The end is nigh

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.

I don’t think any would decline the b&f with bad blood, and also wouldn’t be surprised to see some do medicals or train on with another club given their ages, hoping to impress enough to fill a final list spot. Despite not making the cut at the highest level, I’d expect all these guys to still command a good wage at local/country level and to tear it up. Go well, former dees 🫡

Hopefully they’ve upped his offer to playing for Melbourne.

My two cents on possible list change, and direct structural correlation of the list: Hore out for Derksen (key def depth) Fullarton out for heath (ruck back up) Brown out for windhager (def running mid) Verrall out for white (project ruck) Billings out for Sinnema (outside user) Given moniz Wakefield and mcadam are back on the list, woey and Henderson drop off Spargo to try his luck at north? If not, year by year extensions. (If so, son of Walsh as a rookie pick up?) Sestan has shown some assets but needs a strong preseason to be considered for AFL opportunity. Hoping McVee and the new coach have a simple discussion and he signs for 2-4 years. All of the outs will net nothing in draft capital. And the ins likely cost us future picks (heath for future 3rd/4th swap?, derksen for future 4th?) as well as most of our hand this year (windhager-23, white 52, sinnema 59 🤞😈🤞) All of this amounts to a little rejuvenation and cleanout of some clogged spots which hopefully results in a few surprises. Feels a little bland, but hoping the coaching staff overhaul brings the excitement. If we are to improve next year, i think it’s on the back of Windsor Lindsay and Langford establishing and Trac and clarry doing Trac and clarry things again.

Was an academy pic (which it seems some clubs don’t waste time bidding on as it looks to devalue the guy they actually get somehow). But also, once the draft is done they’re rated va the pick on the table. Our second rounder seems reasonable, just hope we’ve done our kalani/sinnema homework.

Going forward I would like petty to be entrenched as a full back. Disco has stamped himself at centre half back. Lever when fit can play a floater 3rd man up intercepter role and tmac is cover/horses for courses. May is surplus to needs with his greatest asset being his vocal cords and pointing fingers. If a club can see a use for him, I wouldn’t care if it’s virtually for free. A packet of crisps would be fine (late pick upgrade?) Adams and derksen (and fullarton if still on the list too) as developing options who can break the door down to get in will be ample key defenders for a list. Kailani might spend year one in the vfl down there too.

Congrats to Langdon, deserving of being celebrated and I wish his milestone was given clearer air. Just as an aside, I sorely miss the Gus and Gawny podcast and the cheeky fun they’d have addressing Ed being a character. Don’t have to be a complete footy head to excel at the game, glad he came to us when he did and hopeful he plays on for some time yet. Also, glad he grew his locks back. #positivelingers #HappyE

Andy was right on the podcast, less than a 100 point win was unacceptable and the blackest mark since the day down in Geelong that saw dean bailey gone. But in a bit more seriousness, thanks for the flag Simon. Thanks for captaining Max and a whole lot of joyful memories throughout the journey. I had lots of learnings along the way.

Mid season draftees get to put the contract length in before the draft, either 6 or 18 months. Derksen obviously went the latter. Out of contract, I expect gws to make it easy this time round. Will need a token 4th thrown their way. We don’t play hardball and unlikely we need to.

Mitch Hardie on a rookie contract couldn’t hurt either

Very clean hands for jeffo with hands up high

In protest I would suggest at the game at the one minute mark (in reference to his jumper) that we all stand and turn our backs for a minute per week he cops. However I’m sure the media will interpret it wrong and call for Goodwin to be sacked as it indicates he has lost support of the fans