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I remember Grace’s three games being pretty outstanding though. I imagine the plan coming into the season was for Kate to play more forward with a more stacked midfield but injuries to Purcell, Mackin and Beasley have prevented that. If she gets her game ready I suspect she’ll be in.

If that’s true it’s absolutely shameful. You couldn’t have kept him for one year and seen how he went with King then traded him for a junk pick next year? Trac’s salary and what we were planning to pay Judd going off the books isn’t enough? Nup that’s trash. GAGF Tim Lamb.

Luke Jackson goes alright

Mate we want Trac to stay. King especially. He will not trade him for a bad deal. 7 and pick exchanges doesn’t get it done.

I agree about Oliver but Kozzie’s last two years of gradually building up midfield time have been super impressive. His clearance numbers and even pressure in there is great. If he stops these dinky little upwards kicks into the forward line that rarely come off and starts drilling his passes he’ll be elite. I think his running patterns are really quite good.

I really think if we take enough of his salary on we will get 12. Let’s see.

Look, I love Clarry, I wish we would keep him on and he would get back to his best. However, I think it’s clear there were some learnings from 2025: Harvey Langford is a jet and will be one of the leagues best mids in no time, he plays midfield/wing and will do it more and more next year. Kozzie needs to be in the middle as much as possible. Windsor is a mid/wing maybe a mid/hf he’s NOT a HBF as he tried to play the first half of the year. He must play more minutes in the guts next year. Lindsay is a gun, can play HBF (needs to improve his defensive stuff but has time), wing and increasingly mid in time. Rivers offers a lot as a mid and can be tried in there with Lindsay/Howes coming into the team at HB Jai Culley makes us better, plays HF/wing/mid, he plays AFL all year next year. Viney, Langdon and Sparrow are good role players and will do whatever it takes to make the team better. Jake Bowey is our best HBF and must be the running/kicking HBF into mid role. Add to those learnings some wild cards like Salem, Tholstrup and maybe even Laurie and all of a sudden our midfield mix is pretty competitive. What King was clearly telling Clayton is he doesn’t see him clearly playing his role in a midfield of Trac/Humphrey, Kozzie, Rivers, Langford, Windsor, Langdon, Lindsay, Viney, Sparrow, Culley potentially Tholstrup and Salem. I don’t know if I agree but I can see his thinking and if that’s the case perhaps we are better freeing up some cap room bringing in a draft pick and giving a club champion a chance to play his role at an AFL club rather than fighting for a spot with younger stars.

It’s a brave new world. Trac was professional and did a good job this season when he was much more “out” last year apparently. If GC don’t rate him enough to part with a player and it’s just picks then I think King will bank on himself being able to get Trac on board, and the club will tell Trac we’ll trade him next year if another club gets serious. King is still an unknown but he doesn’t lack confidence and with Clarry, McVee and potentially May going there’s no way he lets Trac go for picks. Also FWIW Oliver, McVee, May could net us similar picks to the joke of a deal described here, (definitely if we do the traditional package picks for higher picks later on), to those touted for Trac. There’s just no way we take picks for Trac if we get some kind of combination of pick 12 from GWS, late first/second rounder from Freo (let McVee walk to the draft if Freo don’t come to the table, see if WC pass him up!), third rounder for May. Thats more than enough picks for us, don’t need more for Trac. Humphrey or bust GC.

Any news on what Heaters injury is/may be? I hope she’s ok, she’s my fave.

Lions are the only team in Brisbane and one of only two teams in QLD. We will always be in competition with 9 other teams pushing up deals and making us pay a premium. Especially that mob that gives players farms, cars and cotton on deals outside the cap. Us being a destination club is so much harder than Brisbane.

The problem isn’t players asking to leave. The problem is the clubs getting locked into one trading partner. If Judd had any care for MFC he would allow us to deal with WC and Freo to extract the best deal possible for us. If this is truly about “going home” then there’s two teams there. All this talk about fans “growing up” and being more “professional” with player movement but then the players pick one club and hold their own club to ransom to get there no matter how bad the deal. If a player asks for a trade the club should be able to send them wherever they get the best deal. That would be the league “growing up and being professional”, this is a farce.

I mean, we did beat them in Brisbane this year with our worse list. Footy’s a funny game.

Absolutely, they are now, but Collingwood mortgaged their future on them. Pick 14 and 34 for Schultz 3m over 5 years for McStay (who’s barely been on the park), Richards, Noble, pick 36 and a massive chunk of salary cap for Houston. Thats 5 young players including some guns and potential guns for a 31, 28 and 29 year old next year. It got them close but let’s see what it does to their future. McAdam, Hunter and Billing’s were a huge bust but they only cost us one second round pick and some junk picks, a waste for sure, but not to the same extent. EDIT: Also none of Billings, Hunter or McAdam were on anywhere near the salary of any of Schultz, McStay or Houston, not even close.

Also the amount they paid for McStay, Schulz and Houston almost makes our Hunter, Billings, McAdams deals look good.

How did Buck’s interview go? How’s this incredible process that makes us look shoddy playing out? Lots of candidates?