Adam The God

How do you know that?

Nah, he was still predictably behind the ball last year and yet our pressure was up, so they'd kick it to him anyway. One of my good mates' cousin is a Hawthorn backman. He said to his team mates, "at least I didn't kick it to Gawn like the rest of you!"

This is why I'd be [censored] off if I was him. I'd be saying to Freo, just get the [censored] thing done.

I wouldn't put it past Freo to suddenly put a good player up for trade that doesn't want to go. I legitimately don't know how you can target a player like LJ and not be able to get the deal done quickly. It shows a complete detachment from reality/naivety.

That's interesting. Thanks. To my eye he was nowhere near as dominant t this year in the air than previous years. My feeling is we actually manufactured far more opportunities for him to blow his 2021 averages out of the water in 2022, and due to the opposition scragging him and his own soreness, he seemed to drop a hell of a lot of marks he should have taken and was in a position to take this year. I think it's likely with Grundy's inclusion, Max takes more like 5 a game. Be intriguing to see.

It's terribly bad faith dealings. They really are the worst club.

Agreed. Hence the Grundy acquisition.

The best contested mark in the league as well.

Just quietly, I think we might be bringing him to play the lead role, with Max playing the supporting role.

Did I say anything stupid? Probably.

Great post mate. It always seems strange to me that if clubs could get a deal done, that they wouldn't just try and do it as quickly as possible, so they can move onto other priorities. The Grundy deal should have been done today.

Nah, would prefer hot, thanks.

So the guy who didn't even make a GF knows more than the guy who coached a flag in 2021?

And Geelong get Cadman to replace aging Cameron and Hawkins. 🤮

We're trying to make the best out of a poor situation. We'd rather LJ was staying and playing for us. Now we're trying to get the best deal for the club.

It's pretty obvious what @binman is saying. That when we move the ball quickly, we are quick. Quick ball movement is much more effective than running the ball quickly...

If you look at their returns, Butters and Rozee would not get the deal done alone. Seriously. It'd have to be Georgiades *and* Butters.

Bit of a [censored] stirrer is our Trac.

But hang on. I didn't say LJ was necessarily a generational talent. Dazzle said he wasn't better than any of the draft crop this year. Who. Have. Never. Played. A. Game. Of. AFL. Football. Luke Jackson was instrumental in the greatest burst of AFL football perhaps ever witnessed.

Despite never having seen them play at AFL level and Jackson breaking the game open in a GF? We'll agree to disagree mate.

Really? Overrating draft picks are we, mate?

Yep, exactly.

I tend to agree and it probably has to fall on Yze’s shoulders in some respect, however, what this point disregards is that we usually set up minus 1 at stoppages and sometimes minus 2. Our work from centre stoppage as the season wore on became deadly. We scored many of our goals from this situation. It's all about manufacturing an outnumber behind the ball and backing our elite midfield to break even minus 1 or 2 down. It's a percentage strategy, which is probably the right one in the long run.

I'm surprised because I'm not sure Bedford is going to make it as an AFL player, but anyway, it seems the club holds a different view. That said, we could be holding out to try and get a decent pick back to get another trade done. We don't tend to play funny buggers like that though.

Yep, we both knew that (so did Dunkley), and thought it was huge if true, and anything was possible given Essendon's implosion, but sounds like it was a hoax.