Everything posted by Colm
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Trade Targets
I’m normally in the “let’s go to the draft” camp but I’d happily give up a couple of good picks to bring Mac back.Only had a nearly game yesterday but you can see his potential. Can play forward, back or ruck and is only going to improve. Would suit our needs perfectly. Not as mobile as Jackson but would dovetail with Max beautifully. Would also mean we would only need to bring in big meat and spuds type of ruck when Max does finally retire. Only one year left on his contract, we can bring in his brother this year if it helps. We would have to make him a massive offer but should have the cap space to be able.
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Farewell Alex Neal-Bullen
This is how is see it too. Tim Kelly was in the same position a few years ago with Geelong and they held onto him for an extra year until they got the deal they want. Cats put supports around the family to try and make life easier. We just don’t have the draft capital to be letting a player of Nibblers quality go for peanuts.
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Season 2024 Over for Clayton Oliver
Exactly how I saw the interview too. I’d be stunned if Clarry left this trade window.
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Season 2024 Over for Clayton Oliver
Where Pickett??
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NON-MFC: Round 23
In fairness the odds of it happening are pretty low and as it was the very end of the game the bar would have been shut. I can feel his pain.
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2024 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch
@spirit of norm smith have you or any other posters seen much of Taj Hotton? Tipped as a top 5 chance before doing his ACL. If so what sort of player is he or who would he remind you of?
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2024 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch
Yeah looked awesome in the Metro game. If he’s not going to go top 10 I hope we split 6 and pick him up. Plays back flanker as well, he will prob start his AFL career there same as we have done with Rivers. Makes a whole lot more sense to me than going for Houston.
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An external review of the Melbourne Football Club is required!
Colm is my real name. Can I say what I want?!😂
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Greg Stafford
Don’t mind the idea of Jack. He seems to be pretty involved with getting Tassie team up and running and that will probably start taking up more of his time. But he could maybe come in and work with our key forwards during preseason while he has no TV commitments.
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Greg Stafford
Not a bad shout. Even if it was just to work with our key forwards. We have Petty, JVR, Turner and Jeffo who all seem to have talent but are very green. If we could get them all working well individually and as a group it would be massive for us going forward( no pun intended).
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Dan Houston
One thing I don’t think has been brought up and could be a reason why Houston has changed his mind- Normally in these situations Houston would have had a meeting with a group of our players over the last weekend when they were in town. This seems to be standard practise these days. Who would have been the ones selling it to him? Doesn’t sound like Trac would have been there, no point Nibbler going, last year Gus would have been there. I’m sure Max would have been there but he’s 33 and not going to be around for the journey. Probably Rick Lever and a few others but certainly not our A team. Just a thought and one that I think shows how hard Gus and Nibbler are going to be to replace.
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Draft or Recruit
The flip side of the coin is if we go hard at the draft we are building for the future and not the next year or two which I think is smart for the club but it’s not great for our older players who will rightly want us to improve to have a proper crack again next year before they miss their own window.
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Draft or Recruit
Clearly there needs to be a balance but after our recent trades I have very little confidence in our recruitment team. I do however have great confidence in JT and this year draft seem to be full of midfielders and goes very deep so I hope we give JT as many quality picks as possible to and real talent to our already pretty good list of younger players.
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Will Brodie
We really have two list to improve. We are going to have to bring in a number of kids over the next two trade/draft windows. If we want them to develop well at Casey then we need to improve the standard of footy there. Dunstan wasn’t up to AFL standard but he was a bloody good VFL player and helped keep Casey up around top of the ladder. Given his numbers in WAFL at worst Brodie would improve Casey or he could take Sparrows spot in the first team and Sparrow improves Casey. For a low pick it’s a yes from me.
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Season 2024 Over for Clayton Oliver
I maybe had a different take than others on Goody’s presser yesterday. He didn’t convince me that there isn’t a problem with Trac at the min- side stepped it a bit and contradicted himself as did Max. But I did like how he reported on Clarry. Seemed very genuine with his response. Seems the club are very happy and proud of where Clarry is currently from a personal point of view and had no doubts that he will be playing for us next year. His injuries go a long way to explaining his form this year a hopefully now that his season is finished early he will have more than enough time to fully heal before a massive preseason.
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Farewell Alex Neal-Bullen
Really hope this isn’t true or our dramas are far from over.
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Dan Houston
Yeah I agree. I’d rather we take pick 6 to the draft. Nothing against Houston but don’t think it make sense for us to give up such a good pick for a 28 year old flanker when we have other needs.
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Farewell Alex Neal-Bullen
Geelong did exactly that with the Kelly trade a few years ago. Hasn’t hurt their ability to trade in players one little bit.
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Farewell Alex Neal-Bullen
I think the deal has already been done and he will be involved in the Houston trade. Doesn’t make sense for us to be so public that he won’t be playing for us next year otherwise.
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Farewell Alex Neal-Bullen
People suggesting we might only get a third rounder remember we gave a good second rounder for McAdam last year, who had a terrible injury history and has barely played this season. If our recruitment team thinks Nibbler- a premiership player, leader, great role player and ultimate professional is worth less then its time they are shown the door as they are clearly not up to the job .
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Farewell Alex Neal-Bullen
Think we can offical say this is now a full rebuild we aren’t having a quick reset for a flag tilt next year. Might be better in the long run. I’m sure he has genuine family reason and wish him all the best, but really really hard at this stage to think something doesn’t stink bad within the club for at least 2 of our leaders to be unhappy or want out.
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Farewell Alex Neal-Bullen
Ah Ffs. What the bloody hell is going on?! Everyday another of our players is reported to want out. Nibbler is one of our leaders and can cover the ground like very few others can. Invaluable type of player in the modern game.
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NON-MFC: Round 22
It’s not acting with that fella. Proper tool.
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Trade Targets
IF it starts to get reported from other sources then I think it goes from 0-100% real quick given the father/son aspect. Not like there’s going to be player managers leaking rubbish.
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Trade Targets
It’s Tom Morris folks. Let’s wait and see if anybody else reports it before reading too much into it.