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Thanks Danny. I think 2 years for Jackson and Brayshaw make sense. Hopefully we have more flags in that time and Dogga's value will have increased and Gus's won't decrease. We'll have a clearer picture of succession, if necessary, by then. And they'll have more flags.

I think you're talking about the 3 starting midfielder roles and the 2 wingers - that's 5 roles that need to be covered by 500% game time. The 5 incumbents in these roles play this much average game time: https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/tr-melbourne-demons?year=2022&rt=TA&st=TG Langdon 93% (it's actually close to 100% but his average is reduced because of the match he was injured in) Petracca 88% Oliver 86% Viney 79% Jordon 79% That's a total of 425% game time covered by these 5 players leaving only 75% game time in these roles to be covered by other players - Harmes 70% game time and Sparrow 68% game time can easily make up the deficit. With these 7 players we've got 563% game time coverage for 5 roles. It's not clear why we need a "depth of 10 to 11 players" for coverage.

I can't see your logic here. We've added a small for a tall. We'll be better off for midfield rotations.

I'm not in favour of moving Gus from the backline. He has been the best thing about it this year. He saved an avalanche yesterday in the 3rd quarter. Langdon and Jordon are fine on the wings.

At least this way we can watch both matches and the sub can play for Casey if he doesn't get a run with MFC.

Jake's 17-0 is great. I note that TMac and Jack are both still about 20 losses in the red. Max is close to evening the ledger. That must fuel hunger.

Well predicted old dee and Luci!

Just starting to sober up after last year 🙃

Brown plays his 150th vs his old club this week. Melksham plays his 200th in a home game at the MCG next week. Neat.

JVR one-handed marking, wearing 21 in a recent video

From the training pictures: 22: Howes 27: Dunstan? 41: Moniz-Wakefield That leaves 2, 21, 39, 40, 43 free for JVR, Woewodin and McVee. I wouldn't mind seeing Woey in #2

Agree. It seems pretty weird that Jake Lever scored 498 or 49.8% for that season. Yes even Clarrie went at only 67%.

Great result. If my maths is correct there's 1000 votes on offer if you play all 25 games. When I look at the numbers there must be some pretty hard markers among those coaches.

purchase completed, thanks!

FOREVER!

Good chance to really own some teams: the Dogs R1, Geelong, Port, Brisbane, West Coast away. We can win all of them and really get in their heads.

There's a pretty high correlation between the two measures in the top 9 which is not surprising and all but St.Kilda and Richmond played finals in 2021 - worrying for St.Kilda, the Tigers can safely reminisce about their flags. Correlation goes a bit haywire in the bottom 9. I think intuitively it's better to be placed higher on games accrued than age because it could indicate that you've got more experience into a younger list. If that's correct then things look surprisingly positive for Hawthorn and Collingwood. Less so for GWS, Carlton and Essendon, but then two of them did play finals last year so let's say: less so for Carlton. Therefore it looks least promising for St.Kilda and Carlton to me - no real news there ...

That's definitely going for it!

From the Monday 6/12 training video it looks maybe like 22 Howes, 27 Dunstan and 41 Moniz-Wakefield

And from WA! His Grandmother was right all along. And it didn't take as long as the flag to happen ....

Thanks @Lucifers Hero - tremendous work! I'm speculating that Hunt and Weideman will be Unrestricted FA because I think they are unlikely to be in the top 25% of salary. As you say, it's hard to tell whether Brayshaw would be in the top 10 money earners or not - I think he's be right on the cusp. It's probably interesting too whether say Petty would be RFA or UFA on the basis of his long-term contract. https://www.afl.com.au/news/579379/restricted-free-agents-unclear-as-afl-looks-at-contract-changes

Because we rated the flexibility of having an open list position higher than we rated them.

We've got picks until we fill our list or pass, we traded out the earlier picks for draft capital next year so we didn’t waste them this year.

@Whispering_Jack has done a great job of updating the draft selection to come after last night's events in the post pinned at the top of the board. I searched for this elsewhere and I couldn't readily find it. Our picks have become 38, 42 and 50. I think we're planning to take 2 more selections and one of them will probably be Taj Woewodin - so I think it would make sense to try to trade these three picks for two with one earlier than 38 and one later than 50. It's not clear looking at the draft order who would be interested and could do a deal like that. Maybe one of Geelong, Richmond or North who each have 3 picks before ours, but none of them seem to have picks later with points value in case we need them for TW. Maybe we could just trade 38 and 42 for one of their picks. The other option might be to get an extra future pick with 42.

Seriously ... https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/no-winner-s-speech-but-goodwin-admits-he-questioned-coaching-future-20210926-p58uvn.html “I would’ve said to the supporters and everyone at home, ‘this is us, this is who we are,’ and they should be so proud.”