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His future media and corporate career aspirations are enormous, partly because he’ll - in all likelihood - be a one-club player, which helps his ‘brand’

afl ratings are based upon a rolling average of 40 games let's wait and see where he's rated once he hits that mark playing the 'sweeper' role that he has been doing since the start of this season

some have not all, it would seem

i was thinking the same thing but their pressure rating being so poor has me concerned

if he goes and jackson goes, then we simply must match whatever the offer is for gus, and force a trade he'll be a first round compo pick, you'd think, but i would much rather match, force a trade, and get peptides' pick 7 or so and give something back the other way than get a pick 20 or so

where do you stand on the expectation of the move to play two key forwards going forward from now?

this

the pressure of expectation is too much to bare that said, when we have been up and flying - vs bears - it's been glorrrious to watch

didn't see em last year when they finished 17th and were - save for their grand final on queen's birthday - pretty much awful all year?

don't forget jimmy toumpas! might as well add stevie armstrong in there too!!

if he stays he stays; if he goes he goes he's having a ripping year...as a half-back flanker even better year than last year...where it was a defensive wing and in turn that was better than the last time he played as a pure mid...nearly 5 seasons ago! he might come back and be the greatest inside midfielder essendon has had since jab watson...and i still doubt he'd be better than the combo of clayton oliver, christian petracca, and jack viney even playing as a half-back interceptor his defensive workrate can be mighty suspect

more definitely more andy than @binman, but listening to relentless anti-mfcss from the latter is somewhat...cathartic? wish i had anything close to the confidence! it's an absolute must listen when it goes live as a podcast - great work as always

if he does choose to leave as a free agent and picks the peptides - 🤮 - we simply MUST match and force a trade to get their 2023 first round pick no way can we let gus walk and only get a pick in the 15-20 range

you can shave about $400k off the rumoured per annum salary indicated by sumich, and even then it's STILL $2-300k a year more than we are offering i'm going to be shattered if / when he announces he wants to return to wa, as i think he's a generational talent if the rumours are true re his reasoning behind wanting to go 'home' are personal, so be it at this stage, however, he's an exciting, promising talent rather than the whole article

we've had a pretty bad spate of copping injuries early in the games this season it would seem that burgess isn't just good at managing injury and fitness but also brings a fair dose of luck with him

yep, heaps from our own club, viney is an obvious one

so we score 100 points, and have 110 scored against us, and people want to swap one of the three pillars of our backline out to send em forward? i don't understand the logic of doing so whatsoever

the money that has been talked about as being on offer from freo is - from a reasonable source - not even close to accurate it's still huge money for a 20 year old - over $800k a year - but not close to the rumoured $1.25m per annum over eight seasons

6: Oliver 5: ANB 4: Brayshaw 3: Fritsch 2: Gawn 1: Weideman

switched and changed i thought - petty when he was up the ground further and moving back i50, which was when i thought it got lost, with tomlinson and petty not getting the 'change over' right

without lever we really lacked leadership in the backline i don't know / understand what's happened to may, but since he copped that concussion vs freo / at entrocote he's been a shell of his former self on the one hand i thought petty was very good; on the other had 5 kicked on him frustrating game to watch as i thought it was completely played on their terms - fast, open, lots of ball movement it's not all doom and gloom - this season is crazy even and i think anyone from 2-10 is in with a chance if everything 'clicks' for them, but at the moment i think the cats are clear favourites which is annoying as all hell

Yep you can see why they were keen on Cerra Surely with gw$ having a fire sale we can get a good midfielder to add to our rotation

Lovely lead and mark, good kick, absolutely pathetic in a contest or 1:1 situation

IN: Lever, Chandler, Brown OUT: Tomlinson, Melksham, Weideman