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He is certain starter if fit comes in for Melksham and Kentfield for Taylor

Best think about yesterday we didnt play like robots, the boys played fast exciting football, not that boring predictable garbage. No blind handballs to get stats, a lot of run from behind and speed. If that is they way we play win or lose we will be entertained and enjoy watching.

Speed we look quick, foot speed and ball movement. Across all lines we have speed which we haven't seen for a long time

The VFL was dead in the water, a lot of clubs in massive debt, Adelaide crows and west coast Eagles paying big money to join the vfl now AFL saved a lot of clubs.

More and more players are now getting drafted, from state leagues, Werribee i think has around 6 odd players that have been drafted over the past 18 months, a hell of a lot more than the u18s program in the west. It is a good opportunity for blokes that missed the draft at 18 and a lot do because they arent in a pathway program or just not ready. It is a development league

If you go a AFL reserves you need to a VFL comp, Werribee, Williamstown, Sandringham, Frankston, Box Hill, Port Melbourne, Casey try to get Northern Bullants look at Ballarat, something North Wodonga or Wangaratta Get a 10 team comp 18 game season. All of the sudden you have a good pathway structure and I reckon over time you will see more players drafted from State comps than you will from 18s comps.

JVR in 2025 just lost his confidence dropped a lot of marks that he had clean hands to that he was marking in 2024. He is very similar to Logan Morris, Morris has the advantage of some pretty good ball users and decision makers kicking the ball to him. I like JVR when he is on the move running higher and working back, hopefully he can build a tank to do this, we need better options transitioning from defensive half. If we can get cleaner faster ball movement through that centre third it will give our forwards more space to work into, slow predictable ball movement enables your opponents to block up space create out number

Can clubs get access to 17 year olds through Tassie like we did with Jesse Hogan?

The 2 Tom's from the Jets McGuane and Burton surely will get a train on gig somewhere, Burton in particular if the guy headed further down the highway to Falcons or across the bay to any of those teams in the East he gets drafted.

Im a Tom Burton fan, quick good skills, if he is around for our 4th pick he would be good value.

Watched a bit of the Jets, the games I saw Oscar played that high half forward role works pretty hard and looks ok in front of goals. Wouldn't have him at 37 though, rookie maybe. The Jet that has fallen of the radar is tom Burton, small but quick and good skills. With the rise of small forwards again you need small quick defenders to stop them, Burton would be a good pick up at 37

I reckon west Coast will trade pick 2 and 13 to the bombers for 5 and 6

What GCS must know Humphrey is gone might not be next season but as soon as he can get out he will. Melbourne are happy to keep Petracca, so the end of the day GCS need to get the deal done or they will not have either Petracca and over next 2 years Humphrey.

How about Pick 6 and 7 to WCE for Pick 2 and 16 to GCS Pick 2 and future 2nd to mfc for Petracca

SOS is a Carlton man, offer contracts that push them into higher band. If this was a trade Jack would be worth around pick 35 to 45, the ruck around that 19 pick. Spargo hasnt played either pick in 40s or 50s, hopefully Todd Viney has taken care of melbourne with his contract and we set second round pick

Its all positioning now, we want the best deal we can for Petracca, the MFC line will be if the right deal doesn't come he is playing for melbourne, but we also recognise we need to change our midfield up and if the Petracca deal doesn't get done trading Oliver becomes an option.

I wonder if we they can trade off the 17 year old as of next year. If so Baxter Sruk is a massive watch next year along with key forward Jake Miller.

Wait and see if it happens. As we have a read today any trade will be benefit melbourne, 2 weeks time we will find out whether there is genuine interest or just clubs that want him but dont want to give up what we want. If he goes, good luck to him, we move on, if he stays we get to support him in the red and blue next season

Go for freo first round pick and their 3rd for our second round and Mcvee

Petracca to Gold Coast for Flanders and a first rd pick most likely 13 or 16, cant see them giving 6 Mcvee and our second rd to freo for freo first round May to dogs for future 3rd Spargo end of second rd compo to st kilda for heath. Take 2 first rounders in the draft, White and NGA pick late or rookie.

They dont look because they don't have the skill to hit the kick. Our mids especially are great contested ball winners, just cant hit targets consistently by foot. Kick to a contest counts as an effective position miss a hit up target doesn't. Agree our coach backed to same players, not much down at Casey to bring in. We have gone to the draft grabbed some young mids, hopefully they can kick

We didnt break their kicking, we designed a game plan to their kicking ability. Kick long to a contest get numbers to the contest win the ball at the contest. Issue is game is all about maintaining possession now, it is all about hitting that 25 to 35m kick, we just dont have enough players capable of doing this consistently.

Goodwin has always spoken really well. The end of the day the premiership window was slammed shut last year, we tried to keep it open but nothing worked. Do you back Goodwin for 5 odd years to rebuild or make a break, the board went for fresh start. Now onto the playing group, the coach has gone, some calls need to be made on the group that played in the premiership.

I reckon there could be a couple of clubs looking for coaches, Carlton will be one

Oliver has to go for both player and club. We will cop some salary but we need to free up the rest. Jvr, love to trade him but has lost any value Sparrow can we con a second round pick out of Adelaide will be in the 40s. Need to keep Petracca. The other that I would throw out there to see what offers you get is Bailey Fritsch. No point talking about who to target if we cant clear cap space