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I'm not sure if the hilarious Ivan Reitman pairing of Muggsy Bogues and Farris-White can cover the departures of Jackson, Maynard, Trac and Watts on their own.

We need to invest in a club creche to better support the likes of Kozzie and ANB in their transition to fatherhood and provide space for Christian Petracca to feel loved and nurtured through cuddles and story time.

The thing is Burgess's influence went well beyond the start line. It was like having another highly-respected motivational coach for the team.

Wait up. I don't recall Trac playing in either of those examples. Prior to our fade-out this year, we've been in the top four for average attendance over the past four years.

With the recent confirmation that some of our players do in fact read Demonland, I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps this is Petracca getting revenge for that one time we all called him fat on here?

A two-hour sit-down with 60 Minutes could equate $ to two years of footballing.

His personal brand has 170,000 followers - the websites I oversee content for have around the same on LinkedIn. His cooking page making pasta and sandwiches has closer to 500,000, but I imagine the engagement rate other than in the past few days would be relatively low and no-one will give a stuff in a couple of years when he retires. He's not being paid $10,000 by the Australian Egg Council to link to a post cooking a frittata. It would obviously be appealing to be doing social media stuff compared a grueling recovery process and slogging his way through another pre-season, especially after his serious injury, but I think he's being lured by easy cash now and not understanding his brand isn't all that special to begin with and is currently being tarnished beyond repair.

Would be quite handy right now. Club just mocks up a video of Trac's manager saying he's staying put and everyone can get back to work, which considering the profile of our fan-base could spare the Australian economy approximately $1 billion in lost productivity and related job losses.

@spirit of norm smith what would you do if you were Lamb and Taylor all rolled into one?

Was it TGR? We made like bandits in that last trade.

Is North a chance to downgrade from #2? There would be some pressure on them to look beyond the midfield now right? That would probably mean our #5 and F1 to get up to #2 (I'm guessing the industry, rather than our fan-base, would estimate that as around #14 next year). Plus a handshake on who we won't take. Not my proposed trade, just curious.

Went and played padel for a few hours today, no real news in the meantime. I recently got a wild new racquet though, which I now regret naming padraqtacka.

Hear me out: is it possible that Trac knows he'll never get back to seriously playing, and he and his beloved club are on the verge of orchestrating one of the greatest draft heists in history, perhaps getting revenge on Collingwood at the same time?

See you troopers again next season. Live and love large. It's been a pleasure. Onwards and upwards in 2025!

Definitely as to the waning gibbous part, but not so sure about an only moderate Max UV index rating.

Someone complained this week about Viney's contract extension (no names, but you could probably guess who), partially on the basis of Jack nursing a long-term shoulder injury. Correlation doesn't equal causation and all that, but I've noticed that when our vice cops an early stinger it seems to activate beast mode. Come at him at your own peril. Long live this thread.

Is that the Petracca doll? Definitely out the door judging by his Hogan-like lack of smile. Also looks a bit fat.

Twelve hours to kick-off. Time enough to get in a few chapters of Thinking, Fast and Slow by the recently deceased Nobel prize-winning behavioral scientist Daniel Kahneman and ponder the mental juxtaposition created by the contradictory desire for instant gratification weighed against longer-term goal-setting and its potential promise of greater future rewards as disrupted by a lack of concrete details on the exact timeframe of our own personal demise, which becomes further complicated again for those of us who remain childless or have a lifestyle profile which could be classed as 'high risk' but still boast a full set of teeth, in all providing for an interesting metaphor for the Melbourne Football Club as its players line up for the first bounce in a dead Friday night rubber at the MCG. Or I could just read the Collingwood forums for a while to kill some time. Go Dees!

Or maybe a player's medical history and personal details are confidential perhaps?

I did recruit at least three people to the MFC cause in Mozambique, a country which has remarkably seen live AFL action in the past: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-to-stage-match-in-africa-20110509-1efte.html

Did you go home already? I just got back from Aljezur on the west coast a couple weeks ago, but then had to go to Belgium. Back in Portugal now.

The title is click-bait. There is no such thing in Portugal as no-one in this country has any idea of what AFL is, although my local grocer was a former member of the Portuguese international rugby league team. Anywho, anyone travelling here in the Australian ski-season is welcome to send me a message, as I might have a place for them to stay between Cascais and Sintra. This is not one of those serial-killer scenarios which apparently helps @WalkingCivilWar get to sleep at night, and I have a heap of credits inviting other members of this forum to stay at my place in various parts of the world sans murder, while also accepting some very kind offers of hospitality in return.

I've tried to point out before that the average annual turnover per season for both successful and non-successful clubs sits close to eight players or more, the number of which doesn't provide a reliable indicator for the year ahead. I think we'll have a similar figure as to open spots this time around, despite our list profile and 2024 failures.

Geelong did a serious number on us at the end of 2020 (stirring the pot for Viney, outbidding us for Isaac Smith's services, and then jumping the exposed MFC draft order to claim Max Holmes), which has had significant repercussions on our second wing recruiting ever since. See Billings and Hunter and Freeman. I say we turn the tables and make a bold play at uniting party-boys Oliver and Bailey at the MFC. We have better draft cookies than Geelong, and a starting midfield/wing line-up of Gawn, Clarry, Trac, Viney, B. Smith and Langdon would be one of the greatest ever assembled, with Pickett, Rivers and hopefully Judd running through.