RalphiusMaximus

16 hours ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Rumour is; Tom Hawkins property in Geelong is on the market, and apparently he’s a great chance of coaching us.

This would be gold. He's done an amazing job of mentoring their young forwards and he's a brilliant exponent of forwardcraft.

4 hours ago, Davos said:

he one that has me absolutely stumped is Rory Wright. How is this guy not considered at least a top 20 pick in this draft? The only real downside that I can find is that he seemingly had a quiet national champs, but there may have been a reason for that (position played ect). He's an elite kick and is clean under pressure. Looks best suited as a HBF but has inside-outside midlfield capability. Hard as a cats head. Looks plenty athletic.

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Wonder if he'll emerge as a bolter - JT has shown in the past that he won't always follow consensus.

That footage wasn't great. I saw six unpressured kicks go straight to the opposition or OOTF. One of those gave an uncontested mark inside the D50. He looks a bit on the slow side as well. Good mark, hard at it, but slow and questionable decision-making.

For me:

. Best possible outcome is trade up and draft Duursma

. Best vaguely likely outcome is Robey and Grlj

. More likely outcome something like Lindsay and Grlj

18 minutes ago, red and blue forever said:

7, 8, 37 to

WC for

1, 13, 34, 41?

I'd do that in a second, but WC would be mad to consider it. Remove 13 from the mix and it's closer to doable. Still doubtful given what they would be giving up.

1 minute ago, DeeSpencer said:

By the way, the eagles giving up 22 and an upgrade for Starcevich that then convinced Brisbane to pay overs for Oscar Allen is straight up corruption. Disgraceful stuff. 16 clubs should be demanding the Lions especially get investigated and punished. It’s disgraceful

And Judd should be ashamed for his part in it!

Honestly, I'm pretty happy with this. It's a good return given he was a rookie. We were never getting a first round pick for him.

23 for McVee just announced on 9 news.

Edit: I see this is already on here.

I just have one question. How heavily front-ended was his big contract?

2 hours ago, mfcrox said:

Yep, I floated that hypothetical this morning and I just reposted it in another thread:

Melbourne give: Petracca, Oliver, Pick 24.

Melbourne get: Humphrey, Flanders

Gold Coast give: Humphrey, Flanders

Gold Coast get: Petracca, Pick 12

GWS give: Pick 12

GWS get: Oliver, Pick 24

I could stomach that... and no team really loses

I think we'd need to throw more steak knives at GC to even that up.

They're red hot on htb tonight.

3 minutes ago, Bay Riffin said:

Develop beyond the midfield ? Clayton cannot play anywhere but midfield. He was terrible in the backline, and as a forward is a shocking kick.

Maybe they're thinking Melksham's role as a defensive forward?

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1908055/melbourne-meets-with-oliver

Interesting lists.

Of ours, I would expect Tom McDonald to retire. He was leaning that way this year.

Melksham will probably retire too

May likely traded out.

Campbell is a bare maybe, depon or ruck stocks.

Fritsch may look to move, depending on how we perform and his relationship with King.

I would expect us to retain Chandler, Culley, Salem, and Sparrow.

I'd be targeting Zac Bailey and Ben King of the list of available players. Not massively excited by the rest.

On 07/09/2025 at 10:06, Lucifers Hero said:

We don't have B-Rookie spots for next year. Mentha and Berry have them; Berry till 2027

Upgrade Mentha? Or just use a rookie pick for Sinnema.

On 27/09/2025 at 18:30, Previously known as LITD. said:

I hope we keep all the players in the first post.

Except Lever. I don't think we would get much for him though.

Seems to be 3 to 4 clubs chasing Tracc so we will be lucky to keep him.

True, but he's contracted, and with multiple suitors. That means an auction. They will need to pay us to get him.

From SEN:

2 minutes ago, red and blue forever said:

it's "young and free" not "one and free"

get the bloody words right

Apparently "young" is discriminatory. Or something.

1 minute ago, The heart beats true said:

Is there anyway to stream the game live in Australia?

Kayo only allowed to do a replay at 6 - which is rubbish

7+?

Thoughts on the umps?

Not a patch on Robbie Williams, but that was a pretty good show. Loved the pyrotechnics. Snoop was Snoop. Busted out some token local talent. Colour and movement. Very solid job.

How much did they pay him for that 20 minutes or so?

Idiotic channel 7 blanking out commonly used words they don't like.

Pretty soon they'll get Mike Brady out of the freezer.

15 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Baker Boy has dropped a lot of weight. I didn’t think it was him.

He's improved out of sight from his early work. The latest batch of singles have been really good.

Snoop Dogg is better than I expected too. Not at all a fan of rap/hip hop, but this is listenable.

It's a no from me. Old, injury-prone, too short. He's not what we need. If we go hunting for a forward at other clubs, I want to see 2m or more.