whatwhat say what

Just now, OhMyDees said:

Can we get Burgess to come back?

crom's fitness is a real issue too

perhaps that style that worked so well in the past has gone by the wayside

it wouldn't necessarily be a surprise, as the style of football that is successful has definitely changed

9.10 (64) scores against us off turnover

6.6 (42) of that from 27 forward half turnovers

ugly numbers

3 hours ago, darkhorse72 said:

Hopefully he'll be clear the GC that he going to us and they don't try to bid on him... 

i believe he nominates february or so next year

be interesting to see how highly rated tairon ah-mu and kalani white are in 2025 and how much it 'costs' us to get them

• them
• gc17?
• kangas
• puddy tatts
• filth?
• pear?
• gw$?
• flagmantle
• bears

the pear vs bloods should be a cracker

yeah, not remotely confident

top four interstate sides - bloods, bears, flagmantle, and gw$ - all look the most likely to me

According to Mark Duffield we have ‘significant interest’ in him

From their website, they describe him as a tall defender

Towering young tall Harry Edwards has been asked to tackle some big assignments since debuting in 2020, and the former rookie-listed defender gained valuable experience from his 17 senior level appearances in the 2022 season. Edwards did well to use that experience to his advantage when given the opportunity, further developing the 200cm backman at an accelerated rate. Edwards encountered injury concerns in 2023, including a fractured wrist, which saw him feature just twice in the senior squad last year. The Swan Districts product was named West Coast’s Emerging Talent winner in 2021.

so for this off-season we're looking at a father-son and nga as probably late / rookie picks:

• noah yze: tall half-back / inside mid, regularly getting in the bests for oakleigh
• ricky mentha: small forward, now being re-tooled as a fast half-back rebounder

at the end of 2025 we're likely looking at early / early-ish upgrades:

• kalani white: tall defender, already playing up an age level at under 18s champs, selected under 16s all oztrayan
• tairon ah-mu: forward / ruck, dominating for haileybury as a 'junior' and playing under 18 football

if white and ah-mu are seriously talented - and, judging by write-ups etc, it would seem they are - i wonder how much we'll know about what we'll need to have in the kitty to get them before we make decisions regarding trading 'out' of the 2025 draft

3 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

Eagles are placing a lot of value on half a season of good form in a 100-game career.

or his manager is using his peak performance season as the perfect time to renegotiate his contract in a pre-free agency year

12 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

 

be interesting to see what happens here

9 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

I think Port have Perryman on the hook, and so are willing to except a fair deal or even unders for Houston who's keen to get home for personal reasons, knowing that Perryman for free and Houston for picks leaves them ahead long term.

I'm very nervous it's a Chad Wingard or even worse a Jared Polec situation.

But... we also need an A grade ball user through the middle of the ground (be that high half back or ideally on ball) and those players aren't the kind of half backs you can just find anywhere. And we need it now. 

We can't evolve the game plan if there's no one in the midfield who can hit precise targets.

So I'd be willing to offer our 2025 first and some decent steak knives.

I'd also be willing to consider a swap of our first for Port's first depending where they finish.

polec was never all oztrayan, but wingard was in ripping form for the pear before he crossed to dingley, twice earning all oztrayan honours, winning the john cahill medal, and twice leading their goalkicking as a half-forward / mid

houston was all oztrayan last year and has barely missed a game since debuting

if we can get him, he'll be the perfect addition to our side's make-up

it'll be very interesting to see how hard we go at getting him

lovely bit of fearmongering here from fox footy

low grade syndesmosis which doesn't require surgical intervention and could see him return to the side sooner rather than later according to the mfc injury update

17 minutes ago, Deelectable said:

Houston has emphatically stated he's going nowhere.

yes, which is why i presume we'll be taking a first round pick to the draft in 2024

8 minutes ago, Bleasey as that said:

Anyone listen to Tom Morris on SEN this morn …. insinuation Langdon may consider retiring?! Anyone on here know anything about that? Would be a big loss for us.

at 28 years of age? unlikely, you'd think

wow we have come a long way...

6 minutes ago, Binmans PA said:

So I think my ideal off season would be having TMac sign a one year deal, landing Houston, Cumming, a top 10 youngster and a maybe a cheap free agent/or trade, and back ourselves to trade back into the 2025 first round of the draft, knowing we will have Kalani as a F/S anyway. I don't think this is that outlandish. I'd love to add Waterman, but I think that's probably pushing the bounds of our salary cap and reality.

personally my ideal off-season sees us revelling in winning a premiership after winning the next 8 games in a row...

i think it'll be houston OR a top 10 draft pick @Binmans PA

can't see us achieving both this 2024 post-season

the other names we've been linked to are cumming and angwin from gw$, both of whom have struggled with injury throughout their careers thus far, but both of who could help fill out our depth as half-back / wing types

in reality tho neither are in the seem class as dan houston - i tend to be 'all in' for him as he and rivers would perfectly completely each other as half-back / midfielders in our side

in 2025 we're likely to have two picks we're taking outside of the draft - an nga and a father-son pick - which will give us the forward / ruck that we want (Tairon Ah-Mu) and a tall defender (Kalani White) to add to our tall depth

the fact that they'll be coming onto the list at the end of 2025 increases my keenness for tom mcdonald to play on and help bridge the gap, given that the likes of adam tomlinson and ben brown are likely to off the list at the end of this season

this draft was a ripper for us, particularly if one of more of howes, woewodin or moniz-wakefield goes on to be a regular senior player, given that the expectation of both van rooyen and mcvee is that they'll be 200+ game players

unrelated to this time period, heard on the weekend that chol signed a 4 year $2-2.5m deal with dingley which is heavily front-loaded and has a trigger for a 5th year - we were never in the market for him

38 minutes ago, Wells 11 said:

I think the body shape needed for a ruck may have changed with the new rules. If we’re looking to add a replacement ruckman then maybe we need to look at a big bodied boofhead ruck. They seem like valuable property now. Briggs and Xerri have both got the better of Max. 

especially with the ball up rather than bounce in the middle

it definitely suits the physical ruckmen as opposed to the lighter-framed likes of gawn

depends on whether we think we can make $$ out of it

i would suspect not

i do note that footscray are performing as...footscray this round

august is traditionally the month that assistant coaches are told that they're being re-contracted or not - already david teague has left the tiggas as he wants to be a 'ball movement' style coach not a forward line coach

do you think we will see change to our assistant coaching ranks in 2025?

as a corollary to that, how much change is too much?

31 minutes ago, Winners at last said:

I hate Hawthorn, but their style of play is very watchable.

agreed

it's disgusting

OUT: billings, bowey
IN: hore, tholstrup

woey 2.0 back to the sub role

6: Oliver
5: Rivers
4: McVee
3: Viney
2: Lever
1: Langdon

i was there - it was so cold, and my friend who i go with each week and were discussing that it seems crazy that mfc vs gw$ isn't played during the day, as opposed to prime time

i don't think crowd noise has anything to do with our success

in fact, judging by the end of the home and away season in 2021, perhaps we thrive in silence