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he's a chance to be a good chb in the vfl marked strongly last week in an undersized defence

watson, moore, and ginnivan is a helluva small combo to come up against this weekend he'll need another big game defensively

lauren pearce is clearly one of the best rucks in the competition and easily in the top 50 i'd argue tahlia gillard is one of the best key defenders in the game and should be in there too no liv purcell in the top 50?

if goldrick isn't in our best side then we're going okay, i think no gillard is a real concern - she's one of the best key defenders in the competition

i know i've requested this before, but can further thought be given to moving all the aflw content into the main board @Demonland? i often forget this board is here, and like many i am just as keen to chat about our women's program as our men's

i want to see us knock the filth out of finals in the last round

aints flagmantle? gc17 pear? them crom? norf? bloods? footscray i give us some chance but i don't expect us to win

is this melbourne 'two salary caps' storm that yr referring to? i'm okay with jab being aboard the coaching hunt as he loathes james hird, so that likely rules the latter out of being appointed our coach on the recommendation of the former

i suspect it may have been jackson hateley, who left gw$ two years after being drafted at pick #13 to go to the crom in 2020 they couldn't get a deal done, so he joined the latter via the psd he only lasted two years there and is now in the vfl, i think https://www.afc.com.au/news/835814/crows-set-to-take-hately-via-pre-season-draft The Crows could not reach an agreement with the Giants prior to the end of the AFL Trade Period on Thursday evening. Crows General Manager List Management and Strategy Justin Reid said Hately remains committed to wearing the tricolours next season. “Jackson wants to be at the Crows in 2021 and given we have the first pick in the pre-season draft, we will be able to make this happen," Reid said.

lewis can't be on it as he's one of buckley's best mates

the timing was pretty clear - gives us 6 weeks to appoint a senior coach, ideally in preliminary final week

elliott also has four or five more years of experience and afl nous than fritsch it's exactly why we need to perservere with fritsch as a key component of our f50 he's the sort of player than any serious club would love to have in their side

she's not really a journalist anymore; more an opinionist

i am nevertheless impressed by yr clutching for misery

ah, that's some epic levels of mfcss - full hanrahan!

that the media were more concerned about this than discussing why goodwin was let go said volumes about the state of afl medja it was only really the guardian that looked at the reasons why; https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2025/aug/05/afl-simon-goodwin-sacking-by-melbourne-demons-was-ruthless-but-the-right-call

doubly so if harley leaves end of 2026 on the back of oscar allen leaving as a free agent at the end of this season they're going to have picks 1 and 2 in this draft, plus - probably - be given a start-of-second-round pick as a priority pick that's four picks inside, say, what will end up being top 30 that won't make them better over the next few years, but it may help them in 2029 onwards

i suspect they were just shattered after giving their all for 2.5 hours to fall a goal short

if he wants to go, what's he worth? this draft is so compromised and, apparently, low on quality, that i would be keen to get a player for him unless we think we need points in 2025 / 2026 for white, sinnema this draft, and then prasad in 2026

that [censored] kornes hated this stuff, so you know that it was good chaplin could not stand him when they were together at the pear i think we know who is the better football person and leader in a club environment

who knows it's all just rumour at this point in time

yes, the form dropped off the cliff the psychological damage by dropping four finals in two years of straight sets exits must have been enormous goodwin talked about how hard he drove the players to start 2021 - i do wonder if he burned them out tom mcdonald going down with a foot injury when he was playing so well at chf and then the punch-up at entrocote, compounded by flagmante giving teams a template on how to beat us, was the end of the golden run still, 17 wins in a row and a premiership it was glorrrious

it's easy to think that with how gracious he's been since being sacked but, as he said, it's a performance-based business, and we have failed to perform under his tenure for a period of time then the capitulation to st kilda made his position untenable

hinkley and davies are rumoured to be creating pear 2.0 with their old assistant coach voss at the baggers, so don't know where the story that he's coming to melbourne is coming from good people person and media performer

gillard is, imo, the best full back in the competition she's a big out