Adam The God

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.

Wtf is this post, DS? Do you just chuck the feet up and hit the turps before posting on Demonland sometimes?

My old man just messaged me to say apparently Peter Wright has requested to be traded and that we're interested. Has anyone heard this or has the old fella gone off the deep end?

Fremantle are really not very good at doing things are they? FMD, just offer a fair trade and let's get this done. But nope. Instead, Bell starts by posturing and playing games. Do they want to do any other deals this trade period or just [censored] around with Jackson? He's sitting around in Perth going, so I'm going to Freo, right? Peter, I'm coming to you right?

I reckon it's too early to say. Let's see what happens with that pick.

Yeah, I meant more that they still have to pay wages that take up total player payments, so they're not really free.

Effectively free? That's not really how the TPP cap works, Marc.

Absolute turnover merchant, who finds himself at his third club.

The high half forward role and defensive mid role? That'd be Sparrow. If it's the little bit of wing Harmes played, then hopefully it's a Tarryn Thomas or at a pinch Lachie Hunter.

I didn't. I read it as we'll change up our mix a bit. Given what we know RE Grundy, it's likely we'll be anchoring the forwardline around Max and from there, we can get more creative.

How bloody impressive is Tim Lamb? Seems like someone who doesn't suffer fools, but is fair and reasonable too.

For Grundy? Pick 20-25. Whether it's acquired as part of a shuffling of future picks and the Bedford trade, who knows, but we can't sit on our hands and hope Peter Bell grows a brain.

Nah, I reckon we'll move forward irrespective of Jackson and Freo. Worst case scenario we have Jackson, Grundy and Max on our list, but we know LJ will get to a club in the West somehow.