The end is nigh

If I have to watch George Gawn in any other colours I’ll be shattered. Hard even listening to him sing other teams songs now

I’d be happy to have him on our list, we have a lot of spots to fill and too few draft picks. Two years on low money provided he ticks medical and Steven king vibe check.

King will surely use preseason to rejuvenate some players who’ve stagnated slightly. I’d like to see Bowey and Salem as rotating in the spargo HFF deliverer role, and BP outlet kick. Watching hawthorn in the finals it was obvious that players despite not playing spots all year don’t cry when put somewhere unfamiliar understand it’s not rocket surgery. Take the role given and try your best to impact. Hoping king has game day tactics like this. If petty isn’t kicking goals, throw disco forward and petty back. Don’t worry about him dropping his head, he won’t have time (and won’t have to worry about a chirpy May) So as for a 22, irrelevant. Pick from the squad of players ready to go based on fitness form and troubling the opposition.

My hope of the situation now is we make him do a medical and than instantly and publicly withdraw all offers knowing he’s cooked. And have him crawl back to Collingwood. Nothing good comes from trading with them. We give them steel men of value like Howes and Dunn who are serviceable until beyond expectation and they give us wilted picks like Kennedy or headaches like heritier. Let’s not forget the damage Neeld did to the club. Lose their number. Better yet block it.

Steak knives in a Trac-Flanders deal.

Bruce was approached regarding the head coach vacancy and declined the process.

Is this his way of getting a Brownlow invite?

Apologies. This move. Started well before we had a coach that we SHOULD have interest. JVR, Jefferson, kentfield and Johnson on the list, not to mention petty. Any more on the list and somebody is playing out of position regularly. Are other lists carrying 6 key forwards?

Any time we have taken anything from Collingwood in my living memory it has set us back and done them no harm. This trade feels like a media driven narrative rather than us seeking it out. I don’t fear an aging mihocek tearing us apart next kings birthday, nor do I see him causing them any difficulty if he came to us. Let them split their fanbase by either keeping him or delisting him. If we don’t take him, nobody else will either. If they really want us to take him we should make them an offer, give May a two year deal with a trigger for a third too and we will.

But then petty would have a golfing buddy

Something in me says the moment we get another club to give May a two year deal, mcvee signs a new deal. Also call me crazy but if Trac goes to the crows, any chance we can prise out that Neal Bullen lad? Really think he has something we could use.

My thoughts on it today were adding a death ride campaign back into things. Pick 23 and 2026 future 1st to Carlton Carlton’s future 1st to us Carlton’s (TDK, or if the silvagni one is end of 1st rnd and enough) compo pick to gc for Flanders Carlton get to death ride us and have Walker coming in next year, need max points. Also their compo is likely to get eaten up by a bid on dean this year. Main concern is if Carlton have enough to get the trade over the line and can sell Flanders on a single colour jumper, we are in trouble. But if he nominates the dees, it’s a good starting point if not a fair trade all round. There may be quibbling for extras, but also a chance it’s an absolute steal for us if we jump Carlton on the ladder next year.

Hoping king and Flanders both publicly endorse a trade to us at the beginning of trade period and we hawthorn them down to unders. Pick 23 as a starting point and eventually roll our eyes late in the piece and give them a future third with it. I feel safe picturing Flanders locked into a high accumulation/distribution role off half back.

I’d be far happier to see us linked to Jed Walters, but can’t see us having a way to make it happen. Also on the amiss side of things, my biggest concern is that mcvee might be testing the waters and we need to have a reasonable play at getting something back.

I’m at a point where I’d like to see change. Given Scott is sounding like Melbourne last year huffing about contracts I don’t see Merrett moving. If the trades we got for moving on petracca and Tholstrop netted us back Flanders and amiss (and we held onto ANY first rounder for next year) I’d be very happy with our list management. Flanders is a prime ball mover, and has shown he has capacity to be a 30-40 touch player when white hot. He gets shunted out of position up at Gold Coast and if we had a Trac sized hole I think he would find that a clear opening to set himself up in. Amiss is an upgrade on any of our kpf and whilst I’d love kentfield jeffo and JVR to all be demanding spots round one next year with undeniable form, at this stage we still have petty being first picked out of the goal square, when I think most supporters (including me) would rather see him set up shop in mays neck of the woods.