Moonshadow

Make sure your passport is up to date and that your date is passable (in a doctor way)

Is she intending to whisk you away Uncle?

But not his/her glutes if your were gluten intolerant dc

Not forgetting that big Himmelbergerhyndlicker. He looks a beauty for them going forward.

That's him. Thanks Luth. They are all reasonably young but good size and smart footballers (Whitfield not so smart off field). And FMD isn't that Lobb a big, mobile unit...

Would love to land one of the GWS smalls to compliment our mid brigade. Kelly has got a lot of trade press of late, any one of Shiel, Cogniglio, Whitfield or even Dylan Smith would be handy. I'd take $cully back, but he'd have to play VFL only

The technical term is Fitzroyalty

Dare I say a murder of crows, Red.

Unchecked rage = impulsive lunacy?

And yet that ridiculous letter to goody thread has hit a bazillion pages. The injustice of it all!

I'll agree to disagree jnr Boyd had a good finals series and I'll go as far as to say that it would have been difficult for them to win the GF had he not been there. Many expected him to win the Norm Smith. I'd be very happy with that if I was a Bulldog fan. He hasn't set the world on fire this year, but he's playing as a full time ruck instead of fwd/ruck. His deal hasn't crippled the Doggies despite reportedly being on over $1mill. But that's is a matter of opinion. Laird and Yeo would be on $450k easy. To move again they'd now get $650-700. The avg last year was $309, this year probably around $320. With the new deal reportedly adding approx 20% that'd be about $380 avg for 2018. Kelly would want at least $800-900pa. I think Kelly will be an A grader by end of 2018, if not this year. Paying a bit over twice the avg AFL wage for this type of player will be cheap (as mind boggling as that is). If the media rumours are true and Norf have offered $1mill pa, I'd think that probably overs for him. I have no insider knowledge that indicates we might consider Kelly or he may be interested in us. He may not fit Goodwin's plans or be asking for too much, so the discussion could very well be moot. I certainly believe that if he showed interest and the price was around $850 for 2018 on a 4 yr deal it would be very tempting to consider.

Big call Norm

As many have pointed out, as recently as last year with Boyd at Bulldogs. Arguably BOG. With the new players agreement, $800k won't be a massive amount to pay an A grader (as obscene as that sounds). Wouldn't want to pay overs, and is clear we must retain or young stars, but IMO Kelly would offer what what we clearly lack: very high end outside polish that can impose upon a game. I've watched a number of GWS games where he has done just that.

Mate, who the hell knows what is rumour, half truth or full truth in these things. I agree we'll need to shore up our own talent first then trade for need. Having said that, if a guy like Kelly showed interest in us we'd be mad not to see if he and his price fit our club. I have faith in Todd Viney, Mahoney, Taylor and Jackson to maintain our list and finances within our means. We have gaps, one is a classy outside mid with leadership who can impose upon a game. IMO Kelly is that.

And a blast from the past... I think Alan Jackovic got to 50 goals from 9 games

Hyperbole, blowhards and smart alecs are commonplace. Post counts are irrelevant. But keep at it you.

Sorry, no

Never a bigger crock of unfounded [censored] posted. And that's saying something

Paddy looks like he lives off a diet of burgers and fries. He's a big unit. That was a hard hit to the back of the guy's ribs whilst he had his arms up marking. At least 1 week.

Mattjm was watching re-runs of The X-Files, Red.

Not really matt. Ran a lot though. Been running since he left us

Did we get Clary via F/S?

Mono, it didn't stop them letting the Dogs get away with plenty of dubious handballs in the GF last year, nor during this season so far.

We've lacked leadership for many years. Jones has been our best leader over the last 5-6 years, but many others should have stood up. Dunn wasn't a leader. Don't think Dawes was, but he wasn't on the park enough to lead. Vince a leader, no. Watts, no. TMac, no. ATM Lewis is the best we have. I've banged on in other threads about our opponent's leaders the last two weeks and how they inspired their team to get over the line. Fyfe, Sandy, Cotch, Martin, Riewoldt. so who are our future leaders that will make a difference? Oliver? Stretch? Salem?

Yep, he has an amazing ability to know where everyone is in the contest, which direction they are facing and their momentum so as to put the ball to their direct advantage and away from an opponent. That dish off to Garlett last night where Jeffy streamed in to kick the goal is but one example. Often this happens in a fraction of a second and when he himself is travelling at speed, making the task all the more amazing.