The end is nigh

Well that’s a real shame, the planned dinosaur excavation had me intrigued. (Edit: this one’s on me. Should have read it a little closer, but yet somehow so much of it was believable)

Seems a discrepancy, is it 3 or 7 byes?

But both were drafted, and have afl games on their CV. The rise from VFL is possible.

Culley another who more recently put himself under the nose of recruiters by choosing an aligned club. AJ and Henderson both came through by excelling at the level. If you are good enough to get on a list, it happens. (Being good enough to produce at afl level is another story entirely, but recruiters always have their eyes scouring for talent in all the pathways)

Hes elite. He’s the same draft as JVR and has over 100 Brownlow votes (highest votes per game in history). There’s no need to pretend he’s not one of the best in the game right now. But he’s a Collingwood player, so he’s hated filth.

Gus would have been an amazing captain. Cest la vie. Max’s comments are what you would hope for, open to and welcoming of positive change. I’ll be keen to hear how open the club is about the selection process, and whether blokes like Steele in particular are rated within. Let’s just give the captaincy to Bailey Humphrey. Make our intentions for next years trade period very clear.

Seems very reasonable given it’s December. I’m still going to cross my fingers that his recovery goes as predicted by the club. (Hope your partner recovers well too)

Slightly off but I expect with the new game style there will be lots of overlap run feeding the ball off to the quality kickers. As long as Onley can take a grab and hit a player coming past at speed, he’ll do just fine in transition footy

Think Howes was one of those ‘it’s not working well enough here, let’s try him down back’ Personally, not overly confident he can break the ceilings set by his teammates for a spot anywhere in the starting team. New voices coaching him, his attributes might be better utilised. Hope you have a great summer Blake!

Picturing Angus and his lovely in Oxford makes me quite happy. But the reason I brought anything up was in relation to the contracts thread on here. Is there any confirmation that Gus’ payout is inside or outside the cap for the remaining years? I gather it will be hard to obtain exact numbers (as it will for clarry too). I’m just hoping it doesn’t restrict us when trying to retain our next batch of core players in the years to come.

Sorry to open old wounds, I miss Gus on field and on the list. But I have a curiosity regarding paying brayshaws contract off.. given there’s cap relief by percentage in the next couple years for it, is it allowed to be shifted into larger amounts over those years? Say 2026 1m, ‘27 1m and then 400k in the final year where there’s no cap relief? Seems like an obvious cheat to the system but I would figure many long term contracts are amended over their course so why not here? (Apologies if this has been answered already)

Looking forward to seeing a team coached to use its advantages. Hoping this results in a spread of goalkickers, but also when a player is identified as having a good mismatch we put the foot down and exploit it before the oppo has a chance to get a plan in place. On Matthews himself, Im really looking forward to his contribution at the top level but if it takes a full year to get him to his best, so be it.

I still have and wear my puffy kaspersky laden dees jacket! Whilst wearing it I got head nods walking past Gawny outside gmhba and Jimmy in the crowd at Casey. Both were wearing identical jackets at the time. Treasured item.

15 and 18.. 33 far from 50 Both valuable but this is misrepresentation (Sorry, I prefer accurate stats) 2018 was 41 combined.

Is Archie Ludowyke still on the board too?