BAMF

I love Jack. He's been a favourite for years. I'm glad he is getting looked after and will be a 1 club player. I'm with Deespencer though. That's a huge extension for an older player and in my opinion a bad list management decision. Without knowing the details of the contract it's hard to judge. Jack is a great player to have around the club and today is a day to celebrate after a media [censored] storm this week.

It's very difficult to assess from the outside. Has any player come out and said anything positive about him during the year? Sam Mitchell was absolutely adored by the West Coast players during his time there. Likewise Choco gets mentioned many times by our players in podcasts and interviews. I haven't heard anyone mention anything about him at all.

There is too much smoke around this one to not have a bit of embers going. Houston would be great. I just don't want to pay the required trade price. ANB trade might soften this, but I would much rather go heavily to the draft with any available picks and pick up a free agent than trade for Houston.

Let's be honest. We aren't a big club. The media have been longing for us to return to the bottom of the ladder so they can dig the boots back in. During our dark days I was longing for an extended period of success so we would become media darlings. I pictured all of our players being labelled 'champions' for simple things. Post premiership we got it for a short period, but it was fleeting. It soon progressed to something else. After a big win I would search for media reports about how good we were. All I got was articles about the big team we just beat along with a small mention like "Not taking anything away from the Demons. They were great." Now we are out of the eight and the knives have come back out. I don't know what to think right now. If Petracca and Viney aren't disillusioned like Morris has reported, then why haven't they come out and countered his rumours? While I'm having a good [censored]... Is anyone else sick of Perts rinse and repeat emails that we only get in these situations?

Nibbler would have flagged it early with the club to allow us time to organise a suitable trade with the relevant club to allow for a quick trade. Trade week is a ****show if you leave it late and risks not getting it done. We would have been in talks with other clubs by now. Which means the leak could have come from anywhere.

All I could read was that he is requesting a trade to South Australia for family reasons before the paywall kicked in.

Not a joke. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/money-talks-premiership-demon-to-request-trade-20240812-p5k1rn.html A Melbourne clubman has notified the Demons he would like to leave Victoria at the end of the season for family reasons.

I hate this thread. I don't get to all the games anymore. Life has changed. Ive been to the last few though. It was really disheartening looking around and seeing most of the stadium empty. I don't blame others like this thread does, but the club needs to boost attendances somehow, or the AFL will change things for us.

There are some other vids showing more of his inside work. Loves a strong tackle if he can't win it.

Lalor is the one I've had my eye on. Will go around our first round pick according to the phantom drafts. https://central.rookieme.com/afl/player/sam-lalor/

Viney is one of my favourites. He was just what we needed at the time and helped turn the culture around. But I wouldn't be worried if he left based on future output. I would be worried about why he is leaving. If it's Jack that instigated the trade it means there is something very rotten going on at the club.

Which player would you have picked instead of Kentfield who would have made an immediate impact?

Yep. A shame. Dominated the wing like Langdon picking up 30+ disposals every week for a decade but will be remembered for one terrible moment that he clearly regretted instantly.

Played 3 AFL games this year Kicked 2 goals in his AFL debut. Not much else to write home about though albeit from limited game time. Pretty sure he was injured and subbed out of his last game. He would be a great trade target for us. Imagine yelling Rooooo and/or Gruuuuuu everytime the the ball goes into our forward line!

The McAdams trade was a complete blunder. One that no doubt will get pointed out in trade period when we all start focusing on who we could have picked up with a very good second round pick in a deep draft. Fullarton was likewise terrible. Billings I can live with as it was basically a Harmes replacement in trade value, albeit a downgrade in the end in both player quality and draft value marginally. The trading of second and third round picks to upgrade 3 spots also woeful.

The McAdams trade was a complete blunder. One that no doubt will get pointed out in trade period when we all start focusing on who we could have picked up with a very good second round pick in a deep draft. Fullarton was likewise terrible. Billings I can live with as it was basically a Harmes replacement in trade value, albeit a downgrade in the end in both player quality and draft value marginally. The trading of second and third round picks to upgrade 3 spots also woeful.

I agree. Yeah, we have been hit by injuries, but all clubs lose players throughout the year. Our list of players who are out isnt that high. It's our lack of depth that is really concerning. If we had better depth maybe some players who are out of form would be listed on the injury list?

Good point. Hard to know how close we were to landing him without knowing the conversations taking place. You would assume that we knew the asking price before trading up though?

My post needs to be approved before posting? Is it cause I used the word [censored]?

Very disappointed. I pretty much wrote the season off after the final loses last year. I thought we might sneak into finals of we were lucky. Tonight was a real low. I went expecting a loss but hoping to see our young guys perform, but it was a [censored] show. No glimmer of hope there tonight. Felt like a 100 point loss, and it should have been.

What was with JVR goal not allowed. At the ground and no idea why the review said it hit the post?

I asked my West Coast supporter mate. Reads the play really well. Great size. Was drafted at 195cm but has grown to 200. Plays like his size. Good overhead mark. Often intercept marks due to size and ability to read the play, but is very slow and will get burnt on the lead by opposition forwards. Consistently injuries have limited has opportunities.

2023 McVee (44) JVR (37) Woewodin (18) Laurie (10) 2024 Windsor (19) Howes (12) Tholstrup (6) AMW (5) Brown (2)

Any chance we get both Cummings and Perryman as free agents? Perryman being offered 800k per year by previous articles. We have the salary relief from Brayshaw plus some older players coming out of big contracts. Probably wishful thinking on my part.

Just the way I remember it. Not a draft expert by any means. My post was just pointing out that we didn't 'over look' Gruzewski and let's judge the call of Jefferson over Gruzewski once they have a a modicum more games under their belt.