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Wright has officially joined Essendon. Surely impacts their TMac interest?

Oh boy... "Instead, it’s more likely Treloar stays at the Pies for one more year, giving his camp and rival clubs time to plan for a move this time next year. It’s not ideal, but it’s the best card in the bad hand that he has been dealt by his own club." Treloar staring down the barrel of awkward Collingwood return

To clarify for you, the post of mine you replied to was in response to someone who suggest he would be traded for pick 80. I think a reasonably fair deal will be done and you're getting sucked into the media drama. Yes, they don't "HAVE" to trade him. He is contracted. He will get traded, we all believe that, but if we're talking facts then stick to facts.

He's still contracted, so no, they don't "HAVE" to trade him. And ok then, if he gets traded for around pick 80 then you're completely correct and I'm 100% wrong.

Disagree mate. He'll leave the Pies no doubt, but IMO these things get over-dramatized in the media pretty often. Clubs will still act in reasonably good faith and a fair trade will be done.

Wouldn't have thought we'd be looking at Vardy and Cox if we're already tight on the salary cap and looking for what is pretty much a VFL ruck spot? Seems a strange call by the club (Preuss Mk II). Would be surprised if the Pies accepted pick 26 for Treloar too, even in the circumstances, and even if they do, it leaves us with picks 43, 68 and 69 as it stands. Not ideal.

Don't reckon he's going to Essendon now...

Has something happened here? Thought he looked good in his first year but then totally dropped off the map this year.

Yeah, definitely a need. I assume it's something we're looking at in the trade/draft period, but haven't heard anything specific. Jordon is another intriguing one for mine. Pretty sure he's still out of contract and I know a fair few here thought he could play off HB. I would guess the backline would be fairly settled on May, Lever, Tomlinson, Hibberd, Salem & Rivers, with Jetta, Lockhart, Smith, Hore and maybe Jordon and even Chandler (if they're still around) as options for that last role, pending form and matchups. I like the idea of moving Rivers or Salem further up the ground if we can find a good replacement in the backline, not sold on Baker as a wing option just yet.

No mate, Harmes didn't go in and tell him he had to play in the midfield. He's not that type of personality. Goodwin was the one who instigated the role change for next year, Harmes didn't push for it. Sorry if I didn't make that clear enough. As far as I heard, Harmes didn't complain once about being asked to play backline.

Ok, so getting back to footy... This is second hand info, passed onto me by someone who has spoken to family of players. Harmes has been chased by North this trade period. Roosy has been making a few calls to him trying to entice him over with his preferred role of being a run with/inside mid. Don't know how much he considered it, wasn't told, but Harmes had been pretty disappointed with Goodwin during the year for not communicating. He had a meeting with Goodwin yesterday and apparently put it all on the table a bit. Made it clear he wasn't happy with where the culture was at and that there was different rules for different players. Goody didn't agree with all of it but at least heard him out and it was apparently a pretty productive meeting. What's come out of that is Goody has told him he won't be traded and that next year he will go back to a run with role where he drifts forward. The feeling from the family member was that it was an improvement from what they've seen with Goody's listening and they put it down to mostly Richo's influence and possibly a bit of Yze's. Not exactly earth shattering news, but thought I'd pass on to try and get us back on track a bit.

Mainly because I'm more interested in talking the footy stuff than the players personal lives.

Yeah the bruise was visible in one of the games...

Fair enough 'Landers. I just reckon we need to load up on our forward line more, but get what you're all saying.

Kicked 3 goals in the prelim this year. Besides, if he's playing for Melbourne what does it matter if he doesn't always play well in finals...

You could play both IMO. And I think we maybe get too obsessed with defensive aspects in the forward line sometimes (myself included). I wouldn't call Lynch or Martin defensive, but the Tiges make it work because they have great pressure everywhere. We need to score. That's currently our biggest weakness for mine. Rohan would be ahead of Hannan (who's gone anyway), Melksham, ANB, Hunt & Spargo atm.

Won't go into too much detail, but there was a rumour about Rohan and a very popular Cats teammate getting into a heated argument, possibly even coming to blows, following some inappropriate behaviour by Rohan while in the hub. Some info has come out today that gives a bit of cred to those rumours. I'm just wondering out loud if that could mean he might be gettable.

Wonder if Gary Rohan is seen as gettable now given the rumours seem to be true... Worth having a crack IMO.

We still have to use picks in the draft though.

Offered you a truce once before, you continued with your trolling. Not interested in sending you a PM thanks. Have a good one.

So, that's a no then? Makes sense.

I've said here multiple times where my information comes from, how about you tell us about your source? Brodie Smith signed yet btw?

He's signed for 3 years as senior coach of Norwood in the SANFL. I don't think he'd want to come back to us anyway.

Yep. Don't know the job or club though at this stage.

Mate, if you read through that thread you'll see the majority of Demonland talking about how bad TMac's disposal is. The main himself has opined about it: "Sometimes as a defender I was so worried about making mistakes. The pressure that comes with being a full back or centre-half back can be overwhelming at times, and I tend to get overly frustrated with myself and it costs me." Stress-free Dee relishing his shot up forward Absolutely he will fight for a spot, as will everyone else. If he earns a shot he should 100% be picked. But IMO, given the reasons I've outlined about the backline philosophy, it will be as a forward.