The end is nigh

With petty turner and lever (if fit) likely being first choice for senior footy, leaving may McDonald and adams as cover; as well as having a cat b rookie (Oscar berry) whose favoured position is tall defender and bringing in kailani who might get some ruck minutes but also is a key defender, that’s 8 players on our list fighting for maximum 6 spots. This means week after week multiple players will be left without opportunity to play full minutes in their best position. Really still hoping a club takes a last minute swing on May, would take nothing more than sliding a late pick up a few spots as a courtesy.

Pettys name was left out when Lamb was discussing the tall forwards mihocek would be helping mentor. Listed all the others (Jeffo JVR kentfield and Johnson)

Saints stockpiling late picks for the 2027 draft.. by then there might not even have points attached to them for currency. Welcome to the club Max. A great opportunity to learn from a champion and time your run to step into his boots.

Moreso than Jackson Wagner and McVee? AND OMac!

Now that he’s declared ‘it’s a job’ and there’s no attachment, can we consider this as business? If Clayton has burnt the bridge, why do him the favour of paying half his wage just to get something meagre in return? I see options here: Any club taking him can have him at full price (maybe pay 500k of contract) for a second rounder Or he can sit out a year and we agree to dissolve the contract. His comments were below those expected as an employee of the club. I’m sure if he was to sook it up and return with an attitude of ‘stuff you guys I’ll stay and waste your money’ we could find plenty of ways to fine him and eventually dissolve the contract anyways.

Not sure they’ll actually slide that far. Yes 4 of the top 10 (by cal twomeys phantom form) are attached to clubs but there’ll be some eaten up as the points system is tighter than last year. And yes it will slide for Oscar Allen’s compo.

Happy for us to hold some second rounders. Been a while since JT has had a chance to do something that takes his talent.

Will definitely be playing back pocket at Freo. Had some good games for us. All the best Judd. Freo now home to three former dees. Glad kozzy isn’t one of them.

Felt like JVR was on for a good year then got the back spasms after a contest in the preseason game. I’m most likely making excuses that it hindered him and he was forced to carry it but it made no sense for his career to stall the way it did otherwise. Hoping he’s right to go, really liked his attack on the ball in season one.

Okay I’ll bite too. Got you on ignore because of your guesses of teams coming out (sometimes educated but often missing key information) but off season stuff I can engage. Jack Macrae was winning AA blazers for fun and was the best ball winner in the comp there for a couple years. Banged up now and lost the pace but he has had a gun career. An insult to have him dropping in the draft.

Carlton’s TDK compo pick for our future 1st. They’re keen to do such a move for Walker points next year. This would satisfy Gold Coast far more. Still unsure whether it’s enough.

That’s the message Clayton took from it

Feel like he’ll be back in front of the media before long, addressing his chat with Oliver. Which as a brand new coach, discussing roles for the future shouldn’t be a surprise. Makes sense he’d want to have a face to face and a clear agreement of the future ahead. FWIW I don’t think he was telling Oliver to seek a trade. I think/hope he was just making things clear about how he’d like him to return day one and what will be expected. If he’s to bulk up or slim down. Better he knows now

This is the end of culture, we now have environment

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.

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.

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 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 🫡