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Why do people have such trouble understanding that the List Manager's primary job is contracts, salaries and navigating the salary cap and list long-term. Lamb does NOT recruit players. That's primarily Taylor's job, in collaboration with the List Management Committee. Lamb is heavily involved in recruiting once players have been identified (Taylor and co.) as it's his responsibility to do the deals, set up the contracts etc.

Every coach in the league has finals in 2026 as the aim. Doesn't mean it's going to happen.

Not sure if this has been posted: While Adelaide are evidently in need of a game-breaking midfielder of Petracca’s mould, Foxfooty.com.au understands the club isn’t willing to move heaven and earth to acquire him — or, in other words, act on anything they perceive to be an overpay. Fox SportsRevealed: Crows’ confidence in landing Demons superstar b...Revealed: Crows’ confidence in landing Demons superstar builds as Petracca warms to exit

Good luck with that.

Trac's a 30 year old on a massive contract. If he was coming to us no-one here would want to pay more than a couple of second rounders.

Fantasyland. Not only are those picks not available, even if they were ...

They already have 14, so there's one. They then have a) future first and b) LOTS of lower picks that if they're clever they can turn into something higher up. Though which clubs with higher picks would be prepared to trade out of the first round remains to be seen.

Not to mention Stengle.

Melbourne Football Club National Recruiting Manager: Jason Taylor

Seriously? They've offered him 2 years. As for the first bit, the Pies whose list is built around a handful of gifted father sons plus a handful of geriatrics, who increasingly have trouble getting/staying on the park, those Pies? They're about to fall off a cliff.

A thousand times this.

Is that a statement or a question? If the former that's good news, presumably he'd be on decent coin in Sydney. A great get for them, brings a lot of experience.

Basically confirmed in the Leaks thread that May was told in his exit interview back in August.

We had/have a very good assistant coach coaching the forwards.

It's pretty clear May was told at his exit interview. There's even a whole thread here on May leaving which was started in (checks notes) August.

Which only goes to confirm what a lottery the draft is once you get past the top dozen or so. Or even in the top dozen. There are plenty of high draft picks who never amounted to much, Jimmy Toumpas is not an outlier. If you look at who we took with our first-round picks in the last two drafts we've nailed 3 out of 4 of them, which is good going. And still time for Kolt, but who knows.

It was certainly made before King's appointment. As have all these list decisions. You would expect he was told in his exit interview, but it's only coming out now. (Actually, it's not even only coming out now, this was being floated in the media nearly a month ago. Looks like the club/May are being a bit more proactive, perhaps hoping they'll get a few more bites.) Nothing to do with King.

Because by definition, it's not in any way representative. It's an outlier. Yze, McQualter, Clarkson and Brad Scott say high. (In any case, the post I responded to had nothing to do with what we could aim for.)

Oh FFS. Nothing but hyperbole. It wasn't a near death experience. By that metric, giving birth is a "near-death experience".

Now do all the times when new coaches have come in and clubs have gone backwards or remained average/mediocre. Cherry-picking at its finest.

Lots of maybes and could. Speaks about Max Heath ("the Demons presented to Heath and discussed a three-year deal, according to a source familiar with negotiations who wished to remain anonymous.") and Mihocek (Mihocek received a three-year offer from the Demons – potentially two seasons with a trigger attached). Plus: Judd McVee, Taj Woewodin and Jack Henderson are Melbourne’s remaining out-of-contract players. Woewodin will have to wait until after the trade period to discover his fate, but Henderson will be on the Demons’ list next season. McVee, who has opposition interest, including from his home state of Western Australia, will speak to King about his role before making a call on his future.

The Mark Neeld of Platypuses.

We had a defense?

Except that Tim Lamb doesn't make the picks. He's List Manager. You might like to look into who the National Recruiting Manager is.

Mihocek is 6 cm taller than Melksham - and only 2 cm shorter than Charlie Curnow.