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I’m not writing him off at all in terms of his ability to stay at the level, I have no doubt he’ll be able to play a few more years no problem. I just mean if he was to get a long term injury or something, a player like Steele is an excellent inclusion in terms of helping to cover his loss of leadership. Just wouldn’t want to find ourselves suddenly in an experience/leadership vacuum and too much burden being placed on the younger guys before they’re ready. I think it’s a good contingency to have him in the team if that scenario eventuated IMO.

Yeah I’m interested in how King will fit he and Viney into this team. Found this stat which jumped out at me. 2025 Season: Viney 89 turnovers Oliver 83 turnovers Tracc 101 turnovers Steele…….. 55 turnovers…. This is very telling, haha And if we lose Max/McDonald/May/Melksham during or at the end of this season, we will need Steele for his proven leadership capabilities. We don’t want to create a vacuum of experience and have the younger unproven guys carrying more weight than they need to IMO. Going into the following seasons. Plus we essentially just swapped Oliver out for Steele in which would only have been a 3rd rounder.

His last two years have been the 2nd and 3rd highest in his career for clearances and he also pretty much played full seasons too, so he’s still firing and getting on the park. Others have mentioned it but getting him to teach/coach the younger guys during games is a huge plus.

I have zero connections to the club so am speaking purely from reading between the lines and outcomes from afar, but the needs of Clarry vs the needs of the group seems to have been a balance that wasn’t achieved. Playing him when he was visibly out of shape and essentially no preseason RD 1 (?)in 2024, seemed like it was what was good for Clarry and not what was good for the group. That looked to me like unequal standards that perhaps any player a part from Max/Tracc would not have been given the same leeway on. If a player isn’t at the requisite level of fitness expected or everyone else because of injury/mental health reasons, that’s fine. But they shouldn’t play until they have reached the standard everyone else has to. Otherwise it’s not a standard. This seemed to be a part of the equation why things blew up.

Is every supporter, on here, though? It felt like it was just his official bookend to an era to me 🤷‍♂️

But if you say it’s Steele for Oliver, I looks much better, haha.

So it’s essentially Mcvee our for Jiath in. Not sure if I would say one is much better than the other at this stage. Tracc out for 3 first rounders. If it’s 7&8 and maybe 10-12ish next year, that’s good compensation. Oliver out for Steele in. I’d have taken this at the start of the period for sure. At least it’s not Oliver out for nothing. Heath in and Mihocek in. Pretty good result I’d say. Could have been a LOT worse. As an aside, Brisbane had like 7-9 injuries from their starting 22 and they still won the flag. That’s a deep, deep list. Hopefully we’re looking at some of those players for next years trade period.

Thanks for ‘21 Christian and seeing you play some amazing footy for us. All the best for the future. Hopefully these picks can give us a good foundation for a tilt after Brisbane is done winning 4 in a row.

I’m going to come back and read this thread in years to come just like how I watch the 21 highlights sometimes. Incredible time to be alive.

Thanks Ollie for the great memories especially in a dark time. Hope you remain healthy and find happiness but also that the rest of your career is filled with mediocrity (I doubt it though). Also, we essentially just swapped Oliver out for Steele in… that’s not bad at all.

And if we cannot attract or maintain elite/established/leadership level players, then too many draft picks with too much pressure to perform and room to just develop can send us down the Bombers/North route. I’ve mentioned it before, but since 21, who have we traded that is still with us that has made our team stronger?

Are you saying 2026 will be the dawn of the delicious new snack the Max Cheese Humphrey? Followed by the release of the dessert based 2027 Max Chocolate Humphrey? Because if you are, where do I invest?

Yeah but BH posted ‘take me home’ on an Instagram story so these two situations are the same

News just in: Mass performance reviews spike in the first half of October strongly correlated with barracking for Melbourne and specifically visiting Demonland.

At this stage your ‘unlikely likely’ scenario is the most convincing to me so I’ve gone ahead and taken out a high interest $98,000 loan and made a shady bet with shady bookmakers for this outcome. We’re gonna be filthy rich Timothy. I can feel it.

@Timothy Reddan-A'Blew Me going back and forth between these two positions and thinking the last position as being dumb is what I mean, haha

Oh noooooo, please accept my apology if it came across I was saying your post was dumb, I didn’t mean it like that at all. I meant that I was going in between thinking: Dees want Tracc gone more than GCS want Tracc (advantage GCS) vs GCS want Tracc more than the Dees want Tracc gone (advantage Dees) The ‘pffft, that’s dumb’ was me referring to me changing from one position to the other based on posts like yours. Like I have done about 97 times over the last 5 days, haha I was only trying to convey that my brain is absolutely fried by so many convincing arguments/evidence. To which I clearly conveyed it very poorly. Apologies again.

I’ve read way too many differing points of view/explanations that all seem plausible on Demonland to have any clue about who has the upper hand in this trade 😂 as soon as I think ‘ok yes, we are desperate to get rid of Tracc’ I see a post like this and I’m like ‘pffffft that’s dumb, of course GCS are more desperate for Tracc’ Someone is going to comment soon saying ‘Lamb is saying this as a posture of strength to GCS and he doesn’t mean it’, then someone else will say ‘King has been explicit that he sees Tracc as pivotal to his plans next year’ What even is reality

De Goey only played 13 games in 2024 and 11 this year. And the games he played this year were a bit scattered. His longest stretch was 6 games from round 22 through to the GLORIOUS DEFEAT in the PF. 2 seasons in a row of missing half the season for a player heading into their 12th year is a bit of a red flag for mine.

Andy will have his IP. Just saying.

If BH is absolutely off the table, what’s taking figuring out the 7&8 picks so long? As in are we pushing reeeaaaallllyyy hard to not give the pick in our 20’s to them? The pick they need for their academies?

UWOTM8????

Food pun era.