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Yeah tell me about. Was trying to talk some sense into my young boy around the irrelevance of it and that the ‘facts’ and ‘advice’ that comes through it via influencers is just advertising - all bought and paid for. Mentioned that Facebook and instagram and Snap have been hijacked and that they were all initially just the same tools to connect only with friends. How have those tools changed society.

Agreed. He has achieved so much. AA’s premiership, premiership captain. Pity he wasted a couple of years at the beginning of his career.

When all of this settles and IF he has actually signed months ago can we find out the reason behind all this of this smoke and mirrors behind the curtains (to quote a famous Cloke). In truly fascinated about what all this fuss is about.

Contracts end Oct 30 so all delistings will need to be confirmed by then. Our new coach will have roughly 1 month but I suspect would already be doing the leg work right now as I’m sure will be part of the interview process. I’d be asking these questions if I was in the panel along with game plan, assistants, leadership, etc.

It’s part of back of envelope agreement that a Geelong player be made AA captain every 4 years. Danger, Selwood, hawk and now Cameron. (Not fact checked but feels right)

Clearly there is a Geelong quota to settle tonight. Playing 19 finals series in the last 22 years though - hard to argue against it.

What a way to ruin a team to have Jezza as captain.

Kozzy!

Undisputed GOAT ruckman. Wont be another like him for a long time I think.

hah Daicos not even in the midfield and ppl say a Brownlow favourite.

Gawny!!

Murphy Reid takes AFLPA best young player over Langford and Ashcroft.

He was, but wasn’t a FA. Similar situation to LJ. There needs to be better compensation for clubs that are put to the sword.

Bailey Smith and Noah Anderson win the AFLCA. Glad it’s not Daicos How much did Geelong give up for Bailey Smith again? AFL needs to crack down on this player trade request non sense. I don’t feel for the Doggies but it annoys me that Geelong had to give up so little to get him.

First AFL award goes to Shaun Mannah best young player (at 28 years old) . Geelong doing Geelong things.

Does Gawn get his 8th AA guernsy? Going by the opening credits I think Daicos is a shoe in. I think 1 in every 5 or 6 th shot was a Daicos cameo. Pity it didn’t include one of his flops.

i think, he thinks he is a chance to succeed Fagan when he leaves and probably what has been promised to him behind closed doors.

And therein lies our issue. Players of Trac and Oliver are presenting as worse than Durham and Ward whilst earning more than the #1 player in the comp. Im afraid to say it but on this point (in retrospect) Kano was right. These long term deals we signed them both up to was just bad business. We were desperate to keep them as marquee players (Olliver moreso following the premiership.) The reality was we should have only signed them up for 4-5 years each. Had the list management team just waited until the end of the year, we would have had a premiership and a much better negotiating position. And we didn't learn our lesson, offering Kozzy a huge contract. Player managers must love dealing with us. I hope Guerra and Smith (with their collective business acumen) step in and set some stern policies with our list management strategy (at least from a financial renumeration perspective).

I don’t know if I’m reading this wrong but did Ralphy suggest future first plus current first and a player like Scrimshaw for Trac? Surely not? But if so, where do we sign? That is the definition of a win: big win for MFC in my book. Fox SportsHawks ‘ready to launch’ with war chest; four clubs circle...‘Operation Petracca’ as rival unleashes war chest; four clubs circle Cat — Trade Whispers

Nothing new. Trac had the exit interview, no trades were mentioned. But they talked about Hawks and a top 10 pick. The storey was positioned around Hawks pursuit of a top midfielder. They had Butters, Merrett, Walsh and Trac. All others were kind of a no despite Butters and Walsh being pre agents. However when it came to Trac Toomey was all I think it’s time to break up this marriage. I don’t care if Trac stays or goes, but why are our players spoken about this way… It’s like there is an unspoken truth they we are mentally abusing our players and the media are doing their best to push the narrative publically be abuse there is a gag order in effect. I don’t understand why.

I think ch 9 will play a rerun of last years Dees segment to save on production costs and McClures skyrocketing salary due to his ‘no-miss’ record in trade news over the last 5 years.

So its Grundy vs Gawn for the starting ruck? Am i right he doesnt have other competition? (edit) i can see LJ is in there too. I have a bad feeling Gawn wont make the cut. Havent seen much of Grundy play other than seeing his supercoach scores. How do they stack up against each other?

He has upside yes but we haven’t really seen him play a blinder or anything close to one just yet. So for me it’s a 2-3 year on no more than 500K.

I look at it differently. Yes he can lock down a small forward, but he doesnot do enough going the other way.

Great news. They both had good years. Probably need to limit to about 15-18 games though to ensure they say injury free.