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Club needed to make this assessment a month ago. Is this group still up for it or are we fooling ourselves? If it's the former you put all your efforts into getting this group right and bolstering them through solid trades and a high end draft pick or two. If it's the latter then do what Richmond have done and get as much value out of your players at the trade table and load up at the draft. Our behaviour implies the club is being pulled in two different directions from within.

How does that work? Pert is calling up a bunch of clubs and saying "hey are you still keen on Oliver?" and we think we can con them into paying overs because we release a public statement to the press saying we will never trade him.

What possible reason could there be for Pert to be floating players on the trade table behind the clubs back? When has another CEO behaved in such a way?

This doesn't explain why the club is saying we're not trading him and didn't know Oliver was meeting with other clubs. Two completely different stories indicates some of the decision makers have been blindsided by this.

This is to blatant to ignore. Complete overreach of his position appears to have blindsided others at the club.

Pert needs to be sacked yesterday.

Are you kidding? Cutting the Petracca hates Melbourne story to the soundtrack of Orcs marching on Helms Deep was an inspired choice!

The Gawn pod was great and for the most part the interview episodes are the best. Overall It's a bit different from normal footy podcasts. Pretty unstructured and casual. They're not experts by any stretch and they're half as likely to talk about ads or food for 30 minutes than the games themselves. Sort of podcast that you throw on the background while you're cleaning the house or cooking dinner and not take too seriously.

That's a ridiculously lopsided trade in our favour. If we could do Houston for a future and Sparrow I would 100% pull the trigger.

With Broden, it's hard to know if this is a pisstake or not Edit: Yeah it's a pisstake

I don't think I'll ever understand why people care about stuff like this. Publicly purity testing players for their social media performance. Ugh, it makes my skin crawl.

Even so, it is possible for him to 'move back' to anywhere he has previously lived.

I'm sure he's doing that as well.

For the most part the big godfather deals are organised about 12 months out and more often than not get into the media early on. One of the reasons a Trac deal simply couldn't be done is because it was far too late for most clubs to figure out how they could find $1.5m on a cap that has a 90% floor, then they still have to make a deal that satisfies us. Look out for Victorian clubs stocking up on early futures this off-season though. Kozzy would be an easier prospect for most clubs but still difficult for Freo, who will be putting a lot of their chips into Shai Bolton and possibly Liam Baker. Eagles might be able to get it done but again unless there is a homesick Victorian rebuilding sides tend not to give away their good young players. On top of that player for player trades are pretty rare. You can essentially do a three way trade by on-trading the picks you get from one club to another club for their player. So far we haven't seen any Big Fish being reported as being connected with us except for Houston which has gone cold. I'd feel worse about Kozzy leaving than Trac but if he does it will be for picks. But honestly if either of them leave the writing will be on the wall with this group and we should be putting everything into the draft to find our next generation anyway.

There is simply no way the Eagles let Reid go unless he is bashing down the door to get out, which if he is, isn't being reported.

According to the GWS site he's a bit of a journeyman. Under the Recruited From: Queanbeyan (ACT/Nightcliff (NT)/Sunbury (Vic)/Peel Thunder (WAFL)

I'm not sure I understand your comparison to players age.

Not sure that's how I would describe our performance that day. We looked totally outclassed and Oliver had one of his worst games ever. At one point Brisbane were 50+ up late in the game and we kicked a few junktime goals to make things look more respectable but imo it was the first major sign our season was in trouble. EDIT: Whoops misread your post thought you were talking about the first game at the G.

Yeah this seems like a massive loophole. Oh you're on a backended contract and you need to medically retire. Let's just flip that around so the year we get 90% outside of the cap is eating up the bulk of that.

We also got smashed by them at the MCG to help get their season back on track.

I just don't understand why we are so obsessed with playing tall when the available talls can't get the job done. Decent smalls are much easier to find and are worth their weight in gold in high pressure finals.

The scope would have been determined before the review began. I don't expect the full review itself will be revealed publicly. It's not really how these things are done. I would hope we get told the exact scope and a summary of the findings and actionables they come up with though.

Classic. Same trick Buckley pulled on Howe promising to play him as a forward when Roos refused to. Was back in defence before the bye.

Honestly I blame the swans mids more for that. Can't let the Lions walk it out the front like that.

Yeah I don't think our footy department should be patting themselves on the back for correcting their mistake and getting rid of Grundy. I'm sure we had a crack at a number of tall forwards but unfortunately there just wasn't much on the market without having the clairvoyance to see Waterman turning into a gun or something. When people talk about inventiveness, I would have preferred we looked at playing a smaller structure with the good players that were available rather than trying to brute force a tall forwardline with a bunch of guys who weren't good enough.