Redleg

For now. Keep winning and it could be us against the Swans at the G. Lose one and it could be Swans at the SCG. If that was the case, I think I would prefer to finish 4th and play the Cats at the G. Haven't worked out all the scenarios needed for various results yet, I am sure others on DL will.

Pity it comes out the week before we play them. Hope the lad is ok, but don’t want Pies getting extra soft frees on the back of it. Their crowd will guarantee the usual good run anyway.

With several of our footy commentators, that is the least of their problems.

while Pies playmaker Taylor Adams was subbed out at half-time with a groin issue and Jeremy Howe finished with a hip complaint. Still think I saw them icing his leg. 6 day break may be important.

Well done Jess. Gold in the Marathon and as a mum. First woman to medal 3 times in the marathon, two bronzes and now gold.

I thought I saw them putting ice on the back of his leg.

I have posted several times that Meek could be part of any Jacko deal and only today, when someone said we are heavily into Grundy, I started looking at that scenario. Interesting times in the post season for the Dees coming up.

You misinterpreted what I said. I said he “can” not “will” make the list. If he does get taken by us, I would expect absolutely nothing, other than a few years of development before we would know if he is any good.

I am not sure we can buy a key forward with big money, but rather we can get a young one off Freo and hopefully a pick to get another. Can’t compare Grundy to Meek. Grundy and Gawn as they get near to retirement, can also mentor young ruckmen we can draft/rookie.

Getting Grundy would allow us to draft or rookie a young ruckman, with time to develop and then Kalani White can be another in a couple of years. It makes sense. That would probably be the end of the Meek possibility involved in a Jackson trade.

His family are connected with the Dockers and their WAFL club.

What?

The accepted view seems to be that he would stay a couple of years if no deal can be done. It is an opportunity for him to go home and play for the club he barracked for. IMO we have been pragmatic and started looking at what we can get out of it, rather than keep him for a couple of years and go through all of this again for another year. We can really plug some list holes if we are smart.

You do know where his family and mates live, don’t you?

5 years of contract.

Weid maybe goes to Pies if we add to our key forwards and they pay chunk of Grundy’s salary. Can see that. Or we just give a late pick.

Better than a Gawn and a non ruck fill in.

That won’t happen and why should it?

Interesting that Darcy didn’t want any part of the aggro against him, after the back tap on Tracc.

Antibiotics should fix it.

He is clearly our best user of the ball in the forward half. Often low possies, but creative with them and can score, often from nothing, like that goal last night.

Well Cox only really got into the game in the last quarter, when the game was over.

He played very well.

Have rewatched Treacy highlights and I think he could be good for us. 19 year old Vic kid with good hands, a nice kick and is really hard at the contest. We don’t have that. If we are trading Jacko, then he could be part of the deal. Add Meek and get a pick that could get us Cadman or another key forward and that may be as good as we can get. That would give us 3 young key forwards with BBB and Tom in probably their last year and likely Weid traded and M. Brown retired. It will be an interesting off season for us, hopefully as current Premier.

We have played 9 games with Lever, May and Petty in and won 7 of them and one of the two losses, was when May went off concussed, early in the 2nd quarter. Consistency of playing together as a defensive unit is extremely important. Those three played tonight and we added the pressure back and hey presto.