Thehardtackler

Steven May sounds flaky. Do we really want him?

Actually I was using Inclusive Language to imply that the majority view appears to be an under appreciation of May. I personally believe that he will be an excellent addition to our squad.

Goodwin played defence so I guess that he must see something in May that we don't.

Maybe Freo are Hogan’s second team. Some people have a second team.

Well. You wear the scarf, then you are a supporter. I would not wear another team’s scarf.

And some idiot had a go at me about Hogan not being a Freo fan and there is a photo of him as a kid wearing their scarf. I knew I was right.

Looking at Garlett's 2017 highlights, we would have been a better team if he had been up to scratch this year. Add Hogan and McDonald and we would have been deadly up forward.

Can we afford to pay him 1 million a season? Would that kind of figure keep him? Given that we are in a Premiership windrow.

Hogan will not go to West Coast. He was a die hard Docker as a youth, that I believe is a large part of his motivation for going there. Look at how much Harmes loves us. Same thing!

Do we believe the guy in the Harrison Petty thread, who claims that he know Steven May and he is off to Collingwood.

Jesse Hogan will be dying to play for us going forward, especially if we can make at least a Preliminary Final.

How did so many teams overlook Sam Weideman. I suppose that he has taken 3 years to develop but imagine him with Hogan next year.

I think Essendon are the complete opposite to Melbourne, not Collingwood. Melbourne is old money traditionally and Essendon are everything that is vulgar about the Nouveau Riche.

Hogan will surely stay. Freo won't make finals for a few years, until they can establish a settled culture.

If Norf sign up players like Gaff for 1.2 and Polec for $800000, then how will they keep quality players like Cunnington, who will want their fair share?

Polec is worth no more than $600000. He is not as good a player as Angus Brayshaw.

Gaff may have nominated Melbourne as his club of choice. That would throw pressure on WC to deal or accept whatever compensation they get. Gaff may not want to play for North. Some players prefer a good work environment to silly money.

Jesse Hogan is one of the main reasons I want to watch Melbourne FC. He is starting to look more like David Neitz with every passing year. He is untradeable and will help us to a Grand Final soon. This thread is even more nuts than the Neal Bullen one.

If we get Gaff it will actually make the Fremantle meeting, next year, interesting!

There is no rationale to these tribunal decisions. They are totally inconsistent. There needs to be one set penalty and if it is policed it will stamp out poor behaviour on field.

The umps can be notified by the video umpire and the card issued as soon as it is alerted to the field umpire's earpiece.

No, 1 week. Next time they play it will be sorted. That is the rugby code and is the difference between soccer and rugby. AFL needs to move away from this soft Tribunal malarckey.

See who cares. You waste all this energy talking about an on field incident that should be red carded and dealt with immediately. The game is more important than this garbage that people spew about Gaff and his king hit. The weak tribunal encourages this kind of behaviour. Just get rid of it.

Hate the tribunal. Yellow and red cards like rugby. Straight match suspension for a red card. Players can police the dog acts between themselves. The tribunal system is [censored] weak and is the softest, silliest part about AFL. We need to focus on the games and the players, not the periphery nonsense like fixturing, rules and tribunal decisions. Could not care less what Gaff gets. He has to live with himself for being a coward and he should pay Brayshaw's dental bills and apologise to his family for his cowardice. Weeks is no punishment.

Dom Tyson was possibly our best player for a chunk of 4-5 games after he came back from injury. He accumulated 30 odd possessions in successive games and used the ball effectively. He is a gun! Salem has had injuries this year and has been underdone but he is a very competitive footballer. Jayden Hunt was an inspired choice at the draft table. Josh Kelly may not look so good when he is not surrounded by GWS young stars, in another team.