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my hope with mcadam is that our fitness staff having broken down his body to get him back up in 2025 and beyond

no chance if / when we get 25 back for anb, mebbe swap that for cerra...

so there seems to be some doubts on trainor due to repeated concussion incidents?

i just read that too and came to laugh about it too fairly ambit claim

The silver lining of Melbourne’s disappointing finish to the season is that they now have a top-five pick in the draft. And in this even top-end, you could quite easily grab the top talent in the draft with the selection that Melbourne holds. Replenishing their midfield is a high priority with Christian Petracca’s long-term future remaining uncertain, and there are several options who can add an injection of class. Finn O’Sullivan may be gone by this point but his high-impact per possession and goalscoring threat makes him one of the most damaging midfielders available. South Australian Sid Draper has some wheels and has stood up at state league level, while Murphy Reid can provide the precise ball-use and decision making their on-ball brigade lacks. Midfielder-forward Sam Lalor shapes as the wildcard, a player in the Petracca mould with his strength and attacking threat. Or do the Dees look to shore up their limited key forward stocks with forward Harry Armstrong?

i, too, can make up fanciful trade scenario with no basis in reality...

mfc confirms two reviews being conducted; one by Darren Shand, brad green, and gary pert into the footy dept + one of the board itself by an external independent expert (they don't say who), involving the president and all current board members

sigh i miss raymond much, much better show than "barry"

depends on cost, i suspect if it's the equivalent of a straight swap for tomlinson, i'd be super keen

Paul Hopgood better put on his big boy shorts cos the president's job is his if he wants it?

Smith, Macrae, and Daniel all wanna leave Footscray? Something, something, something… Kulcha?

I think people will steer clear of Ladhams because of his personality and behaviour

houston would suit us to a tee, i think, but seemingly he's ruled himself out of leaving...let's see if that holds til the end of the trade period i just don't see parfitt and macrae in our best side but i imagine the former will be be available as a delisted free agent and the latter a late pick if yr prepared to pick up his entire salary; issue being that they're not that quick and their skills are mediocre at best - with the game moving from 'contest and defence' to 'skill and speed' they simply don't suit the transition game that we want to execute and wouldn't be in our best side if we maintain the style that saw us be successful lynch is on huge money for the next few years, and his body has let him down for the last several years; caveat emptor indeed ladhams will struggle to be on an afl list in 2025, while membrey might be a shot for us but does another mid-sized forward target actually improve us?

pear and gw$

sad that there's no more frostball in 2024 interesting to see how the hok ball restructure their defensive set-up in 2025 and beyond with the addition of barrass and battle coming into their 'best' side those two plus frost, sicily, scrimshaw, weddle, blanck, grainger-barras is a lot of tall defensive types when, really, their best set-up really only has two or three of them

Yea, poor bloke https://www.hawthornfc.com.au/news/1596554/lewis-ruled-out-for-remainder-of-season

Coming off an acl and unlikely to feature much in 2025? Unlikely

At what point did I say that I was remotely interested in Hind?

my suspicion is that pert will go some time into the 2025 season, not prior to it i don't understand why smith would WANT to come on to the board and be president if he's that exhausted from his long legal career; will he be actually motivated to enact change or is he simply coming on as a last resort for the club? i love the way these players / officials always meet in the same places; catching up at philippa's for a croissant is hardly out of the way - now if you'd told me that they shared a snag out at casey watching the aflw then i'd be genuinely shocked

as opposed to those that bowey was subbed out of? my point stands - to my eye they play similar roles and having similar statistical outputs we don't need two of them, and certainly not a significant wage as a 29 and 30 year old

near identical... https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=12&playerStatus2=A&tid2=8&type=A&pid1=6851&pid2=4073&fid1=S&fid2=S

caleb daniel is reportedly on a heavily back-ended deal, $700-750k a year for the next two seasons his best position is as a running small defender who, well, doesn't defend that well cos he's so small i struggle to see how we can play bowey and daniel in the same side unless one of them changes roles

pass on matt kennedy - he's not quick and his kicking too regularly fails to hit targets; we don't need more midfield bulls, we need players who can actually hit targets by foot and be damaging with ball in hand nick hind has been delisted by the peptides because he's in that 'too good for vfl, not consistent enough for afl' nexus zone of stringing 100 odd games together over the course of seven seasons at two clubs without ever cementing a role and being the selected sub for the majority of the last two seasons

i'm not going to bother addressing the amount of negative projection going on in this post, but to answer the top bit, the prelim of geetroit vs gw$ / bears will be at the g i maintain that if the bloods don't win the premiership they've stuffed up right royally - their 2024 season has been as dominant as cats in 2022 and dees in 2021