Adam The God

If Carlton thought that way they wouldn't have their Brownlow medallist captain. You draft best available and back yourself to retain them, unless they're saying in pre draft interviews that they only want to be in WA or SA or wherever, but if that was the case they'd also fail the other tests we put them through.

People started that when it looked like he'd leave.

I agree although I think the 24 hour news cycle and social media is impacting all generations though.

Of course it is. I tend not enter into the generational warfare stuff. It gives me the [censored]. Is it an increase in anxiety/depression or is it a better ability to diagnose conditions and seek help for them without being socially shunned? Edit. @BDA nails it above.

Thanks for this mate. RE the idea of structured and unstructured players, I reckon we clearly had too many structured players and not enough unstructured. Certainly forward of the ball anyway.

I think we might look to change up our intercept game next season, but a few things play into this. Does Petty move forward to partner Max and JVR? If he does, we have another decision to make. Do we replace him with a tall like Turner (or Tomlinson if he's still here) to free up May or Lever to intercept, or do we look to go smaller and more mobile at ground level behind the ball? With the acquisition of Grundy, and I'm going to offer my opinion to your question above @Engorged Onion, I think there's less need for this extra tall down back as Grundy or Gawn will play behind the ball. Of course, this leaves us potentially vulnerable against a taller set up from a direct centre stoppage situation, but Goodwin is a percentages coach, and I think he'll back our centre square work to win more often than not. This means I think we may look to go smaller and replace Petty with a medium quicker player. Our back 6-7 from centre stoppage could be the following: Bowey - May - Hibberd Salem - Lever - someone like Woey / Brayshaw If we were really getting beaten in the air (from say 3 talls), we could even play Max behind the ball from a 6-6-6 position. From a non centre bounce stoppage situation, I think more pressure on the ball carrier will bring in the intercepting of either Grundy and Max (I think they'll mostly rotate behind the ball, based on who is the central ruckman), plus May and Lever. I also think we may not always play a ruckman forward of the ball. We may push two rucks behind the ball to clog up space and conversely open up space for our slingshot going back the other way, and let our smaller quicker players go to work. I think a better pressure rating from our forwards and mids will strengthen our intercept game, but I also wonder if our FD thinks a chink in our armour this year was our interceptors being scragged or knocked off the ball, and the danger this presented us once the ball hit the deck. If they're thinking this way, it would make sense to get players who are good at ground level behind the ball. Bowey is our cleanest, but even an acquisition like Hunter might be an option at half back.

I think we've long identified that we could do with more good kicks on the team. And to be honest, this should be a perpetual focus of any list management for any team. Particularly, if you can combine this with the pieces we already have in place - the inside bulls that win contests in outnumbered situations.

Exactly. That's what I believe. Some on here are claiming Weideman is tied to Jackson.

Beat me to it haha. You're a year older than me and therefore like me, a Gen Y. Treating one group of people as a monolith hasn't been that helpful in the recent past and it amounts to nothing more than patronising, needless culture wars.

So we must want the Bedford pick for some other reason, otherwise why wouldn't we just use the Bedford pick, rather than move Weideman out for it? Unless the Weideman deal isn't related to the Jackson deal.

Agreed. I wonder if they'll try and play Fritsch higher across half forward, which allows him to double back and follow the mids, and use his natural goal sense. Salem, Bowey, Hunter, Fritsch and Spargo all good kicks.

This is the bit that hurts if this is what the trade turns out to be.

He looks slightly more explosive than LJ to me.

Sure, but could easily be speculation from the journo. No quotes from our end.

I wonder if he could then form part of the Bedford trade...

How can you be sure the Weideman trade is linked with the Jackson trade?

Yeah, apparently. Or simply what @SFebes posts above.

Someone posted on DL that the guy on BF that posted the original rumour, said that he'd made it up.

We didn't though did we? The Bruce thing was a made up BF rumour.

I'll wait and see what happens, but if it does end up that we lose Jackson and Weideman, I'm a little worried about our ruck stocks. Weideman would seem to be a handy break glass option as a ruck/forward. It depends if we bring in another break glass ruck as back up to Gawn and Grundy. If Grundy and Gawn happened to miss next year, like Jackson and Gawn did this year, and someone like TMac was still injured, who'd be rucking for us?

We definitely need more x factor and goal sense in the forward half. He looks as though he has it in spades.

No, that's quite right You are a big fakey. I've never believed you were real. There's no way you could get all those trades right if you were.

FMD, there are some real nuffies on this thread.

I asked how is he being disrespectful with his behaviour. And I asked it of @CYB as you were clearly happy to sprout innuendo and not provide anything else.

I'm being obtuse? You're the one making insinuations with nothing to back up anything. I'm asking a question...