Jaded No More

Well done. Weideman. Second effort JVR and great finish from Woewodin Weideman has to play ruck. There’s no better position for him.

Casey mids cannot get near it

This umpiring is a complete joke

Sharks look really switched on.

And Geelong get no advantages of course 😂 I understand that for the sake of your marriage you must pretend like you want Geelong to win.

I suggest a lifetime ban for anyone who chooses Geelong as their preferred winner.

Just here to say SUCK [censored] COLLINGWOOD! Poetic justice that you went out the way you’ve won it all year. Now Sydney, for the love of god, do us a solid and smash Geelong next week.

How we lost to that team last week is beyond me. Geelong got their grand final. Well done to the AFL and ol brother Scott for ensuring it happened. Hope they get smashed next week.

Tom Browne is about as reliable as a wet paper bag in a sandwich shop… but I’ll take it!

Gunston can play the Tmac role too. Would cost little. I’m all for it. We are in a wide open window. Experience and proven performances mean a lot.

Lives with Jackson and Bedford. One is gone. The other is maybe gone too. Not ideal if he’s already not loving Melbourne.

Money. Opportunities to be embedded in the starting 22. Money. You need to remember that clubs like ours with a fairly strong and settled and young list is not going to be a good destination for young players on the fringe. Unless it’s a specific role we are lacking or unless you are an established player like Grundy, or someone happy to fill a role to remain on a list (see Dunstan), the proposition of competing for a role in a strong club with an equally strong VFL side won’t appeal to most young players. We are in a phase of existence where we can target very specific players for very specific roles and promise them success. We don’t need to throw the kitchen sink at every player out there. It’s a waste of time. I rather we target who we really need, like we have in the last few years (May, Lever, Langdon etc). One big key signing is much better than 3 random fringe players.

We signed arguably the two best players in the competition for 7 years. We are a destination club for champions.

Jackson is out of contract. Melbourne doesn’t hold players against their will. Peter Bell doesn’t run our list management. We are not stupid.

Losing Kosi would be an absolute disaster. Not just because he’s such a rare talent, but he’s also remarkably marketable and a fan favourite. Gotta put a big deal in front of him and get it sorted asap. No issues giving him 5 years. He’s only 21.

And has less competition for votes within his own team.

I completely agree with your points, but I think we might feel like we will have enough list spots available and that Melksham for another year is better insurance than pick 90 in the draft.

Yeah it’s called tall poppy syndrome.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother with AFL. The league is a joke.

Clarkson would. It’s zero risk for North. They have endless cap space and could get him for even one year and then trade him back to WA

He will walk into the PSD and get picked up by North or he will sign on with us. Neither of these things will happen tho.

Can completely understand their position. A total rat move by him. Sometimes players don’t get how good they have it. Imagine these guys in the real world in a real work place. They’d crash and burn so quickly.

They can split that pick with another club. It’s not all over. It’s barely even started.

And so we should. He’s not even 21 and he’s already a premiership player and rising star winner. We invested heavily in him and did all the early work to develop him under the best ruckman in the game. If you think he’s worth the same wage as Max Gawn is earning then he’s also worth two top 10 picks.

His mother’s comments only further solidify my thinking that Jackson is not making the decisions, his family is. It annoys me no end that this was clearly always on the cards for Jackson and yet we missed out on Cerra last year when Freo had a much better trade position. WA is a fishbowl. Very few go back on giant contracts and with big expectations and succeed. Kelly. Hogan. The list goes on and on.