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Hang on, so a thread in the ‘Melbourne Demons’ board on a WCE player is fine but a thread on the Melbourne Demons women’s team is moved from this thread and consigned to a board no one reads? Doesn't make sense to me.

Can we put a pin in the ‘our culture can’t be too bad - we only lost by 9 points total in finals’? Its as stupid and irrelevant as those that equate giving away 50s and frees to having a bad culture. We have some challenges to overcome amongst the expectations on and of our playing group. And we are also a very talented list that had no effing idea how to deliver to the advantage of those ahead of them.

He hopes. He hopes that they are all those describing words - pre-season just started.

Bluey, picket fence, and 58er

If we miss the 8, I will bite the bullet and teach everyone on here how to correctly use an ellipsis… 7 dots?! That ain’t it.

THEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

Yes, as Shakespeare said ‘it’s better to have loved and lost, and then get the bag [censored]! PEACE’ They just don’t write like that anymore…

The latest in ‘Things that didn’t happen’… Honestly, there is plenty evidence that we need to evolve - no one needs to make up [censored] like that.

You didn’t, save for the fact that you have. #tensioncrisisondemonland

Thanks @Axis of Bob. We all have our hobbies hey

So we spun Jackson and our own first and second round picks into Jefferson, Windsor and Tholstrup. Time will tell whether Jackson, ND14 and ND35 was worth those three but from where we were - to get a top 7 pick and an obvious Taylor target in KT we can uncoil at least. Will bump the thread in 2028.

I don’t think 54 is a lot in 13 years. Also how many were really wanted by their club? Boyd, JHF, Jackson, Lever…

This. It’s pervasive and I think we are done with it. I would suggest the alternatives are the Spargo and ANB types that can be effective in a specific role but are not forwards, have little forward craft or nous, and are just not dangerous in advanced positions. Resting mids are one thing but @drdrakeis alluding to a bigger issue that has reared it head the last two years where we have relied on too few to take advantage of too many I50s and we just didn’t have the cattle to connect and convert those opportunities. We can now only have ANB in the forward line who isn’t a natural forward and that is a far healthier place to be.

Im with @deanox - where are these BS rules written? ‘the rookie stream’?? Never heard of it before and I have read the previous two EBAs front to back so I would read these governance docs. Love ToR and standards and process maps… BECAUSE GOVERNANCE IS IMPORTANT

Two things; you can go into deficit, and ND93 won’t be that high. Only around 65 kids will taken.

Well…

You know what the most Melbourne thing the girls can do from here… Bring. On. The. Syndrome.

If we want a home final then Adelaide has to be beaten this weekend or in the prelim. The Lions winning this week and us getting the job done against NM and then Adel at Ikon would be best.

And if they are so keen Curtin- they can give us their first pick after we take him next year. We aren’t really a team to push value backwards; we want to win the flag next year.

Yes, but even when I say that I know that ND6 through ND15 is an optimistic crapshoot.

I don’t think our hand is very good. I wouldn’t give ND1 for ND7, ND 13, FND15. So just take the best couple of kids you think can help us extend/expand our window.

WCW, all we can do is make judgments of the facts in front of us - and Grundy not playing finals when we lost our tall forward players was staggering.

Love having Tayla back! As a small aside - she is obviously an accomplished boxer, I always worry she is going to do a Barry Hall the way she is treated by defenders. I do that for all those with hand to hand combat skills… my kids educator at daycare does MMA… I am so nice to her. I know it’s irrational but maybe stop hitting her in the back of the head every bloody time…

Ummm, that makes our ND11 into ND13 or ND14… Also this whole question is about getting one the best ten kids and ND11 won’t before the academy players and it won’t after.