The end is nigh

I’d happily have stack as a train on player starting in the early preseason. Have him spend the summer paired up with jack viney and have them repeatedly fight for ground balls rolled between them, starting face to face. If he lives through to February, then consider giving him a rookie contract.

Just after a little help, is there a way to order a banh mi and get half the amount of chilli? I’ve tried staring directly that, as well as ‘only a little’ or ‘just a touch’ but always results in me getting at least twice as much as if I say nothing. And no chilli just doesn’t satisfy.

Very keen to hear attempts at best 22’s now. I can’t begin to squeeze them all in!

Personally I’d love it if we were classy about our exited players. No boos, just let them be former players. He’s going to be around a decade and wasting our energy on anti cheering seems tiresome. Might be a stretch but I’d enjoy. giving a reverse side of the banner in the first game we play the clubs they went to saying “thanks <player x> for your service to the mfc” and the number of games played or years on the playing roster. No need to be a club with shoulder chips. We can keep our focus on winning.

My thoughts are that they’ll take 27 but will renegotiate what that means for portioning grundys pay (how much it ends up being we will unlikely never know)

Where will kossie live now? Needs a new contract so he can buy his own place

After they realise nobody will give them that, our offer would* still be there. They don’t even have pick 7 unless they get the future second rounder Gold Coast want

Is the value so far off? Geelong can’t make the trade happen without securing a future second rounder to appease Gold Coast or get approval from the afl like port tried to. Might as well attempt to get involved, or watch someone else do it and wish we did.

Wasn’t sure where to post this but here’s as good as any place. Collingwood said a top 25 pick. Geelong have pick 25. so I propose we offer: 13, 27 to geelong and freos future second (or ours) to Gold Coast to get back 7 and 25. Gives them the extra pick currency to be able to appease the draft regulations and gives us the top 7 pick we had a target in mind for (clearly not cadman now as speculation is that gws want him with pick 1). Geelong might want it sweetened with something extra like later round pick swaps but it seems reasonable enough to me.

I think this deal will take the longest. Gws holding a bounty of picks now and we have little to play with. Once Grundy deal is done (I like the 27 and 54 = 25 from Brisbane trade), then the Jackson deal is done, I think we try haggle once the picks are in our hands. No need for Toby to stress unless freo try drag things until the 11th hour.

Heard yesterday on trade radio that it was around the 850k mark for next year (wasn’t said about final year but assuming it’s similar). Some very intriguing contracts at the suns, but imo to keep players, they did what they had to.

While Grundy is a top end talent and Gawn has been banged up this year, the contract Grundy has is huge. The number I’m hearing is 1.2 mil a year over 5 years. (Admittedly I’m not privy to the full truth here). Even if the pies pay a portion, an equivalent contract to be put on the table is the kind of giant carrot we could dangle under so many noses just to shake things up. I still remember GWS throwing a big offer at Howe in the final minutes of trade period and him leaving to Collingwood not long after. Now port are trying to shake Kozzy loose. I’d love Melbourne to go to Brisbane/player management and float a trade for mccluggage or hipwood, both of which are close to out of contract. Both are iMV worth big contracts and right now we have this space for it. Whilst Brisbane wouldn’t want them to leave it wouldn’t hurt us to put the idea in their heads. if we made it happen, could put an insurance ruck like Jake Spencer on the books until we manage to take a surplus ruck from another club (similar to meek this year). Gawn isn’t finishing up any time soon obviously it would take picks (which Brisbane need this year for Dunkley, Ashcroft and fletcher) but Grundy is going to cost pick(s) too and I see it as an opportunity for a much bigger list advancement.

With the talk of a salary dump at Gold Coast, my ears pricked up when I heard Jeremy sharps name mentioned today on SEN. Remembering before he was injured last year he was looking like a top class wingman in the making. Would love to see us at least dip a toe in the water and do our due diligence on him.

Really looking forward to seeing how tracc’s wet weather footy holds up today, as well as how kossie goes about it. Lever looked a little double grabby last week which had me slightly concerned but our structure has been so good that I still believe an 8 goal grinded win is on the cards. Go dees, g&d on display today!

I’d only be opposed to spargo getting involved because of the risk of injuring him. I believe he’s established himself as a quality flanker, who controls that area well. Maybe in years to come, post jones’ career and possibly viney’s, he fills that top up rotation. For now I just hope he keeps owning this role and proving the game has a place for anyone.

The gripe I have with a few of the naysayers in this thread is the way Clayton is painted as less than loyal. That if we aren’t getting him to finals he’d walk. He is, from all the reports/stories I’ve read, a much loved clubman who cares for the jumper. I hope we sign him soon. IMO worthy of star money because that’s what he is. Stay a dee forever Clarry, hope you make flags happen.

Trading out pick 53? I guess we aren’t recruiting any more McDonalds

Rumours circulating that Melbourne and Casey are planning to tank their way out of finals in order to shop hogan around sooner.

GREAT debut by a kid who to me looks like a footballer first, and built himself around that. Not sure if this is too relevant to the thread but just wanted to pump up jonesy for getting in on spargos scuffle. Captain who's got your back from game one.

Also fair price in my book is lever plus third/fourth rounder for first rounder and nibbler. If that's something that appeals to the crows, I see it as equal. I like nibbler, but just picks won't cut it. Definitely don't want to buy out of next years draft for any player going round, that apparently where the stars are coming from. Luke Molan mark II type stars, I hear.

Ok I was avoiding this topic because I thought it really didn't have any legs but the drums are beating so I'll bite. Levers use at Adelaide is as a second/third tall and clearly very effectively. But prior to being drafted (and prior to the leg injury before that) there was a great talk of his skills and tank being more akin to a mid. You know how most top clubs have a sizeable beast in the guts? It would be nice to have one of our own. I see lever as undersized to take on a power forward, but an excellent chop out player and ideally I'd love him to be a float back seventh defender, taking on Lewis's role of this year when Lewis fades off into his twilight. Players like Bont and Fyfe who are damaging when pushing forward would be his focus when playing sides with that calibre weapon, but other wise he could join hibberd in turning anything less than perfect i50s into pointed attacks. Havent seen Lever forward of centre to judge how much more damage he can do, but that's my two cents on it. Ps. all this is based around tmac staying forward, with omac and frost defensive pillars. If the club sees tmac going back again I think we'd be too tall(or at least talent heavy with AFL quality talls from a list perspective) in the back half and wouldn't push for lever at all.

I'll put up one of those posts: lever won't leave. He's from all reports a true class act, loved at the club, future captain, etc. he was a freakish talent before the leg injury in juniors. Adelaide know he was a draft steal and won't give him up for less than the moon, Jupiter and a second round pick. Please, to all who put forth our own overrating trades of players who are borderline 22 at the dees, stop. It's equivalent to Richmond offering us Shane Edwards and a second rounder for clarry, because we don't know how good he is.