Bring-Back-Powell

I had a quick look at the Gold Suns equivalent of Demonland and the two members logged in are worried and highly rate Humphrey.

Hopefully we've said to GC that if you can't give us an A grader, go and get one via a third club or you don't get your prized possession.

Pick 7 and a B grader in Ainsworth might be the best we can hope for. 23 goals in 24 games is a bit 'meh' for someone that resides in the forward line.

Pick 32 or 34 for Clarry sounds like an easy transaction. Might get done week 1 of trade week. Although the way they played hard ball on 0 gamer Wade Derksen last year, perhaps pick 34 will be seen as too expensive for GWS.

Cornes on trade radio said Trac for pick 7 is perfectly fair.

Humphrey didn't just kick 3 goals in a final this year, he kicked 3 goals in a quarter of that particular final.

Humphrey played all games under King as caretaker coach aside from the final game of 2023 v North when he was out injured.

It would turn this so called dismal off season on its head if we could get Humphrey. I’d liken it to trading a 30 year old Trac and getting a 21 year old Trac in return. Both players are goal kicking bulls.

I loved his quote when he was interviewed at the airport: “Yeah happy to be at the Gold Coast Suns… at the moment. See what happens” I wouldn’t be overly ecstatic if I were a Sun supporter with that level of enthusiasm by Humphrey Bear.

Oh well if nothing else Flanders was quoted in the clip as saying he has a good relationship with King. Better than nothing.

Full on expecting (guessing) Flanders to announce St Kilda as his club of choice tomorrow, to cap off a fabulous week.

What day is Morris or Cleary sending out the “Bayley Fritsch told to explore his options” tweet?

Maybe his VFL form wasn’t impressive this year. I asked a few knowledgeable GWS posters on Bigfooty whether he was on the cusp of senior selection and they all said he was miles behind Taylor, Buckley and Alir for a defensive role.

It would make way more sense to get rid of Clarry and retain Trac. One’s turned into a BOG ordinary one dimensional non goal kicking midfielder, the other is still a classy goal kicking midfielder that will get his 2 or 3 Brownlow votes from time to time Hopefully the Trac trade falls over.

When talking about Geelong’s GF performance he referred to them as “we” at the start of the interview. It was cringe and funny at the same time from the current MFC coach.

I have our over/unders win line at 3.5 next year if Laurie is our premier midfielder next year.

Why on earth would we be actively shopping the both of them? Are we trying to finish bottom 2 on purpose next year and settling for a membership 10,000 less than North?

Was an enjoyable listen. He’s well spoken if nothing else, and is humble and excited about the opportunity to coach our club. Sounds like he’d be keen to retain Trac if he had his way. Bonus points for referring to two clubs at the same time as “we”. That gave me a bit of a laugh.

Didn’t have a good year. You could always rely on May to have a great tussle with his opponent and on a bad day he’d concede 2 or 3 snags. However, the premier forwards such as Ben King, Georgiadis and Gunston really took him to town this year. He hit rock bottom against Gunston and but to his credit he kept Elliott mostly in check to end the season. With Trac and McVee gone, I’d perhaps reconsider moving on from May. You can only lose so many best 23 and that’s not including inevitable injuries to next year’s best line up.

Goodwin listened to us and started him as a small forward in the second GC game. It lasted a quarter.

Sounds like GC will be the preferred trading partner for the Dees. Hopefully nobody gets in Trac’s ear that GC play most of their home games in the Saturday and Sunday 1pm timeslot in front of 6,000 people, most of whom barrack for the oppo. And the cherry on the Sundae will be playing 2 energy sapping Darwin games in 5 days, with the team subsequently falling in a heap the following month.

That would be the high end result and we'll all be patting Lamb on the back for that one. Either means the Pies originally low balled Elliott or now don't have enough money to keep Mihocek. If the former, that's a pretty scummy way to treat one of the stars of the 2025 season. If the latter, then Mihocek's more likely now to be a Dee.

It would be kind of like trading out a 29 year old Petracca for a 21 year old Petracca (Trac and Humphey both kicked 25 odd goals a year at about the same age) But alas, clubs in the window will simply not be trading out their best dozen players in the pursuit of a star such as Trac. It would be counter intuitive to acquire a star in exchange for subtracting a star. This is why, in my opinion, we will either accept unders by way of draft picks or the player in question returns to his club next year (with a potential tail between leg pending a reset of attitude).

100% agree with your assessment with Elliott. He’d be amazing for our club. However, he’d have to be seriously motivated by money rather than success to contemplate a move to the Dees. Realistically, hopefully he goes to the Suns and further depletes an ordinary Collingwood forward line going forward.

Did anyone look at this thread and think for a second that we’re potentially looking at him as a support option for Max?