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I know this is simplistic but you would have a player on the list until at least 2024 based on a handful of games 7 seasons prior?

Whether we place top 2 is entirely up to us so that isn’t a thing I care about. However, the cats didn’t move this from Geelong even though they would get a crowd in a different state. So for the good of the game I hope the Dogs win.

It’s intimated - why such belief in Weideman? And there are many posters with that belief in W that reject Brown’s recent past.

Brown can come in off training form, the fact there is no VFL is not an excuse for not picking players to come in. That’s really ridiculous if you take that to the logical conclusion that no one can get a call up without first playing VFL. I wouldn’t hesitate. And the way some Dees fans waive away Brown’s recent history in the Coleman race and yet call back to one game of Weideman three years ago is cognitive dissonance of the highest calibre - you have to try hard to be so obtuse…

It’s obvious the FD rate him and I can see what they see but you can’t be so bereft of confidence that you go into your shell for a month. He was backed in by the MC and Goodwin and he couldn’t get there. I remember seeing him bashful and embarrassed after the Bulldogs win and I thought to myself - ‘really? You are upset with your own performance after that win? You can’t get out of your head for 5 mins and enjoy a great team win?’ He didn’t lose me after that because I think anyone can turn it around but he has a long way to go and it may be best for all parties if we move on. We have a bonafide FF ready to take his spot and he is OOC… Cest la vie…

https://demonland.com/forums/topic/50284-postgame-rd-10-vs-adelaide/

Good disclaimer. Perhaps all posts should have an enforced signature to that effect. I, four letters in a seemingly random order, anonymous poster would not wish to give the impression I am paid to give these opinions nor informed enough to be considered a leaker of information.

So your contribution to the discussion is dismissiveness and to fold your arms and say the club knows what it’s doing? Ok then, you’d be fun at parties. As for the cap pressure - I intimated that we would struggle to bring in any best XVIII players, not Werribee’s 5 time overlooked CHB. And the replacement of injured players through the mid season draft has negligible impact on the cap. If you want to read the CBA it’s here: https://www.aflplayers.com.au/app/uploads/2020/12/AFL_CBA_2017-2022-1.pdf I would also get you to do some self reflection about what we can post about if we can’t engage in speculation? Melkshams place in the team? Absolutely not, we don’t know the ins and outs of what he is asked to do. Gameplans? Goodwin and the players give hints but they are not going to tell us anything. The last month most of us have watched on TV - you can only speculate as to what players are doing.

I wouldn’t want to play a Jordon or a Sparrow for 50 mins and used in a way to facilitate rests, chop outs forward, and fill temporary holes like I saw last week. I have coached teams where I made the vice captain play this role - if no one is to be this connective tissue player then your best players play less by definition. It’s ok to not play it against the lower teams but I would find it hard to give it to kid to perform as it has no continuity, no defined role, and it really is just a ‘get on, and contribute, and then get this person in the middle then get off to get this person on’ type of instruction. Again, this is how I see it. In my unprofessional opinion…

Wow, ok, thanks for that. Didn't know you came to Demonland for professional opinions on our list management and salary cap position - you might be disappointed… Of course it is speculation, just like you have speculated that the many cheap players you have as delistees will open up enough salary to pay anyone of note. Hint - it won’t. And I am an IT Professional, so…

There’s always things we can do - including moving on a player, my point is just a general ‘we have less wriggle room’ than we have ever had and it will be very difficult to bring in another Lever or Langdon. And I disagree about the bottom 20. I think I am underselling how much of the cap they take up.

Unbelievable little quirk, although they are only a few bays from what I can tell.

Ok so hate to burst bubbles but we are, by all reports, close to the cap. We have just over $13m maybe an extra $100k or so next year. We have the following established stars that would all be on $750k+ from next year or the year after with CP5; May, Lever, Gawn, Oliver. Let’s say ~$800k x 4 = $3.2m Next level down would have to be $600k - $750k; Salem, Petracca, Viney, Brayshaw, Langdon, McDonald. ~$700k x 6 = $4.2m Under that - the above average contract of around $400k-$600k would have; Harmes, Hibberd, Melksham, Tomlinson, ANB, Fritsch. ~$500k x 6 = $3m Jones, Jackson, Spargo, Bedford, Laurie, Bowie, Rosman, Hore, VDB, Jordon, Rivers, Weideman, Nietschke, Daw, Hunt, Sparrow, Baker, D Smith, Pickett, Petty, Chandler, M Brown, Jetta, Declase, Lockhart, Turner, J Smith, Bradtke would be cheaper than average salary right now. Rookies are ~$100k x 20 = $2m and the other 8 on ~$250k = $2m That adds up to ~$14.4m. The OOC players are only in the lower category save for Hibberd, and we have players to retain. I don’t think we are in that hunt anymore, we have our stars and until we lose a slot - we have to maintain what we have and keep our promising (and cheaper) kids around.

Completely different roles with only one thing in common… Daisy is a special comments person that I agree is very knowledgeable. Caro is a journo on the behind the scenes aspects of the game and she rarely makes comment on the on field aside from straightforward judgements of form and competitiveness. There are many worse journos who can barely string a sentence together, who don’t apply any thought to the humdrum questions they put people through.

I heard grizzly adams had a beard.

But BBB is tearing it up at training… Kudos to the 3 people who got that reference.

GWS game is the one after the ESS game and probably there will still be restrictions on crowd size in Melbs. I would prefer that to Adel in the second last round as we are sandwiched between a trip to Perth and your aforementioned trip to Mordor.

She comes with a price tag but yes, it’s good to see some strong, confident decisions on both sides of the club.

Yeah, we have to send the GWS game to Alice and get that $800k cheque.

Got my tickets! Rpfc is off to the SCG with little bub in tow… let’s call him rpjfc… Wife coming too. Go Dees!

Great work, lovely story.

He’s back up ruck. I don’t think it’s so simple. Max should have a rest at some point. That is his best opportunity to play IMO.