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And let's be honest.. When you lose a game after leading by 46 points at 3QT, you may as well have a tail nailed to your behind..

I think the secret to being across all this stuff is pretending to be across it. That goes for kids stuff as well.

Apparently he said Melbourne were a lot better than Collingwood..

You're thinking like a MFC fan, I like it.

Very similar to Trac actually the way he wanted to leave the year before!

At least we know why Peter stormed out.

Almost word for word what I just told someone.

Every single scenario would be factored in at the negotiation stage. 7 years is a long time and a lot changes.

Freo are House and Land package salespeople. They sell the the dream, the vision, they even get you to picture yourself in the place by selling a fancy role within the team but when the digging starts, you hit rock.

I would too and based on this season, I think he'd be more impactful in big games than Petracca. I can't see it happening either though, not this year anyway.

Trac's 2025 season shaves off some bargaining power at the table. Not that it was bad by any stretch but GC are going to point to the film and say that he's lost a lot of his damage factor. A top 5-10 player going into 2025, it's arguable that he would be top 50 currently and that's after playing every game. I want as much as possible out of this trade but will be tempering expectations. You would hope the Norm Smith factors in but I can't see it being much. Will be 5 years on next year. I recall getting a Norm Smith medalist at around the same age for a 2nd and 3rd round pick.

I love this bulldust the media foam about Humphrey being crazy to consider coming back to VIC when he could have a medal around is neck in 2 years. The club literally just broke through for their first finals appearance ever. They have loads of talent and a core you can build around but there are a bunch of examples like Carlton, Port, Freo to suggest that not all progress is linear. GC may well be ready to go the next step but the jump from top 8 to top 4 and flag contenders is bigger than anything they've faced yet.

Here's a guy who ends up at the arrivals section instead of departures at the airport despite being there a billion times and then gets stuck at a boom gate in a mini van and manages to be found by the 1 footy journo in Blacktown..

Cya round..

Been out for about 4 hrs. Is there any more chance of him coming than there was at midday?

Agree. If we were imploding there probably wouldn't be any leaks.

Big loss. I hold nothing against Judd and wish him the best but it is difficult when you discover someone, put the time into them only to see them depart. That is the sport though. I hope we get a decent return.

If we are talking a full rebuild of the list, probably not required. However a rebuilding of the overall club including the football department (in my opinion), the culture, the sport science and a re-tooling of the list is necessary. Someone mentioned we're like Collingwood when McCrae arrived. I think that's a reasonable comparison, maybe like GWS when Kingsley arrived as well. Getting in ahead of the compromised drafts could be a short term pain long term gain thing. It's going to be a lot harder to do this in 2 years time.

Don't mind the 2 year deal but injury prone. Would have been a great get 3 years ago, feels a little Chris Dawes.

Suits him..

I got round to watching the replay on Fri night. I usually watch games with total media blackout but both of our games got spoiled for me last week which really ticked me off. This was an amazing game (which would have been better if not spoiled). Most exciting regular season game we've had for a while. I thought going for it was a good call as well but I totally agree that particular play call was probably 3rd on the list of what I was expecting. Definitely thought there would be some kind of Stafford dink and dunk in the flat or even a HB sweep if they actually were going to run. Was surprised to hear McVay say the call was a mistake and that it was his fault, was he talking about the decision to go for it or the actual play call? It's nice to hear a coach take responsibility though. Do you think Kyle would do that? Ha!

With Flanders out I don't care if there is only a 10% chance of Humphrey we need to do everything possible. So highly rated by Taylor at draft time, would love it if he occasionally got his first choice.

Telling Clarry he may no longer be a midfielder is akin to telling Grundy that he needed to go back to the VFL to work on his forward craft.

Agree Rodney. League is an excellent TV sport but that is the best form. There might be some special aspects to it but I think they're crazy when they call it the best sport in the world.

Yeah, the only people that worry about perceived draft pool talent are usually fans on message boards..