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8 hours ago, Pirlo said: Of course we are likely to fall. We just sacked a Premiership winning coach and cleared out our two best midfielders in the past 30 years. We have also brought in some mature talent to help hold the fort for a year or two, and added even more quality young players to go with those already playing good footy. The point was to bleed a bit now to avoid falling into a pit.
Exactly right and while I am not as high as DD36 - I can see intent.
What I won’t do is live in an alternative reality where we take these ‘hits’ and don’t bleed in 2026.
These happy warriors whistling into the void are (most likely) going to get a rude shock.
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2 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said: Hmmm...
We exited a player who wanted to continue playing midfield but we told him he mightn't be, and we got a player because he was told he mightn't be playing midfield and we wanted him to.
I'm OK with the former and happy with the latter, btw. But curious, innit? Kinda confirms there was a lot more to both moves, particularly the former.
Does anyone with half a brain think there wasn’t more to the moves?
Not trying to be rude - but a mate of mine saw Oliver out just after the season doing ‘the same old thing he’s been doing’ so it’s addition by subtraction.
And Steele is required because of the massive gap we now have in our ‘older than 20 midfield brigade’
It’s not a straight swap in any other sense than the play similar positions.
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On 26/11/2025 at 09:47, Ghostwriter said: I know it’s all part of the “industry” but I find it a little sad that there’s so much attention paid to Kalani’s build. He’s painfully aware of it. He knows he is “too skinny” (his words, not mine). I think it’s harsh that this is something powerful enough to erode his confidence and I reckon that’s what’s happening right now. The pressure on him is real. He’s still a kid 😕
Well feel free to take the pressure off him with the ‘rpfc guarantee’ that he won’t play (but will stay on list) until at least 2030.
That’s another rpfc gaurantee!

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2 hours ago, Bang Bang Bang said: Very interesting article.
Am I reading it correctly? If Essendon took X Taylor then we would have taken Nairn and Pickett and left Farrow on the board. The melts would have been something else.
The melts would have been delicious. I would gotten drunk on the tears of the self-righteous and ignorant…
“Farrow was so much higher than Pickett in all the Phantoms!1!1!1”
Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

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9 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said: this is on topic but also sort of not. With the picks chosen, what’s the best 23 looking like? Are any of the new pick ups walk up starts like Linsday and Langford were?

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2 hours ago, Kev said: I would have loved the Men to give the Women a guard of honour welcome to Gosch's (as the crowd did), and then get out of the way.
Easy to brand, difficult to act. There is an obvious hierarchy and disconnect.
Nothing on the players, more the organisers and proactive decisions.
‘Nothing’ on the players? You are right it is more on the admin but some poster told me that the players go to games and that says they are ‘holding up their side of the ‘one club’ bargain’
Nonsense.
That read above was infuriating- they are doing their captains run before an effing prelim. They are sticking around to make sure ‘the boys get their kms in’ - get around the girls and then go do a run around the tan…
It’s nauseating.
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54 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said: We have 2 spots on the rookie list. One for White the other will be for a train on player. Sinnema will be one of them, I'm sure they will pass on pick 5.
We have 2 spots on either list. Now I am fairly certain we will commit to Kalani in the RL, but I hope we hold a spot open for SSP.
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POSTGAME: Rd 20 vs St. Kilda
in Melbourne Demons
What is going on here? This thread will be bumped when one of you doesn’t get the ratchet set you wanted for Xmas.
Just let it die. It’s like the living embodiment of the Paul Bettany character from The DaVinci Code. Flagellating and whipping himself all silly to get himself to the big O for his supposed god