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Terrible ball drop, horrible preparation but very nice touch. Odd combo. Just from those highlights I wonder if his mobility is a concern. He is a project player and needs a lot of development. I’d rather we look at mids, small forwards and half backs.

Yeah I don’t see the comp with Salem at all. At least not when Salo was top of his game. I think there are other prospects who would help us more than Lindsay at 7&8.

He should be watching James Sicily highlights. Needs to round out his game and become a switchable player. Elite kick.

Yep. I think I need a break from footy.

I’m older than I thought because I don’t get it.

I was being facetious. Anywhoooo, onwards and upwards.

The Trac people were very stressed…

Looking forward to Langford changing jumper number to number 5 and receiving it from Brock McLean. We wanted him gone. King thought we could rescue it. Trac let him know that he was out out. Not mucking around. Every club knew. GC leveraged that. Apparently over the weekend it was at all time high levels of tension. Back on the subject of jumper numbers; some pretty famous numbers are now vacant: 5, 9, 13 & 14 If we draft some crazy, we should give him 14 in honour of Rod Grinter.

Love Jennifer….. even when she’s saying ‘ ok good job’ in that manner. Not sure why you get so worked up by these updates. Real or not.

Because we should be stealing some Blackhawks and rescuing BH from the Suns. Take him by force. Contract be damned. That’s what Collingwood would do… or Hawthorn.

Maybe it’s double secret?

Demonland: Come for the gossip, stay for the gifs

Intel is on the way out! Sell! Sell!

It’s just that your work in this area is of such a high level. Once this thread slows down I’ll be saving a lot of the better ones to my phone!

Your gif work is your greatest gift to this forum.

By far the most MFC thing to do would be to get an agreement in place but send the fax too late thus miss out on trading for Humphrey. (That happened 20-odd years ago from memory) The worst bit is, someone would then realise there’s this thing called email and so they quickly put together the email and send it to AFL house. Only to realise at 7:31pm that the MFC email only sends emails during the hours of 9am-5:30pm to protect their employees from themselves.

CAC1963 from memory

I can’t speak to a meeting today but I was told that the club hoped to have direction from player and manager by the end of today. When I saw the post about another meeting I thought, “that makes sense from what I have heard”. With anything this time of year, the stories and rumours won’t all come to fruition but that doesn’t mean there isn’t truth to them. We are desperate to land BH. We’ve thrown everything at him. We are facing significant barriers. It might happen. It might not. And if we don’t land him, it doesn’t make people on here who give updates of what they’ve heard incorrect.

McLuggage was the #1 on the draft board I had access to. Choosing a back pocket in McGrath at #1 was perplexing. I did a full package of reports on Daicos. He was undervalued at the time. I had him just inside the top 25. There were some clubs that thought about bidding as Collingwood didn’t seem to be too interested. The theory was, they’d select him late in order to keep Nick on the path but wouldn’t match an early bid.

This was the last draft I had anything to do with and I never understood the Ainsworth love. Seemed very vanilla for a top 10 pick.

We had a Max King at one stage. The illegitimate son of Gawny and Steven. Unbelievable to think he lost the genetic lottery.

Known for his aggression and tackling pressure, Heath stated that "I just enjoy tackling and being really physical on the ground, because I know it elevates my teammates into going in harder. They know I’m going in just as hard, and hopefully I can protect them or really help them out in that sort of way. I don’t want to hurt people, [but] I want to have a real physical impact on the game and put kids into the ground. Now, I’m focused on putting men into the ground.” Beaumaris Sharks footy factory product. Hopefully can do something every other player, other than Dogga, couldn’t do; co-exist with Maxy.

I hope GWS wins the flag in 26. I am ok with Clazza moving on as I think he needs change as much as the club does. But he was my favourite player from day zero at the club. His first 100 games were the best first 100 I’ve seen. Always nice to me personally and to my kids. I hope this is the change he needs and he gets back to his best. We will move on as a club and give some of our younger players new roles and responsibilities which might enable us to surprise the competition and play some meaningful footy in 26.

It’s definitely a consideration. I’m not saying they wouldn’t trade with Hawthorn or Collingwood, more that they’d prefer not to if they have a choice. In other professional sports it’s a serious consideration.

They generally do but, without doing any research to see if there is precedent, it would seem odd to openly trade a contracted player to a team that you think is one of your main competitors for a flag. Especially a player of significance. GC could effectively tell him that he’s contracted but would consider a trade to a team that can provide the return that GC needs. Otherwise, see you at preseason Bailey!!