year, the shoulders will slump and trade regret will hit overdrive as the Cats hunt another top-four berth.

    Oliver missed the trip west to play West Coast on Saturday night as part of a mental health break, but is expected to return to training on Tuesday and play this weekend after a breather.

    The mature way the Demons and Oliver have handled his time off last week is to their credit.

    But Oliver’s future is clouded, and there is a chance, too, he is stuck now.


    At least this trade period, the clubs will have had time to thrash out a deal, and that work will ramp up now, if in fact Geelong still wants him”.

    Content aside, Jay Clark is a very poor writer.

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    8 minutes ago, Heart Beats True said:

    I don’t know why but I can never see the posts by Demonland. It’s just a big black box. Any tips on how to get around it?

    Same here. It’s the large format embedded posts, not just from DL but other posters too I often can’t see.

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    6 hours ago, binman said:

    Review:

    • Goody has been under a lot of pressure, needs to find the joy again and chillax

    Chris from Camberwell's (who surely posts on DL - c'mon fess up) recommendation:

    • Sack Goody and replace him with a bloke that looks like he's seconds from a heart attack 30 time a game as he screams into his hands and is coming off yet another embarrassing Grand Final capitulation. 

     

    25 minutes ago, picket fence said:

    ASSISTANT?? WOULD LOVE HIM TO BE OUR SENIOR COACH!!

     

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    23 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    I can't recall a game in recent memory where we are playing a side that literally has all of its best 23 available.

    How fortunate are Fremantle going.  

    Edit - Johnson's out injured...

    St Kilda earlier this year. They had 0 on the injury list when we played them. 

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    28 minutes ago, Roger Mellie said:

    Fence has already posted on this thread. Blow me down with a feather - it was another broken record post about bringing in Jefferson, just like the other three hundred.

    Some bloke called up SEN about 20 mins ago to pot Petty and spruik Jefferson …. PF?? 👀

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    53 minutes ago, Tom Dyson said:

    i'll save a post about the game until later but by gee Collingwood fans have sunk to a new low. 

    The absolutely vile stuff being said about angus and the championing of maynard made me sick and also just very sad. 

    Genuine waste of oxygen, the lot of them. 

    Yep. Not only this, but me and my mates had to put up with casual racism throughout as well. Scum of the earth. 

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    44 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    They had to help premiership coach Dimma, it wouldn't look good  if they missed the 8 after all the hype and 12 years wasted by that club.

    I think you’re getting the Suns confused with the Brions..