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Tom McDonald used to be great at the blocking for teammates/forward craft type stuff. I know his mobility is not where it was but he could be worth a try again just to support JVR.

Agree. Given his exception fitness, he is a great matchup for Cameron

Sounds like a grade 1 medial injury which is generally not long

One of the things that has really frustrated me throughout Goodwin and this list management team’s tenure is their inability to cut dead wood until it becomes bleedingly obvious that they won’t make it. We have the best recruiter in the business and we give him so few picks to work with. Watching Casey (fortunately I missed the main game for a family event) today and last week it is abundantly clear we failed with our delistings at the end of last year. Billings, Verrall, Laurie and Woewodin, with big question marks on Brown, Sestan, Adams, Kentfield and Howes. I’m not proposing they all should have been delisted but it’s too many players who have shown very little and lack outstanding attributes. This has been a pattern with this list management team. Good riddance Goodwin, Lamb and co.

I think he’s an extra week away. I didn’t hear him mention Jeffo, but I will admit I wasn’t listening that hard.

I listened to the presser so you don’t have to. Blah blah blah method, blah blah blah not at the level, blah blah. Only useful things that were said were Pickett, Windsor and Lever back next week. Plus Spargo if he gets through the protocols. Re: Lindsay injury, not sure, hadn’t really heard. Which I think is slightly positive as they often know straight away with the ACLs 🤞🏼

This is the only way we should even contemplate trading Kozzy in the next two years. He is way too important to us.

They weren’t ’that’ old in 2023 but they really are now and they have brought in zero young talent since then. They still rely on Sidebottom, Howe, Pendlebury etc who are now seriously ancient and will be in big trouble in a year or two regardless of their ability to recruit from other clubs. It costs a lot of cap space to recruit good players from other sides (for example see what Perryman is on, absurd) and most players are quite loyal. It is not a sustainable method. I will enjoy their demise.

Absolute gun. There will be no regrets about that trade

One of the better games I have seen for us from Fullarton. Baldi was our best. TC was great. Bonner was good, but disposal was iffy at times. Handy game from Langford. Mentha didn’t get much of it but I liked what I saw when he did. Goal kicking was terrible. Lots of very straightforward shots.

He is also hopeless.

Sydney’s backline tonight on the team sheet: Blakey Melican Wicks Roberts Rampe Paton That’s incredibly weak. Blakey is a gun, Roberts and Rampe are good and the others are plodders. Hawks looked good but won’t be getting too worried about them yet. Also, very short injury list. Hate them so I really don’t want them to be good again.

A cyclone making landfall so close to Brisbane at this time of year is extraordinarily unlikely. They have nothing to explain.

Except there is another player we have that Freo want who also has a long contract…

We have overcorrected. Not enough chaos now. Ball movement really suffering without Koz. It is not as bad as the scoreboard given the several easy misses. But Freo are clearly a class above. Opposition players are going to start deliberately leaving Billings open in F50, he is that bad at kicking for goal.

I’m also interested if there are free spots

Score?

I’m not able to watch but been reading this and thought we were 5 goals down. Get a grip people!

Should beat us comfortably. They are pretty much full strength.

I think people have their head in the sand if they think he doesn’t want to leave. He clearly does. Where there is smoke etc. But we don’t have to cave. He is contracted for 3 more years. He is only 23. His value to the club is huge - he is a fan fave. He is happy with the club itself and this is not the first time he has had homesickness (for WA, rather than SA this time). We know that his family is well supported in Melbourne (sure, he would probably have better support in WA). And he seemingly only wants to go to Freo, which is very different to Nibbler and Houston. His mates Walters and Narkle will probably be done at Freo this year or next. And what does Freo have to offer? Two picks around 15-18. No thanks. The club simply has to make a stand and not cave to the media. Keep supporting him to stay in Melbourne happy, as he was when he signed the contract, with lots of opportunities to visit family and friends. I think Peter Rhode is his manager (?) so not in one of those big management groups who pressure clubs into dealing contracted players.

Throw AMW forward until Kozzie is back. He will bring the forward pressure we will need.

Exactly. We can easily wait out his delisting. Plus Walter’s will be retiring soon.

Given he’s contracted to 2027, the West Australian are getting waaaaaay ahead of themselves. I do doubt that Kozzy will be a one-club player but we aren’t trading him at the end of 2025 with 2 years to go. Look at Harry Petty, things can change quickly. At the earliest, we could use him in a trade for Harley Reid when he comes back to Melbourne in 2 years. But only if he reeaaaally wants to go west. No way we trade him this year.

Good on them. I’ve always been a big fan of Maddi Gay and would have liked to have kept her but it sounded like she thought she needed a fresh start. Maybe we needed to try harder to keep her? Eliza West is just too similar to our existing mids, small. We couldn’t have known Purcell would miss so much of the season. I think she is a more valuable player to Hawthorn than she would be for us. Win-win trade long-term and short term if Purcell didn’t get injured.

Havana Harris is GC academy - filth no chance