Demon Disciple

Maybe we could get the Compensation Pick, then trade it to the Saints for Frawley!

Would obviously prefer him to stay, but can see the advantages for both if he does stay or go. He is a quality KPD, who is doing ok as a temporary forward. Then again, look how well our backline is doing without him even playing there. Should he go, we get decent compensation, should he stay we keep a quality KPP. Either way, when we do start to hopefully seriously challenge for the flag, Frawley would be just about in the twilight of his career. Make of that what you will.

The way he is going, i'm thinking we may have to give up our 2nd rounder for Billy Stretch.

It's because Channel 7 want to show it live, and have it lead directly in to their nightly news.

And to think, we had told Sloane that we were going to pick him with our second round pick, only to hear that WCE were rather interested in Bennell so we thought we'd trump them. Man oh man, how i would've given anything to elect a big footy novice to have been our recruiter instead of bloody Prendergast.

The best thing for Max this year, is to get through the whole season without any major injuries. So far, so good.

I agree that come seasons end, Grimes should relinquish the captaincy. He is a turnover merchant half the time and the other half, is quite damaging. A 50/50 strike rate is not what you want a captain to be. Nate Jones is just a powerful workhorse. MFC's best player since Neita retired.

Are you sure it wasn't a nightmare?......i'd prefer to keep Hogan.

Think ours is pretty good. Love the WCE one. Brisbane's would've been the best, if they didn't stick that stupid lion on it.

It may be what they need, but what quality player would want to go there in the first place?

As good as Cameron is and will probably end up being, even that's too much to give up. We would be a much better team, overall, with Watts and picks 4&5 (whatever they may end up being), as opposed to just Cameron.

Go hell for leather for this kid. Whatever it takes, heck throw 2 kitchen sinks at him. We've got space in the cap and would work well in combination with Dawes and Hogan. Dawes has a very high work-rate and often pushes up the ground and presents. Hogan would be your more stay at home type crash and bash FF, whilst Cameron is more the roaming forward, similar to Gunston. The only problem is, we'll be one of 10 Vic clubs and 7 other interstate teams trying to get him. But get him we must.

What i'd be telling Frawley, if he really is interested in playing in a successful team, is that the less he is willing to make in terms of $, the more $ we have in trying to recruit another good player and ultimately, being a more successful team.

Can we beat them?......................there's always a chance. Hell we beat the Crows in Adelaide. I'd give us less than a 1% chance. Don't expect us to win, just want to see us give it a red hot crack for the full game, whatever the end margin may be. The fact that it is scheduled for 1pm and not at night is farcical though.

That it did, in fact that's what it says in the article (the first line to be more precise).

Would prefer Brayshaw than either Gaff or O'Rourke.

Am a fan of Brayshaw's. I have us finishing 15th this year, but by a decent margin. I have the Saints, GWS and Brisbane finishing below us, although you could add the Tigers and Carlton to that list, even maybe the Bulldogs. All those teams are in need of KPP's over mids, so we may have first crack at him. He is another type that definitely suits Roosy's game plan. He is a tough nut, that is good off both sides, an accumulator, good height and prides himself on doing the 1%'s and team things. Of course, if Chip were to leave, then i'd be using that CP to bring in a tall, by either the draft, or more preferably, a seasoned player (like a Talia, etc)

If Roosy stays on in some other capacity after the 3 years, then it makes me believe the likes on George Stone will stay on as well. He shouldn't be forgotten as an integral part of the coaching group.

Surely if they do qualify for a PP at year's end, it would be for an end of first round PP and not a pre first round PP right away.

I'll admit, i was a pretty big fan of Shiel's. But for the price GWS would command in a trade, he simply isn't worth it. Extremely overrated for his output as a Giant so far. Would rather use that pick on drafting Brayshaw to be honest.

Hopefully this doesn't get into Chip's ear. If NN is worth 800k/year, then Chip is worth at least 1.6m/year. And that's being modest.

Dan Nicholson is another who should be on that list.

They probably would have had more last year, but generally it's pretty neck and neck, if not usually we tend to have slightly more members. But kudos to them. It wasn't long ago that they were really struggling to pull in members just before and after the Suns were announced as the newly established team on the Gold Coast. Many people supporting other Vic teams also bought a NM membership to help keep them surviving, but after a couple of years they understandably let it lapse. So they would have lost a few numbers because of that. To have over 37,000 members is just reward for the effort done behind closed doors. Hopefully we'll be back up among those numbers soon too. If the rest of the year keeps tracking the way it is, followed by another solid year of improvement, along with Roosy announcing a contract extension, i really can't see why we cannot seriously get over 40,000 members in 2016.

Everyone's up in arms here. I'm not happy about it, but not unhappy either. The head is sacrosanct, and what Dawes did, was just stupidity. The extra week off might make him realise that. Not the worst timing to get the extra week off either. He'll miss the clash against Port, even with him, we wouldn't be much of a chance. He doesn't have to face the arduous task of recovery from playing the NT game, he gets extra hungry to face the filth and is cherry ripe to go.

I agree with you JVFP, in that what we need to take some big steps is another quality KPD, KPF and mid (maybe 2). Having another good ruckman would help also. So, by my count, we are still around 5 quality players away from making serious progress.