Dappa Dan

That's what worries me a bit. I know they're different beasts, and Jesse had a bigger body even in his late teens, but in his first 4 years... hell his first season... he showed more than Weed. I'm sick to death of hearing about what a player "could" be after years in our system. Especially after one just left who was never about potential. He showed the real thing from day one. All is forgiven though if your predictions about his future come true. I lived through Watts though. So I'm hardly in a positive frame of mind.

Hopefully even more than that. This is flag time for MFC.

Hope you're right. I don't see it personally though. Next few years particularly... all about TMac.

Ah gotcha. Misread. For me it's pretty simple. TMac and Weed will take the lions share. Preuss and Gawn will be attempted until they realise neither can play major time forward if you want to win. Preuss they'll look at as a Cox type. Which drives me NUTS. But yeah. We have that many picks, 7 at time of posting, you'd have to assume there'd be a number of KP players.

Bloody awful. Way worse than the Scully one, as he was never an amazing player to begin with. Laughable to see demons supporters desperately trying to claim he was never that crash hot or didn't play Goodwin's system well or that Weed was just as good or that we looked better without him... None of us own crystal balls, but when he ends up a superstar of the comp, don't act shocked. We need to get better at free agency. I don't know that we will though. We're already in a solid place list wise, and very soon will be right at the top of our cap.

Agreed. Though. It's good to have the option. Looking at how WC did it this year, I'd have liked to keep Hogan for that reason. In most areas of the field most teams have options to match up. Not too many serious KP defenders though. The OP may have forgotten TMac, but the question is a good one. How do you replace Hogan, and don't say Weed. He's not that good. Personally I'm bullish about the Fritsch, Spargo, Tracca, Melksham types. Also whoever we grab in what will be a big draft this year. No reason why you can't look to smaller players to share the load.

I was down by about 55 with Gurley (projected 20), Jimmy Graham (10) and Snead (5-10) left... and my opponent had Kupp (15-20) left. He was homefree. Gurley gets me 37, Snead 10... and Kupp only goes for 1.2.... Now I need Graham to get about 8 points... so 4 catches for 60 yards or so.

I was thinking the same thing today. I've been thinking the Eagles have been very mediocre. But 3-3 this year... you're not that far off the big-time teams. Rams along with Pats or Chiefs the class of their conferences... but still everyone else we had picked has spluttered in one way or another.

Your Avatar being a champion would be another.

I'd say more probable. It's getting like this every year. Well... put it this way... if he does get to them this trade period, that'll be how it happens. Not sure if you're joking... is it for real being telecast? streamed somewhere? What can they show? Just people running back and forth with papers in their hands? If I have to watch that McLure guy another second I'm gonna puke. That's a good point actually. You would think though that Freo would have been made aware well in advance that that would need to be the case.

SEN has been awful since crocmedia took over. This last week has been at a whole new level. Diabolical.

Well at least this thread achieved SOMETHING. Bloody hell when are we going to see some movement. All this talk, and the only players are Preuss and Kent?

Jeez @Gorgoroth how good are our boys. 49ers will be smoked by them... and you'll go into a tough 4 week stretch with Packers, Saints, Seahawks and Chiefs. Win a couple of those at least and you'll be unstoppable for playoffs and just playing for homefield.

I don't care what anyone says about how good defensive football is... A track meet like that is so great to watch in the NFL.

Good God Tyreek.

What a game...

Wacky score this.

Damn. I'm starting to lose confidence in Jax.

Always loved and had admiration for this guy. Came at day one of a huge rebuild. You have to love a player like that. The move makes sense, but still sad to see him go.

Jax, Rams, Panthers Damn. Got in too late to pick Eagles. Totally would have too.

Can you clarify? Do you mean the statements from the club claiming Jesse was a required player? If so, they came about, I think, about a month before the end of the H&A season. Jesse had his exit interview, all was well, then a week before trade period starts all hell breaks lose and he's been the biggest news in footy for the last fortnight. The club hasn't said anything in interviews about wanting to trade him, aside from discussing what a potential trade would look like if and when he comes to us saying he wants out.

Pretty much all the media has been the opposite of what you say. Club+Goody+everyone said they had no interest in trading him. Then everyone's saying it's been brought up by Jesse and his agent. Not saying you're wrong, just that the tiny morsels we get from the club, and the absolutely disgraceful state of footy media suggest that it was Jesse driven.

Yeah. I imagine he wandered into Mahoney's office a few times asking if there's any way we could move into the first round... Think back to 2015 when, late in the trade period, we swapped 6 and our 2016 first rounder for 4 and 10... then swapped 10 for 7, and that got us Oliver and Weed.... That's what I anticipate happening if we end up with juicy draft capital after a Hogan trade.... Just cos we end up with 5+6, or 5+9 or whatever... doesn't mean we then start throwing those at SA clubs. I always have in the back of my head that I'd love to sling an early pick to, say, Port... for their next couple of first rounders. The SA clubs are in love with Rankin and Luko... I do sort of get that one. It's not that they want Jesse less... they just know they're not prepared to hand over that much stuff without waiting and checking on their priorities. These other mid range players like Lobb get done quicker normally.... less moving parts. Less pressure.

Yup. She hates him, so no skin off her nose. She's aware though that Dunn isn't what people make him out to be. And that they lost a GF by less than a goal cos of a lack of air superiority.

Another aspect to May I hadn't considered... a good friend and Pies supporter messages me today saying Pies aren't doing anything and she's annoyed. Says demons will probably get May... She also is picking demons/pies GF next year. If it's a 50-50 ball on whether May gets to us or them... We have ourselves a very very important player. He makes us better, and we stop Pies from improving.