BAMF

Way before tonight.

[censored] off Billings.

Gary Lyon - it would be nice if Bailey Fritsch could get a kick.

I think most of us thought that McAdams and Fullarton would at the least be decent depth at the start of the year. Two decent players would make a big difference.

Woewodin Laurie Billings Tomlinson Tholstrup Hore Howes Not surprised that we looked VFL level. Realistically we should only have 1 maybe 2 of those players getting a game at this stage. Our list depth is a real worry.

Port probably would just to [censored] over the crows. Hello again! 👋

Ah... I thought this was a post match thread. I forgot it's the game day thread. Yeah, [censored] it. Get rid of him too.

I just don't think we are in a position with the list to lose both Tomlinson and TMac. Even if TMac is only depth next year. We need quality tall position players. There is plenty of other players in front of the exit queue. Plus he's been excellent tonight in a depleted backline

Does anyone else think about how we were so close to getting Max Holmes instead of Laurie everytime Laurie does something rubbish?

Definitely after the Brownlow. I'm just hoping that Woey can develop into a player that can reliably play a role. He is a liability at the moment and I cringe when I see him named in the team.

I'm really hoping he is a late bloomer like his old man. Shane was drafted as a mature age player when he was 21 in 97.

Tounge in check. He needs a tank before we will see him play well enough to show why he went so high in the draft. I like the look of him.

Got a goal. So shutup

Context required fence. 1st year player.

Tmac playing very well down there. Moving well.

If Heeney got weeks then Kozzie will get a few.

You can have a favourite player and also think long term for the club. I don't know the details of payments. But I don't think Jack will be in the seniors in his final years of the contract and think it's a mistake giving them to him this far out. He plays his best as an inside midfielder and he isn't able to play another position. I didn't think Buddy would play out his 9 year contract at the Swans and was wrong about that and hope I'm not correct here.

Exactly. We needed to offer Brown the big contract to get him across and that paid off. Most of us knew the last year would be a VFL year or injury list for Brown when we signed the contract. I would have preferred we had another youngster in the list instead of extending Schache. He would be on stuff all player payment though.

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.