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I may owe GNF an apology…

Where has it been said the Pies will front load their contribution?

@Lord Nevget your OneNote out!

From what Lamb has said - we are keen on replacing the elite talent we have lost. Unlike the last few years, where we have brought forward our high end picks and brought forward our rebuild - we may have to delay for a year and get something at the pointy end next year. Petty having a summer and the first few months forward into 2023 might be a really good way to bridge that gap and allow TMac and Brown to ease into possibly their last year of value and also provide support to JVR. With Gawn there this becomes even more of an option. Then we reassess and look again for tall forward talent next summer. Probably through trade for a Jon Snow (King in the North!) or possibly a kid from the draft.

The points are used to attach value for F/S and Academy players. It is used to liberally in trade deals; we have said we will only have two live selections and other clubs have intimated similar so those ‘points’ on later picks immediately lose all value to some clubs. Oh and in no way do 3 picks from 30 onwards ‘equal’ a top 15 pick. So smack your face or hit your head with your keyboard if you have intimated that…

We just can’t think like this. You don’t want to spend whatever small amount of capital on the wrong player. Gawn with Grundy fundamentally changes our forward line; I don’t know for better or worse but maybe it means medium talls are better for us in the next 3 years? Maybe we can afford to keep players in our forward line and have them lead at the ball? It’s hard to say but TMac and Brown buy us some time to get this decision right. Because I want to be great for a decade or more - not just next year.

Amen

Nearly there. He will go into the Pre-Season Draft where WCE will take him at PSD2. We can play chicken if we want to but are we really going to say no to ND13 and ND14~ just to make a point? I doubt it.

You think we should bring in players to fill gaps and weaknesses? I thought we were here to [censored] spiders. Now I am very confused. As are the spiders who got all dressed up

He is in the sights because of his wage not because ‘he is down the order’; we can’t have $500k playing at Casey. He did his ACL last year and was great as a gorilla tamer. He can do that again for us if they want to play Petty forward. Or they can back Turner and save his wage, but I still think he can play a role at AFL level in a good team in the backline.

If Harrison Petty wasn’t at the club, Tommo would be a fine tall back to free up Lever.

Lovely stuff once more in this thread. Good to see Lord got his OneNote out again to ‘copy/paste’… What wonders must be in that One Note? WYL’s would run the gamet - it would be quite the manifesto.

And hope Freo crater

There is a great documentary series on Disney + called Fearless about the AFLW Season 2022 A. In the 3rd ep I think they go through this with the GWS girls. She has this desire to wear the normal jumper instead of the pride jumper and the AFLW says no, we want all our players representing support for the LGBTQIA community. So she sat out and tried to be respectful to the other girls in her team. It looked pretty tough for all concerned. It certainly wasn’t a leader of a church, that doesn’t trust women and doesn’t think gays should exist, suddenly leading an organisation and being asked that you can’t lead this club and lead and represent that church. The straw man argument du jour seems to be ‘what if a Muslim was a CEO’ and my response would be; is he/she a leader of a mosque? What are the views of that mosque? And lastly, why hasn’t a Muslim been a CEO? Probably because of the Boys Club saying that “their views don’t align with mainstream footy people or the community”…

Confusedly reported.

Reported

Sounds like it’s just that; stragedy…

Pretty slight. He looks 2 years away from being 2 years away…

Went over your head like an Airplane

Absolutely, but jeez the blinders were on a few people because of that run.

Come on, Collingwood. All you need to do, is bend over. And take it.

Yes, I feel like I am going insane when people say ‘we were amazing during that 10-0 run! What happened?’ We weren’t great. We won sometimes before the game was played, and played a great quarter or good half for most of that run. Plus we played teams that weren’t great. We had the same problems with a lack of pressure and little run and dare. Once we came up against better teams - bang, there’s the wall…

I can

Love the hypotheticals about those of other beliefs and the supposed hypocrisy. A CEO is a leader in the organisation and this ain’t no bank (to commit fraud with) this is a living breathing organism called a club that has 50k+ women as members, colleagues, and stakeholders, and recently stood up a women’s team that would be nowhere without the LBTQI community. You take on that role at a club and you have to accept that these are the people you represent and you have to lead and drive toward shared values. He doesn’t share the values of that footy club and was (magnanimously) given the choice of chairing that church or leading the club and he chose what he believes in. So best for all concerned. Oh and he ain’t a victim. His former clients at NAB however…