Bring-Back-Powell

I remember that too. Apparently our recruiting team went over to Mr and Mrs Sloane's house and promised them that we'd pick him up at pick 17 or 19 depending on how the draft board was looking. Sam Blease, James Strauss, Jamie Bennell and 27 picks later and Sloane was drafted interstate. I don't know how true that is, but we did not do football good in the late 2000's.

Kane Cornes putting his hat in the ring suggesting that a high draft pick must be involved. And that high draft pick must come from us. Geelong receive - Oliver and a draft pick. Melbourne receive - nothing.

Hopefully Jordan Lewis isn’t his successor.

Fair call. All sets of non Sydney supporters have bagged out Sydney since Saturday arvo. But in reality there's a lot of backyards that need to be looked at including out own. Sydney have the talent and skillset to easily get back to prelim final weekend and beyond. However they continually fail at the last step and that's Longmire's responsibility to work out why.

I thought McQualter was in charge of an average MFC midfield, and I can't imagine West Coast placed much stock on his 12 months at the club. Must have been all the ground work he put in during his assistant coaching days at Richmond as well as a 7-5 record as interim coach which is nothing to sneeze at. Having said that, McQualter didn't have the luxury that Yze had with respect to our midfield: Missed Trac for 10 games, a pre-season less Oliver and copped a regression year from Viney. By the second half of the season we were in experiment mode with Rivers (reasonable success) and McVee (unsuccessful). Good luck to him and hope we can get a capable replacement.

I reckon he stays at Port. Clubs in the position of Port should dig in more for gun players that are well under contract. I don't think clubs will satisfy their demands. Port have every right to ask for a big price for a reigning 2X All Australian who literally won a game off his own boot from 55 metres out at the MCG one night.

Certainly played some good games for Sydney, but it felt as though his win over Gawn in opening round may have inflated his season somewhat. A player on his salary and stature should've comprehensively beaten a player of Fort's level.

Didn’t realise Fagan was with our organisation for as long as he was. 1998 - 2007.

Sydney by 28 McCluggage first goal (paying $41) Some random no name like Melican to win the Norm Smith. Daniher to kick the last goal of the game after going 0.4.

He sounds like an articulate fella whenever interviewed so I’m sure he’ll be alright.

And for it to be at the G, or at the very least not during lockdown.

And the good news is we’ve got Adelaide away in the next couple of weeks.

Helped us in 2023 by providing a useful wing option. Actually averaged 3 more touches a game than Langdon. His game against Carlton in the semi was underrated IMO. But yeah, clearly went on one year too many, and never got started after that calf issue. Probably won't go down as a Demon great.

If our window is closed for next year with or without the hypothetical inclusion of Houston, then I'd also be keeping pick 5 rather than Houston. The more I saw of us this year, the less confident I am of a sharp rebound to the top 4. But to answer the question in a vacuum of trading pick 5 for Houston or giving 5 years to Peatling, it would be Houston by so far it isn't funny.

From memory WA opened their borders to NT, SA and TAS. So Dees members from those states were lucky enough to attend. You basically had to be the prime minister if you had any hope of travelling from a COVID state to WA. What I don't remember was could you travel from VIC to NT, SA or TAS, quarantine for 2 weeks and then head over to WA?

Houston by the combined length of the Flemington, Mooney Valley, Sandown and Caulfield straights. Houston is chronically underrated by DL posters and would be our clear 3rd best player behind Gawn and a fit and healthy Trac.

A yes please from me. Kicked 4 snags in one of Port’s finals last year and was/is expected to be a key part of Port’s future forward line.

Yeah he was a fixture in the side when Geelong started 7-0 and was getting his 19 touches a game. He was then omitted for our game which raised eyebrows among the Cats supporters. Came back a couple of weeks later for 3 games when Geelong started losing a number of games, and then wasn't really seen again. Could be a sneaky good/rebound kind of recruit for a club next year.

Beefy stats in this last VFL game: 25 touches, 12 marks and 2 goals.

Against Freo we lost the clearances 47-16 without a recognised ruck against Darcy and LJ (the rare game where the combo actually played in the later rounds - yay for us!) We simply couldn't compete in the middle that day and it was a list management melt down as far as I'm concerned. If Campbell played that game, could anyone take a guess what the clearance differential would have been? If he does come across, he'll actually be an important acquisition as we can't rely on Gawn to play 23 games. We also can't throw JVR to the wolves for more than 5 minutes a quarter. His output waned in the latter part of the season aside from the GC game.

His game was fine that night. I was just flabbergasted that he got 3 votes in a game given many posters denigrated him all year, and Kane Cornes suggested he was the worst key forward in recent years.

After all the accolades afforded to ANB for his tagging role on Nick Daicos on Kings Bday, Nick actually got Brownlow votes.

Petty somehow snagged a 3 voter against Geelong…

Trac 10 votes after 4 games!