Bring-Back-Powell

I think Edmund said Geelong gave him a medical.

1998 Vs Freo. We as fans are in no position to complain if it happens. Port, GC and GWS would be the likely destinations. There's a rumour WC are hosting Adelaide round 1.

Good.

Certainly could be. Or it could be 19 degrees per 2017 vs Carlton at Casey. You just never know with Melb’s weather. About as predictable year to year as it’s footy side.

Yeah good point. last year they bunched all the JLT games into just 2 weeks and they stupidly gave us a 6 day break coming off a 40 degree day in Shepparton. Nice to have a 2 week break between games.

Going with 8. Starting with a round 1 Friday night blockbuster against the Suns at the G.

Got a feeling it will be GC or Port away week 1.

We’re well overdue for a round 1 interstate game this year. We haven’t travelled in the season opener since 1998. I’m tipping GC, WC or Port interstate round 1. I will laugh and cry at the same time if we’re the away side in Darwin later in the year.

Kicked 4 against Brisbane and 2 against Richmond in week 1 of the JLT. In an ideal world he slips under the radar behind T Mac, Weed and Fritsch, gets the oppo’s 3rd or 4th defender and jags a sneaky 30 for the year.

Probably starts the year at Casey, but as we found out the hard way this year, it's always good to have a surplus of options.

We obviously believe Petty, O Mac and Joel Smith are enough to cover the loss of Frost. Fair enough logic if all those 3 can stay injury free and are good enough players.

On what planet is Melksham depth? He is one of the classiest ball users and goal kickers in the side and we bitterly missed him for those 10 or so games.

His problems started in the first quarter of the first game of the year when he missed 2 set shots for goal against Port which would have given us a 4 goal lead on both occasions. That set the tone of the entire year, and some of his errors and skill level was pathetic for an established AFL player. Strange because he was one of the rare players that had a full pre-season. Still, he kicked 25 odd goals in 2018 and jagged a 3 brownlow vote game, so I can see why he was retained. Would be very border line for round 1 if we're full strength though.

I wouldn't mind him. Did he not kick 16 goals in 5 games at the end of 2017?

Will play 22 games next year due to the genius move of trading Frost for a ham sandwich and the unreliability of our 2 expensive defenders.

Judging by his Instagram photos I think I know the answer.

A little bit of extra pocket money put aside for Jack Martin? (otherwise maybe 1 of the 2 survived)

Is this the same Jack Martin that begged and pleaded to be a Bomber this time last year? Unless there’s a clear threat that he’d sit out the season, or would be a toxic member of the playing group, just be a little ruthless and take him in the PSD. Even if he’ll only sign a 1 year contract. We need to further leverage what was a most unexpectedly disastrous season. We’ll got 2 top 10 picks. We’re getting a bottom 6 draw. Lets take advantage of pick 2 in the PSD!

The fixture will tell the story. The fact that he technically didn’t announce that we’re playing 10 games at the G leaves me a little sceptical (even though I don’t mind home games at Marvel) If we end up still playing 9 home games at the G and 1 at Marvel, then yes, he’s mislead the members and should’ve just announced that we’ve withdrawn home games from Darwin. Ofcourse, we could end up playing the 10 at the G, no home games at Marvel and I’ll be the first to put my hand up and say I was wrong.

Take your point there. I would also bypass Martin if he 100% doesn’t want to play for us. But at the same time he’s not a free agent and therefore shouldn’t have the right to pick and choose which club he goes to. He hasn’t earnt that status yet.

I wonder if Collingwood, Richmond, Hawthorn or Essendon would do the gentlemanly thing and allow Carlton access to Martin, if they had the pick 2 in the PSD?

If he misses more than 6 games next year, we’re finishing bottom 4. He was the only reason we beat Carlton. He was a key reason why we lost to mediocre clubs such as St Kilda and North on the run home. He’s kind of important.

Yes.

I can’t see the upside in trading Frost. Would love to hear the club’s rationale behind it. We barely got anything for him in return aside from a future second rounder in a hopelessly compromised draft, and our defensive stocks just got weaker. Clearly the club hasn’t learnt it’s lesson that you have to have rock solid depth in your key position stocks. They found out the hard way as a consequence of exiting Hogan and Pedo in the one hit - result was Melksham as our sole key forward in a home and away game. Now we’re doing the same to our defence. Robbing ourselves of an integral part of our defensive stocks while relying on injury prone players to hold it together.

Hopefully he was mates with May. May strikes me as the sort of teammate that wouldn’t exactly be everyone’s cup of tea.