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A terrific season. Still a kid and huge upside. A beautiful (and much underrated) kick as evidenced by the sublime kick to lewis that set up our first goal and the later one to maxy. He is very calm and makes excellent decisions with his disposals. The coach and team mates have complete trust in him. Rarely beaten one on one and has some big scalps this year. He is already strong but but will get much stronger, fill out and possibly still get a touch taller over the next three years. He is already one of the fittest players at the club and will only get fitter. Very durable which speaks to a fella who does everything right to prepare and recover. His key weakness is his pace and really is unlikely to get much quicker. So that will remain an issue but not a deal breaker, particularly with a fit and firing Lever playing alongside him. Like most big fellas won't hit his peak until he is 25, by which time he will have close to 100 games (and a handful of finals) under his belt. As i noted at the beginning of the season will be a 200 plus game player for the dees and a mainstay of our defence for the next decade.

Well yes. But in this instance Jessie's manager and his coach has come out and categorically stated he is staying at the dees. Which never happens when move is on the cards. So it is safe to assume he ain't going nowhere. Super offer or no super offer.

Of course clubs pay overs. Get desperate if that is the word you want to use. But in each of the above scenarios the player chose to leave so they could get more coin. It appears you are making the assumption that if a club makes a huge offer the player will naturally choose to accept it. But there are plenty of examples of plaers knocking back bigger offers. Kelly resigning with GWS is just one example . I'm sure Jessie himself knocked back a much bigger pay check from freo before resigning with the dees as did TMac no doubt. Riddle me this. Why would players knock back much bigger offers? Two reasons come to mind - loyalty and chance of winning a flag. Every example you listed above the clubs involved were an even money chance of winning a flag or better, but certainly no worse. Why on earth would Jessie leave a club that is a very good chance of winning a flag in the next 5 years and go to one that has zero chance of winning a flag in that same period. Players want success. They want to win flags. And even if they are motivated by money success brings coin. Being in losing team in the west for the next 10 years might earn Jessie a good salary in that time but that's it. Winning flags for a Melbourne club will provide opportunities to earn income for the rest of his life.

I think so. Weed was average in that period.

I can absolutely see the dees playing Weed, T Mac and Hogan together in the forward line and fully expect, if all 3 are fit, to see them line up in the forward line round 1 next year. I think they have shown their hand this year. I understand why some might query the wisdom of 3 bigs up forward, particularly with small forward lines being all the rage atm, as i don't think there are many examples of it working but TMac and Hogan are such aerobic beasts that they can get around the ground, offering down the line options, and Weed can play as the classic full forward leading from the square. With Weed and Tmac also providing great chop out duties for Max there would be big chunks of the game where only two of them would actually be in the forward line at the same time. Hogan for me is the CHF, Weed full forward and Tmac the third tall. Huge nightmare for defensive units and opposition coaches as not only do you need height and strength you need players with motors to match Tmac and Hogan. Throw in a team that gets huge inside 50 numbers and hopefully improved delivery of the ball into the forward line and you have a huge offensive weapon. Bring. It. On.

Not quite the Geelong way. Laughing and pointing to his head after kicking the goal is the Geelong way.

Hello DrD. I can only assume you have not seen this or the other posts directing you to it. Other wise your avatar would be changed already. So once again here is the your new avatar - i look forward to seeing it next to your name: So paging Dr D here is your new avatar (note; please ensure if needing to crop the picture below you get Mark's whole face):

Hello Dr. Please see my last post in this thread.

Hello Dr. Please see my last post in this thread.

Is that a skin condition?

Or alternatively recontact them for another 3 years as the MCC has recently done (despite a long history of this very issue occurring)

Wasn't sure where to put this but i 'd thought the changes for the cats game was as good a place as any, given it involves a change and finals. A change of avatar due to a losing bet on us making finals. Dr D. I gave your new avatar much thought and landed on this as i think there are some parallels with your good self. He was very negative, struggled communicating a positive message (that pre match 'pep talk'- uggh), did not think we would make finals (well, ensured we couldn't), his contribution to the club is questionable, he had his detractors and it would be fair to say was not universally loved Yet still it can't be argued he had a connection to the club and some interest in it. So paging Dr D here is your new avatar (note; please ensure if needing to crop the picture below you get Mark's whole face):

Good movie. Though i think its correct title is Dr Cool v the gorillas

Beggars belief. And apparently they have just had their contract with the MCG extended. Just checked their website. Not a single word of apology. This is what is written (which is not on their landing page - you have to click through to the game to see it): Today's on sale is on hold. More Info to come shortly. Thank you for your patience.

Listed to Maxy on RSN this morning on their Inner sanctum segment (great interview btw - long - and well worth a lsiten). Maxy was asked about the reason for the jumper and someone said how good it looked. He explained it was for the 160 year anniversary and yes it looked great. But his was too big. As was weeds - who Maxy said (jokingly) was spewing because he has worked hard in the gym and looked tiny in the jumper. By the by the RSN breakfast show is much better than SEN's i reckon. Relaxed, more low key and actually usually very informative.

Up there with Ricky pettard

Yes I was having kittens worrying he might do a hammy. I'd have put him on ice halfway through the third. In all seriousness has there ever been one player more important to our chances of winning a flag?

Agree. A simple fix, to what is becoming a real issue - GWS did it almost every time yesterday (we proably did too, but i didn't notice, strangely enough). The 50 metre penalty was introduced to stop exactly this issue. Blatant and owis verty effective at stopping player splaying on. So they don't play this 50 but play the stupid exclusion zone, which rarely actually impedes a player from playing on. Crazy.

Was brilliant wasn't it. Had to laugh though - watched the replay and the commentators did not mention his name when they replayed the goal. All over Lewis and Melksham 'needle in a hay stack!'). Like he didn't exist. Seems to happen a bit. i'm convinced something about the the way he plays, perhaps because he is slow and looks a bit like a stoner, means commentators think all his fantastic work is happenstance. Just watched his AFL stats pro involvements and his kicking was fantastic. Very attacking and involved in a number of scoring chains. His kick to Gawn in the third was another pearler.

Two completely ridiculous threads on DL for the last couple of months. This is one.

I think i've found dr d's avatar. Where is he by the way.....

The Harmes Explosion (T.H.E) Good name for a band.

Hibberd is big in and i like him coming in as third man (except when he hits down Cogniglio's throat!). I like Maxy pushing forard also but he has been damaging dropping back into the hole and so a bit of both for mine

Yep, for sure.