KoltTheRam

I did watch most of the Casey game. It wasn’t the best game for either of them, however they competed more and did better than May

It should have been May dropped instead of Lever. Has gotten absolutely smashed by his opponents the last few games and has just seemed to have lost it. If the selection team had some sense, TMac would be in next week in his place,

Thought he played very well today, took some good marks, fought hard, and kicked some nice goals as well for his effort. Glad we have him signed up for another year

I think somewhat controversially that after Picketts big contract extension (which I think is a good decision) that one of Petracca or Oliver MUST be traded. The AFL Salary cap is around $17.7 million so having 3 players account for nearly $4 million dollars of your salary cap for a team that has a high likelihood for bottom 4 is worrying. Not to mention a huge reduction in form, fitness and effort by Oliver, and incredibly poor attitude, body language and effort from Petracca (even after returning from a traumatic injury, the attitude and body language he is giving must be cancerous in the club rooms.) While these are premiership players, and it would hurt to trade them, it may be required to trade ONE of these players in the sake of avoiding bottoming out, which is where we are headed if no changes are made. Albeit moving one of these two would be the most complicated trades in history. I'm leaning towards Petracca due to likely having more trade value, if a team came to us and was willing to pay draft picks, and take most of his salary (we would likely have to pay part of it aka Grundy) we should seriously consider it. Petracca has still shown signs this year of being worth that contract amount. For Oliver to leave, he would have to take a massive paycut, which I don't see happening. If we wanted Luke Jackson back (yes please) he is on approximately 900,000 a year. This trade would be very difficult thanks to salary cap restrictions if we kept both Petracca and Oliver. There must be a turnover of players, and one of Ollie Lord, Callum Brown or even a Aaron Cadman as a dream target must be chased by us in order to help fix our forward issues. There also must be a midfield turnover as well, which can be activated by an aggressive and needed move in farewelling Oliver or Petracca.

Completely agree. I think we need to see if anything improves with different people playing more midfield time. Let's give Kozzy, Windsor, Riv, Langford and maybe even Xav Lindsay and Chin a go, even Laurie as well. Better service would help us get more constructive looks at goal, maybe not accuracy but it's a good start.

If we are playing both Jeffo and AJ, then surely either Roo is still not right to go, or Disco has been dropped maybe?

We likely have someone else in mind. Probably Henderson

Bo Allan or Xavier Lindsay now. Unless JT pulls a surprise with Joe Berry

Harvey Langford Welcome to Melbourne 🙌🙌

Richmond beating us to Allan would make it more likely that Tauru slides to our second pick, especially if the tigers trade for one of the saints picks. Langford and Tauru would be a realistic dream scenario in my eyes.

I would be happy with that I wonder if getting Tauru instead would change this up?

Still could be anyone’s guess by then too.

It’s a tough call. On one hand Allan is a physical athletic beast, but could be a flight risk in the future. On the other hand Lindsay is probably the best kick in the draft with good endurance and pace, while his inside craft is said to be lacking. Could depend on who is selected at 5 as well.

Does anyone think Xavier Lindsay or Murphy Reid is still a chance for us at pick 9? (Especially if Allan or Tauru don’t get through, which is a live possibility.) We are crying out for some good, accurate kicking (lace out) and some footy IQ. It really depends on where JT rates them as well. Could see Hynes come into play possibly (especially if the eagles are desperate for Allan and he makes it to our pick)