MurDoc516

Here's hoping

Just want to thank M_9 who sorted me out with a prio 1 code. As i can't edit my previous post anymore, i figured i'd leave a follow up reply.

Dogs on a wide ground scare me but if May gets up i think we have their forwards covered. As much as Gawn won't play a game again like last night, Mitch won't play another like tonight. We really need to show up at the contest though. Everything is built from it, the Dogs have A grade mids on their wings and bench. Take courage from 2018, Eagles and Pies smacked their opponents before playing one of the best Grand Finals you will ever see.

The one team i did not want to face, the bulldogs... To be the best you have to beat them i suppose.

Long time WA demon fan with current prio 3 access. Willing to pay for prio 1. edit: or donate to a charity / the club

I couldn't even get a ticket in the members section for myself so ended up settling for a group of 3 in a section our the wing. WA is a footy loving state, and i'm seeing a lot of neutral support for Melbourne. The boys will be well supported.

Im taking 2 more neutrals who will be Dee's fans for the day.

What do you guys think we will genuinely get for Weid if he does go? Do we take a chance and move on a player like Harmes? Hearing rumours of Sparrow to the Crows, what pick would we get in that deal? Neale being in play for Freo means they will want Cerra out asap so they know what they're working with to get Neale in. Only thing we currently have is a future first and no team would realistically gamble a future first for a team that could be top 4 next season. On Cerra as a player, i haven't seen a lot of him so i can't say i'm excited about potentially losing a tough kid in Sparrow to potentially make room for him. Especially if he comes in on 600k + when he's 21 into a side that could be premiers. I do like however, is that he's 21 and played 76 games. Sparrow is 21 and played 26? Granted one was a pick 5 and went to a team that was in a complete rebuild and the other was pick 27 and came into a team that made a prelim. However, Cerra is hitting an experience level peak that Trac, Oliver, Salem all hit 2 years ago. Getting a 21 year old in who clearly we rate if we are after him and his demands are 600k + who could be entering a boom period in the upcoming 1-2 seasons is very smart recruitment.

If i'm Sparrow this is logical, he is far better than their kids are currently. Only problem for us is Sparrow hasn't cemented a spot in his 22 so we can't really get a high pick in return. Would be sad to see him go, he is developing nicely and isn't on huge coin.

Inc pick 6 from Carton for Cerra. Freo offer 6 and 8 for Neale and Pick 14 from Brisbane. Brisbane drop pick 8 for T. Mitchell from the Hawks (maybe some later pick swaps). ------ This gives Carlton Cerra, for a deal that was looking expensive for their singular first rounder. Gives Brisbane currency to stay in the draft and a high pick to nab another star mid (Parker and T. Mitchell on market). Hawthorn get their draft currency. This deal values Cerra as a Pick 6 (overs for now). Neale as Pick 4 (he is a brownlow medalist and star mid for Brisbane while being under contract). And T. Mitchell as pick 6-10 (pending later pick swaps).

Agreed that Hawkins Cameron and Rohan are a better trio than Fritsch, Brown and T. Mac. But our forward line bats deeper. Spargo, Pickett and nibbler are offering more than geelongs next 3

Does he have pace? feel like if you have pace you are more workable than others. We are Potentially losing: Jones VandenBerg Nietschke Feel like if we can get Taj with a low pick we are laughing.

The 2021 Access Membership package, is this considered a priority 2 level membership? The whole memberhship site is awful for information. The contact US page literally link back to itself.

I'm a WA demon with the 2021 Access Membership. Does that mean i'm prio 2 for tickets?

Ill be filthy if Rivers or Jackson go. I honestly can't see it considering how those two are best buds and are also super close to the other boys (Rivers has a partner in Melbourne). Feel like this talk just to get Carlton to stump up whatever freo wants to be honest.

Geelong: keep Smith in for the Rohan match up Giants (w/ Greene): Hibbo has to come in you would think, Greene usually kicks a bag either way but you back in Hibberd when the going gets tough. Giants (w/ out Greene): Hunt? His 4th quarter was a shocker last time but he was the one getting into those positions and breaking the game open. Port Adelaide: Hunt and Hibberd both in for Bowey and Smith imo. Them and the dogs (if they play the same 22 as they did this week) have the best ground ball small forwards left, i think we need pace and experience. Bulldogs: As per above Lions: I think you bring Hibberd in the next time around.

Apparently Lever and May as a duo haven't given up more than 98 points together.

I was too invested in consuming post match content that i didn't get to writing my thoughts down, a little late now but none the less i feel a ton of pride in the boys to back up last week and the last months effort so emphatically. Sparrow, Nibbler and Brayshaw were all great last night, felt like any time we needed either of them to win the ball in a passage they delivered. I'm very critical of Harmes most weeks, thought he was fantastic again. This also goes to my points when critising him, last night he wasn't prolific but did the simple things well. Some games he can get 30 touches but make some silly mistakes or think he is a superstar mid and get caught on the ball. There were times last night when he got the ball in traffic and i felt very assured he would deal with it. Surprised to see a lack of superlatives for Petracca, felt like him and Oliver showed you what damaging players looked like. We win last night by 70+ if turns his first two points into goals. Lions were there for the taking and Petracca and Oliver were having fun bursting through any number of Lions that tried to tackle them. Back 6 brilliant in the air. Probably a little nervous in the first quarter and made some unusual errors leading to easy goals for small forward brigrade at the lions. Fantastic win all round, nervous for what lies ahead. I'll be representing the WA demon bigrade rain, hail or shine.

Spot on. Smith wasn't outworked last night, he was just vastly out smarted. It got so bad that i was just thinking with McStay down why don't we move May to Cameron. Smith can play tall and Daniher was having to work up the ground, use Smith's pace as a weapon in that scenario. I disagree on the Rivers and Hunt part of your comment, both have great offensive weapons but i don't look at either of them and think they will get beaten badly by whatever opponent they take. Smith for me last night was always the big question going in, the commentators kept making it out like Smith wasn't on Cameron from the start when he was. If we play GWS, Greene usually destroys us anyway. We've played Hibberd and May on the guy but he finds his way to get a goal. So it will be harsh for me to say i'd want Hibberd to have another crack over Smith but i feel like if our midfield actually shows up against the Giants for more than a quarter we should have enough to run over them. Maynard would be a big get considering i've seen him play tall and small this year and successfully lockdown as needed.

Is there a team more haunted by its history than us? You could argue St. Kilda and there Grand Final record, but I'd say a team that was absurdly dominant failing to make finals for 22 straight years and then always either been unlucky or smashed when it matters. I'm a sports fan, so I am naturally superstitious, if we win it this year coming from 9th after 57 years with Norm being 57 when he died, I'll say this was a real curse.

WA demon, don't think anything is in this. It's crazy with Jackson's recent rise a lot of Eagles and Dockers fans talking about him as the next big target. We need to lockdown Jacko, Rivers and Kozzy above all bar Oliver now that we've got Trac, Salem, Viney and Gawn locked in for life basically.

We literally won everything, as Daisycutter said our salary capped is cooked. The words Oliver said about Goody, that boy ain't going nowhere. Let's hope we clean sweep the Charlie, Norm Smith and Premiership too.

Clearly we need to just draft Melbourne supporters based on these lists...

If Gunston is fit (club staff would know better than any of us) and if we can get him for peanuts it's a good pickup to win now, which is what we want to do. Weid's gone if this does happen though. Brown, T. Mac and Gunston in rotation is tasty, considering i imagine all 3 will pick up knocks.

Hopefully North go in for Weid and give us a 2nd rounder. That way we can have a crack for Mac Andrew.