jnrmac

I don't think Melbourne is going all into get pick 3. Its pick 1 or nothing (ie: keep 6 and 11)

It looks weird. It's like he throws it softly in front of him rather than pushes it straight down to the ground. Looks to me like something that won't withstand the rigours of senior football.

Needs to learn how to bounce the ball properly

I think there is a huge difference in that we don't have our admin, training ground, gym, recovery etc all in the one place. No matter how hard people try, it makes a large disconnect whereby you aren't bumping into people around the water cooler, talking social media, admin, board, managers, players etc Hard to one entity. And while people look at 2021, we were in the training hub for a long time. Everyone talked about being in unity and working with purpose and togetherness. No surprise that our 'selflessness' mantra was a huge part of 2021. That seems to have disappeared IMO

Don't we have Blake Howes who should be pushing into Rivs spot so that Riv can move to mid or fwd?

He appears to have quite long arms which I always like. Makes it hard for defenders to spoil

He has had to deal with the fact that the Saints took him at Pick 3 and the Bont went at Pick 4. StK fans have never cut him any slack and have ridden him hard.

Clubs need to be protected from themselves.

We got Petracca and Brayshaw during our rebuild at 2 and 3

I think this assessment is good. Upgrade in quality for both assuming Billings is fit. A worry that McAdam is 28yo and only played 50 games. Am I missing something?

I thought the same thing !!!

Stephen Armstrong

Or a not so independent independent

Exactly. In 99% of cases its total BS and just the excuse the player uses to go back somewhere on a better contract. Something like the Dayne beams deal was most likely legit with his father dying but most are rubbish. The fact we let it happen and don't hold players to their contract means that players and their managers will keep doing it. Someone needs to stop it.

And didn't freo trade pick 1 for Trent croad?

Imagine being a footballer who gets limited time off and you could choose to go to Greece or Italy or ibiza. And you choose to go to Adelaide..

I hate this garbage. These guys are professional athletes. They get paid to do their job. Lots of ppl move for their work. Just do it he's not even from Adelaide ffs

Won't he be out till august?

Dont mind the idea of a Gunston that could potentially play for a year and coach our group.

IS Petty likely to be ready for round 1? If not whats the ETA?

C'mon. 1 Kick and 1 Handball....but gee they were beauties

Our fwd line issues relate to our inability to kick goals rather than points. In our four finals losses we have had more scoring shots.

Not really. You can front end contracts as well. During our crud days we did that regularly i believe

Freo's up there and Geelong are fast becoming a leader

I guess I was wondering whether a player decides he wants to move to Melbourne, picks a club (ie us) and then his management approaches us and says would you be interested in player x?