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I think there is plenty of natural improvement in the team structurally. Our forward line set up and delivery was terrible, and personnel is improved with health. McVee and Rivers will hopefully be given the reigns of movement away from ‘wait and see’ May and Salem. I can see where you’re coming from but I can also see where we can get better with better coaching and a more adept gameplan that doesn’t make the ground so small as @old55 put so well a few weeks back.

Yes, if they don’t take it then push him through the PSD. If someone wants to take him then that is the risk. For those that are still confused - I can rest you assured that as a former Forwards Coach that we need more actual forwards. Melksham being the most effective forward for half a dozen games last year is a bug not a feature (and I love him). To think we can get away with only Fritsch as a natural forward in his prime is delusion.

So we don’t have Forward Line Personnel issues… because that is what the above is. Plenty of other issues for the Forward Line to help solve. But staying on personnel - lack of natural forwards in their prime. For a team in their window it’s a problem and why we need Petracca down there more, and for Pickett and JVR to continue their development to take on more than their ages would promise. Having $1m in tall forwards who are injured doesn’t help. Melksham being so effective offensively (not his defensive role that is something he is uniquely capable of) is an insight into our reliance on youth, injured veterans, and repositioned mids and wings; Spargo and ANB do their best work outside the 50, I think this is part of why we want to bring in McAdam. I think that forward line is capable of kicking a winning score in finals but we are banking on a few things happening to make sure of that…

He is not at top value - as you just effing said - he has foot issues all year. Adelaide are not going so hard to recruit a crook player. They want him at his cheapest. If he wants to go - he can go end of next year after playing 22 games and kicking 50 goals.

I am aware of the point, but it is somewhat mooted by the fact that Langdon, May, Lever, Hibberd, and Brown are all players that wanted to come to the club and became premiership players. You are welcome to wring your hands with this but I don’t care. We should always strive to have the best facilities we can have now and into the future but we have enough to continue to be a successful club and attract and retain the best.

So we are missing the finals next year? The second round usually starts around ND 23ish. We are going to finish 10th? And we obviously chased him - he only nominate us and we have already offered a trade. Most likely it will be ND37ish and that is fair value.

Those sound like eerily like excuses. We have enough as 2021 showed. The club can take its time to get the right facility.

We never should have courted him in the first place. The Pies are the ones still paying him; I hope he succeeds. We thought Gawn could make it as a forward - he couldn’t. There is your story - Max will go out of the game in a blink of an eye at the top of his game right in the ruck - he won’t fade away in the pocket kicking three a game while someone not as good as him battles away to make us better than the sum of the parts. His id won’t allow it - it is his only failing and his final fallibility.

Well it’s a good thing I was having a larf then, Steve…

Top 6. End thread/ I will have a look around and see what other threads I can close off.

The FD has tried to sell future picks into the present to fast track our build for a flag - I can’t see them doing what you describe. Take Curtin and see if him and JVR want to be the West Avengers living it up in Melbourne.

Melksham replacement. We don’t have many natural forwards - he is one of those.

That’s right. That kind of talent are game changers.

I am a bit ambivalent to getting an ‘A level KPF’ - our forward line is a mess but an amazing tall won’t fix it on his own, and nor can we fix it without a tall threat. With CP5, Fritsch and Pickett the tall can be a role player. But an effective one. So with that mindset - the desire to get ND1 and get a talent is the right one because we haven’t been able to go to the elite talent well since 2015 (Pickett aside, and Jackson literally aside). Get the elite kid.

Hitting the team sheet for games in a row

And if he hits - he keeps JVR from rucking.

He’s got a great opportunity with his ability to ruck to play in the team. He looks a likely sort and I do prefer this notion of recruiting 24 year old 2m player and not teenagers.

Blame the victim? No way. We need to say ‘[censored] off’ and ‘if you come near my little Harry again, I will call the cops.’ Just block their number. Although we may need to stay at our sister clubs house… Perth Demons? Stay in Perth for a bit? Are people following the metaphor? I can stop now?

Yes, whether you care about NM getting appropriate compensation or not - I think we can all agree that the Bombers sucking warms the heart and we all hope it falls apart. Amen.

If they are not careful and they ‘re-pick up’ a disgruntled player on the draft to spite them this will lead to a ‘restraint of trade’ lawsuit similar to the Bosman ruling that changed world football forever - your contract is up? That’s it- you can go anywhere. The AFL mediator will step in and sort it out. He’s 28, OOC, not happy, wants to move to a club, more than appropriate compensation has been offered… It will get sorted.

The FD don’t care about 8 slots deep in the draft. I applaud it - we get [censored] done in trade period and it’s because we value outcomes and not sweating the small losses and wins of an individual deal.

We obviously pursued him. They don’t nominate unless there is interest.

So looking at it from his POV - it was a frustrating season where he played back and then forward and then back and the forward, got injured, had a dispiriting finish to the season, and then had one of the biggest clubs in the country flash their eyes at him - we need to figure out what we are doing because I tell you what - I have no idea. And being a tall forward at Melbourne is not a pleasant thought in its own right the way we ‘move’ the ball. I think we can keep him but he has to be starting out of the square with JVR and Tomlinson needs to be trusted more than he is and MC need to back in a horse, otherwise… they might bolt…