drdrake

If we can land pick 9 with future first and pick 28 you would take that, maybe try to get future third back as part of the deal.

He was often our deepest forward, looked great when he got in behind the defenders and lead back to goal. Opposition's are smart they just kept a couple of players behind him took away that back space and as soon as it hit the deck they knew there would be little defensive pressure from Fritsch. He got lazy and just wanted the easy goal out the back. To me his role needed to change, get him hitting up as a high half forward, then working hard forward. He is extremely smart and good at ground level.

Great efforts no doubt, if a club offered me 2 top 10 picks I would jump at it. Nothing to do with a bad season, it is how he prepared for the season. I also don't believe we can win another flag with our current midfield. You need to plan for the Tassie Drafts, Oliver had trade currency although that seems extremely diminished now.

What Clarry are you talking about the star or the one that played in 2024.

I'm the opposite, all for trading Oliver if the trade value was worth it. On about 1 million a year to play AFL, that is your job, it's your responsibility to prepare yourself to perform your best. The club has a small window to cut him loose or you are stuck with him for the length of his contract. Next year If he turns up and plays like he did this year no club will want him including Melbourne. The only reason Melbourne won't trade him is because the return for him is no where near adequate.

Wasn't it Perts review in 2020 that lead to a flag in 2021

Bailey, Ashcroft, Neale, Zorko, Rayner, Lyons, Ah Chee, McCluggage, Fletcher if any of these players joined MFC they would be amongst our top 5 ball users.

Easy to say some club will take him on but we have to get a trade that works. It will be unders on what his value is but you want a top 10 pick and low second round pick.

Give me future first plus Toby Conway or Sam De koning. No way does a deal get done with a mid to late first round pick

No, we need elite kick our midfield is full of average or below average kicks. Brisbane tore Sydney apart with elite kicking through the corridor. Clubs have worked out to beat the zones you need to hit that 20 to 35m kick, we just don't have enough players on our list that can hit that kick.

What the fs and NGA picks enable you to do is have first round picks to use for trades knowing that you get young players in as long as you build points to cover.

What about Liam Reidy from the dockers, third in line there big unit 24 years old, Victorian lad, wouldn't cost a lot.

Yep and skills. You want players that can hit targets. It has evolved back to drafting footballers no matter what size.

Doesn't seem to be many highly rated talls this year a lot of mids

Yep, has been since its inception. You have this then next sentence Stuart Cochrane trying to get his sons eligible for port NGA as he try's to prove his indigenous background. How far back up the family tree are you allowed to go for indigenous players?

Awesome, who will be there at pick 5 and who might be there after pick 10, I reckon we need to trade for another first rd pick, whether that is trading our future first or bundle up picks for a club that will get fs/NGA. Maybe Carlton if their FS will go that heigh

Who can win the footy, burst away from the contest and can hit a target, whoever the best at this should be our pick

I don't think Carlton killed this off, I reckon Harry and his management did. The deal would have got done with Harry and picks. Harry saying no way killed this for Carlton. We will never know the behind doors conversation, I could imagine MFC saying to Petracca you want out get us a trade that works for us and we will consider.

Yep, Vic government is basically broke, the big build is coming with a big debt. This means the positioning for any state money needs to show big community impact and votes. Geelong will be targeting federal money commitments from both parties for 2025 election promises. Our concern doesn't seem to be funding as yet, we still don't have a firm location as yet. Caulfield racecourse is the latest but really this is still a maybe. I wonder how much money the club has burnt doing the feasibility studies on various options

Very easy, you need to show a community benefit, you can't just go in with we want money for AFL training base. Look back at most my posts on this, there needs to be some community benefit. Geelong will add in indoor netball courts or something. Kardina Park has a netball outdoor facility, plus the home of AFL barwon umpires. They will add in upgrade to the umpire facility add inside cricket nets, netball courts. They are add ons to get the money.

You have to think that if he hasn't signed with the dogs by now he most likely is an eagle next year.

Be hard for a tall at Casey with the severe lack of midfielders they have. We have no quality ball users in our AFL side could just imagine how hard it would be at VFL playing as a key position player.

Jeez with all those flaws how did he hold his spot down back for so long. The last one about being pushed off the ball 1 v 1 is why I think he needs to be tried in a running position where getting the footy is all about running to the right spots. Again no idea if he has the tank to play on a wing, but if he can run it out why not free him up from that backline role and have a run on the wing.

Again no idea about his running capacity, good size for a wing. I like Bowey as I reckon when he is up and about his ball use is the best in our side. If I'm JVR seeing Bowey with the ball kicking into forward 50 I would be pretty happy. At some stage we need to get our better ball users delivering the ball forward.

Would like to see Bowey on a wing if Windsor is out. He seems to have lost a bit of confidence since doing his shoulder maybe get him running up and back on a wing. Has footy smarts, is generally a good kick, no idea about his running capacity.