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Suns can do the Flanders deal with Saints for pick 7 and then offer us 6 and 7 and maybe throw in Rosas if we want him, to help Tracc get to where he wants to go. Surely JT can get 2 good players with those picks. I'd be thrilled with another Langford and Lindsay.

It's all in and if it fails due to injuries or poor form they will be cactus. They also have Wilkie being offered $400k more a year by the Dogs, so to keep him happy, even though contracted, they will have to give him at least another $200k a year, taking him to $1m a year, another one on huge money. He has already indicated he is unhappy with the money being thrown around and Aleer being offered what he is currently on. I see this exploding.

A meaningless name to me. However, he sounds like the sort of type, someone could start a thread about on Demonland.

Forcing players to stay generally doesn't happen often and again can be very detrimental all around. If Merrett is out of play and the Hawks turn their attention to Tracc, would Lewis and the Hawks' Carlton pick of 8 I think it is, be of interest to us, doing away with the need for Mihocek and giving us that tall key forward we all want? Given Lewis would probably not be a first round pick with his injuries and non certainty of Hawks selection, then maybe a later pick is thrown in, which we could use to upgrade 8 or take another player. Lewis is bigger and younger than Mihocek.

No, Merrett will be according to the new Chairman and he was definite about it.

If Petracca wants to go to GC, then getting Flanders would be relatively easy, if he agreed to play for us. So if he knows that and we have a Coach he likes, we play at the G and he still selects the Saints, is it just the offered contract, or is there more to it? If it is just money, have we set a ceiling on him, that even if we have cap room, we just don’t want to exceed? I still think the Saints may live to regret this overpaying of a few players, to try and buy a flag now. I also believe they will have to let players go, as the new contracts and existing ones, just couldn’t possibly fit in the salary cap, unless they had about 20 players on the bare minimum as new draftees and that is clearly not the case.

But maybe say $600k each for 2 seasons.

That's good, as if he is traded, no one will know until December 2026, when they flip the calendar page to December. Also I just realized where Judd's signed contract is, it's with the Calendar printer.

This a worse one. Many years ago, when possessions were more earned, Greg Williams lost a Brownlow by a vote, after getting no votes for a 43 possessions game, which universally was recognized as a BOG performance by all the media.

I think this issue has been approached the wrong way. He is not being pushed out. He has clearly let it be known in house, that he wouldn’t mind change and has actually widened the possible clubs beyond Collingwood. If he said he won’t go and loves the place, we wouldn’t be having this conversation and everyone speculating where he might end up. I am pretty sure King would be very happy to keep him, if he was fully committed. I think this time we are happy to assist him with his wish, to stop the constant speculation and perhaps thank him for his service.

He was until 15. At 16 he moved to key forward and won 2 B and F awards as a key forward, the position we drafted him as.

Oh no, it has a TAB there. How long will it take for us to be bashed about exposing our players to betting? Don't forget my joint membership idea of MFC/MRC, I see it happening. The MRC would probably let us have all the revenue from that idea too, as they are mainly concerned with building attendances and promoting racing at Caulfield. Other benefits would then flow to both clubs and to the members via loyalty programs, etc. The MRC are not adverse to giving free memberships out and I got one last year when my horse won there. I used to be a member of all the three race clubs but gave them up, as I only go when I have a runner now and then as an owner you get in free everywhere. PS: I can see an annual get together at the glasshouse after training. Slarti can give Old his pizza then.

Spoke to the author of the tweet today and he said at the time he said Windhager was gone, we had the best offer on the table and in his opinion at that time he was gone. Of course the Saints then came to the party and upped their offer, making him happy to stay.

No but getting Mihocek as a free agent will affect the Spargo compensation.

I’m with you Pit.

Only 23 more days of this.

Neale said he had been given the tick by the Doctors after completing an over 7k run of sprints and distance and other testing. Fagan then said if he gets through training this week, he should be good to go. Based on that you would suspect he is playing. Berry would have to be very unlikely with his shoulder going again from an innocuous tumble. Could be Neale in Berry out. To beat the Pies without Neale, Payne, Coleman, Answerth, Doedee who hasn’t played and Hipwood while losing Berry early was a great effort.

Weideman was like that as a junior.

I was adopting another poster’s suggestion and accept what you say, that it is not a deal that will happen. To put it more succinctly, I would like us to target better players than the ones we have traded for recently. To be fair this off season we have been mentioned in connection to some better players, though at this stage we are looking at Derksen, Heath, Mihocek and hopefully Flanders.

That post, without identifying which ones you feel are pathetic, taints every poster.

Ok, I didn’t see that.

Ok but it is just a suggestion. I note Mitchell wining and dining better contracted players than Shanahan. Maybe if chased by a Victorian club he gets a bit homesick.

A player who dominates VFL games in the midfield, is the type of player teams with poor midfields would look at. Laurie is always in the best players for Casey. Are you saying Laurie is a dud no club would consider? I disagree.

Well a 33 year old, pretty banged up, 192 cm forward is not my first option as a tall forward. Another poster suggested McVee to the Eagles for Jobe Shanahan, in some sort of deal. Maybe we throw in Laurie, who would get a game in the Eagles midfield at the moment. I would do that deal.

There is no way they are letting Elliot go and I haven't seen that Hill wants to go.