Bring-Back-Powell

Surely recruiting a specialised winger such as Isaac Smith or Tom Phillips isn’t worth 4 extra wins to get us into next years second qualifying final. I would’ve thought the elimination of picking and choosing which games (see the Cairns and Port Adelaide disasters) to turn up to and picking and choosing which quarters to go to sleep in (see the early season MCG games and the Dogs game) are our main obstacles of finishing top 4 or even the top 8. A platoon of Baker, Tomlinson, Hunt and VDB playing the “non Langdon” wing is far from ideal but it’s only 1 position out of 18 on the field and shouldn’t cost us the destination we want to get to next year. I.e playing in at least week 2 or 3 of the finals.

Finals never seem to be Rohan's days.

Is Phillips the one on the left or is that Aaron Francis??

I like this bolded bit from Sam Power of Bulldogs: https://www.afl.com.au/news/523866/dogs-still-want-dunkley-but-open-to-different-situations- Melbourne forward Mitch Hannan: "It's really encouraging he has indicated he wants to come … but we've got a bit to work through there. That's one we'll work through over the next week." Hopefully we can something decent for losing Hannan.

Would like to get pick 31 from GWS (and T Greene or Whitfield as steak knives!) More likely it would be 44, or a future third round. We're not ones to demand the world.

Given that we're going to get bugger all for him, do we just delist him and let the Dogs pick him up for free as a delisted free agency. Don't we need to reduce our list size anyway?

If he stays with us I have no issue with T Mac lining up at CHF for us next year if his form warrants it and/or Weideman once again hasn't come on.

Some years we do break a lot of glass. 2020 was great year injury wise but other years have been terrible for the MFC. No issue with McKernan being a direct replacement for Preuss, and McKernan actually knows what he's doing up forward. For those that want a perfect example of a ruck playing forward, do not re-watch the late season Freo game as our ruck-forward that day had about 1 possession.

For his flaws he's polled 21 votes (2016) and 18 votes (2019) in the brownlow. That's A-grade material.

I guess they have a responsibility to their members to get the best possible outcome. We are probably more than fair at the table under Mahoney and Co. so I'd imagine it will be pick 25 plus a little more. Hopefully not a future first rounder but we must remember that we're getting 3X 60 goal kicker a year full forward.

I would say Brown for pick 25 would get it done, and get it done early. North might push for something extra though.

That would be good if they came out with that bold statement. Worked for the another club recently. However, Bartlett made it abundantly clear to the players and fans in his B&F speech that missing finals this year was completely unacceptable.

ANB’s goal kicking accuracy was good this year with 7.0 and 64.41 over his entire career which is not too bad at all. I wouldn’t be upset if we retain him next year.

Deserves some luck on the injury front. Wouldn’t surprise me if he plays most games next year.

Hunt did play against Freo.

Did we go any better in 1982?

Happy with this. If he can somehow bottle that 4 goal game late in the year....

Can remember this guy tearing us up last year with a 4 goal performance...only to find out after the game that he tore a hammy and played on 1 leg just to further rub salt into our wounds.

Might be the only way of getting him to the club?

Really hoping his 2020 season was a pure write off due to injuries and personal matters rather than a natural decline in his football. The fact that his goal tally was less than his games tally is a little concerning.

He averages 1.9 goals a game at Hobart which is below his career average of 2.2

Brown averages 2.6 goals a game at Marvel and 2.1 at the MCG. However he's only played at the MCG 10 times over about 6 seasons which is a low sample space for a Victorian team. Has kicked 12 goals against us in four games at the MCG including a bag of 5 and a bag of 4. He actually made his debut against us in 2014 at the MCG for 1 goal.

North supporters on Bigfooty demanding our future first rounder or current and future second rounder for Brown.

I hope the club isn’t getting carried away by a couple of nice goals by Baker in the GWS game. He didn’t play particularly well in the Freo and Essendon games. They need to chase a proven winger such as Polec or Phillips to be our starting winger next year and retain Baker as depth. I agree that they should keep Tomlinson as a defender rather than winger next year as he was solid and reliable when he played down back.

Can't argue with any of that however Frost played well for Hawthorn this year and Kent played finals for St Kilda as well getting near BOG against us in an early 2019 game. Time will tell if both players carve out good careers at their next clubs.