PaulR

That was underwhelming…

With Trac and Clarry gone, Langford plays midfield. On the wing we have Cully who can play the “tall marking wing” role you mentioned. XL to be further developed as a mid/HBF. I guess Nairn would be high HFF to further develop our connection into the forward 50. Jeff Whites video covers where our focus is, and where we can rapidly improve.

I liked Jeff’s analysis and his related reasoning as to why King as MFC coach is a really good thing. I think hearing things such as Fritta training higher up the ground, our likely draft kids, our recent draft pickups (XL and Harvey), are a sign that we’ve been looking to implement Jeff’s point for a year or two, we just needed better users of the ball. Losing Bradshaw, Nibbler and now Trac has crueled us in this area for years. Excited by what King can do to remedy this.

Clarey’s exit is on Clarry. He made choices that spoiled his elite game and rendered him a shadow of the player he was. All on the back of a huge paycheck and deal from the MFC. I loved him in his prime, and wish him well. But his fall is his, not the clubs.

I think the rise of Langford and Cully as mids who can damage going forward, would have to be considered. XL another who showed a bit prior to injury, and there’s Windsor who could be effective along side players like Bowie, Chandler, Rivers and my fav for the 2026 phoenix award, AMW, who’ll add dash and hardness to back pocket. We’ve got a very promising young group of players.

He looks good, composed effective with ball, with a nice side step and movement in traffic to get into position to deliver well. Reminds me of Cam Raynor in ability to orchestrate in space. Agree with question on his ability to do damage… few examples of long kicks with impact. I’m not a fan of Dovaston at all, reckon he’d be exposed at AFL level.

Jacob Farrow looks a treat as a HBF/Mid from WA and one of Xavier Taylor or Sam Grlj as available. reckon theres enough talent at our picks to simply take what we can with them (i.e. not trade). Also think Picket will slide, his write up talks of a good result at reserve level SANFL which is a level below where Kozzie was playing at a similar stage, reckon a number of teams will pass on him early as clearly a work in progress only at 24 in Cal's phantom due to name/brand recognition...

Made the change. 😢 Bye Clarry, loved your work while it lasted. Gotta move on.

Grading the Draft is such a weak intellectual process and pure emotion claim, given there is actually no data on the results of a draft until sever (or more) years after the draft. Would prefer they (AFL media) rolled out evaluations on the 2022 draft where there is real data.

Hawks will toss them at the Dons... to further salt their wound.

In retrospect Buckley referred to and was hesitant to get involved in solving the [censored] that Kings had to, and we’re seeing play out this trade period.

Not if the Hawks have traded away their F1 for 2026 to get Merritt…

What if not moving Clarry on last year was the board’s decision and not Lambs?

Good.

Some feel the need for a scapegoat, Lamb the easy target. I’d prefer to reflect on the players (Clarry, Trac, McVee and May), as well as their coach during the past couple of years (Goodwin) and the exec and board who signed off on it all and let it run… A well meaning mid-tier manager running contracts with the direction of the above seems too easy a target. Or it just that he’s the only one left at the club we can blame?

I like this. The MFC really need a win.

Is there any version of a GWS deal for Clarry that we wouldn’t accept, and therefore have him playing for us next year? Maybe we keep Clarry, hope he’s seen the light and works his butt off to redeem himself at the Dees in 2016 and beyond?

We got 16 more brownlow votes than we’d get from picks 6 & 7 for the first three plus years of their careers… No Humphrey no deal.

Are you the leak? Or maybe we’re closing in on a deal and he’s loath to sabotage it..?

I imagine Bailey has the weekend to make up his mind with Sunday night the deadline. He’d have our offer or best pitch and know he and GC need to publicly shut it down come Monday if GC going to then try do a picks deal with MFC. Fingers crossed.