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I saw this kid’s name mentioned in an article on the AFL website regarding the 2020 draft. He is tied to us as part of our Dandenong Stingrays NGA. He’s 179cm tall and has kicked a few goals so must be a forward. Recruiters split on quality of 2020 draft, big calls loom Deakyn Smith

I just don't think we have that luxury. We are short on outside mids which extends to the half back flank. They tried Salem in the guts at the start of last year and he was ineffective. At best he broke even. If Salem leaves the HBF it would have to be to take up a position on the wings. Does he have the endurance? His disposal is a weapon on the half back flank. We need another HBF who has pace and good disposal. Lachlan Ash is a youngster who we could potentially look at in the draft but would likely go around pick 5-12.

I'm Melbourne

We lack leadership, experience, depth, accurate disposal, speed and goal kickers. There are so many holes to fill on our list and only so many draft picks to do it with. We need to explore all options. Harley Bennell is one I would explore. 1 year deal.

@Lord Travis We would have taken Billings. (Agree with the rest of your post) https://www.triplem.com.au/story/paul-roos-revisits-the-josh-kelly-trade-37923

Hmm... Would we win or lose? I think we would win. Omac to kick 12 goals and win the Robert DiPierdomenico medal.

To be honest. I think we need the cash and every other commentary is just spin. Saying that we are invested in the community sounds a lot better than 'we're just here for the cash'.

These articles were after the interview I heard. Clearly we need the cash still.

I heard a pregame interview with PJ on triple M a number of years ago where this was discussed. PJ said that we were not interested in playing in China as we thought the travel would be a negative impact on the players recovery and preparation. Now that the club was doing better off the field, the admin would do everything they could to give the players the best opportunity to win a flag and that meant knocking back opportunities like China especially as we already had the NT deal in place. PJ said that the NT deal was needed at the time for us to balance the books and he went into some details about how much the deal was worth financially to the club. Which was a lot. He advised that the Alice Springs game was ok as it's a much shorter trip. Temperature and humidity are usually fine, but the Darwin game was taxing on players and now that we were doing better as a club we would look at stopping the partnership to give the players the best opportunity to win a flag.

I am assuming that he was told he wouldn't be getting another contact and he accepted that. The club and player can always change their mind. Hodge announced he was retiring 2 years ago. (Not saying I want Lewis to go on)

Jeez... its a been a crappy year hasn't it? I cant wait for this season to end so we can get onto the next one. I'm still firmly in the 'Its the injuries' camp but I hope to all god that Goodwin tweaks the gameplan to stop this 'Chaos' [censored]. This bomb it into the forward line at every opportunity is [censored] horrible to watch and I said this last year too when we were actually winning.

Paywall on the age? Is it because you have read to many 'free' articles this month? If you delete your internet history and cookies it will reset the amount of 'free' articles you can read. Or... the easy option is to open the article using incognito mode in chrome. Edit: beat me to the punch Dr Gonzo

I thought the opening post was a clear joke for a minute there. The rule changes are making it so hard for the umpires to keep up with. There are so many rules that can be interpreted a certain way at any given time. Once they started introducing rules where the umpire has to guess what the players intention was is where they really went wrong. Seeing the players pretend to hammer the ball out of their hands while dry humping the ground with an opposition player on top of him is a very difficult thing to explain to someone who is new to the game. Just leave the game alone.

Are you a tall back in the league you play in @stevethemanjordan? You seem to be most passionate when commenting on them

Gawn with some sort of leg injury. Ankle

Traded for pick 23 a few years ago. Is playing better now than he was then, but is also a few years older. Our 2nd rounder should get it done. If the club is serious we should be doing everything to try and convince him to come over. Get his brother too as a free agent. Keep gunning for Langdon as well.

I hate Goodwin's media presence. He works so hard at not giving anything away that he seems like a robot.

It's time that we reveal the worst kept secret in the world. TMac is injured and cannot compete. Other teams know this now and just run off him. Preuss, Keilty, T.Smith... anyone would be better right now. I'm glad that Goodwin didn't give up like I did earlier in the year, but it's time. Get the injured players rested. Reset for next year

What I expected.

I agree with you Dazzle. SOS has done some terrible work in his time at Carlton. He originally drafted a heap of these kids at GWS and when they identified that they were no good he doubled down and traded for them at Carlton. The Stocker trade is looking to be the cherry on top of a long list of bad decisions. If Bolton goes then surely Silvangni goes too.

He cost us sweet [censored] all. The guy he pushed out? off the list? back in 2017? I wont even bother looking to see who it was. It was a spud. The guy who we would have drafted instead of him? With Pick 90? Good one. We had Nathan Jones as the only leadership in the whole team and had a guy who had played in 4 flags who wanted to come to the club. Watts? you bring up Watts? you think he could have played the plus 1 role? He played every [censored] position on the ground and he was a [censored] liability.

Picks 48 and 66 for Lewis, 57 and 68 That's what we gave up for him. Essentially a drop down the order by 9 spots and 2 spots. Basically nothing at all. The crux was a 3 year contract. A lot of posters knew that we would get little value out of his third year. He is suspended for one match when it was unlikely he was going to play seniors anyway.

he was part of the Crows thrashing from last year at the least. he has won a few i think

Well... its gotten to the point that I have better things to do than watch us lose. Its been a good 19 years of watching rain hail or shine but I cant actually be bothered to sit down and be angry any more.