rpfc

Hang on, let me get my vomit gif

Be pretty funny if Taylor picked up a key position player with 7 or 8.

The melts on here

We have no gilded young prospect at either end so I don’t know where this is emanating from

19 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

What do you think about Swadling?

There’s a technique to It that’s for sure.

You want the baby wrapped up nice and tight but also stay on their back.

15 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

So you're a Latrelle thinker, huh?

Oh this thread is about to go sideways

5 hours ago, No. 31 said:

If you see "Sack Voss" spray painted in the Gate 21 tunnel, you know I visited 😁

Your Buckley’s chance if that happens

3 hours ago, adonski said:

2 weeks tomorrow until Latrelle is a Dee

A thousand miles to go before that happens

1 hour ago, WERRIDEE said:

I wonder what people's thought are on going both needs based in Dovastan and Schubert. We have a lot of tall forwards but they don't say pick me. That's why I've been thinking of Schubert more and more. We have Mihocek but he only has 2 years left and the rest have struggled to get a game. Schubert is supposed to be a contested marking beast we really don't have that.

We need a small forward now that Pickett plays more midfield. We have Chandler who is good but great. Dovastan has kicked 53 goals this year we need someone like that. I think with 3 to 15 being so even we may go needs instead of best available. I think we only have one more year to get the small forward and key forward spots right or we are stuffed for years.

1. Duursma

2. Duff-Tytler (West Coast need a ruckman)

3. Robey (the best of an even bunch)

4. This where it gets interesting. Do they go for the flashier player in Grlj, or do they go for the more proven player in X.Taylor? I think if I was Richmond I'd go with the more proven player in X.Taylor.

5. Essendon don't have a midfield so they will need to boost it by picking Sharp at 5 and

6. Cumming at 6

7. This is where we have both of our picks and I think we will go needs Schubert at 7 and

8. Dovastan at 8

9. Grlj slides to 9

10. J.Lindsay rounds out the top 10 not including bids.

I see that Norm Smith has White being bidded on in the 60's we would be pretty stiff for that to happen. I don't think the draft will last 60 picks. We havn't delisted a player to make way for White so I think it's safe to say that White will be a rookie.

On the White thing - we don’t have to take 6 rookies. We can take 39 on the PL and 5 on the RL.

That would only really apply if there is an unlikely bid in like a 10 pick range after ND37 but if it does happen we will just have 39 on the PL.

1 hour ago, M_9 said:

Don't forget we are paying Gus until the end of 2028.

Yep.

Come 2030 we will have so much cap space

Look

Out

4 minutes ago, Harvey Wallbanger said:

Indeed Bing an "open election" would "throw up" a bunch of candidates that the members could then vote upon. The members might even have their own view on what skills are needed - maybe someone who lives in Melbourne and has time to devote to the Club? And the "skills we need"? Who determines that? - the same Board members that this thread is suggesting has failed us. See DFF's post - a nominee is identified by the Board and then the skill set they deem is required mysteriously appears as the skill set that the Board define as being required. Whatever that is, it is not an "open election".

Well I’m sold.

Vote ‘No’ on Open Elections

1 hour ago, Adam The God said:

What's new on neggieland?

Reality

Utter cope from DD and a few others.

Laughable.

We may be worse so that we can be better.

A few are going to be moping in their Carlton Draughts I think come May.

43 minutes ago, bluey said:

Borders are borders, can’t suit yourself to back up a poor statement.

Sorry for the vomit emoji - the sympathetic vomiting again.

…

Also, your grammar…

Georgia Gall is going to waste a great talent if she can’t lift her intensity in contest and stop short stepping into contact.

She will also get herself hurt and injured the way she half gets into spots.

The juxtaposition between Tayla and her is stark, and while no one should expect her to be on the other end of the spectrum she is almost unplayable without the stars that accompany her in the forward line. Georgia Campbell has improved in that space so I hope she can emulate her namesake.

