Adam The God

I'm wondering if he comes cheaply, knows the younger guys already through the Casey system and enables us to spend the soft cap more wisely on assistant coaches and this defacto head of footy role above Richo. Though I'm not saying the development role isn't vital, but it could well be a one year deal or a shorter term deal. I wonder if Lord Nev will become available soon.

Ann Flanders is a boring old biddy!

It's been one of our big issues. Outside of Kozzy and Fritta we have lacked game changing forwards. It's why we went hard for Watson and we should keep going hard for his type.

Thanks for this mate. It's very frustrating when Demonlanders either don't listen to (or aren't able to interpret) media commentary properly or simply post their biases as someone else's facts.

Edmund is guessing.

Mate, you flip flop on everything. We'll see you next week when you're screaming from the hills that we should trade Trac and blow Clarry.

But there's only a 5 per cent of that happening.

At least it's not [censored] Collingwood or [censored] Hawthorn. And Geelong are still 3 flags behind us.

I'd want the deal to keep our future 1st out of it. Either the deal gets done in another way or we keep Trac.

Not very cool at all.

It's always about context. If we'd just come off two straight set exits and hadn't won a flag for over 25 years, and we saw Trac as a missing piece to our midfield and forward half, we might be more aggressive in our thinking. Trac will give them 4 more years or more of quality service, but for us, we already have Clarry and Viney to bull it up. If Trac is agitating for a move, then we ask for Thilthorpe or Rachele and another pick, and we move on.

The pick could land us another small forward that could add to a mosquito fleet around Fritta, JVR and say Mihocek/Melksham. Players like Lachy Dovaston and/or Latrelle Sumner-Pickett. We're not getting Thilthorpe, but we might get a Victorian who we showed interest in last off season, in Rachele. The thing we've lacked, aside from aggressive ball movement, is x factor, ground level forward half players that can hit the scoreboard. If we're going to play aggressive game, we'll need small forwards who can make something out of dirty entries. And knowing some of the kickers in our team, there'll be plenty of dirty entries. Collingwood and Geelong have shown over a number of years now that dirty entries are just as dangerous as perfectly directed entries.

Rachele's goal return: 2022 - 17.11 2023 - 23.25 2024 - 30.17 2025 - 27.15 After Fritta and Kozzy, he'd be comfortably our next consistently highest over that period. He'd walk straight into our forwardline. He's the perfect sort of player for our new King ping™, defensive half slingshot game. If you want to play quickly, you need guys that can get it done on the ground and know where the goals are. He'd be huge.

This is the one and they pay 1mill pa of Trac's contract.

Have you labelled our list manager a "moron" or repeatedly said McAdams is unfit? If not, you're in the clear.

Some pathetic posts on here.

I'd have Rachele as my number one target.

Brilliant article. Thanks mate. Makes me very excited if Lappin is indeed a chance to be at the MFC.

Yeah, that's been talked about a bit on here. Also the fact that Scarlett has a little reputation for being a bit difficult to work with.

I don't love his ball use, but I like his game sense and agility from the tiny bit Ive seen. If we could somehow get him and Rachelle for Trac, our forwardline would be transformed. Particularly with Mihocek too.

Not sure this applies at Geelong...

Williams was allegedly one of the higher paid development coaches in the league. So more money, different environment to challenge yourself, with your mate King. Might be enough.

I coached Greeves in juniors and have followed him over the past 12 months. Seems very outside to me. I'd have similar questions over him that there were over Smillie last year. Nice kick and a good mark, but a little outside. And you either have it on the inside or you don't.

Surely he'd replace the vacant head of development role vacated by Mark Williams.

Could he have meant King was off to Melbourne and not Lappin and worded it poorly? Mooney isn't the most articulate bloke...