jnrmac

There is no doubt fractures in the playing group from the goings on this year Some serious fence mending is required

It is never black and white but... Our fwd entries have been a concern for years. We have bombed the ball into our fwd 50 for years despite it being a major area of focus. Our kicking accuracy has been poor for a number of years. Our skill level has not improved overall. A large part of our game plan has not changed and has been found it when it counts Our reliance on Max is hurting us. The flip side is we had a garbage year with lots of injuries and close losses. Losses by less than a goal against 4 finalists. Win those and the discussion is probably different. I go back to looking at which players (leaving out first year players) have improved. It's a damningly small list. Rivers, McVee, Turner and maybe JVR Langdon got back to his best as did Tmac and Viney. Below their best is a long list for whatever reason. Petty, Fritsch, May, Lever, Oliver, Pickett, Sparrow.... I get the feeling its a big year for S Goodwin.

He was the best in the AFL during 2022/23 wasn't he?

Have to admire his persistence

Trying to unravel the mysteries of the salary cap will send you bonkers There are so many deals that are: back/front loaded Based on games played Dependent on finishes in awards tied to increases in the general salary cap etc Tracc and Oli I imagine would have signed deals that gave them an increase when the TPP increased (ie its percentage of TPP based) or some might even have clauses which say I have to be in the top 3 players at the club etc Good luck with the project

2 kicks and 3 tackles from those 3 games Hard pass

If Fritsch got 5 tackles per game we would likely score 4-6 goals from those efforts. Unfortunately its his efforts that are lacking

Buddy could take a mark just not a pack mark but I get your point

He was a double grabber. Could rarely take a one grab mark and that I am afraid is a death sentence in AFL

Boards dont work without cohesion. You can't have lone wolfs on the Board disrupting things That said boards need to be accountable and I am not sure ours has been

I'm not so sure that was the reason. GC were being difficult to deal with and everyman and his dog were trying to get p13 The Dons had a need for all our picks so they ended up being a better suitor. Maybe others hadnt tried Essendon because in years gone by they have been so difficult to deal with? I think our team does a good job overall. .We get dudded sometimes but only if we want to do the deal and generally only if we dont need some of those higher picks Other teams know that we are good to deal with and I suspect that gives us some good capital in dealing

Essendon & Syd "won" the trade period last year Port and Geelong the year before Its meaningless

From memory the only recent Coleman medallists to play in a flag in the same year are Roughead 2013, Franklin in 2008 and Lloyd in 2000 McKay and Curnow won the Coleman 3 years running from 21, 22, 23 and it didn't help them win a flag

Maybe. Success is not linear though. There are ups and downs. You have to make the downs count and I think we have done a reasonable job at that. Not so the ups. We should have collected another flag imo

We have engineered 4 picks inside the top 12 in the past 2 years. For a club that has been at the pointy end of the ladder most of that times, that is a great result.

We have as many picks as we have spots on the list. eg we could have 88, 89, 90 if we had the list spots

Thanks for that. I thought he said too but I was confused with the article below the video (where they misquoted him) saying “Now we have four picks inside the top 12 over the next two years which will help us, we believe in the short, medium and long term.

Tim Lamb saying in an interview on the MFC site that we have 4 picks in top 12 in the next two years. That's fantastic but I am scratching my head re next years picks? I assume he means tow first rounders next year? Can anyone enlighten me? Also said that he has never been more excited in his career at the talent in this draft. Another big statement

In 2020 the club told ANB to look around. He was a hard worker and well liked but was fumbly work the ball and unreliable He turned his game around and became a huge mainstay of the team. Sharp has a blueprint of how ANB plays and along with Langdon as a mentor and some'hurt' at missing a GF could well hit his best in the next few years

Sometimes they have to dangle a carrot to keep up motivation...no intel here but its not unprecedented

They have 12 players that will be 29yo or over at the start of the season 2025. I'd say they are putting all their eggs in the one basket No Name Games Age Date of Birth Height Weight Origin Position 10 Pendlebury, Scott 403 36yr 9mth 7 Jan 1988 191cm 86kg Gippsland Power Midfield 38 Howe, Jeremy 252 34yr 3mth 29 Jun 1990 190cm 86kg Hobart Defender 22 Sidebottom, Steele 331 33yr 9mth 2 Jan 1991 184cm 86kg Murray Bushrangers Midfield 46 Cox, Mason 129 33yr 6mth 14 Mar 1991 211cm 110kg Oklahoma State Forward Ruck 5 Elliott, Jamie 194 32yr 1mth 21 Aug 1992 178cm 83kg Murray Bushrangers Forward 41 Mihocek, Brody 137 31yr 8mth 4 Feb 1993 192cm 99kg Port Melbourne Forward 6 Mitchell, Tom 203 31yr 4mth 31 May 1993 182cm 88kg Claremont Midfield 32 Hoskin-Elliott, Will 224 31yr 1mth 2 Sep 1993 186cm 82kg Western Jets Defender Midfield 25 Crisp, Jack 249 31yr 2 Oct 1993 190cm 91kg Murray Bushrangers Defender Midfield 11 McStay, Daniel 180 29yr 3mth 24 Jun 1995 195cm 99kg Eastern Ranges Forward 14 Cameron, Darcy 95 29yr 2mth 18 Jul 1995 204cm 103kg Claremont Ruck 30 Moore,

Good post

How would you know what we have offered?

never liked him anyway. Dodgy haircut

Any mythical trade to geelong would not have resulted a single dollar more to the Manager.