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generally speaking there's a top 3-4 sides every year, you can throw a blanket over teams 5-11 or so, 12-14 or 15 are hot and cold but can do damage on their day, and there's generally speaking a bottom 3 that are making up the numbers but that inevitably cause an upset or three along the way i see us in that 5-11 range where yep, absolutely, can make it, or we can stuff it up for ourselves as only we know how early days, but 2021 thoughts on teams based on nothing other than gut 'vibe' 1-4: geelong, richmond, meth coke, footscray 5-11: brisbane, carlton, fremantle, gc17, melbourne, port adelaide, st. kilda 12-15: adelaide, collingwood, essendon, gw$ 16-18: hawthorn, north melbourne, sydney

at least you didn't call him a kidney! that would've been a blow too far :P but seriously, the filth have come out of this smelling STINKY

jones is a pear nga tho? don't think north have a selection this season

that was our own social media team that did that https://twitter.com/melbournefc/status/1326747614700728320?s=20

my mfcss says that until such a time that any player signs on the dotted line they're inevitably leaving and only after they sign an extension with us will they break down with a long-term crippling injury we'll all be rooned, said hanrahan...

harmes is the man i reckon prior to becoming a mid tagger midway thru 2018 he was primarily deployed as a forward / wing - i expect him to return to that role after the failed attempt to play him as a half-back distributor

i can't see viney being used forward he's a mid

no, collingwood gave away treloar, stephenson, and phillips for sweet fanny adams today so that they weren't over the cap by $2m in 2021

pick 2 = 2517 points pick 7 and 19 = 2592 points but i agree, i can't understand why north supposedly want to rid themselves of a chance to take a top 3 kpf (juh, thilthorpe, mcdonald) or the #1 rated key back (grainger-barass)

general 'vibe' is that north's pick 2 is up for grabs and that gc17 will likely only want ONE pick as they will bring in two top 15-20 rated players at NO COST due to their frankly outrageous zone allocation of the nt - they currently hold 5, 27, 37, 76, 84 18 and 19 should definitely be flipped - they are the equivalent points value of pick 5, which gc17 are pretty unlikely to give up peptides and the filth both have serious hard-ons for logan mcdonald from all reports; they both want that pick 2 from north our best hope might be to flip 18 and 19 for pick 8 and 44 pick 18 and 19 = 1933 points pick 8 and 44 = 1898 points peppies can then do, say, 7 and 19 for pick 2 and all of a sudden - in this year's top 20 - they have 2, 6, and 18, north have 7, 11, and 19, and we end up with pick 8 the biggest stumbling block might be that north might see more value in flipping 2 for 14 and 16 from the filth

sooo....... B: Hibberd - May - Lever HB: Salem - Tomlinson - Rivers C : Langdon - Petracca - Harmes HF: Melksham - Weideman - Hunt F: Fritsch - B Brown - Pickett Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Viney I/c: Jackson - Spargo - Brayshaw - Baker Emerg: Jones - vandenBerg - McDonald - Smith impossible to factor in the picks until we know what we're getting really, particularly when the picks are likely (?) to change

wtf are we playing at?? Brisbane will trade picks 18, 19 and a future second to Melbourne for a future first-rounder, 25, 68 and 69

helps our bargaining position for further on-trading to get into the first round melbourne's 25+28 = 1433 points (equivalent pick 10) north melbourne's 26+30 = 1338 points (equivalent pick 11)

i reckon we're definitely targeting whatever 2020 pick footscray get from the peptides - pick 7 / 8 / 9 sort of range

i reckon it's all about packaging up picks for points value we won't have 25 and 28 at the draft

apparently you only have to use 1 pick in this year's draft too? i hope we're targeting the pick that the dogs are getting for dunkley from the peptides - pick 9 or so

it's not QUITE one red paperclip, but it's not bad! to go back seven or so years... josh kelly + jarman impey = christian salem, jayden hunt, marty hore, and ben brown

t mac as the new jordan roughead? no muss, no fuss lock-down defender...

essentially preuss for sideshow bob; outstanding work

has he signed a new contract?

ben brown should happen; would be nice to get him on the 'cheap' andrew phillips for a token late pick and then wait to do the pick upgrade swap til just before / on draft night

in and out of the best 22 and i honestly see him being much the same at footscray

higgins is also still one of the best at his role in the competition cats have arguably paid significant 'overs' but if you factor in smith as well in the trade it's smith and higgins - two genuinely good players - for pick 30 cats are about getting a premiership now; they want to give danger than premiership he (doesn't?) deserve

atrocious output i firmly believe that he stayed in the side only for 'leadership' for the f50 crew - no one else of our core 5 (weed, lj, pickett, spargo, avb, melksham) had anything like his experience needs a big 2021

we recruited him to play on the wing at the g; only got a couple of opportunities and his game against the cats was pretty positive - if he'd taken his time and gone back and nailed that set show we might've made finals his form once we headed up north was hideous but i thought once he came back into the side as a key defender i thought he played a really important role it'll be interesting to see how the footy dept utilise him in 2021 and beyond; for mine, he looks a natural part of the backline as he's good one on one, has excellent endurance to run with the 'power running' forwards, and is a neat kick he cost us nothing other than salary cap contribution so...his acquisition worked for me