Adam The God

Yeah, we've seemed to match uo well against them for a few years now. Having said that, I have no idea what to expect today. We could lose by 100 or win by 4 goals. Who the heck knows?

Go on... what else have you heard? This'll probably turn up in a Barrett article now.

Their list is horrendous. Half of them are VFL players at best. Perhaps even 2/3s. The delusion of their board and MM that they were close to a tilt at the flag. Their arrogance has brought them undone. I love it.

If we start to climb then, it'd be bloody fantastic. We might even be able to steal a few of those bandwagon jumpers.

Josh Kelly's made some pretty poor decisions and skill executions in this game. He's a smooth mover, but not convinced he's a great decision-maker.

Yeah, no excuse. We still should have beaten them. I'm loving this though. They'll lose by over 100 now I would think.

Another assist for Lynch too.

Essendon are playing like Melbourne circa 2013. The Mark Neeld magic.

How did we lose to Essendon? Urgh. They are the second worst side in the comp, behind Carlton. It's beautiful, but we shouldn't have lost to them.

He'd be worth at least $700,000. Given the market at the moment says Boyd is worth $1mill, it depends who's paying too. He could go for anywhere between $700,000 and $1mill, but he won't go for less. I just think the midfield is ultimately more important, particularly as we have Hogan and he's playing great footy, unimpeded.

Slightly left field, but in the press conference for Max's signing today, has Roosy had some nip tuck with his eyelids?

Dawes and Pedersen are better than Reid.

2-0 too. Meanwhile, very glad to have Salem back in. If he could accumulate a few more touches, he would be such a damaging player. I look forward to him going into the midfield in time, but for now he should play off half back.

Yeah, Gawn is the other bloke we should be offering a bit to too.I reckon the midfield is the correct focus. If you look at the majority of flag winning teams, they all have gun midfields and usually one gun forward and a role playing KPF. We have Hogan and then Tommy Mac at the other end. We need midfielders that can break the game open and skill and pace off half back to get us out of trouble.

I'd offer Prestia a 5 year deal at $650,000 per year and heavily front load it. I'd be happy to go up to $700,000 if it meant landing him though. Just make sure we front load the hell out of any big contract we give this year, because we want to be paying Hogan, Brayshaw, Petracca, Viney, Tommy Mac, Tyson and hopefully Salem the big bucks in years to come. If we managed to land Prestia and another A grader, we should expect finals next year, even a top 6 finish. It's just that very top echelon of talent in the 22-25 age bracket that our list lacks. Address that this trade/FA period with two A graders and 2016-2017 will be very exciting.

Carey is scum.

I would give Fitzy another year too. I was just outlining who I think will go.And yes. I was forgetting Jamar too.

Well, I think most of us have been saying for a while that it will be 6-8 list changes, rather than 12 or so. Terlich, McKenzie, Bail, M Jones (probably), Toumpas (traded), Howe. Grimes and Fitzpatrick could be gone too.

I'd offer him $300-350k.

Bad culture.

Surely, some Godfather-like offer has already been put to him.

Agree with your first sentence, but not sure I agree with your second line. He and someone like Prestia would get us into the 8, but pushing Hawthorn and everyone else, let alone learning to win regularly is a long way from winning the flag.

Imagine injecting Dangerfield and Prestia into our midfield next year. Actually, I shouldn't use that word. Add Petracca, Salem, Kent and maybe even Trengove and we're starting to look like a finals side. That would be truly amazing in just three years of Roos.

Agreed, mate. It's just getting that consistent four quarter performance that we're after. Once we get that, we should be looking at playing finals. There's no doubt that we are trending upward though. Roos is a marvel. I expect us to get 10-12 wins next year and push for the top 8. In Goodwin's first year, it would be extremely disappointing not to play finals.

Calm down, HH. Just enjoy watching him play.