Bring-Back-Powell

How impressive is she though (unfortunately for us)

Kate Hore should’ve been paid the mark. Could be 9 pts up if it were paid

No I didn’t really mean it if we’re exclusively dealing with the human side of football. But to pay about a million a year for the next however many years to Gus and Clarry stings. I wonder how that stacks up with other clubs?

I said this in the Freo game but the clash of jumpers tonight is a dog’s breakfast. Time for the men’s and women’s side to have a white clash jumper.

We need to reduce their inside 50’s and subsequent scoring shots. We might not be so lucky in the second half with their amount of misses.

So it’s in our very best interest from a salary cap point of view for Oliver to stuff up big time at GWS.

I haven't studied the WA cohort but would Rivers be in contention? I can certainly see him playing if a few pull out (which they no doubt will)

The issue with Essendon is at Gather Round. Otherwise we've beaten them 6 out of 7 times since 2017 (games at MCG, Marvel and Carrara). Will this be the year we finally play them twice, since 2005?

Unlike 2024 and 2025 I’d actually take 14th next year. Particularly if we improve the following year.

He should be selected, assuming selection isn't based on birth certificates.

Surprised people have Melksham out of their side. Had a career best season with 33 goals with 2 bags of 5 and 2 bags of 4. In fact he kicked 14 goals in 3 weeks. I get he's aging but he deserves first dibs next year. We have 5 forwards in Melksham, Kozzie, Mihocek, Fritta and JVR who've all had 30 goal seasons in their career and should all be in the 23 next year. Even Petty who Kane Cornes takes the absolute micky out averaged 1.3 goals in his 15 games he played as a forward which is 30 goal a season pace (based on a full season) Aside from the need for an additional small forward, our forward line is far from the worst in the league IMO.

Funny you should say that. In one of his earlier games as coach on his return to St Kilda (2023) Ross was open to the press that he'd sunk a few cans between the end of the game and the start of the presser.

Had a chat with a colleague at work who is a member of the St Kilda cheer squad, bleeds red white and black and is almost as dedicated as @Ghostwriter('ALMOST' being the operative word there!) 1) She's absolutely guttered and angry at St Kilda for letting him go. She cannot believe they're paying a bunch of their cap on an injury riddled Silvagni which has clearly affected their ability to retain Steele from a financial perspective. 2) He had a shoulder injury which hampered his 2025 season. 3) In her words "we are lucky" to have Steele and he's still got some good footy ahead of him. 4) She also mentioned that had Steele had his time over again, he would have kept his intention to give up the captiancy after the trade week. Imagine the optics if St Kilda traded the current captain who was all set to skipper them again next year.

Absolutely see you point there. And there will be highly marketable games on opening round such as Brisbane V Geelong or GWS V Hawthorn as hypothetical examples. However, they might make an exception here with the Trac rivalry with his former club being the reason it brings many eyeballs (as you said) to a largely stand alone game that opening weekend. Furthermore, rebuilding sides such as Essendon and Richmond have been scheduled to play GC up there for opening round, and we fit that demographic next year. I don't expect us to play GC in opening round next year but I wouldn't be shocked either if we did.

I have no intel on this, but I wouldn't be surprised if they have us playing Gold Coast on opening round on the Saturday 3:20pm slot. VIC labour day weekend. The Trac factor could come into play with this one and the AFL would like to have a side story to the game. Then in round 1 we play an MCG home game. All of this is pure speculation by me.

The answers is potentially yes. It will be interesting how King plays him next year in order to get the best out of him. Is it: 1) Only takes the centre bounce and moves forward i.e. - you'll never really see him at boundary throw ins around the ground or midfield stoppages. 2) 70/30 in the midfield. 3) 70/30 small forward. I would like option 3. Gives him the best scope to kick 40+ goals but still takes 8 out of 25 centre bounces to weave his magic and win us a few centre clearances.

How old is Tigga? Would love to have another Travis Johnstone running up and down the MCG 12 or so times a year.

If you're going to watch a video of this year's crop would you place greater stock in the under 18's national comp over the Coats league?

Don’t know what’s more shocking: The speed of which this trade came to fruition or Kane saying something positive about the MFC.

Collingwood were all over us in the opening minutes of the game before the Maynard hit. I don’t agree that we would’ve won that game if the hit did not occur. And besides, we had an excuse free loss the next week against Carlton. We weren’t made of the right stuff in 2022 and 2023. Agree with the notion that they’ve made our life a living hell though.

With the wild card to (potentially) come in next year they could finish 8th, host the wild card game against 9th and lose the game with Trac kicking 0.5 in that game. And better yet, 10th beats 7th in the other wild card game meaning GC finish 10th and we end up with pick 8 next year. Happy days.

It was either Chaplin who regretted it or Bowey himself saying that he didn't like playing in the forward line late in the year. I'd say Bowey is a lock in our defence.

I wonder how our long term injured players in the form of AMW and McAdam are shaping up for pre season and whether they're a chance for the praccy matches? Can see AMW in the round 1 side taking the oppo's premier small forward if he's available for the late February/early March games. McAdam probably more a round 5/6 onwards prospect should his VFL form warrant it.

They'll probably draw us to either one of them on opening round rather than round 1. The power clubs like Collingwood are sooking it up and don't want to travel up there for OR. With respect to the death ride, who would've thought Freo would have nose dived from 5th in 2022 to 14th in 2023 which got us Windsor. Hoping history gloriously repeats next year!

Will miss Trac considerably more than Clarry and he’d have to easily in my top 5 favourite MFC players. With that being said, in 2025 we won just 7 games with Trac playing all games, with 4 of them being against the worst 3 sides in the comp. In 2024 when he was injured, We had some good wins and some very honourable loses against the likes of Brisbane at the Gabba as well as top 4 teams in GwS and Port. The point being that Trac isn’t the defining factor between us being a good and bad side, and this year showed exactly that. He was not the difference and did not get us over the line in all those close losses like you would expect a champion would.