Everything posted by BW511
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Welcome to Demonland: Harry Sharp
Whilst not guaranteed, there’s a fair chance the bloke running 5min30snin the 2k is also pretty decent at recovering after shorter, repeated efforts. He could just run through rest periods
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Welcome to Demonland: Pick 9
5 & 9 almost guarantees at least one will be ready to go for 2025, that’s an enormous confidence boost that we might see a changing of the guard. If both are ready for round 1, we could be a transformed side within a 6 month period - big caveat being Goody and his beloved gameplan
- The Draft Pick Upgrade Thread
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2025 Team Round 1
I hope pick 6 is in the Round 1 team, we sure need it
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Wade Derksen
When we played our best football, our Casey side was just as strong as our AFL one. Tom Campbell shouldn’t make our AFL side better but having the best VFL ruck on our list certainly helps our Casey squad and fringe mids. The strength of the entire squad is just as important as the AFL
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Kozzy Homesick & Wants to Leave?
Given all the instability around the club, Kozzie is naturally the one who would be the most unsettled. Very young family and a long way from home (whether that’s WA or Adelaide or Darwin). Ever since the Trac stuff started, I was concerned about Koz
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Oliver Trade Rumours
Would love to hear how Goody really feels about this, it basically stamps his papers for the end of 2025. We won’t be able to rise from this mess due to fatigue and also lack of available talent. They clearly had planned to top up and go again, We might be left with no choice but to go nuclear
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Oliver Trade Rumours
Our midfield was already paper thin for 2025, now it’s going to be absolutely cooked. We’ll all watch Trac sit out the year and request a trade for 2026
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Kozzy Homesick & Wants to Leave?
From a football club perspective, Oliver was playing up and being bratty, however he was only doing what 80% of 26-27 year olds do every weekend. Sounds like he was led down the garden path by others or at least not alone. What Trac did was a very different kettle of fish, he deliberately sabotaged a very large operation to suit himself. And I still think he’ll walk for 2026 anyway
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Kozzy Homesick & Wants to Leave?
How ironic that Petracca will end up as the cause of a year of missed trades. Houston and Switta could have helped his cause a significantly more than Tom Campbell and Wade Derksen - I wouldn’t have wanted pick 5 used but I’m sure there was other ways
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Dees chasing Jimmy Bartel
Sure we do, although at the moment, I think Jimmy would offer a strong and different point of view to the leadership clique we currently have.
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Dees chasing Jimmy Bartel
Lacking some punctuation, sorry God! I’ve heard mixed things about him as a person, but purely from a football sense, I would strongly advocate for him.
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Oliver Trade Rumours
Would love to see this version of Clarry in 2025, he’s in good nick there
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Dees chasing Jimmy Bartel
I’d be a pretty strong advocate for him, have heard some mixed things about him as a person but he’s obviously been involved at a high level in multiple clubs. Think a role at Melbourne would suit him better than Collingwood, we are probably a little more in need
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Oliver Trade Rumours
Wonder what he’s worth? He got roasted in the media, post GF, for his effort. Wonder if pick 5 and Clarry pick(s) from Geelong would move the needle?
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Oliver Trade Rumours
If Oliver has straightened up throughout the year, as suggested, every club would be asking the question. He had a down year by his own standards but he’d still be comfortably in the best 50 players in the comp if properly fit. I’d prefer to keep Clarry over Trac, think the hurdles Clayton has to overcome are significantly less than Petracca, his brand and his family.
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Andrew McQualter - Appointed coach of the West Coast Eagles
Despite the long road back to competitive football, watching Harley Reid up close, each week, will be fun
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Lachie Hunter Retires
Another list spot is positive but he’s also done well to get to 199 games, that doesn’t happen by chance. I’ll take a PM outlining the famous offseason of 23/24 that I keep hearing about?
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Andrew McQualter - Appointed coach of the West Coast Eagles
SEN saying we are getting Nathan Bassett, so there’s movement in our coaching ranks for sure
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Dan Houston
If we can address our midfield issues, Salem and Bowey can both become much more effective as they won’t need to be as defensively focused. It’s a big ‘if’ though, relies upon our top 5 pick having a spot on the ground from Round 1
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NON-MFC: Preliminary Finals
Very good game of footy. I wanted Geelong to win as the lesser of two evils. I also looked forward to seeing how Dangerfield’s tackle was assessed. The exact type of tackle that people have got weeks for this year and what the AFL want ruled out.
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How typically Melbourne Brodie Grundy
Both of Jordon and Bedford are playing tagging roles, which Goodwin doesn’t employ. It’s not necessarily a fail, more that it’s differing tactics. I guarantee both of them weren’t recruited to be taggers by Sydney & GWS
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Christian Petracca
Glass half full - Christian is going to be working his butt of this pre-season to return to full fitness. Glass half empty - he’s doing it to seduce his 2026 team which won’t be us
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Trade Targets
If I could pick any bloke in the league to grab for free, it would be Jesse Hogan but Finn would probably be close second. He’s got it all
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Matt Kennedy
In simplistic terms, I think he’s a more versatile version of Sparrow. Sparrow gets a gig every week so Kennedy would too