Adam The God

Yeah, I'm excited by this prospect.

Balta would be amazing. 24, perfect age, swingman. But I think we have other priorities in terms of trade capital and TPP.

Wow, are would be draftees really calling the shots pre draft these days? So much entitlement.

Absolute nonsense. And had we not held Trac to his contract you would have had egg all over your face...

I'd much rather bank on the ceiling of an upcoming draftee like Cooper Hynes at pick 20-25, than Peatling for five years, but will back the FD.

Well, it depends what our other needs were. I don't think tying up a reasonable amount of TPP in a winger was the best port of call. Neither did the FD. They were trying to lure a KPF and/or a genuine mid with that TPP.

But you're not really listening to posters arguments here. Amon would have cost significant TPP...

Because they were brought in to fill a need. Hunter was a genuine winger who enabled Gus to move to half back. Billings was brought in to allow more flexibility with Lingers, who played between wing and half forward in the first half of the year. We needed someone with the running capacity to cover those wing minutes, and we weren't expecting Windsor to play as many games as he did, nor to the level that he delivered on. So they're not random salary dumps. That's irrelevant. They are strategically and cheaply acquired assets.

Agreed, but it was his calf wasn't it?

Yep, I reckon he can.

Derksen is another potential cult hero that the MFC media team can get around, @Jaded No More...

Which by the way, isn't a mile off Port's 2018 draft and could transform our midfield depth, bring even more youthful exuberance to the forward half.

If we get three top 25 picks, we can afford to take a risk like this if we think he's good enough.

I'd absolutely be trading our future 1st and banking on other clubs believing that we'll have a repeat of this year in 2025.

Guess who owns most of the the Victorian debt? The RBA. It could be written off tomorrow.

If we can manage 3 picks in the top 25, you could in theory land Jagga Smith at 5, Taj Hotton at 14 and Cooper Hynes 20.

Hope so. Jagga Smith and Cooper Hynes with Rivers, Kozzy, McVee and Kolt would transform our midfield.

I'm not suggesting we'd have finance locked in, I'm suggesting we should have a finance plan in place. ie. we think we could get x amount from the AFL, x from MCC, etc etc. And in order to have a good idea of how much, you'd need to have preliminary conversations based on an idea. ie, if we get the go ahead with Caulfield, how much support could we hope to get from you, AFL? etc etc

So who do you think was our preferred target last year?

Two very unlikeable sides, but at least it doesn't involve Geelong or a Victorian side.

Again, surely you'd have a finance plan at this stage.

That's fine. Believe what you want. A poster I trust already confirmed what I've said on the same pages of Demonland a few days ago.

Indeed. It'd be a weak draft if he was anywhere near the best 5 players.

It was both. We didn't want to pay what they were asking, so CSM through us under the bus and used Trac as the excuse.

You don't think the initial feasibility study should have covered financials?