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Second time you’ve said something similar, one family member is more than nothing but depending on her own life and commitments, it may amount to very little help/support

A little birdy once told me that Josh had a lot of difficulty adhering to gameplans/instruction. He should have played from day dot but just wouldn’t listen. Not sure that it adds anything of value, other than it may suggest he could want to get out of Nick’s shadow

I quite liked Daniel as a player, however it’s a mighty fall from grace if we’ve gone from a two time AA (probably) to Caleb Daniel as our new HBF recruit.

Pert/Roffey/Goody would all be sleeping with the lights on at the moment This is bonkers

I think the balance of the list is off and would expect a pretty steady decline from May/Gawn/Viney. Guess I am a pessimist

Aside from TDK or Curnow, I don’t think Carlton have any players we would actually want. Their mids are very similar to ours

Could get used to an English soccer chant of this each week

Remonstrated with every guy that touched him, not sold on that

You meant half a bad season each year for 3 years, right?

If the entire footballing world can see that we are not just a HBF away from finals, I pray that our club can to. If we cough up pick 5 for Houston, one good thing is the club has no home base for the supporters to burn down. If we did this trade and flounder again next year, it would also guarantee the end for Goody/Pert/Richo etc

I’m not a draft/CTL watcher, so who’s got those elite skills and agility that we need?

It was reported that the Hawks offer for Battle would not trigger the pick following theirs, it would be end of first round

It’s been said a million times before but this is self preservation, nothing more and nothing less. We don’t need experience, we need high quality

At least we won’t have to worry about late nights next year, back to our cosy Sunday arvo slot we go.

Even without knowing him, I get the sense he’d be a vastly superior teacher/leader for Kolt/Sparrow/Chin etc When the whips get cracking, you know he’d be up for it

No doubt this is true however Waterman also wont be around when West Coast start winning regularly, so maybe they prioritise more kids

If we are still in the hunt for Waterman, it would surely make MFC a little more attractive for Houston. Waterman runs up at the footy as hard as anyone in the game, which totally changes our forward setup regardless of which line coach comes in. Houston can hit his chest from anywhere forward of CHB In this hypothetical scenario I’d happily let Trac walk and use his pick haul for young midfield guns. Splitting our current pick and change to land Houston and Waterman. Waterman more than makes up for Trac forward of the ball, Houston protects the HBF/mid rotation in cahoots with Riv and a young gun can slot into the mid rotation 2025 looks very different then

We haven’t been able to fully embrace this time for a few years, feels comfortable being back competing from October onwards.

There’s a very real possibility that North go past us next year, so I’d imagine Jack had a decent glance at what North threw at him.

I would agree with @adonski Would prefer to take an early second rounder to the draft (ANB)

The top 7 picks from 2023 have all played 13 games or more this year, kids can play and impact immediately now. Windsor is the most with 19 and he would have still been playing barring injury. 6 has to go to the draft in my opinion and a super agile/quick, skilled midfielder is the target.

I mean, if the clubs best player is out complaining to anyone who will listen (allegedly) then it would make anyone nervous. Don’t really see how this is any different

I would imagine this is the situation that’s actually played out, the club were happy with 12 or 13 and now that it’s considerably higher, we won’t deal it away

I hope it was some 4D chess from the club, leak some stuff to the media to cool Houston’s enthusiasm and avoid using pick 6 😄

That excites me more than you would imagine. A tall, skillful Half Forward and a bloke that can actually hit him from 50m away. Entire game transformed