kallangurdemon

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 .

I suspect that the AFL compensation for Charlie will be somewhere between nil and zero.

Bet he does'nt.

none of those delisted can consider themselves unlucky .None are even close to AFL standard .A few more are blessed that they are still under contract .

The quickest I have seen is Scott Chisholm although he was an inveterate diagonal runner ,Sid Catlin and Neville Stone were both pretty sharp.

Lets do everything to keep Lever ,Trac ,Clarrie and May .Their absolute best might be behind them but they are indescribably superior to any possible replacement I watched last night .The chances of verrall ,brown,wowy kenterfield sestan tholstrup or adams making it are somewhere between nil and zero .Did JT even see Sestan play ? Looks more like a foreman at the steelworks than an AFL footballer .

Probably the loss was a blessing in disguise .Shows just how poor the bottom third of our list is .Tolstrup found the pace of vfl football too hot -slowest reaction time in the AFL.Fullerton embarrassing .Sestan doesnt even look like a footballer .Laurie and Culley worth persevering with but real depth issues going forward . est

Well he actually owes his entire career to us. He wasnt taken in the main pre-season draft in 2021 and was the last unaligned player taken in the Rookie Draft at pick 18 .The MFC threw him a lifeline and he probably otherwise would still be at Geraldton .We then gave him a full year to develop at Casey .The minimum we can expect in return is that ,even if he is leaving, he in the meantime at least tries. even if he is leavng that he actually still tries

At least I am no longer concerned if Mcphee leaves .

I will wait for Ghostwriters insiders report .Go Ghosty !

Reminds me a bit of Isaac Weetra.

If Kolt was on the cusp of being of AFL standard similar to, say Jeffo I would understand getting games into him to get him up to that next standard. But at the moment he is so far off the pace that I don't see how it helps either the team or himself by playing him .He just looks lost out there .There may be valid excuses for this but that should not in its self be a reason for selection. Surely there is an overarching responsibility for the club to try and win games and select a team that may do that. An extended stint at Casey (where at the moment he is no walk up start } will hopefully help him attune to senior football .

Except that Kevin Sheehan has every player from 1 to 100 in every draft as a budding champion

I was never a fan of Kolt from the get go but that probably had more to do with expectation than his performance .The club built has arrival from Esperance as akin to Sam Kekovichs arrival from Myrtelford .Instead of Sam Kekovich all I saw was a fat kid with a funny haircut. Early on he seemed to have no Instincts as to the space around him and generally looked lost .But i have now warmed a bit to Kolt .Why ?.Well for starters he can at least kick straight .More importantly he has a strong pair of hands and is not averse to the physical contest .He only needs now to adjust to the pace of the game .He is now a definite maybe .

I agree that there is disillusionment within the membership but I don't necessarily agree that this is solely with the club .I sense there is such significant frustration and disappointment with the AFL s running of the game that members have turned away from the game. Some of this disquiet probably has its genesis with the handling of the Brayshaw fiasco and some with the standard of umpiring .i hope the Club conducts a survey of members who did not re-sign to drill into the reasons for their absence. It might surprise

Surely Campbell wont be given another year .We only took him this year as an emergency back up to Max because we never had the wherewithal to get anyone else suitable.A further year on the list will only exacerbate this problem. We must be able to find a younger ruck with a bit of potential .Adams is blessed that he has a contract to 2026 .He can run kick jump and do just about anything other than actually getting the footy .

I am so excited by the signing even though I believe its a bad deal.i I know that makes no sense .

I am an outlier in the discussion not an interloper on the forum.Of course I am a Dee. My reservations are not principally about the money even though this is clearly not a "i could have got more more money elsewhere but stayed for less because i love the place " type deal. My concern is that Kos now has all the security and we have all the risk including the continuing flight risk.

i love Kos and I accept that I'm an outlier in this discussion but I see this potential deal as a lose/lose . If he gets seriously injured gets too comfortable or has a form drop off we are stuck with a huge contract for who knows how long .If he continues to star but gets homesick we then are in exactly the same position we are in now save that we cannot extend further.He will ask to leave for family reasons and that will be that .

JVR is a riddle.When he goes for marks two handed he can clunk them .Why then does he consistently go for them one handed ,even at VFL level ?

We dont need another player with bricks for hands .We already have JVR.