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I hope Toby Conway gets to our first pick. We are in the fortunate position that we can draft a Ruck/Forward and develop him at Casey for 2-3 years.

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If your a Journo with knowing the history of the club, the culture the club did have, you report and over state the issues as you see it. We did need to set higher standards, we needed to realise potential rather than boast about it. The club fixed it and we got the result, I doubt there would be many supporters that actually believed at the end of 2020 we would win the flag in 2021, the belief grow took a hit mid year and then gained massive momentum late. On culture, our club has made some good calls to turn ours around, one club that should have made a call after the last couple of years of turmoil and didn't is Adelaide. They have a young developing list, Walker should have been walked.

Don't forget at the end of 2020 season Gary Pert did his own Footy department review that was announced to media and Members, from memory a letter from Pert went out after we lost to Fremantle and Sydney. That review saw most of our assistant coaches gone and he added in Yze and Williams. We also moved Richardson into the Football Mangers that was split between him and Josh that lead to him leaving. The noise coming out of our club was we had a lot to fix, journo's just jumped on it. Gary Pert makes mention of this review in the below link https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/09/08/how-a-post-season-review-helped-turn-melbourne-into-a-juggernaut/ It was a build, no one outside the club cares about the process they report on what they see, what they saw in 2019 and 20 was a club that had talent and failed to deliver, stock standard MFC soft culture, take the easy option of losing rather than dig in and in the past they would be right.

Dogs need a heap of points in 2021 draft, at a guess they will need about 1600 points to cover for Darcy, they only have pick 17 with any points value, but still need 600 odd points to cover the bid or go into point deficit in 2022. Don't be surprised if Tim English heads back to WA, Freo's pick 27 or WCE pick 29 with some later picks might be enough. I can see him at Freo playing as Forward second ruck to Sean Darcy, our WCE get him in to develop behind Nic Nat

We are being critical of comments like this but this is exactly what the club did, same as the first article. All the journos were doing was stating the bleeding obvious, we had to become ruthless and stop accepting losing, we had to improve our forward line, we had to get the reward for ruck domination and had to improve our disposal and decision making. Guess what we did improve on all these areas and we get the ultimate result.

Did we do our pick swap in trade week as well? Bowey hasn't lost an AFL match yet.

The success of Luke Jackson as a Forward/Ruck will see sides wanting to add similar players, from all accounts this guy will play a lot like Jackson. Clubs copy the winning premiers formula you will see more Ruck/Forwards so guys like Andrew will be pursued by a number of clubs

Look at the back 6 of guys that didn't Play Hore J Smith Turner Hunt Tomlinson D Smith Plus Declase can go back and I think Bedford spent time training with Defenders, also add in M Brown and Daw as break glass in case of emergency that can head back.

Didn't the this all change last year, you now have a total number of players, you need a minimum number on your senior list I think it is 38 and you are allowed a total of 44 excluded Cat B rookie. It is then up to the club how many senior listed and rookie players they have

Has he retired or just finished at Melbourne. The wording in the clubs post and his wifes post make mention of his time at mfc coming to an end not his time on the AFL.

It is a ruthless time, drinking with your team mates celebrating a premiership, next day off the list. D Smith plays the small defender role and can play

The one think I have been overly critical of our players was our kicking, it was our Achilles Heal we just missed to many targets by foot, no problem winning the footy just massive issues especially going inside 50 by foot that lead to long bombs. Our field kicking has improved out of sight over this year, I thought Ben Brown would hate leading up at our mids based on our ability to kick the ball in 2019/20, he can now hit up with confidence. It isn't just one player that has improved it was nearly all our players. I have posted many times in the past that until we kick the ball better we won't win a flag, Williams has come in and we are kicking the ball a hell of a lot better. Any young aspiring footballer, needs to search up Precision Training Portal from Sherrin.

Wow

Harmes you spud

To many missing Tmac turn up. Harmes to bont Kozzie get involved

They have a young gun forward that they wanted to develop and he started to deliver late in the season

Our side has added a number of players May, Lever, B Brown, Langdon, Hibberd, Melksham that have made us better and those players have added to the culture of the club. Jones has retired, Jetta will most likely do the same, AVB is borderline, TMac gets a new deal that we all expect is deferring some cash. We have a list that can have sustained success, this year is the start we want 5-6 years of finals and premierships. Cerra would be a great addition, he adds to our midfield and basically replaces Jones on our list. We don't need to add kids in this draft, trade picks get Cerra, elevate D Smith to primary list and get Woey Junior with last pick or add the other player from our NGA. It would be a different story if we thought we could get Mac Andrew as we would need points to cover, with that looking unlikely we can use future first and our first 2 pick this year to try and get something Dockers will accept.

Just goes to show how much Collingwood wanted him out and the salary cap pressure the pies are under

I think the Club and Sam have always said a deal would be done. Journo's have driven this, Sam isn't playing no contract must be looking elsewhere. His manager may also put this out there to raise the price or get the formal offer on the table.

Why not, we have no idea what our salary cap pressure is, if we can fit him in the cap with out risking losing key players you get him. The best thing about our side is the age demographic, not to many players that will play on Saturday that won't play for another 4-5+ years.

Going back to Perth or SA you only have the choice between 2 clubs, 50% chance you would support one of them growing up. Chris Judd and Buddy were Melbourne supporters, it has minimal leverage. On Cerra, if we come to terms the deal will get done, might be our first 2 picks this year and 3nd round next to the bulldogs for this year first round pick. Future first and Dogs first this year for Cerra, so pick 17 this year and pick 18 next year for Cerra, or we trade these picks to GCS with Weiderman for Pick 3 and 3rd round pick this year and offer Pick 3 to Fremantle for Cerra and their second round pick.

Our mental scars are healed with the premiership, walking into work as the reigning premier supporter and drinking with happy tears watching the reply through out the summer.

The best night out in Perth was the Cottesloe Hotel on a Sunday afternoon, it was great because it shut at 9pm not sure if that is still the case. Straight off the beach when the Doctor came in into the beer garden home before 9.30pm. The last thing both the Dogs and Dees want is anyone from their clubs getting into any trouble before the GF. You have snipers out there that would love to film any player or official out and about doing the wrong thing

Spot on, this will be his manager throwing this out there to try and extend his AFL career. Stays at the Dees most likely in and out of the side next year and with the age demographic of our list he wouldn't be offered another contract. Looks now for a club that he can get a 2-3 year deal. Or the Dees want cap space to go after a player