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Maybe, but HBFs have played their whole career with the game in front of them - able to peel off and push off a forward to then have chest facing the end we want to go to. Forwards invariably win the footy and will have their back to the goals and/or with someone right on them. You can definitely have structures and set pieces that free up players in the forward half but you can just as easily do that with a HBF as with HFF. I would leave Salem where he is until his last elite trait - his kicking - leaves him and we have to move beyond him.

No it hasn’t. But ambitious completion dates have been provided in lieu of any approval or tangible progression. So that’s something

Great work, DC. Topographically informative.

Yes it probably would take that and yes we would really have to want that player - I can see us being quite bad while King gets us to play the want he wants. We don’t have the skills in the transition game and we don’t have the mids in the clearance game - unless we are extremely disciplined and miscast as poor kicks and decision makers - we are going to have a top 4 pick next year.

The best bit of that clip was Billy taking the pizz out of Max when he alluded to Grundy and Luke Jackson being in the one team - “they’d be playing VFL, Gawny” Not much else said really. There is 2 mins of ads in the about 4 min clip too…

So the team will be able to train there in 2028 is your supposition. Not that the whole club facilities will be complete. I think there are expectations to be managed here

It sucks it had to end like this.

You can leave this now It’s unbecoming

I am fairly certain that he is in his final year, as Chaplin is. But getting rid of everyone in one Spring is just not tenable. Probably not even affordable. Without some inside info we just don’t know whether the malaise of our culture and expectations of behaviour began and end with Goodwin. I personally put more on Gawn than Richo but to criticise Max is akin to crucifying Bambi on the anniversary of his mother’s death (spoiler)… And Max isn’t going anywhere- touch wood

Give it time. Guerra is new to footy

People thought we reached when we took Kysiah… Just saying

Apologies for the vomit emoji I’m a sympathetic vomiter; you vomit, I vomit

Well that was an interesting read. I am not a huge fan of this type of ‘storytelling PR’ because it can easily be quoted and then it is back and forth with whoever is being quoted. It has started well so he gets a leash but it gets shorter at every perceived failure and error. My feeling is that this type of open honesty will abate once the club gets back into it November. The hallways will be full of ‘Jack wasn’t too keen on what you said’ and ‘Steven wants to have a word about this thing’ Anyway…

I did laugh when Richo alluded to Jack being great for the kids and then Jack was like ‘yeah, but I am more keen to get my body right and play you [censored]’ Paraphrasing…

What do I look like a search engine to you, an LLM?

Counterfactual: We had a 3 year deal instead and Carlton pushed CP5 through the PSD last year… It’s unknowable of course, but the long deals are fine for the bona fide stars. I had two issues with the Oliver one - he wasn’t a professional, and we gave him a percentage of the cap, not a set $ figure. Lamb and the club should review their actions and process on that one. The CP5 one is fine IMO.

If it quits all this whinging, sure. Go there for 2 (or 5) years

Closed sessions, hmmm? Not an easy concept at a ground PARTIALLY SURROUNDED BY APARTMENTS

Ta. Ideally, he would be a rookie pick up as from what I have read and can see - he is not going to be ready until the turn of the decade.

Sounds like Richo may have been the glue to get that deal sorted. You forget he was Jacks coach for 3 or 4 years.

ND37 is the last with any value associated to it so if White is nominated with ND38 we will have no pick value in 2025 to throw to that. I assume we immediately trade in a pick and absorb that way but was just wondering about the deficit possibility.