Adam The God

2 hours ago, COOLX said:

As for backups (temporary possibly) Leek Aleer (GWS) Macrae and Caleb Daniel ( WB ) . 

Hunter offers nothing and to a degree so those Chandler and Sparrow. Where does Spargo rate, anyone. 

Would love Aleer. Is going to be a very good player.

8 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

I think that they will come to supporter groups to help raise equity, MCC, MFC, AFL ( they owe us big time) State & Fed Govt. this is not like the Cats Colosseum.

They absolutely will, that's their go to.

4 minutes ago, layzie said:

I sort of feel like Spargo's only chance to make it back into this team is as a high HFF essentially the Nibbler role. Like you I'd love to be able to utilise his kicking into the 50 ability but I just feel like he gets a bit lost when he's deployed on a wing. 

Stanger things happen though, didn't think Gus had any business out wide before we tried it. 

Yeah, Nibbler basically plays/played as a third winger, with a greater licence to join in on offence.

I don't think we want Spargo in the midfield rotation @dazzledavey36, I'd prefer we go after a Jagga Smith, who has moved into number 1 target spot for us IMO.

Play Charlie between high half forward, wing and deep forward. Charlie getting to the foot of contests like he did in 2018 and 2021 inside 50 made him a dangerous small. Needs to do the same again. I do have concerns about his fitness though given the long lay off. Let's hope he's back on the track soon.

12 minutes ago, FreedFromDesire said:

Yes, ours will be quite high as a total, it's expected to be around $100-120 million, of which we have committed $20-25 million.

So that's $20-25mill from the $32mill(?) sale of the Bentleigh Club? Of course, we'd have hopefully generated significant return on that from speculation in financial markets and interest, but that's a large amount to sink into the project, I'm sure it can't he helped though and the Caulfield asset gain will outstrip holding the Bentleigh Club. 

7 minutes ago, mo64 said:

I'd love to know which games they were. In 2022, Spargo had 3 games where he got more than 15 possessions, and in 2023 he failed to get more than 15 possessions in any game.

As a comparison, a first year player in Windsor got more than 15 possessions in 9 out 19 games.

And you want to replace Windsor on the wing with Spargo? 

Spargo is the most overrated player by Demonlanders.

Look back over Gus' possession count for 2021. Spargo played the defensive wing. It was about covering and trying to provide an outlet going forward.

I want to use Spargo's aerobic capacity and his ball use, and maximise Windsor's damage as a half back ball user and line breaker. This is the compromise you have to make when you don't land Houston. We need faster and better ball users off half back.

I'd also like to give Windsor 2 or 3 CBAs occasionally to get him used to it.

15 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Isn't he good mates with Blake Howse?

Yes.

8 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Dingley has a budgeted cost of $113 M for the Hawks facility

(The land cost was under $8M)

Yep, I'd heard ours would require similar funding, great news if not, but remains to be seen. 

2 minutes ago, Oxdee said:

They aren’t proposing to build Dubai.:: it’s a few football ovals, a pavilion and a 4 storey HQ..: a members fundraising and some contribution from council and state governments will be enough. I’m in construction and the total cost for this isn’t going to be exorbitant 

What are we talking though? I had previously heard tens of millions...

Just now, DeeSpencer said:

Not sure Spargo will ever be a viable wing with his zero overhead game, but Chandler took some rotations in the last 2 weeks and looked fine.

We need to do what every other club does and realise the wing is largely a trash position and stop spending so much on it and rotate guys through. 

Chander, Fritsch, Tholstrup should all play some minutes there, heck even Disco if he has a big summer and that way Windsor and Langdon can move around.

Spargo played some wing in 2022-2023 to good effect IMO.

19 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

So true - but we really need to secure a couple more picks in the top 25. Assuming we get one from Adelaide from ANB, we need to be creative to get another from somewhere so we have 3 in that group of 25. 

Definitely trade the future first for mine.

5 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

So it's still peak MFCSS in here? [censored]. The $$$ will already be pretty much locked in.

What is this based on?

The business case is to come.

There should be multiple co-financing avenues with the multiple racing clubs, MCC, state, federal and even local govs, the AFL and our own cash injections, but this is a commercial team that struggled to get a short's sponsor for a team that had finished top 4 three years in a row and won a flag.

As for MFCSS, it's actually just a lack of trust now sullied over multiple years by the administration, nothing to do with the football side of things. At least not for me.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that is super deflated by this.

I don't trust their economic nous either to bring the financing puzzle together.

If we went with Owies, we could play Spargo on the non Langdon wing and play Windsor between half back and midfield.

2 minutes ago, Bowserpower said:

One of the poorer suggestions yet. Apart from kicking the odd goal I don't know what this guy offers...

This is like @WERRIDEEs post in the other thread RE Goody.

He kicks goals. They're handy in football.

I'm not convinced Hunter has a year left.

And I'd be staggered if he's on the list next year.

3 minutes ago, Sydee said:

If we want to persist with both Turner and Petty inside F50 and Tomlinson goes Young might be worthy of a list spot. I think hapless is a stretch tbh and he can kick off both sides pretty well which is rare for a KPD.

If Jed Adams was showing more I’d agree he may not be worth pursuing but atm if May or Lever gets injured which they seem prone to do he might be a good back up 

He might be worth a spot, but I'd rather treat TMac as the back up or the guy who starts 2025 in the best 23 and look to push someone like a Riak Andrew through there by the end of the year.

22 minutes ago, MO FINE said:

Since he's an over ager, does this mean he's no longer in our NGA (or eligible to be selected by us as an NGA?

I don't think he is. Could be wrong though.

47 minutes ago, Skuit said:

A brief time out from our differences mate: did you adopt the Adam the God moniker to outdo and bait our friend Steve the Man? 

Nah, I just needed to change my name after Steve dubbed me Binman's PA. It was my wife's suggestion. 🤣

1 hour ago, djr said:

What a ridiculous comment.

It's pretty incontrovertible that the off field has gone down hill since 2019. Within just over a year, the president was replaced, now we've had another president replaced, and for the last 12 months, we've been leaking like a sieve. That culture is set from the executive. Under PJ we did not leak. I think you'll find there's been a significant commercial drop off this year too, which is partly a result of on field, but also a lack of commercial nous from those at the top. We didn't get a shorts sponsor for ages...

2 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

I don't know why Roffey had to fall on her own sword when it's Goodwin that should have. The club has had a million and one controversies and Goodwin hasn't taken responsibility for any of it. If we hadn't won a premiership he'd be gone. Another year like this and he has to go.

🤣

Yeah, that fact rather undermines the let's sack Goody crew.

Yep, hope we go for Riak with a later pick.

10 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

We sniffed around Merrett a few years ago.

If he was at all gettable, why wouldn't we do the same to Merrett now?

Where is Owies going? He'd be handy.

25 minutes ago, einstein251 said:

Matthew Kennedy would be a good get for the club but I suspect the Blues will want us to pay too high a price.

As @Nascent says, they can't tell him to explore his options and then demand a particularly high price.

46 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

He didn't play.

Was it in pre season then? Didn't he kick 4 goals against us?