Eliza was curtailed. Geelong gave us little width and we make silly mistakes and what I call ‘look up’ mistakes; taking an extra second dwelling on the ball because what you see up field is not exactly what you thought. You then get tackled or you give it up. The best teams you’ll notice it is just unconscious - they don’t think, they act, the thinking has been done on the track and players know where there teammates will be. Alyssa Bannan plays sometimes like a new born baby who is figuring out object permanence. She’s not alone.

But Tyla, Eden, Tayla, Megan, and the Defence won that game for us with individual moments of brilliance.

They are a fun team to watch and a great team to root for. Can’t say the same of the men’s the last few years.

We have to win.

This team should have a home prelim.

7 hours ago, bluey said:

It’s a no from me.

No reason to punt on an interstater in this drafting.

What ever wish is on your list can be found close to home.

He’s from Wentworth

If he was from Mildura would you say the same?

Pretty much the same place

2 hours ago, Gator said:

Pick 26, which was after Port Adelaide bid pick 7 on him, as he was highly rated by many clubs in that draft.

This information is pretty freely available, but I hope that helps.

No worries. Can you look up ‘rhetorical’ for me?

14 minutes ago, M_9 said:

Exactly. Would we have taken Billy Stretch, Kynan Brown and Taj Woewodin had they not been F/S?

How did that work out?

What pick did we get Jack Viney for again?

5 minutes ago, Mouseymoo said:

Zero chance we use 7 or 8, his highlights show flashes of kozzie-esque movement but not too much else.

Imo it's not between him and Dovaston - Dovaston an early first and Sumner Pickett a more speculative late first/early second.

Dovaston cake Latrelle cherry on top.

Kysiah was a pick that we reached for. I am sure it took our ‘grade’ in the draft from the experts down to a ‘B’.

Pretty glad we had such poor judgment at the time tho

I will play around with ChatGPT later and make it say what I believe to be true

You have to be pretty bloody naive if you think any footy club is going to not put a thumb on the scale for who they want on the board.

The club has given itself a right kicking up the you know what the last 12 months, they don’t need a hair-raiser elected by the throngs to continue the kicking.

Just pick him at 8 then. Or trade down a few picks and pick up a future pick of decent value

11 minutes ago, At Least I Saw a Flag said:

It's called MFCSS

WTF are you doing bringing this thread back from where it belongs

14 hours ago, Demon Jack said:

Really getting sick of the 'Melbourne need a key forward' narrative that's being regurgitated by the media.

If any of the 'experts' out there actually watched us this year (although to be fair, I can understand why they probably didn't), they'd see that we need more midfield depth, outside run and probably another small forward.

Our scoring woes have much more to do with our midfield connection than it does with anything in the forward half.

Unless the club has totally given up on the likes of JVR and Jeffo, drafting another young key forward would only stall the development of the ones we already have on the list.

I agree that our ball movement and commitment to a coherent plan in transition is the genesis of our problems. But our lack of forward structure didn’t help and exacerbated the issue as what we they to move quickly to? JVR not leading into the right spots, Jefferson not being ready/right, and the others being nowhere.

I also don’t want to solve the issue with middling first round picks as reaching for talent is the last thing we should do.

But we should not just wave away our tall forward issue - Brody Mihocek will be a walking example of what we have missed the last 4 years and what we need to have a succession plan for pretty soon.

1 hour ago, rjay said:

That's a whole different story 'Macca'...and we don't know what was going on behind the scenes there.

My point was Grundy was a bad list call and that's not on Max.

So Goodwin gets all the blame there? Max went along with it when the going got tough on him being able to move forward and be selfless - he was the one that couldn’t do it. He could not sacrifice his game to see whether that would improve the team.

For those that say - Max was/is the best solo ruckman in the game and we are making him a forward for 60 mins a game?!

I am not arguing that that is a great strategy - it’s a failure from the jump. Yep absolutely. The thinking was flawed.

But Max also has to take the hit - whether he wants it or not - that he refuses to work with other rucks and wants it entirely on his terms. That is the challenge of his brilliance.

Well they have to win. And they have to beat the Lions in Melbourne.

Two must win games to get into a Prelim that they have to get into.

Nothing is ordained but they should have a home PF, anything less is the failure.