demoncat

If it was last year sure, but pick 7 has every chance of pushing out to pick 10+ in a weak draft I’d make that deal every day of the week

Look I get it But how are we going to improve our list without paying market rate for players who will improve us? We’re in dire need of fresh ideas and new players - King will provide the former but I don’t know if that’s going to be enough to improve us next year if we’re rolling out with the exact same playing list

Welcome to the Dees, Max Heath, Wade Derksen and, I guess, no one else?

100% agree Redleg Don’t get me wrong I don’t think we should be overpaying for players, but blind Freddy can see the deficiencies in our list and Flanders would go some way addressing one of them (lack of a skilled midfielder) Sometimes you need to offer a bit more to bring in the right players, and I’d be annoyed if Lamb and co weren’t prioritising Flanders

The difference in this case is we expressed interest in Flanders and from all reports have/will meet with him We weren’t linked to any of the others, except for a tenuous link to Worpel earlier in the year The fact is when we’ve wanted a player over the last few years, we’ve seldom got them

Of course what another club is offering isn’t Lamb’s fault, but at the same time he and the FD have been offering too expensive/long contracts for years now For example, extending May by a year on $800,000 a year is potentially limiting what we can offer Flanders, and the irony is we don’t even want him at the club next year The Oliver and Petracca contracts are also going to be a millstone around our necks for years if they’re not traded - again, money we won’t have to bring in players like Flanders And maybe it’s petty and maybe it’s irrational, but it’s pisses me off that he and the FD can’t seem to put together a compelling argument to join the MFC over a cellar dweller club like St Kilda It’s embarrassing - and his lack of post 2021 moves may have been the reason we didn’t win another Premiership with our core players

It’s Lamb’s job to make players seeking a trade want to nominate us If we can’t judge him by players we’re linked to not choosing us, what can we judge him by?

Lots of Saints fans seem to think he’s a lock to come to them Really hoping he nominates us - if not it’ll be another in a long line of Lamb failures since 2021

Reckon we’d have to offer a future first to bring him in (unless Trac requests a move to the Gold Coast) I think that would be more valuable to Gold Coast than pick 7 in this years draft anyway - they’ve already banked most of their points to match academy bids so pick 7 would just be another one swallowed up

Cal Twomey reporting that Trac is open to a move to Gold Coast

Any idea of Rucci’s track record Donsk? Only know that Ross the Boss flamed him for being a Port Adelaide nuffy 🤣

King is going to have to get busy

For all those also on Flanders watch

Would do this in a heartbeat

lol you know what I mean 🤣

Really don’t understand why people are against bringing in Mihocek He’s been playing through a foot injury the last third of the season If Pies weren’t in finals he likely wouldn’t have been playing at all Get that right over preseason and at minimum he’ll be a serviceable tall forward for us next year And if that’s a low bar - it’s because we haven’t had anything close to a serviceable tall forward since Ben Brown We’re crying out for someone to lead and provide structure to our forward line, while also helping the development of JVR, Jefferson etc He’ll cost us nothing and will give us cover for a few years

I think I remember Taylor saying that they felt there was a significant drop off in talent after that pick, so they thought it was important to get two picks inside the top 13 or so Kolt might not have been the specific target but seems like he was in a group of players we rated higher than the remainder of the draft

Should’ve smoked em

More than happy for King to finish of the season with the Cats It’s good business from both us and them Besides, if he can do for us what he’s doing for the Cats I don’t think too many people will be unhappy

Danger reminding everyone why you need a Trac-like player come finals And Geelong showing that you can still carry poor kicks like Danger if you have the right players around them Hopefully King can bring some of that IP with him and we allow Trac to play to his strengths in a better system

If nothing else at least we’ll be able to say King was involved in two premierships as assistant coach 🤷

Reckon the ‘cultural’ question marks over Rachelle are way overblown To me he’s in the same ballpark as Watson, Ginnivan, Papley etc As long as they’re working hard and kicking goals I don’t mind if you’re having fun on the field And from all reports he’s very close with a lot of his teammates, so can’t be that bad for team culture

The word was we originally traded for a second first round pick to target Holmes and Bowey Geelong supposedly got word of this and traded with Richmond - who had the pick ahead of us - to take Holmes before we could So Holmes and Bowey became Bowey and Laurie because we thought no one else was targeting Holmes in that range

Clearly not on his output over his first two years, but who knows where he’ll be two years from now I do agree that we overpaid to trade for that pick though - every chance we still could have drafted him while using those second round picks on a Logan Morris or Joel Freijah Something I hope were more cognisant of in the future

While I generally agree, it’s a bit early to write off Kolt Laurie instead of Holmes though? The stuff of nightmares