Very Jaded

Mitch Cleary reporting on absolutely nothing as usual. This is the biggest non story that continues to be a story.

If we got JUH the media would have a full blown aneurysm about our CULTURE 🫠

He’d cream his shorts if Port managed to convince Butters to sign on for 9 years. If you’re making any life decision based on Kane Cornes’ opinion, you should immediately seek professional help.

Melbourne to the media clowns. Probably.

If you think this deal is big, just imagine what Harley Reid is going to get, having shown literally nothing except what a petulant unprofessional child he is. Geelong is already mowing the lawns on his 9 acre farm, and Cotton On has a headband range in the works.

Did you tell Kosi that we are all waiting over here holding our breath, and we might be dead soon?

Long contracts are becoming the norm. Here is a list of the longest contracts currently in the AFL 2033: Hayden Young 2032: Connor Idun (?!), Sam Taylor, Connor Rozee, Noah Balta (?!!!!), Max King, Aaron Naughton 2031: Darcy Fogarty, Cam Rayner, Hugh McCluggage, Jacob Waitering, Brent Daniels, Nick Blakey 2030: Isaac Cumming, Harry McKay, Dan Houston, Harry Perryman, Josh Daicos, Andrew McGrath, Brennan Cox, Josh Treacy, Sean Darcy, Mac Andrew (who has a 4 year extension triggers), Josh Battle, Clarry, Harry Sheezel, Jack Lukosius Additionally 42 other players have 4 more years remaining on their current deals, some of which were 6+ years long. I can count on one hand, the players listed above who I would trade for Kosi. If we landed Houston, he'd be tied to us for a minimum of 5 years on a reported $850k a year, and he's 28. Did anyone bat an eyelid at that?

To put it into perspective, Max King who’s been injured on and off and shown very little, is signed until 2032 on close to a $1mil a year. Someone argue with me that Kosi is not a much better player than Max King, who is likely to have more longevity in the game.

Not sure many people even grasp the level of physical mental and emotional strength it would take to birth twins and then return to play and win a flag shortly after. The damage the female body goes thru post birth is significant, especially when birthing multiples. It is a far far greater “injury” hurdle to overcome than just about any typical AFL injury would be. Not enough is being said about the additional physical challenges that women playing AFL (or any contact sport for that matter) have to overcome to be at their peak every week. Absolute admiration for Daisy!

By 2033, $1.3mil will be a stock standard salary.

And happy to let their players openly talk about wanting to play with Kosi! They are living in absolute fantasy land. A ridiculous club.

This is a very important point to harp on about. The money Kosi makes the club by getting people to watch games, and his marketing value, is totally underrated. He is a guy your kids want to watch play, and keeps them connected and invested in the club as they grow up. There is more to this than just keeping a bloody good player in the team. If this contract gets signed, we should all be extremely happy! It would be sensational news for our club.

Nick Daicos has already phoned in 10 free kicks

In true MFC fashion, pioneering this game and pushing it forward. Well done Daisy, the true definition of a female warrior!

Bolton on plenty too and Young just signed a monster deal for 8(?) years

We don’t know that he won’t want to go home in 3-4 years, but exactly as we have done with Trac and Clarry, we will hold the cards. It gives us the leverage that a short term deal never will. And let’s worry about what is in front of us right now. We have no idea how this deal is structured. It could be heavily front ended, from the money we didn’t spend on Houston (thank god!) and which we aren’t spending as planned on Gus. And as has been said before, the cap continues to go up each year. So money will become available for those types of deal. We also always have the option of trading out players to make cap space. If you always think “what about”, then you’ll never get what’s in front of you. Everyone here would be devastated to lose Kosi. Well this is the price of not losing him. We aren’t setting the price, the market is. He would get this and more at West Coast and Freo wouldn’t be far off. You have to deal in realities.

You’re welcome to your opinion and I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong to feel worried about these types of deals. But if you look at where the game is moving to, and how premierships are won in the modern game, Kosi is exactly the sort of player you build a midfield around. Key forwards are nice, but they don’t win flags. Brisbane won with Daniher, Pies won with (?), Geelong the anomaly with Hawkins and Cameron. But ball movement and speed is where the modern game is heading. Kosi is pound for pound the most influential player in the game right now. He’s capable of being a genuine elite clearance player who kicks 40 goals a year. That’s Dusty territory. At 23, he’s more consistent and kicked more goals per season per age than Cyril ever did. He averages 2 goals a game and 19 disposals, playing midfield on a consistent basis for the first time in his career (a few dabbles last year hardly count). In 5 years time, $1.2mil is going to be an average salary for an A grader, and Gawn, Viney, May and Fritsch will be off the books and Trac and Clarry will be finishing up. And Kosi will still be in his absolute prime. Every great reward comes with an element of risk. Losing Kosi and watching him tear the competition is a bigger risk.

Anyone who thinks Kosi is just a small forward doesn’t watch football. Period.

We don’t have cap space either if this Kosi deal goes ahead. Isn’t Jacko on about a million a year? We’d need to trade Clarry or Trac to make this happen in terms of draft capital and cap space. Not happening.

Also lol at calling Trac timid. You almost die playing footy, and then tell someone off for not wanting to do it all over again. It’s frankly a miracle that he’s back to this level of intensity so soon after that horrible injury. Most players would never be the same. And playing in a game where it happened, would have brought back a lot of trauma. Sometimes I swear people think players are robots.

Jacko would need to take a pay cut now. I wonder if he’d be happy to be paid in crystals and good vibes?

These journalists are an embarrassment to themselves. With apologies to Cal who’s pretty good. Didn’t little Ralph tell me last week Kosi still wants out?

It gives us 7 more years to refuse to trade him. It's very simple. Kosi has also seen that in the last 5 years, we have always gone out of our way to accommodate his desire to spend extra time at home. I am sure there are clauses in this new contract that allow for that to continue to happen (eg- spend extra time in WA doing his own program in the off season etc) Besides, these types of players demand these types of deals. You think Freo isn't luring him with a 7 year deal? He isn't going to walk out and go to Freo for a hug and some slippers. He might be homesick, but he's not silly.

The way he plays also means he is more likely to not hit targets. He's very often disposing of the ball in tight spaces. Yes that last kick of his inside 50 was bad. He was trying to hit Fritta and he overcooked it. But he's hardly alone. This season his DI is sitting at 70%. Compare that to other elite inside mids: Tom Green 69%, Serong 66%, Taranto 68%, Cripps 64%, Neale 71%, Liberatore 72% (which is above average), Anderson 69% and Trac who is only at 66%. It is a total myth that his ball use is bad for his role, in fact, he's better than nearly all those elite level inside mids. Edit: his career average DI is actually 70.4%