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Thought he would rank with Heffernan amongst the worst trade recruits we’d ever had It was when he played a ‘defensive forward’ role on JJ in the game vs Footscray that Lever did his knee in that I thought ‘wow, he’s got something about him’ From then on, he’s been a great player - the goals vs hawks in the 18 finals series and last year’s match winner vs the bears are etched long in my memory Straight back into seniors for mine

anything after 40 = no points value

bloods have lost two games by, what, 3 points in total? imo they're still the team to beat and if they DON'T win the premiership given the season that they're having - akin to us in 2021, geetroit in 2022 - then it should be seen as a failure

i can't fathom parents being 'upset' by a son's employer who pay them very, very well and want to make them the best they can be

loving the fact that milkshake is available for selection; add me as another saying 'straight back in' OUT: tomlinson, pup brown IN: salem, melksham milkshake as sub; the roar when he comes in from 25k or so mad melbourne fans when he comes on ground will sound like 125k are at the g

hearing @binman and @george_on_the_outer having fights is like mum and dad arguing

nah, just standard counter-programming to another round of umpire gaffes and / or off field controversies like the talk of grand final in twilight or at night, state of origin, or the timing of gather round, this is standard afl smokescreen

I look forward to us playing in Mt Barker after two years at the oval

Would be interesting to see a compare / contrast between north’s last six seasons and ours 2007-2013

laura kane helping out her buddies again how does that work with gc17 having darwin?

goodwin has made it clear he intends to persevere with the petty - turner - jvr three tall set-up up forward; should we stick with the four tall defensive set-up of may - lever - plugger mac - tomlinson?

The deal doesn’t bother me as much as King’s gigantic contract would

say 'ov-ho"

skill and speed please

they'll still want to get something of actual value for him as it's perception as much as anything - he's the highest paid player on their list and very much the 'face' of the club i think we'd be surprised who has the most value from our side from other sides; top three could well be: jacob van rooyen trent rivers kozi pickett i think they're probably the only three that would realise multiple first round picks, unless someone such as petracca was on the list would i swap any of them for max king? not on your life! but do i think they'd be the first three names the aints would mention? you betcha

Our last loss to them changed the course of our season Hopefully our next win can do the same

mcgovern just copped a big hit right on 3/4 time too i still can't see how we will win given that we lost to them with a far superior 23 several weeks ago and... ...my mfcss is sooooooooo strong

I gotta admit i was coming around to the notion that part of max king's problem is that he's at the aints it seems players who leave there get better after a few years out of their system i was thinking whether we should go all in and other him the big contract / them the multiple picks and hope we can sort out his complete lack of competitiveness? and then i watch him play and remind myself that no, definitely not, we do not want what he brings - which is not a great deal at half time he had 3 possessions, 0 marks, 0 score involvements finished with 10 possessions, 3 marks, 2 behinds, and 2 additional score involvements he's on close to $1m a year no thanks

you can 100% see why we, hawks, others are so keen on josh battle would look at home in our backline

step up, jeremy finlayson

another $1m a year game for max king to half time - 3 possessions, 0 marks, 0 scoreboard impact

Andrews went to Fritsch - #1 back on #1 forward

Second round compo pick - about what he’s worth Would be lucky to get a second rounder for Salem given his injuries and age Worth far more to us than in a trade scenario

This The biggest issue? Made of glass - his last ‘sustained run’ was in our premiership year Correlation, causation, etc…

We nearly got him a few years back…