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Is this thread busier than normal ? I suppose we have to get our dose of hope and excitement from somewhere.

Good pressure for our forward line. JVR on notice. Would want to play well tonight.

I’d be gobsmacked if the game plan gets a sign off without discussion with the LT , other senior players and the Brands management team (joke).

I’m not enthusiastic at all. I’m going to say Geelong by 51 points. Neale with 6 goals. Smith 42 touches and 2 goals.

Media won’t anywhere near it. They’ll find excuses for them. Wasn’t their night, still have hope type of stuff.

No it ain’t. It’s just as bad.

But they aren’t

Carlton playing exactly as bad as us and yet media are laying right off.

2 words, delayed concussion. MFC to cover Fogarty’s match payments. Get it done pronto.

I’d love if they did that trade. It will keep them in the dumps for years to come.

No, he is at a different level. If he played 1 good AFL game, just one, I’d have a different view, but he hasn’t and won’t if he gets another go. He’s in delist territory.

Got to give Houston 3+ Let’s see Christian explain away this one.

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Every other day I’d go for the Blues, but it’ll be lonely at the bottom.

Why is the AFL executive sitting on the Carlton bench?

Definition of conflicted: Barrack for Pies so that Bkues go 0-4 and keep some of the spotlight of the Dees or Blues, coz it’s Collingwood.

You have a short memory. Laurie is useless in the seniors and should not ever be selected. Ever.

That would be an absolute steal for us. We have to pay overs for Butters though. 1.2+ per year easily.

I thought this as well, however he at least got first touch a lot of the time at ruck contests but out mids couldn’t capitalise. His taps were always sharked or the mids were not moving enough. His impact around the ground though has dropped away a fair bit.

Fritta is deceptively poor at converting - more so at critical points in a game. He has a great kicking technique which I think fools many. But he often misses a lot of set shots or just sneaks them through. He is much reliable when kicking goals in play. I suspect he imposes a lot of pressure on himself.

Exactly what’s in it for Melbourne? Just you wait, the entire media will use the ‘get his salary off our books’ and expect us give away a former Norm Smith medalist and until mid last year a top 5 AFL player for free

That can change at any point. His brothers is one isn’t he?

Who on earth would take him? Richmond maybe? But we are not getting anything more than a 3rd round pick. Which for this years draft is probably sufficient.

What you say is all true at the time. But we didn't know that some of the players became complacent and were up-to-no-good. In hindsight can you imagine what we would have got if we traded out Oliver end of 2022?. It would have taken an absolute Nostradamus style prediction to see how 2023 would play out but what if we didn't resign Gus on a mega multi-year contract? We would have got a minimum 2 high end picks for Oliver and could have significant $$$ to chase other players in '24 or '25. We probably should have traded Petty to Adelaide with the 2 picks. That is where i think Tim has stuffed up. The other stuff I mentioned above, there is no way any sane person would have done it.

There forever waiting in anticipation to prove the naysayers wrong. Which camp are you?