Bring-Back-Powell

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.

MCC members most certainly don't get free entry, so you're right in the drop off right there. AFL members do though. You'd hope all standard members that have free entry would get along to it...because well...they still get free entry. Hopefully (if we do get a home game there) we can play one of the higher drawing interstate clubs there such as Brisbane, Sydney or Adelaide to retain some sort of home ground advantage, and at the same time not record a disastrously low crowd. However I suspect you're right in that it will be a Marvel tenant.

100% it is. Miles better than Darwin. A pity of most of our fans won't turn up to it.

Unless the club specifically says we'll be playing 10 home games a year at the MCG (which they haven't), I bet this home game will be at Marvel.

Maybe they used him as trade bait, where as they knew Garlett would be no chance of garnering interest??

Possibly one of JFK or Stretch survives, but certainly not both. He shows a few glimpses in games but ultimately probably not good enough if you're still asking questions of him 6 years later.

I also heard at the time that Taylor (and other recruiters) rated him a top 10 player if he hadn't been injured throughout his junior years.

I guess Joel Smith, VDB and KK could do with some more company in rehab.

We’re such a nice and accomodating club.

Hopefully the club puts out a statement sooner rather than later declaring our intentions, just so we don't have 250 pages on this thread. I highly doubt we'll be interested in picking up a high priced inconsistent player.

2 goals a game at the lower level probably warrants slight consideration. We need to add depth to our forward stocks. It's critical IMO as we'll just end up losing the majority of games next year if T Mac goes down again for weeks. The forward line we put out against Sydney (Melksham as the number 1 key forward) was a disgrace and poor list management.

Was outstanding against Freo with 2 gls and pretty good vs Hawthorn. Something to work with and hopefully a full pre season will be beneficial for him.

Bargain of the decade if he can get healthy. And didn't they trade 4 picks for Brad Hill. That's not a bargain!

Pies got a discount there if he plays a couple of full and injury free years.

He says the game is coming back to the G but in reality it will be transferred to Marvel in my opinion. Great result that we’re getting out of there though.

Will the probable delistings of Stretch and JFK give us additional picks in the national draft of will they be used for rookie upgrades?

Agreed, I was saying it in jest a little. However, if we were to trade pick 3 for Finlayson, I’d be wanting some pretty damn valuable assets back our way. Finlayson has a good finals series but to get 1 possession in a grand final is simply pathetic.

Are we gambling on Joel Smith having an injury free year to supplement our key forward stocks? He did kick 6 goals in the JLT and looked quite good.

Not sure someone who got literally 1 possession in the grand final should be someone we should be giving up a top 10 pick for??

What! You weren’t bouncing off the ceiling when we beat GC by a point?

This would be the first question i’d be asking at the members forum next month.