DemonWA

I know its not the case, but in my eyes Taggert is almost like a free draft pick this year. I reckon he'll show a fair bit this season

When i started reading reports about the Dee's taking a "moneyball" approach to the trdae/FA period i was sceptical - thought it was more of a media beat up based on a interesting concept and a decent movie. But if we get Ray, Pederson, Byrnes, Dawes etc then the look of our team will be drastically different in 2013, and the moneyball comparisons wont be too far off.

Still to early to call a prendergast, but I've been talking up gysberts for years to my mates as a future AA mid

I remember him playing as a tagger on Boomer Harvey and embarrassing himself and the club with his 'tough guy' antics

Oliver 'baby face' wines

FYI that was a completely fabricated rumour, posted soley for some sport with old dee!

Hooked another old dee! these Jamie Bennell's are great bait

was talking to a mate that won a flag along side JB for the carey park panthers. said he spoke to him the other day and has been told they'll give him 2 years subject to how the rest of the trade period goes.

yeah he trys hard, and must be confused about what his role would be in our side. Good luck to him at his next club or for life after footy. Is guitar playing is mediocre at best so for his sake i hop he gets a go at another club!

yeah just goes to show that players want to play at clubs where they can expect success. All 3 pick ups are guys who were wanted in some capacity by their previous club, but chose to leave.

agreed, if we dont get Toumpas or Wines i'll be disapointed and perplexed.......im talking Lucas Cook perplexed

another certainty is that we should be able to keep posession more often as we transition from the midfield to the forward line!

i wouldnt be suprised if this was a case of a journo getting names confused. Maybe Davis or Williams?

]perhaps they've asked Grmes to take Gysberts under his wing for the upcoming preseason?

Neeldy is going to have a field day with the average age excuse if we dont win a few next year!

fixed

Nathan Brown

Or Retired? He'll be a very good player for Geelong over the next two years though

MFC 2013 may as well be new club! No Green, Rivers, Moloney - talk about culture changer.

Col Garland (through the Hells gates connection?)

Mods, can we get a dislike button!?

Chill out mate, you've nit picked his sentence about trengove and then disregarded a pretty nice analysis of which areas we could do with some more talent. I don't understand why people write negative posts like your one, this is not a competition about who knows the most about footy or who has the best feel of the game. If you don't like it, or agree, read another thread.

I dont think the new ruck rules will make all that much difference to Jamars worth to our side. He's always been a center bounce specialist anyway, so the enw rules wont effect him too much there.

good OP. I think Sylvia needs to haev a good 2013 and get his name on the 'walk up start mids list', becasue the glaring issue with our midfielders is that we have no experienced, consistant older player in our midfield and we sure need some!

Anyone else think our 'state of play' in the grand scheme of things is even better than it seems due to Davey, Gawn and Taggert likely to play much bigger roles for us next year (reported they are over their injuries). Taggert especially could add a lot.