Adam The God

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.

There's a bit of an elephant in the room here. Maybe we don't want picks at all, certainly not 7 and 8 that will become 11 and 12, because JT says the talent is too thin. Sure, we could try and package 7 and 8 to get up higher, but if Essendon can't get up higher with picks 4 and 5, what hope have we got?

And @Very Jaded is spot on. He's hopeless. Get the deal done, nuffy.

Why go on Trade Radio at all? He was never going on to shut it down. There's no need for that. GCS and MFC just do the deal with Trac for picks. Very odd.

Having said that, I'd be happy with Josh Lindsay and others.

Problem is, Binners, 7 and 8 very likely become 11 and 12 after academy and F/Ss, so two mid first round picks for him essentially. And we may well therefore give up other picks to allow them to match academy picks.

Given GWS have traded pick 14 and another for pick 12, will this be used in a Clarry trade?

Lindsay seems to be able to hit any angled kick, I don't think it'll matter.

Yeah, absolute ball butcher. Another Frosty. Looks great in full flight and then mostly turns it over.

Well, Trac probably has 4 or 5 years left. Humphrey has 10+ years.

Since last week. 👍

But there's no question over his fitness or availability so why do a medical haha

As much as I love the gossip, why would Humphrey need to do a medical at all? 🤣