Jaded No More

Demon shop has run out of 3s following the Kosi re-signing.

Thought Kolt was good last week. Lindsay and Langford must be crawling to the bye.

Can you please tell Judd to get a move on?! 😂

Did Damian Barrett say it’s ok? 🙄 Good signing. Club rates Howes highly. Has plenty of improvement in him Now need to get Judd signed. He remains OOC.

Well not really because the better he plays the more he will be worth at the trade table. Of course one has to ask themselves, how can a club with net zero forwards, trade away their only consistent goal kicker? *Kosi excluded as he will play more midfield as time goes on

Trading Fritsch would free some cap space and could net us a first round pick… just saying

On a scale of 1 to Nick Daicos, JHF is about a 7 on the whiney cry baby scale.

Every ruck is basically dog [censored] compared to Max. Xerri is the only ruckman who hasn’t comprehensively smashed this season. I am much more annoyed that bloody JHF couldn’t wait another week with that hamstring.

Nothing is without risk. Not extending him is a risk. Giving him 2 more years and then he’s a free agent is a risk. Losing him is a massive risk. If you listen to what Adam Simpson says, he’s a match winner and as a coach you don’t give two [censored] about the cap. You just find a way to make it work when you have these guys at your disposal. The club bends over backwards for many of its players. So does literally every club in the competition. You think Bailey Smith is a walk in the park to manage? You think Kosi is the only homesick kid? Can you imagine what Freo are doing right now with Jackson threatening to leave? Success takes balls. We waited for years and years to have legitimate stars at our club. We got them, we secured them, and that’s on being a good successful club. Period.

What is it that worries people, is it the length or the price? If it's the price, well that will become a normal contract for A graders soon enough, if it's not already. If it's the length, ask yourself this, do you think Kosi would be getting delisted in the next 9 years? Out of a list of 46 players, would he ever be so poor that he would be considered a 'list clogger'? He's good enough to play midfield, but later in life could easily transfer his skills to half back, or even just remain as a deep forward pocket. Charlie Cameron won a flag at 29, Elliot is 32 and in arguably career best form. Burgoyne was a meaningful player until he was 38. Pickett has knock on wood been very physically resilient thus far in his career. Even if his speed drops off with age, his physical strength and his ball use won't. His skills will still serve him well into his early 30s. Life is full of risks, but if you take no risks you get no rewards. The reality is that players of his quality come around rarely, and when they do come around, they rarely want to go play for smaller clubs. If you happen to get lucky and draft a star, then you need to move heaven and earth to keep them. Teams win games, but stars win flags.

Maynard just signed on for four more years. If that [censored] stain is worth 4, Kosi is worth 400 It is time to get used to long contracts. They are going to be the norm for established players and young stars. They’re even the norm for bog ordinary snippers 🙄

Here you go. It’s little Ralphy 🙄

Your next project: start telling Ardu how nice a little brother, or 3, would be for little Bellanie Pickett junior playing next to Davey junior would complete my life.

Another point to consider- when you are sitting down with Langford and Lindsay and saying "guys here is a 5 year extension" and they are looking around at our best players thinking they won't even be here in 5 years, they can now look around say well I've got Kosi with me. We can be a special midfield for the foreseeable future. Just look at the reaction of our players to this news on social media. Harvey Langford has already reposted the signing on his story. And besides, how often do players the calibre of Kosi even become available, and what chance would we as a small homeless club have to secure their services? I wonder if people would think twice about offering this type of deal to Butters for example.