Adam The God

We've come a long way, haven't we?

I'm not so sure...

I think we'd be professional enough to say, Brody, if LJ leaves, we'd love to have you on board, otherwise we won't have the cap space. And he goes, I'm happy to stay at the Pies, but if a deal eventuates for LJ, I'm happy to nominate Melbourne too. This is a perfectly reasonable position. Clubs have to be able to plan contingencies and with players nominating at season's end, clubs have to do some alternative groundwork before this time so they're not left hopping.

But is Dangerfield coming?

Acres IMV is a Harmes type, but not as hard or as good.

Yep, completely agree @rpfc.

That is definitely on the lower side though. Even $350k to shift clubs isn't particularly enticing for established best 22 players, which Acres has become at Freo this year. Really poor list management IMO, but I fully appreciate I don't have all the details. And that wage is unlikely to take into account match payments and any additional payment triggers.

I reckon the lack of respect here for Goody is pretty poor. Why do we ever need Yze to take over? Why couldn't Goody leave when he's grey and old, ala Ferguson at Man United? I'd love Yze to stay at the MFC, but if he wants to become a senior coach, he needs to go elsewhere.

I'd rather the best person for the job and the current bloke is the premiership coach.

What? Replace our premiership coach in two years time? FMD.

For comparison, here is a really interesting video on Charlie Curnow from his draft year. He talks about not really knowing where his best position was, but he says forward, mid or back. At that stage, he was 191cm (I think he's 192cm now), but it's his explosiveness that makes him such a threat and provides him with that x factor. Interestingly, he compares himself at that stage to Jake Stringer. Cadman does seem more like the smooth moving half forward type, but perhaps JVR can be that more explosive competitor at 192cm. Be interesting to see who gets Cadman and I'd love to be a fly on the wall amongst Melbourne recruiters this year.

Did he though? And there's a difference between working around it and not being able to exploit the midfield talent we have because we don't have a genuine ruckman...

Haha, I'm sure it is, mate, however, Grundy would be playing first banana and Max playing second banana. That's the pitch to him I reckon, with Max providing relief. If we can win another flag this year and Geelong falter, I think we'll be the far more appealing destination between Geelong and Hawthorn.

If I were Grundy I'd rather come to Melbourne, but maybe I'm biased. 🤣

As someone who grew up in the 90s, I have learnt something here. Given Essendon have won the equal most flags of any side ever, and they were almost always successful when Sheedy was coaching them in my lifetime, I always assumed they were around about the top. Let's hope Goody can deliver us 4 flags like Sheedy and put us level with Essendon and Carlton on 16, and one ahead of Collingwood. Would make us a powerhouse club again if he can achieve that with stability off field as well.

It's Selwyn Griffith btw, not Griffiths.

Rankine seems like a nuffy. Kozzy seems very happy at the MFC. One small forward is not the same as the other.

If LJ ends up leaving this year it's a big missed opportunity to get Cerra, who is a gun. But what's done is done and I'll back our FD to make any LJ trade work, if that is indeed what does eventuate.

Do we get a portion of the gate at finals? Particularly home finals...

And only because our 2021 was marginally better, do we view the 2022 season through a potentially more negative lens.

Would we want anyone from their list? Wright and Merrett the only ones. Maybe Parish. But Merrett's contract would be too big now. Trainwreck indeed.

Thanks for your thoughts mate. Be nice to have an understudy to Lingers when the time comes.

McCluggage is a relatively soft outside winger with beautiful skills. I wouldn't want him as my captain. At least Neale can drive the team forward when he wins clearances and impose himself on the contest.

FFS. Cancel him? Can people not call someone out without the free speech brigade banging on about cancelling? No one's calling for Brown to be cancelled. People are merely pointing out he's a nuffy, who is part of the problem. His comments were either poorly worded (so stand by them) or they were pathetic. He's paid big bucks to analyse football. If he can't string a sentence together properly that's his fault and needs to stand by his words.

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