Matsuo Basho

Thanks Tarzan. This confirms what I’ve been saying. Freo and Hogan have a handshake deal for him to return to Perth in 12 months. Unless Melbourne capitulate and accept massive unders now for Hogan (11 & steak knives), Bell is going to keep pick 5 in the superdraft and collect him out of the bargain bin next year. Dees are going to get stiffed here. Freo are going to have their cake and eat it too and we’ve got a wantaway,, uncommitted forward on our hands for another year. Plus we don’t get May. What a bummer!

It’s a solid rebuttal 55. I take my hat off to you as one of the rare posters who actually puts depth of thought into replies and general analysis. Let’s see how it unfolds tomorrow. The drumroll has begun!

It’s been about 20 a day, most of which are spent answering questions and replying to prods, pokes and insults from aggrieved fanboys like you. There was no intention to be guileful or artful in my last reply to you. Was just pointing out your fear and prejudice towards non-conformism. If that hit a nerve so be it.

It’s a contrarian, minority opinion. What’s the problem? Does difference and non-conformity frighten you? That to me actually is sad.

Hogan stays. Circus continues another 12 months. Bell to take the Neale pick 5 to the superdraft, or trade it up for two mid first rounders. Get Hogan in on the cheap next year while adding top shelf young talent to their list now. As a result May to go to a Melbourne based club, just not us. Of course I’m not happy with this outcome as a Dees supporter. But this is the route I believe Freo under Bell and Rosich are taking. They’re not the dills many on here want to cast them as.

There are greater travesties in life to be saddened by, Sue. Lighten up, it’s just a game. Just put me on ignore. Problem solved.

I’m being followed by a Moonshadow, Moonshadow, Moonshadow ?‍♂️?

Jake Niall can lay out whatever he likes. I read a direct comment from Cameron that spoke volumes. You disagree ... no problem.

Very noticeable shift in rhetoric from May camp in past 24 hours as the reality of Hogan staying at Melbourne hit home. Dees out of the race. Bidding opened up to the floor.

No dramas Boss. Trust you’re applying your authority consistently across the forum membership. Been on the receiving end myself of some fairly unsavoury insults merely for expressing an unpopular/minority opinion. 24 hours to go. A reminder to those who have bagged me out to keep space for dessert tomorrow night. Humble pie is made and ready slide into the oven.

Welcome aboard Moony!

Hogan’s manager’s $8mil/8year Furphy has worked wonders on some. RGRS hook, line and sinker.

Fremantle is transacting a number of deals. Most/all footy dept heads will be in Melbourne tomorrow.

Very mature Sue. Thought you put me on ignore? ?

“Don’t worry Jess ... here’s our strategy for bringing you over next year if the Dees don’t capitulate now. This year or next mate but we’re doing it our way so you have a stronger team to play with in the long term..”

Source? Actual quotes from Mahoney or Bell? Or just another desperate rumour from some sheep dags reporter. Freo may well have met with Hogan again over the weekend. Who knows what they discussed? Strategy to bring him over in 2019? Could mean anything!

Mahoney has said unequivocally ... “No Hogan trade, no May to Melbourne.”

The real question is why are you still waiting for them when they so clearly and adamantly pulled out of negotiations for Hogan last week? Why are so many on here living in Dee-nial about this. Some clubs are being affected by the Neale deal hold up, yes. The Demons aren’t one of them.

I read that he is quite aware that the Hogan/Freo link has most likely fallen through (at least for this trade period). Demons not a focus now for the Suns re May.

The winner receives a trophy of a golden microscope hovering over golden tea leaves. Deal?

The Demons not even mentioned by Cameron despite Mahoney’s previous very public declaration of our interest. Clear shift away from Melbourne. Suns open to all viable offers now that the Hogan trade looks dead and buried.

Doesn’t sound too promising for the Dees does it ... (From AFL.com.au) "He’d (May) be happy to come to Melbourne (city) if something was found," Gold Coast list manager Craig Cameron told AFL.com.au. "It’s up to the clubs now that are pursuing him to come up with something. At this this stage they haven’t." "If they come to us with something around Steven then it might be tied into that, that’s a fair way off as I said."

Yes what happened to that? ?? I want in on that action demoniac. PM me your odds.

Why? Because I have an opinion you don’t like?

Think I remember that guy. Didn’t he absolutely tan your backside during that monster $cully thread when he was the ONLY poster in the entire D’Land community to say Scully was telling fibs and was on his way to GW$? I think you had a similar whinge then about him making the thread “entirely about himself”. RR the narcissist! RR’s not a real Melbourne supporter! Please please mods ban RR! Etc etc. I do recall reading all those and many more slights against that guy way back when. Well, here we are again my friend. Years later, similarly controversial circumstances centred on an emotionally sensitive trade, the D’Land sheep herd going one way ... a lone dissident poster bravely going another. And the chorus line of ninnies are up in arms again. Potting a guy who’s views are deemed to be heretical to the Fanboy Establishment. I can empathise with how that RR fellow must have felt at that time. It does bring to mind that wonderful quote by the great Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ... “Even if you are a minority of one, the Truth is the Truth.” But you guys carry on going over your deluded permutations of Pick 5 and what the club will and won’t have in the kit bag by deadline tomorrow. You go on believing that Hogan’s manager really did put an $8mil/8year demand to Freo and that this is the reason negotiations went pear shaped. I realise it gives many of you a sense of solace that things really are happening behind the scenes and that those nincompoops in purple will magically be brought to heel at the eleventh hour. Rpfc a few on here have sportingly laid cojones on the line with a wager to change their avatar if I’m right on this one. Tommy & Phil for you for old time’s sake? I reckon that poster RR who schooled you back in the day would get a bit of a chuckle seeing that, wherever he is out there in cyberspace. ”His-to-ry never repeats ... I tell myself before I go to sleep.”