PaulRB

Maybe a Martin trade facilitates taking Grundy with Pick 4 and Pedersen?

Selective use of stats Poita. Surely Rucks need to be judged on the HO stats? Mark Jamark 2012 season: 14 games averaging 32.4 Hit Outs per game Stefan Martin 2012 season: 7 games averaging 14.2 Hit Outs per game

You forgot Jack Viney.... We've had great circus.

Lions circle big Demon

I like it. Low key, low expectations and a game we should win. Nice way to ease into the season. Given the new players and the pre-season focus on "the gameplan" it's just what the Dr ordered.

Maybe we should set up a sabbatical program where our loyal players get leased to other successful clubs so they can experience finals footy and a chance at the big one. The successful clubs could then lend us their crappy or disinterested players for a period so they could experience years in the wilderness and the wooden spoon. Jared I liked you as a Melbourne player, but I hope Geelong fall like a stone, we rise like a phoenix, and you rue this decision for the rest of your life.

With our best player (jones) coming in at 50 in the herald sun top 50 I'd have to agree we have no champs or stars at the moment. Lots of potential though.

If so we should have held onto Beamer, he excelled at the long bomb.

And the Dees have Hogan, Viney, Pick 4, Dawes, Barry, and what ever we pick up post first round. With this we start to make ground on clubs like the pies (assuming we get all the other stuff right). All good Go Dees.

If we can drag it out till we get our compo for Riv (if he goes) I'd suggest to the pies pick 27 + Ricky and we keep pick 20.

I think Jack will deliver some career defining performances in 2013 as his confidence in his ability to physically compete at the AFL level grows. Prior to Clarks arrival Jack was our biggest forward and as a skinny kid he was never going to flourish. Talk of trading him before we've seen his best is absurd and short sighted.

Fingers crossed.

Fixed now.

Dawes is the key, the approach on Gumby is insurance in the case that Dawes does not come to us.

Standards are dropping at the Cattery, they just took Caddy.

yes. Hogan to become a new Demon hero

Both!!! Hooley Dooley

I think Pedersen is a "little rock" that will be traded once the "bigger rocks" are in place. I.e if we get Dawes we'd likely pass on Pedersen, so we wait till Dawes and Gumby decide where they are going before potentially looking at Pedersen..

Rumoured to have sniffed at Frawley and Watts. Maybe we could trade Sellar for Juddy. I hear he supported the Dees as a kid...

It pops up because the Blues need a big backman, so would be sniffing around for one...

I like the possibility of Fitzy, Gawn and Jamar resting forward as the third tall forward. Like Cox and NicNat. Clark, Hogan and Gawn/Fitzy/Jamar should cover us for tall forwards.

We did well out of the last player we pinched from under Freo noses... Gumby!

Hey Canplay, have you ever actually met and spoken with Mark Neeld? Because, if you had, you'd not be making those comments.

No info, just infantile appeal of the name. sorry.

I just like saying "Gumby!", makes me laugh, could come good if his body holds up... Speak to the fitness gurus I guess.