kallangurdemon

i wouldnt worry if he left tomorrow .Generally over rated on DL .Sure his top half first round picks have been ok but they almost pick themselves .You could easily send an office girl armed with Cal Twomeys phantom draft to do that part of the draft .But since about 2020 our picks beyond that have been ordinary.Jefferson,Adams,Verrall Seaston. Johston Tholstrup Howes Woewodin Laurie Rosman Brown all misses. Even JVR has been disappointing .Bowser was a hit but he was also a first round pick.There is plenty of scope for us for an upgrade if JT was to return to air conditioning .

Sadly its going to be a long long season ,very much like the Neeld years .

A great get but it also highlights the shortcomings of a CEO without football experience .

Up until the knee tragedies by far the best key forward i had seen at the Dees .Just so powerful in the air and mobile for his size .An inexpressible talent.

I would expect DAZN to apply pressure both to the AFL and NRL to reduce the cost of the present deal or at least the next deal .Foxtel was in a paradoxical position .On one hand it could not afford to have the NRL and AFL deals because of the enormous outlay.But on the other hand could not afford to not have the deals because it would have left Foxtel bereft of watchable content .So Murdoch then did have something to sell to Blatvanik even if it contained overpriced agreements .You would expect DAZN as an international streaming conglomerate now to sweeten the sale by reducing the costs to it of NRL and AFL

At the obvious risk of seeming pedantic. that is not entirely correct .The Hawthorn game was the penultimate round and the win guaranteed top spot .We would still have achieved this by defeating a lowly Footscray (as it then was ) in the final round.

The best selection was Stephen Tingay in 1987 at pick 50 .Stinger was an absolute champ who, but for a freak accident that interrupted his career, would have been an all time great .The worst pick was Donald Cockatoo -Collins with pick 11 in 1995.This was the "feel good " pick used to enable us to partner him with his brother David whom we had inexplicably drafted the previous year .The two played a combined total of 9 games but started our tradition of "feel good " drafting. This has has continued to the present draft .

I expect most close observers would at least have some concern over using a comparitivley early first round pick on a player that couldnt even make a SANFL grand final team.We dont get many first picks so they should be cherished and applied to best accelerate our rebuild .They shoudnt be speculative picks,We can use second and third round picks for that.The only factor that stops me seeing Pickett as a companion pony selection is that JT saw an untapped upside which would transform Latrelle .

Gee this Mark Neeld bloke sounds like he can really coach

This will be my only post on a thread which is mercifully reaching its end .I want to just say that I am still completely gutted that Clarry has gone .He was the best footballer I have seen at MFC .Robbie ,the second best ,was a gazelle and eminently watchable but not the match-winner Clarry was.This difference between the two is fairly reflected in their Bluey history..Would we have won that elusive flag or become a temporary power without Clayton ? No we wouldn't have ,simple as that.i know there are many accounts given as to why Clarry was jettisoned , some probably true ,most apocryphal. But we Have now lost a player who is irreplaceable .

a one paced midfielder in the twilight of his career . a decision born out of sheer desperation .

I hope Im wrong but I suspect that Brodie is pretty much cooked ,hence the Pies one year offer .We never seem tp learn.

Mm.,not sensing a groundswell of support for this one .

I dont believe posters fully appreciate how difficult it is to get a good player let alone a champion .Whatever we got in a trade would be less than Tracs worth to the team .We only have 3 A graders and that is about all that separates us from West Coast .We need keep them at all costs

Why are we even contemplating dealing with Collingwood ? ..They only give us the leftovers .Surely by now we have learned our lesson from Chris Dawes, Harry O Brien ,Ben Kennedy and whoever.Sure Henry Coles and Flash Gordon were good pick ups but that's hardly recent .