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Welcome aboard Luke! Hope the rest of your career is stellar in Red and Blue! You will be valued with a fresh slate. Work hard, earn your teammates trust by training your ar$e off like never before. Backing you to thrive in our 'system" . May you win many Premierships! Best of Luck!

Once bitten, forever shy? Give a bloke a chance, it is one list spot......He has apparently worked hard to redeem himself, has Eddie Betts as a mentor and performed really well last year. He is also a real talent. Adelaide have been a basket case in a lot of ways during his time there. Tex was captain. We should back our culture to assist him forming good habits....He also fits our demographics perfectly. Don't think we are risking much at all to at least chat to him, and see where he is at!

He will be a great addition. I think now we have won a premiership many are over-rating our current list and the fact that we had vitually zero injuries to best 22 players. Harmes, Sparrow, Spargo, ANB, Brayshaw, JJ, Tomlinson, Petty all got hammered on this site at various stages. This is a guy who would push Harmes, Sparrow and JJ for a spot round 1 and will add some oomph. An injury to Oliver, Petracca or Viney and our depth would be tested with no VDB/Jones. Would be a great pick up....would play many Senior games for us. To those saying they don't want him replacing a Sparrow/Harmes / JJ.....I Get it....But ultimately they can still develop at Casey and form will dictate where they play. To have strong list we need pressure on all positions of the ground. Hopefully we have a lot of hungry players next year that are wanting more success!

Just saw on trade week they put up his stats this season compared to Ollie Wines on an average basis.....they compared really well. Saints are mad to get rid of him!

Round 11.... 3 votes. Round 13.....2 votes. Round 15.....3 votes. Round 16.....1 vote. Round 17.....2 votes. We are not likely to ever be blessed again with so few injuries. Watched most of the Saints game this year and he was great when he came into team at round 11 after banging the door down in the 2nds. He could play a role at Melbourne in amongst a much better system/better quality of players. A much better version of VDB/Jones and would be really pushing Sparrow/Harmes/JJ to perform. Would be an astute pick up, who would not cost a fortune and is still improving. It's a yes from me....We have great development coaching now, he will thrive in a much healthier environment, fits our age demographic really well. We will no doubt be adding few younger prospects. We are team in the window for more Premierships, he will only strengthen our list imo.

26 is the new 35? 26 is young, would fit our list demographics perfectly.....We should get rid of Salem/Petracca/Oliver/Brayshaw, they are all approaching the dreaded 26. May, Lever,Gawn should be delisted immediately, way too old by your reckoning :P

Knew Dunstan was on the outer for much of last year.....He finally got a crack in the Seniors, was B.O.G. in a few of them after some great form in the 2's. Saints had a pretty average year, for them to pigeon-hole a bloke that puts his heart and soul into it every time he plays it is only going to diminish their prospects. Guy has a heap to prove and wants to be part of a winning culture and valued by his team/coaches. Would be a great fit for us imo, is still improving as a player, will not cost a fortune and will have a point to prove. All for this one coming to us....He would look much better in Melbourne colours!

He would already get less $ from Melbourne than Carlton.....Freo will definitely not be paying ANY part of his new wages lol.

Glad Callum Spargo will likely be ok......Its Charlie you muppet Barrett!

It would mean i could finally forgive my father for making me a Melbourne supporter some 47 years ago. It would mean the world to me and my family! Beneath a mask there would big smiles for no apparent reason.....Premiership smiles :)

No coach or chief exucutive.....Who at Carlton has actually expressed strong interest in him? The reporting on this subject seems wishful thinking from Carlton affiliated media. Nobody in their right mind would currently choose Carlton over Melbourne. Will come down to more than money and draft picks....I would say Cerra will select us and then we will get to work to arrange the swaps required.

i recall more recently him fumbling and double grabbing at every ground ball. Was great earlier in the year though. If Hunt is fit i would be taking him over Hibberd myself.

No player would want to leave where we are at currently. Some will have to be persuaded/pushed. I want to to see the MFC get stronger through trades which we seem to be doing each year. Brayshaw has not once been in our leadership group from my recollection??

