Colm

After this year I don’t think we will be paying Gus and May. Trac is a lot of money of the books and some of the Clarry money will be offset by Saints paying some of Steele’s contract. So I don’t think we will be in bad shape. I have been wanting us to add another couple of quality kids through the draft before Tassie comes in but with some depth now emerging it’s a wait and see for me. The fact that the club made a play for BH last year has we thinking we will go for a mature player if we can get the right one over the line.

The Saints list management team should hand in their notice- what absolute fools.

We’re not doing our chances of signing BH any harm with our current form and game style. If you build it they will come.

There’s just so many positives to come out of that win. I think it’s our best win since 21. Harry Sharpe is a player now, Tom Sparrow has become the player we all thought he was going to be after the GF. Windsor is really hitting form now too and looks like he belongs in the middle.

That win deserves a 3 hour pod. So much to like and discuss.

Yup, what a player. I’d like to take this moment to thank the St Kilda football club for gifting us both the man of Steele and Moose( bog in vfl today) for a packet of chips.

Regardless of what happens in last q, the lid is off as far as I’m concerned. How good are we to watch?!

Langford to continue his form improvement today and have a cracker.

Jeez he’s having a good game. Works so hard.Of all the players that have left over past couple of years he’s the biggest loss or at least the one I wish we could get back.

To hell with that- I have him at 150-1 for the Brownlow. Keep those OUT OF THIS WORLD games coming🤣

Please don’t be Max. I’m really hoping he can stand alone as the only person to get NINE AA.

Was just about to post that with their big 3 out and us possible getting a couple of injured players back we might be a sneaky chance. Not so much now.

Max is my favoured player, hope he gets to captain the AA side this year and reach his 300. But we do need to start planning for life without him. If Heath doesn’t get a game this week then I’m not sure they are going to try both he and Gawn at same time. While King was at Geelong they were the first team to really start resting their older players a couple of times each season. I assume we have pencilled in a rest game for Max around rounds 8-10. Eagles in round 9 would be my guess.

Death, taxes and Pickett Fences defending Clarry. You know what your going to get when you come to this thread.

A great signing and a great fella by all accounts. The cultural shift from moving out the players we did over the summer and bringing Steele and Checkers in will be something we benefit from for years to come. Good solid citizens who go about things the right way These two with Max, Viney and Lever give us great leaders across every line that can only help bring our young brigade through.

If the latest rumours are true it’s such a shame. I had hoped that the changes of city would help him turn things around. I was much happier reading the other thread that said he had attended. I wonder how GWS will deal with him. Not sure they will be an easy on him as we clearly were in the past. Also agree with @DubDee people need to calm down. No need to be calling Picket names because he defends as ex player.

Surely the AFL can’t [censored] us over again with NGA. Wouldn’t worry about points required. We have full set of future picks and a lot clubs will be keen to trade out of that draft. Akso we are very good at draft trading.

Think he lost one or two from memory. He ended up with 17 to advantage though. Nuts. He’s current average is just over 10 which is considered elite. As a pure tap Ruck is he actually getting better? Yesterday he could put the ball anywhere he wanted, left hand/right hand, forward, back. Soft palm down or a little flick with the back of his hand,he was just serving it on a platter all day.

Be a great question to put to JT. @Demonland Any chance you will have the great man on for another interview this year?

I’ll admit I went out and split some wood at half time to release so anger. Was back in front of TV for start of second though. One of our most enjoyable wins in a very long time.

Our 3rd game in 22 days at the start of the season and we are coming off an 8 day break. If that’s what Carlton fans are pinning their hopes on then they are cooked.

If these changes come in, then there may never be a better year to bottom out before Tassie comes in We could be going into this draft with 3 first rounders( top 5+GC+comp) and have our full hand of future picks to trade.

I felt that last year Kolt ran about like a headless chook. Running from contest to contest but not having much of an impact once he got there by either failing to stick a tackle or making a poor decision with the ball if he did win it. The effort and work rate were there but no end product. A full preseason will have helped him with this I think. Also having a simple clearly defines role that he has a skill set for is also to his advantage. I’m confident his role will change with experience. He may end up with a variation of what Nibbler used to do for us

Like his game and we need some of the younger fringe players like him to put their hand up this year and prove that they are AFL quality. We are going to come up against team who have a bit more class than us a fair bit this year. If Kole can break even with one of the oppositions best on a regular basis it will be massive for us and for his development.

That’s the big question- for me it will all depend on where our picks end up being and how JT rates the top end of this draft. This draft has been touted as being a strong one so it will be interesting to see how the next crop develops this year. If the talent pools ends up being as good and has as much depth as when we picked up Langford and XL then I’d rather we go to the draft.