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Rob Harding is coach - used to post here as @Hards

Copied us - May. Lever. Langdon. Brown. Hibberd.

Nope, "woke" would be claiming that Bulldogs warrant respect for their attributes and their veterinary expenses should be covered by the NDIS. The PETA position is "anti-woke" if anything.

It's not a lot of spots at all. Here's the list changes from last year: https://www.afl.com.au/news/1051691/ins-and-outs-every-clubs-full-list-changes-ahead-of-2024 Number of players off per team: Adelaide 8 Brisbane 8 Carlton 7 Collingwood 8 Essendon 11 Fremantle 6 Geelong 8 Gold Coast 9 GWS 5 Hawthorn 10 Melbourne 8 North 13 Port 10 Richmond 7 St.Kilda 9 Sydney 10 West Coast 9 The Dogs 9 Range = 5-13, Mean = 8.6, Median = 8.5, Mode = 8 Seven is less than each of the mean, mode and median from last year. Unsure why posters persist in suggesting 7 is "a lot". We'll probably make at least 3 trades/FAs/DFAs. 3 NDs and 1 RD which easily covers 7 slots. If anything I think it's not enough.

It's a real animal cruelty problem that as @Demonstone says PETA have chosen a high profile target to illustrate. The popularity of the French Bulldog along with Bulldogs and Pugs has really increased the incidence of pets with beathing problems and associated high vet bills.

Been quite a while since any team had a pick in the 90s George, probably have to go back to the 1990s.

See @Roost It above

I didn't realise that drafting isn't part of list management.

Only because so far no-one has been able to get organised enough to table a coherent offer. He won't be in red and blue in 2026 - bookmark it.

Yes, effectively our best player put himself on the trade market!

Destructive rather than constructive approach if true.

Let's accept for a moment your charitable view that a club source leaked all the material to the media and the Petracca camp had nothing to do with it. The media reported that Petracca wanted to be traded and his contract was the only thing preventing that, and that he wants to play for "a big club" in front of big crowds. There was no denial of this by the Petracca camp and there hasn’t been since. If this wasn't his position then the club and Petracca would have been straight on the front foot to deny it, but Petracca's silence was conspicuous and all we ultimately got was the explanation you quoted. I conclude that the substance of the story is true and who leaked it is less important. If it was the Petracca camp, which must be possible, then that is more damining.

It's Yes. We've concentrated on the draft: 2021 - JVR, Howes, Woewodin 2022 - Jefferson, Adams 2023 - Windsor, Tholstrup We've had some low cost experienced players join that haven't had much impact but that's because we've been focussing on using early picks, not trading them.

Maybe so but you gotta have a couple. At worst they make the Casey midfield competitive and give their forwards some service. Outside of Laurie we don't really have any and that was stark for Casey this year.

If Peatling takes a 5 year deal somewhere then the trade price will be decent - probably something in the vicinity of the ANB pick 25. GWS aren't going to trade him for pick 50, they could push him to the draft and Richmond will snap him up.

You're truly amazing SONS - an authority on all things U18 and draft, every State league player, every AFL player and all things MFC. I truly don't know how you do it.

Agree, a lot is made of Geelong's rebuild on the run but the 2022 flag side still had 3 players from the 2011 flag side playing and two of them were still on the list this year. Let's see how the complete new generation goes.

Sounds amusing until I recall that the Big O was injured for the 2022 SF and Brisbane beat us with Fort and Fullarton.

Scott was clearly hurting post match. I'm enough of a [censored] to have enjoyed that.

25 (756) + 38 (465) + 50 (273) = 1494 - not sure where your 1149 points is coming from?

Phil Davis is a very thoughtful commentator. He said this on his weekly spot on Whately. FWIW I agree with his position. In addition I think there's no guarantee that Petracca will be playing for MFC is 2025. There's water to flow under that bridge IMO.

That's interesting analysis. It's actually a ranking of Goodwin's position among the cohort of greatest ever coaches.

I think it's for the best if Petracca doesn't attend the BnF, but it's pretty damning that it's come to this.

So it won't be called the Kate Roffey Centre?

They get rid of us and reclaim the space?