whatwhat say what

we wouldn't be giving him away for 'nothing' - we'd definitely get a first round pick and clear $1m off our salary cap it all comes down to whether or not he wants to go; given what transpired last year and the mealy-mouthed statements since, i can definitely see him trying to force his way out of the club again we need a change at this end of this year; letting a player of the calibre of trac go could be the required action needed to clear out the cobwebs

that seems to be the consensus at this point in time, particularly with the pointy end picks in the 2025 draft set to be - once again - dominated by academy and father / son selections but it's impossible to know how it's going to play out for at least half a decade i reckon fingers crossed lindsay's knee is not as serious as it looked

At 30 years of age at the start of the 2026 season and with his salary of up to $1.5m a year for the next four years plus the injury / attitude concerns… that’s what we’ll get The filth’s 2027 1st round pick and $500k off our books for the next four seasons is probably our best value chance

the biggest issue with the slow ball movement play is that it allows teams to set up defensively, and when we - inevitably - turn it over, they're able to hit us on the counter with speed and quick ball movement the style of play we are trying to execute doesn't work with our current team make-up i'm not sure if it's a fitness issue per se, but it's certainly a team make-up and game plan one

clearly commentating from dorcas st, south melbourne, too

not strictly true; they made three straight elimination finals 2013-15, losing them all, then dipped in 2016 before the glorious 2017-2020 run they developed slowly, much as we did leading up to and including 2018, before the serious dip in 2019, leading to the 2021-23 period

what a moronic revisionist memory

it's thoroughly dee-pressing

dingley are just fantastic to watch god it sucks

a team that is confused as to what the game plan is, and doesn't have the player skillset to execute said game plan, got smashed by a team that is well drilled after a decade's dripfeed of top echelon talent being gifted to them

dunno what it looks like on mobile, but those stats make for ugly reading i can't believe how bad we've got so quickly

that's the mfcss way! (me too)

i would be amazed if we get more than one first rounder for petracca and we'll have to pay him to leave

pickett will definitely be in, turner probably should be, fullarton a chance will lever or windsor be fit? lindsay will be out, and the likes of howes, mcdonald, fritsch, billings, sparrow, and quite frankly petracca who was appalling again today should be first in line to be dropped too

6: bowey 5: langdon 4: langford 3: chandler 2: sharp 1: oliver top 3 only really worth any actual votes

he'll certainly get far more opportunities in red and blue than in red petracca and pickett are the likely 'highly valuable' assets that we have, potentially mcvee if he doesn't sign on to stay on, and fritsch will be wanted by someone trade options, with some theoretical value: fritsch - second round pick from someone who needs a midsized forward (can see the bears for instance being very keen) mcvee - future first (hopefully) from meth coke petracca - future first from the filth pickett - two firsts over multiple years from flagmantle sparrow - maybe a 3rd round pick players we are stuck with: laurie - contracted til 2026 mcadam - contracted til 2026 delist: billings hore howes verrall woewodin retire: mcdonald melksham potential father / son and academy picks coming in: toby sinnema kalani white it all comes down to what value the top 5 can achieve for us it's got to happen this year tho, before the taswegian franchise comes in and sucks the life out of four or five drafts

Reckon dingley is even more gleeful - they hold the baggers’ 1st round pick

Worst we’ve looked in a long time No positives out of that result Fingers crossed Lindsay didn’t do his acl

They did have Naicos tho Can’t see Kalani White being a generational player like he is

Kicks straight when up forward - we desperately need that

contest and defence!

disco gone behind the ball to give some help to the defenders

riley bonner looks by some margin to be the best player in the casey side

yeah...nah based on our first two games, i can't see our mids stopping them from dominating stoppage and getting easy ball in their 50

naughton keeps working hard, gets the reward