Adam The God

A couple of nuggets for me out of some of the social media content recently. 1) Richo is quite involved and I just wonder whether he could be ying to King's yang. He didn't seem to work as the nice guy to Goody's nice gut, but if King is a bit of a hard [censored] and Richo is the good cop, they might just work nicely together. 2) There is a quote from Guerra that strongly implies that Lamb was not happy with the state of the list. I find this very intriguing given he's been at the helm the whole time. It suggests to me that he wasn't happy with some moves and was potentially overruled. Guerra said: "It's a reset, as you said it's hard to farewell a couple of champions, but I think it sets the club up. As Tim (Lamb) has been demanding of us, to make sure that we put the club in a better position. I think at the end of 7.30pm today, the club will be in a better position." 3) I haven't noticed King in any of this content. Goody would often feature. It's not necessarily a good or bad thing. But I wonder if King is very much about trusting the list management team to do their job and leaving them to it. Or whether there's actually been a conscious decoupling between list management and the wider FD during the trade period.

Lindsay and Dovaston for me. A forwardline of: Kolt Mihocek Chandler Dovaston JVR Fritta With Langford, Viney and others resting forward is nice.

IMV, you can't really learn it. You either have it or you don't.

I'm sure King was pretty important too.

Which might have some more validity if he was bringing in a host of genuine A graders. He's maxing out their cap with BOG average, at best, B graders.

That's definitely some raining. Thanks for that.

Jack seems like a top bloke. I heard he's not a particularly demonstrative leader, but he seems to just ooze class and respectability. And we have other blokes who are more demonstrative if needed. But wowee, what have St Kilda done to their culture? If I was a St Kilda player prior to this year, I'd be thinking WTF.

I wonder if it's toughness. I used to coach him as a junior. He's turned into a big boy, a nice kick with a Cripps-like frame, but he reminds me of Smillie from last year's crop. What do you think, @ChaserJ ?

Xavier played as a legitimate midfielder. Josh plays as a definitive half back.

I agree. I was pushed a video of his highlights from a game yesterday and it was full of turn overs and poor decision making. But his championship video from memory is pretty good. What are your thoughts on Josh Lindsay? He'll be around our picks. Just about every touch is a handball receive, but he can take a contested mark. His kicking is sublime though. On any angle, he can hit it, though only on the left foot it seems. But some good run and carry too. Dovaston is the other guy, again likely available around our pick, has good energy, probably lacks the class of a Watson, but could be a more than handy player at AFL level, pushing into the front of stoppage from half forward. From what I've seen, he's very clean below his feet. JT allegedly really likes him.

Sure, a late first round pick is more favourable than a F3, but to my understanding the salary absorbed by Geelong would be no more or less than what GWS have taken on...

I agree mate. Shall we activate the GF guarantee for 2027? I think so.

Essendon, Swans and St Kilda are not glowing endorsements. We're basically saying we don't have anyone capable of communicating to members list management decisions from the FD. And Caulfield is very clearly in his commercial remit, so I wouldn't expect someone from the FD to discuss Caulfield. I would expect Guerra to run that. In fact, having Guerra discuss list management is like having Tim Lamb announce Caulfield. Totally different remits and areas of expertise.

I can't recall a CEO discussing list management except Cameron Schwab. Usually it's Tim Lamb, Josh Mahoney or Alan Richardson. How many times has it been said now that Guerra has no footy experience? I know Greeny is a poor media performer, but I assume Guerra has taken over his spot for media appearances. I don't really care what Guerra thinks. He's not a football guy and he's doing a hard sell in this video anyway. I do care what Tim Lamb thinks. I'd much rather content from him directed to a Melbourne audience, rather than just trade radio appearances and pressers.

Death knell for Richo, surely. Why don't we have the head of footy discussing list management? The CEO shouldn't be anywhere near this.

So much Eeyore twaddle in this post, but we got there in the end.

Of course he could have posted something. But if you think Trac posted his message, you haven't been watching.

Maybe we want someone like Robey at 2 and Pickett at 28...

I've seen it. Doesn't mean May couldn't have admitted fault and told the club he's going to step up his game and fight for his spot...

What?

Spot on mate. If you don't offer lucrative contracts, good luck keeping players. You've often got the same people on here saying "It'S a bUsiNeSs!" but then saying "iT's A [censored] cOnTrAcT!" You can't have it both ways. If it's a business, you've gotta pay up for your best talent. Sure, it'd be great to have all your best players accept unders, but footy has changed so dramatically, good luck keeping who you need by paying unders. It's precisely why we landed Mihocek.

To be fair, he doesn't have a social media manager doing it for him.

The music in this just makes me tear up. It's like the Insta post with Clarry and Trac set to M83's Outro. These two were forever linked to the greatest footballing moment/game of my life. Very sad stuff. I'm glad we're parting ways with both, but wish it went differently overall. They were both on track to play 300 games.

That'll be interesting to see league-wide really. I assume it brings in the second ruck and then has a flow on effect to an additional runner.

I believe pick trading opens again on draft night. So what you'll have is West Coast take their pick 1 and then run down the clock on pick 2 and see what offers come in. They've already signalled to clubs they're willing to split it for the right deal. There's also nothing stopping clubs talking now. Just deals won't be able to be closed until pick trading opens again.