Travy14

One thing i think the Melbourne coaching staff are considering is the fact there is a big chance that the bench goes to 5 next year. meaning you could play 2 rucks 3 mids and a key position/swingman on the bench. meaning we could possibly have the two best rucks in the comp, going 50% ruck time at 100% capacity or close too. This is my Theory. Also Grundy is not injury prone at all has not missed many games in 10 years. and how many ruckman in the league have had knee recons and come back, as well as key fwds. If my theory is correct it could prolong Gawn and Grundy's careers by a few years, which good rucks go on into their 30s

Why would a club ever tell a player that? You do whats best for the club, and if that is keeping him then that's what you try do! You say to him we think you can make our best 22, have a big off season and make the position yours! clubs don't tell players truths they say what they need to higher/lower price, if Toby doesn't buy it then you move on. players are always told we think you can be this or that never promise, but dangle the carrot. hopefully he actually does grab it and forces his way in

Baker is gone, not a smart enough footballer on the wing and has had enough opportunity. Rosman wont be gone, only 20 and been at the club for 2 years with injuries holding him back. id say Hibbo and Melk will get contracts but i think we should say thank you and move past them. also expect M. Brown not to be offered another contract either then we have Weid, Thommo and Bedford who may be looking to move on for oppertunity

I think it is very important to keep bedford for a couple more years. there is a real chance that Port offer Kossie a massive deal at the end of next year. i hope the the dees make sure that kossie is comfortable in melb and want to stay with the Dees which he loves. but in the case that the offer is to much for him to knock back, we need bedford to fill that position!

Be a great get from a club looking for key def, and there isn't a lot of good ones around. Would be a win win for us and him, he gets a B22 position and we free up 500k. if a deal can't be done we still keep a very very handy back up.

Brown and Dunstan are direct replacements for our afl players. younger players arn't going to come into the AFL side and if they do they arn't going to play in the midfield.

We still win with the Duck Worth Lewis right?

He came in Head side of the player, any contact was going to risk a free and the guy was already being tackled. It just wasn't needed. just cut the disposal off

Might not have been a great call but that's the stuff smith does. no need to come in that hard. Game awareness, wrap up the quarter and keep our lead

Uze, Woey and Green in the stands is nice to see

Weid has been great in a day where it is pissing down rain in a position he doesn't play, against an opponent with 40kgs on him

Smart footy from here, move the ball fwd and stay tough over it. kick deep and long to marking targets with numbers to the contest

https://www.afl.com.au/vfl/matches/4769#player-stats

all the talk is about Port going hard at Kossie, not Kossie is considering, or Kossie might be on the move or anything like that. so all it is is port want him are are trying to use his SA connections to pry him from us. is no reporting that he is considering it, which is good. The bad thing is that we have tried to extend his contract and he has put of talks, which isn't unusual for a kid of his talent, this is one we don't want to lose so dees make him super comfortable next yr.

100%, Clarke has done it to all the best in the league not just Salem. We should have played Bowie in that game as well as Salem and make them choose who to shut out. Hindsight hey haha, hopefully they are both in the same side next year!

The 6 pages I have read are piling on him to the level of trading him, which is crazy. He played 12(13 but subbed of in 5min mark of rd1) games this season and in 6 of them went 20+ possessions at well over 75% efficiency and a few games of 117, 18 and 19 possessions. It wasn't a really poor season. Just we have very high expectations of him. He came back well after he hurt his knee then tapered off, which maybe it started to flare up again which is why he missed the last round.

One bad year and everyone piles on Salem. Yeh he had a bad year, but not a horrible one. If we trade him now we don't get what he is worth. Which is an AA calibre HBF. Watch him bounce back next yr!!

If Hibbo wants to go again he has earned it, but not guaranteed B22(hopefully he is forced out due to Bowie/Rivers form) Oh agree with weid, but give him the option to look elsewhere if he wants, might get a late 3rd for him if we are lucky

No one said it about the past 2 drafts. Riley Beverage, who follows the up and coming kids says its almost a super draft but he isn't willing to call it. This year he recons the top 3 are stand outs but then after that it's much of a muchness

Yeh I was just thinking this

FF: Fritsch Brown Picket HF: Chandler T-Mac Harmes C: Langdon Viney Jordon HB: Salem Petty Lever FB: Bowie May Rivers Foll: Gawn Oliver Petracca Int: Brayshaw JVR Sparrow Spargo Emg: Bedford Dunstan Tomlinson Turner Out: Melksham(retire?), Hibberd(retire?), Baker(Delisted), Jackson(Freo), M. Brown(retire?) Allow them to look for a trade: Weidemen, Hunt, ANB, Bedford,

Apparently 2023 Draft is going to be a ripper, and the draft watchers are saying alot of clubs will try a trade out of this year and into next year, so maybe not. But if we get a first rounder this year for Jackson then maybe we trade that.

Positives are: Clarry, Trac, Brayshaw, Fritsch, May, Langdon Jj, Viney, Cossie, Gawn and Petty had a very good year. Bowie, JVR, Rivers, Laurie, Turner and Chandler are developing nicely. Membership The fact we finished second even with a poor back second half to the year. Club administration looks to be strong and uniform.

Agree, buy thats also the difference after you make the GF. Everyone else gets a better rest and an earlier start

In 2018 and 21 year old Sam Weideman came into the Melb side to replace Hogan and kicked 3 v hawks and 2 v Geel. If JVR comes in this week maybe it could be a repeat? pure optimism, i can't see him coming in but who knows.