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Well yes, something to root for In all seriousness - who are we paying right now? Gotta pay someone - may as well be Oliver. I just hope we front load the payment somewhat

That’s pleasantly optimistic. I’m hopeful but not expectant.

I think we would. Same deal as Men’s. Harris re-signed last year to avoid going through the draft to try to get to Hawthorn. Zanker would be a huge loss and makes keeping Harris a must.

We can have up to 38 on the PL so should be fine in either case. The only complication is a bid on White/Sinema after ND37 and we have to trade in picks with points to then match.

WERRIDEE is as WERRIDEE does

Well I’m excited

WC don’t go into games thinking they ‘should’ beat anyone. They would be worried about Southport. The WC games will be competitive and they will hope to beat us, but every other team will do what we did from 2021-2024 - thinking they should get the 4 points if they ‘show up.’

They’d be 16 clubs that would be saying to themselves ‘we should beat Melbourne’ We may ‘surprise’ but a new coach, a new way of playing based on skills and decision making we haven’t shown, with few established midfielders and an emerging backline - a ‘surprise’ it will be to 16 teams. It’s just where we are at.

There’s room to grow We can always lose those games by more

I can see the optimistic side of getting buy in to a new way of playing and having a forward line that now looks balanced if not super talented. But there will be 16 teams who will play us and underline as a game they should win. So I can also see us needing to keep our first round pick…

They make it purple

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