Brayshaw is a much loved team member.....not sure he is of core importance though, nor a core player, unless you weigh in Gus/Gawny podcast. His last few seasons have been pretty down.....he has played much better this season but Cerra on a wing would be a clear upgrade. Brayshaw is definitely not irreplaceable! Stay still and we'll stagnate fast, list has to be turned over to some degree. Personally looking forward to who is interested in getting to us, and who we might be interested in. Seems pretty obvious by commentary that we are actually pretty into Cerra.

I find it interesting so many seem to think trading out Gus for Cerra would destroy our culture. Players have to be turned over each season. Cerra for Brayshaw is an upgrade....they are on similar type $$$...Cerra has a much higher ceiling imo. I would not be unhappy if we traded out Brayshaw/Tmac and got in say Gunston/Cerra. Either way there will be changes, we should be getting excited that we are a destination club and in all likelihood we will be stronger for the changes that ARE going to occur.

Bowey has forced his way through being a standout in match simulations when Hibberd was going right off the boil and fumbling everything. There is no way known he will get dropped for "fumbles"....regardless if Bowey has the ideal matchup. He is actually releasing Salem to play his more normal game as we now have another lovely user of the ball in the back half. Love Hibberd but can't see him forcing his way past any of our current back 6. Even Smith is ahead of him atm.

Still have nightmares about him getting selected and Fritsch dropped for the prelim against West Coast. Personally i don't think we have exposed enough players to AFL level this year. What do guys like Chandler/Bedford/Lockhart/Bowey/Smith actually have to do to get a shot? If we get injuries during finals we will effectively have no exposed depth. We have had players in and out of form all year. Find it befuddling we have not risked , even small, like for like changes where we would lose very little. It is fine to play someone like VDB/Jones but not risk playing our more talented young guys? I don't get it!!

I think we could create the space required for player like that at @$750k per year. Tmac was on similar $$$ to this and although he has had a great season should be nowhere near worth 750k.....say he gets negotiated down to around 500K....We then have another 250k to spend on someone like this. If Brayshaw wanted to go play with his brother, we have some sort of currency. Fwiw i think if we were to pick up player like Cerra, we would pay less than what Carlton would to secure him, as we would be much more desirable club to look at. By the sound of it all Cerra will be playing with a Vic team next season. Would we be interested in him? Yeah i think we would at least ask the question!

Trent Rivers or even Jackson maybe real possibilities looking forward at the wing position too. Brayshaw would be on decent coin somewhere around 500-600k, per year. Langdon we actually got for around 450K. Would consider trading for someone like Cerra, who would cost similar $$$ but add lot more polish and grunt to our team. i find it a bit of a conundrum with Harmes/Viney/Brayshaw and their lack of adaptability to play other positions, they all get paid really well but can't seem to nail down alternate positions to play.

I think many are on the super generous side when it comes to Brayshaw. Honestly i expect more from him. He has never had the desire to run both ways, and he still does not work hard enough both ways. Langdon is the one that is always getting back,. But also running hard the other way to create something offensively. Brayshaw has improved dramatically this year but is still not what i would call a dynamic winger. Plays his role but if we are serious we should be looking for replacements for that wing.

Is this thread about Majak or Grinter? Can we keep it remotely on subject pls guys, really no need to be going off track every 2nd post! Has zero to do with Wallace/Grinter incident, not even similar lmao!

I thought they were allowed to challenge even with the tribunal? I recall a few cases getting dismissed once at the tribunal already this year...

The actual incident is not that bad, until right at the end.... he puts his whole body weight on Collins and basically slides his elbow off his neck over the side of his face, It is a move used in the UFC to try and open people up with the use of elbows. You can't exactly use precedents of Buddy or Selwood for this case as it is actually quite different to any of the cases they got off. He will get whacked for 2 weeks and get off with 1. I don't think any of us want to see these type actions as part of our game......We accept actions like this and the all of a sudden you have juniors doing the same stuff. It is footy not UFC!!

My bad. Sorry @old dee, was harsh to say that... i really hope Melbourne bring you some joy this year, enjoy the ride.....we are in it this year up to our eyeballs! Go Demons!

Just reading your posts in this thread is depressing. Go play monopoly with your GD.....posting with such negativity about the Demons when they are top of the ladder and approaching finals IS madness. IF you are not interested in the footy why are you on a football forum discussing your lack of interest? Makes no sense at all. I for one are thankful we have footy to distract us in these times. It is one of the few things that i find to be a healthy distraction from Covid....I am sure many other passionate supporters feel the same