Adam The God

But is it a B+ or B-? Try doing that one...

I agree, but DS doesn't rate AMW, so hasn't included him.

Agreed. This is very much the danger. It's how we go ourselves into trouble with Jefferson and arguably JVR. Best available.

Steele is also a better kick than Viney, Trac and Clarry, and can defend to a high level, so it's definitely net win from and around stoppage, and in transition.

I don't entirely agree with what you've got here, but Josh Lindsay could shift to CJ's half back and CJ moves to the back pocket to play deeper. And Dovaston takes the forward pocket role next to JVR.

Not happy with things, but still managed to bust out another two best 22s. Thanks for that.

Do you think Lamb put Clarry on the trade table? He was dealt a [censored] hand. The memo was to get Clarry to any club that would take him. It wasn't about "winning" the Clarry trade. It was about following orders.

And "Missed out on their No.1 target in Zach Merrett, but they couldn’t have fired a better shot to make it happen." WTF. Why didn't they add to Melbourne, "Missed out on their No.1 target in Bailey Humphrey, but they couldn't have fired a better shot to make it happen, and unlike Hawthorn, didn't make a guy jump that they couldn't get a deal done for." FWIW, I rate our trade period B+. A- if we'd landed Humphrey. We needed the clean slate though, maximised value for Trac and replaced Clarry with another club's captain.

The Eeyores are insufferable. What makes it even worse is it seems they have no idea what his actual job is half the time. Nor how a list management committee works. It isn't Tim Lamb sitting in a room by himself talking to himself and making up contracts.

Well, we have two first rounders next year as it stands to woo old mate and the Suns.

I think we'll trade both of these picks to get up the order. Will be fascinating to see. King is aggressive and so is Lamb. 👏

You know we can spread his deal out over 3 years... And he's a solid citizen.

Apparently Melbourne's interest in Steele is reciprocated, @Demonland .

Welcome Epipen!

A little question, Picket. You said you'd give up your Melbourne membership if we traded Clarry. I just wondered. Will that also mean you won't grace Demonland with your presence next season?

How's 26 first rounders? Take it or leave it.

I think we're in a win-win situation. Land Humphrey and we become better quicker. Don't land Humphrey and we get two picks that we can trade aggressively to try and get an earlier pick or we take two kids in the top 12. As it stands, we have a handy pick at the start of the second round that we either use on Pickett Jnr or trying to flip it into a future first for next year's crop. Can we get Robey? Is Josh Lindsay within our grasp? Do we land a Dovaston? These kids won't necessarily make us better straight away, but in time they will. In JT we trust. We clean the cultural slate with Trac and Clarry. Does May go today too? Probably not. Do we get a solid cultural citizen and leader like Jack Steele? Hopefully. We are very skinny for midfield depth in more ways than one. On ball movement, @Axis of Bob has convinced me CJ is the Epipen to opening up our ball movement and encouraging more risk from the back half. Add to that, we definitely have more pace now. Windsor, Kozzy, Chandler and CJ. Who do we go for in the draft? Next year will see some more growing pains, but if all goes well, we can really attack free agency and trades at the end of 2026. We need a top 8 finish or close to do this. Natural improvement from our youngsters, better ball movement and less predictable forward play will close the gap of losing Clarry and Trac IMV, but the x factor is in the game style and new talent emerging that will tell us whether we can get near enough to the 8.

It's pretty clear if you take your blinkers off.

Thanks for that, Sandra.

I agree with this though. Our comms team strike again.

[censored]. You lot think Lamb alone is pushing Clarry out? There is a list management team, which includes the new coach. We want him out, it's effectively a salary dump.

Sam Edmund reporting a 3 year deal has been agreed. Well done, Gazey, 3 points.

Is that an air ball from Gazey, or what?

They've committed to Trac. And he'd be going WTF if that's their play.

I like how over the course of the last page it's gone from 2 supporters to 3 supporters and now it's 4. It's interesting. They can fight amongst themselves and gain members. Well played.