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i heard it as 60/40 to stay beyond his current contract with robbo saying that was only cos he's been so burned by wa-based players leaving in the past; wizard, dogga, etc. for mine, the other key takeout of the deebrief chat was that the suspensions that jvr has copped in his first few years may have had an effect on his current performance in 2025 - it's made him more tentative in his attack on the contest

i listened to her on the real footy tipping podcast she makes her disdain for the mfc clear

imo this obsession has to stop it was a terrible thing but re-litigating it on a constant basis is not healthy

one of my all time favourite moments i was one of those people who thought "we're recruiting HIM? he's so ordinary for the peptides!" and then he was of course banned for his first year with us a journo friend of mine said "there's a long game at play here" which as it turns out was getting pig the year after; best mates who wanted to play together when he first played for us i thought he was super ordinary - in and out of the senior side, no good as a half back, no good as a wing...but the day that he played as a defensive forward on jason johanissen i thought "there's something to work with here" and then he has become, quite honestly, one of my favourite ever recruits from another club it was such a shame that he lost form in 2021 and missed the premiership, and i maintain that his acl in the game against the swans hurt us significantly before finals as he was in ripping form at the time i love that he's a breeder and you just KNOW his kids are gonna be footy players and they will 100% be representing red and blue if they are good enough my expectation is that when he retires - which, quite frankly, could be three seasons from now so good is his form - he'll go straight into coaching and i think he's going to be a ripper; a good person who has an incredible football brain and a fantastic communicator MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD

tipping: bears filth gc17? gw$ crom? us puddy tatts pretty much all of those results would benefit, i think with the exception of gw$ and puddy tatts getting up in games that they should canter it in

some talk that the aints are offering leek aleer $800k a year over 5 years big money for a bloke who is yet to play 15 afl games

pretty clear demotion it'll be interesting to see where her parachute lands her - club land or one of the afl's state bodies? perhaps she'll get the poisoned challice that is afl nsw

i think there's a big difference between 'two first round picks' and 'two first round picks' is harry worth pick 5 and pick 15? no pick 14 and pick 18? possibly - certainly with the way the medja is talking down this draft, you'd think that he would be more valuable to a team that has the ability to trade two picks of that value

he's been eligible since 2021 and skipped over in multiple drafts sometimes kids take time to come on

no, he's on about $1.4m this year will reduce to an average of $800k over the course of his contract if the medja can be believed

what has been eye-opening about jake niall's series of reports in ninefax about the moneyed movers and shakers at clubs is just how small we are in comparison with others harder to hide third party payments when you don't have folks swimming with cash hanging around as linament sniffers

almost as good as a bang bang bang

i agree with @Sir Why You Little - he looks like his back is cactus and he can barely move even when dosed up on painkillers

right, so baggers have no 1st rounder in 2025 ship mckay to the bloods for theirs?

yeah, not sure that's necessarily true - they shuffled picks to have jagga smith from last year's draft (going the petracca approach of being a pick 3 who does his acl before starting his career), they have hawks' first rounder this year, i think, and then at the end of 2026 they'll have andrew walker's son, who is already regarded as a likely top 5 pick at the end of next year i would suspect that, as such, they're likely to trade out of the 2026 draft and into the 2025 draft if they can - it's why a trade of harry mckay to the swans makes sense, as they will want to trade out of the 2025 draft (due to their range of young academy kids) and into 2026 / bring in a tall forward

i would assume that the only way we could clear the salary space to secure mckay would be to trade one of oliver or petracca i know of the three which two i would prefer to have

he definitely will - he's re-contracted for 2026, at least he'll turn 34 before the start of the 2026 season, but there's no reason to think that he can't stay as a significant performer for that year and potentially beyond - he remains one of the best key defenders in the competition has he slowed down and looks like he creaks when he bends over? yes! does he still perform to high expectations? absolutely!

may has signed an extension to play on in 2026; clearly still in our best side i love the idea of dogga returning, but i just don't know how the deal gets done

i was wondering whether our 2026 nga prospect marcus prasad might make it as an underager, but i guess not

AFL mantra has long been don’t start an investigation where you don’t already know the outcome

What’s their indigenous name, I wonder?

hawks i believe cooper is already in the bears' academy, and is 2026 draft eligible

what school does he attend? the big game between haileybury and caulfield grammar was on over the weekend, and the likes of tairon ah-mu, for instance, were playing for haileybury instead of the stingrays

so much so that luke hodge's kids are more likely to go to the bears' academy than to dingley as a father-son selection

i saw one throw in that was so ridiculously short on the afl members side (right! in front!! of ME!!!) that the field ump called it back and made him do it again the bloods fan in front of me and i couldn't think of the last time we'd seen a boundary throw-in given a do-over i think it's inevitable that 'between the arcs' it'll be an automatic free kick from the last player touch - the same approach they use for the 'lasso' in aflw, which seems to work okay