kallangurdemon

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.

what surprises me a little is the assumption that the membership fall is simply a result of the teams lack of on field success .I suspect that a significant group of supporters are completely disilluisioned by the AFL attitude to the Dees.They have had to swallow the AFls handling of tne Brayshaw incident ,the Mac Andrew Drafting ,the Petracca incident and free agency compensation .It is apparent that we do not rate highly at headquarters and we seem always to be behind the 8 ball with the AFL.

good luck to Marty but gee it must have been borderline.

Great to see that Joe is still supporting the club.Has had his ups and downs even when president ,but probably if he never came to the rescue we would have joined Fitzroy as a part of footy history.Was a tragic day when he lost the presidency. g

I see our official membership figure was 65548 for 2024.This is about an 8% drop on last year and lower than 2022.We now rank 11th on the membership table .We are less mid table and more in line with lower end. Our membership projection for 2025 would be of serious concern after all the negative press heaped on us.

In fairness he got a solid knock early in the game and was taken down to the rooms for a concussion test .Not much good after that .

He cost us a first round and two second round picks .Such a poor return on such a huge investment.We dont draft for exuberance.

Tholstrup drafting disaster.

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wasnt it Big Billy Baxter ?

I thought it was great trading by us .Two first and a further 2nd round pick for a player whose reputation was largely forged on half a quarter of football .When he arrived he couldn't clunk a mark and five years on he still has bricks for hands.Not big enough to be a ruckman and not good enough to be a forward.

Look Im sure that Luker is a great kid and doing his very best .But that is not a basis for extending his contract .The club did not proceed with a view that he would be a slow burn otherwise they would have given him an 18 month contract rather than 6 month one .They preserved the option to offer an extension or delist Luker .Thats simply good football management .He ,contrary to what has been stated or at least implied here ,did not have big stats in WA and that trend sadly has continued at Casey.You cant expect a contract extension based on a hope for improvement that is unsupported by any evidence to date.If he is kept on the list that is one less spot available for someone else .

I'm unsure as to whether Lamb chooses these trade targets or just facilitates the mechanic of the trades bearing in mind existing list commitments.if it is the latter than it is difficult to be critical as as none of the trades cost us a great deal .

Glad you highlighted the Hollywood pick swap.14 27 and 35 for 11.It made little sense at the time and even less sense now .Look forward to the final installment .