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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.

i think everyone has given up on McStay, i like the thinking though. Coll have already said they will pay #300k of Grundy's salary, which is great and i don't think it will get much better than that.

Yeh it does sound strange, has been no chat about Grundy being done injury wise. and you would think we would do a very vigorous medical like we did with Bennell. I'm very interested to see how it works. I think Collingwood have been sucked in by the form of Cameron and obviously salary cap issues

I agree, but he is the only Key fwd on the market so gotta beat everyone to get him. very well timed by McStay, even if it is just luck

Treloar trade was: Coll trade: Treloar, 26, 33 and 42 and received: 14 and a future 2nd so maybe 35(2nd rd) and a future first pick for Grundy 42, 47,48( all second rounders) This is just based of current picks, Melb have always been proactive in moving around future picks so they might try something there to move up the draft. Coll are reportedly bringing in McStay (reported 650k a year) and Bobby Hill. as well as interest in Mitchell and now want to keep De Goey and reports say they are offering him the contract they withdrew after his Bali incident. This is good for us as it means they need Grundy's salary gone (whilst still paying 300k a year) I'm still not sold on the Grundy/Gawn combo, but goody and the coaching staff obviously see a strategy there for us to be this interested so i'll back them in.

Reports saying T-Mac isn't ready which is a bummer. with that my changes are: IN: Smith (i can't believe i am saying that), Brown or JVR (sub) Out: ANB with clouds over Melk, Trac and Fritta i think we need to have a fwd as sub, with smith being able to go back if we need cover down there.

In: T-Mac, Bowie Out: ANB, Hunt Bringing in T-Mac allows Jackson just to play ruck and concentrate on what he is best at, unfortunately he has no forward nous and doesn't offer a lot up forward. but as a pure ruck of the bench i think this will help us much more. Hunt just can't handle high pressure games, and this has happened over and over for him. i also don't mind him staying in, but if we were to play Sydney again he can't play in that game. Melsham could also be the out for T-Mac, but i think he played his role well and could have also been on the end of 2 goals. Salem didn't have a good night no but was tagged by a guy that has taken down the AA and many other quality HBF in the comp, he is AA quality himself, stays in. Only other change might be Harmes if he is suspended, which he should be ok. but not sure who comes in for him with JJ injured, maybe Chandler or Bedford

Very disappointing, our midfield weren't smart enough today. tried to get too much clean exits and turned it over with poor handballs. Syd on the other hand moved the ball forward quick and long by foot from stoppages. May had an outstanding game as did petty, be we really struggle with Sydney's smaller fwd line players. we really needed T-Mac today, and i dunno if it Melksham that goes out. I usually a hater but he played an important role and should have kicked 2 goals. not handballing back to spargo really hurt us though. ANB is really out of form and does some real head scratching things, maybe he makes way. we didn't handle the pressure and need to get batter, but we have a 2nd chance

He was injured alot of this year. but played good footy in the VFL and made his way back onto the Emergencies for the AFL side. obviously didn't play the way Mitchell wanted. was bloody good at the Pies, and our wing depth is our weakest area, considering we can pay him peanuts and waste nothing in terms of picks could be a handy depth player. also just as happy to get a kid and develop him

Good Luck everyone, barrack hard wherever you are! Carn Dees