The Jackson FIX

I suspect he isn’t the sort of guy that is happy to continue to be ‘injury insurance’.. may also not be a great leader for the developing guys at Casey, I think he is just too competitive.

Does your $1k-poorer mate know if Houston had to rip up his cover letter or did he just use white-out to change it?

Flat as I’ve been in a long time. We all knew that was what happened but to hear it out of the mouth of an All Australian from another club was like a dagger. Dees needed to clear the joint out this off-season when the chance presented itself. Feel an inexperienced board (or at least president) was what stopped it happening. Sick feeling we’ll look back in 10 years and really regret the lack of actual change when it presented itself this offseason. edit: not lost on me that I was the one defending Pert recently and saying you can’t get rid of everyone at once….

- One of them (Duke) was linked to LJ (who we acquired by finishing very low in ‘19) - one of them was because we finished 10th this year - one of them (9 this yr) we’ve paid a hefty price for, both current picks and future I think we are going ok on this front but I’d stop short of being amazed about how we’ve do it after ‘being at the pointy end of the ladder most of the time’

Apologies if triggering but if it makes you feel any better I always assumed Scoop of the Sam variety was a reference to a pooper scooper

Something not adding up for me… didn’t Lamb say we had a late pick this draft?

was that Scoop Maclure’s Geelong microphone at the presser? Could’ve been any one of their’s really…

Timmy Lamb not sitting around, his frugal draft strategy has always centred around nabbing a 2hr street park on the final day and avoiding an all day spot under the stadium

Carlton just got pick 3 for 12, 14 and Matt Owies. WC then gives 14 for Liam Baker. That is horrendous business from Wet Toast. All of it.

Possible. Wright is well out of the picture now and Fly is on record as saying he wants players, not picks.

I was half-expecting it to be a Clayton’s review, pardon the pun

Yeah I thought Port were copping a bad deal there, if you believe Houston is worth 2x first rounders. Sense GC & Coll were keen to bundle all the deals together and Port realised late that giving up that future first rounder just didn’t make sense. Collingwood will need to give more than fringe players and a future first rounder to make this work.

This was the Doggies’ whinge recently - got JUH and Darcy but they burnt all of their late picks to do so and believed they had issues with depth down the track as a result. proper 1st world problems though

I like this idea. Get that bloke a flag.

I was thinking the same. 5 needs to earn his stripes, pick 9 complements the existing bench better.

He just said that pick 9 has already requested a trade from Melbourne

Has a mid-season draft recruit who is a KPP ever ‘made it’? Newcombe and Ambrosio as mids the benchmarks for what you can pick up at that time of the year.

Why was he even on the radio? Would’ve thought he’d Be smart enough to realise the only reason they wanted him on was to get a soundbyte about the club’s perils

it would be professionally irresponsible not to dig a bit deeper in light of some of the stuff that has reportedly gone down. His time will come. President and CEO going at once creates a huge hole in leadership capability and experience. Sponsors wouldn’t want that, the board wouldn’t want that, the AFL wouldn’t want that. Like him or hate him, he is important to us right now. We finished 10th and he has a growing list of ‘misses’. Not unreasonable for him to be under pressure.

Where were these ‘people around Clayton’ this time 12 months ago?

Don’t disagree with either comment. What I wrote is by no means statistically significant, but interesting nonetheless in the context of @goodwindees comment about the scope of the internal review.

Not sure what you were expecting? Sounded fine to me.

Reverse death ride! Our tussles with Fremantle are more interesting off the field. Lamby knows what the people want.

But hey, they don’t get as many ‘nice guy points’ as we do, right? Where can we redeem those nice guy points by the way?

John Noble is being massively overrated this trade period. Wasn’t in there best 22 12 months ago yet all of a sudden the pies want more for him than what we want for Nibbler