Demonsterative

Nope! 😜

What’s your alternative solution? Realistically.

Tomlinson played some good consistent football at VFL level. IMO he is good back up but is costing too much. Elison is cheaper and can negate well down back. No point putting all our eggs in one basket with Disco.considering May, Lever and Petty can get injuries.

Agree!! It’s not like there is much more on the shelf to buy. Shrewd idea of the club given the lack of choice. If the price is right, why not?

If We get Bruce for the right price, why not? Better than no-one…..particularly now MB has retired. He has the bigger body to contest. Bruce May suit our style of play! He is a true forward in the style of T Mac.

Has more upside than Baker. Worth the chance and exchange of each player. Cost us nothing too.

Chandler, Disco, JVR, Dunstan, Smith, Thommo. forwards, mids and backs. purposely left out the younger dudes. As you said, who we recruit. it’s not doomsday

The club would not entertain this if they didn’t have other plans in place. The club always goes into trades with a eye wining trade week. Not individual trades

I was told by more than one Jackson would go to Freeo. My sources are secret too SWYL. I would have thought the whole AFL industry new this in August….

Maybe GWS are offering Finn as a salary dump for pick 5….. I hear his base wage is backend and they are up to their ears in salary cap issues re signing Hogan.

I’ve read both, early and after. Just being hopeful here.

Life is like a box of chocolates! Touché

Word is the Grundy deal will happen early. With GWS and the Tigers making a deal tomorrow, Im hopeful A great win if the club can make it happen!

Still, move on!!!

We were injured and banged up twice they beat us this year Move on.

Yep, the Cats were sick in the prelim last year. We all bagged their squealing about it this year. Time to move on and shut down our squealing. They were the best team in 2022. Time to up our game. We are good enough if we do!

I’m hoping for an upgrade from our 33rd pick to one within 25. Give that to Colonwood for Grundy. Massive win IMO!! GWS have too many picks with Taranto and others leaving. No skin off their nose. We could use the Jackson picks from either Freeo or WC to move up the draft in this deal too.

Some spread wtf

Unimaginative footy!!! Same ole, same ole. It’s like the term “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result”. Our win/loss in the last 10 weeks is less than 50%. Oppositions are working us out. I get the game style is not completely broken, but make the opposition question or think we may change things up on occasion. Switch the ball…… stop running forward up the line and get some spread. The midfield all run one way together forward…. We do not have a crash and bash strong tall forward. We have Melksham (playing well), Fritta and Brown who can lead if we only, on occasion spread it wide, and let them lead and mark. It’s better than relying on rucks marking and kicking behinds.

May and kk are 2 first round picks and proven at AFL level, the only question is KK and his concussion issues. The club has been on top of his issues for months.I trust the club with KK this equates to 2 first round picks (players) with players who have development plus a second round pick. The club wins. Hogan has issues (injury and emotional). Hogan has elite attributes and below average attributes. He also has the most goals from the umpires with free kicks. That wont last.

Completing Trades isn't about trades in isolation, its about all the trades and how it moves the club forward. Preuss is a valuable back-up Ruckman that will swap with Gawn as a forward/spare roaming backman. Weakness on our list fixed. May is the strong key back man we needed. Weakness fixed KK is the outside class we needed. I would have like more pace and outside class brought in, but another hole in our list that is hopefully fixed The other fact is that the club scored more when Hogan was not in the team. You could say he was surplus to need. Kent and Tyson were also surplus to need too. KK and May are first round picks. Getting in 2 first round class players with an early 2nd round pick is a win for me, when Hogan was an inconsistent brat with terrible foot skills

Lots of guys played well today and played an Etihad style of game today. Therefore Goodwin was as influencial as a 23 man. But what gets lost in every game and for the last too many years is the the progression and now influence of our Caprian Jones. He is now a complete player. Great decision maker, great skills, gets the ball consistently week in week out. He is an AA grade player. The work he had done on his game is MASSIVE. In now good times and in extremely bad times he continues to perform and is so much better now he has good support around him. when others have floundered he has excelled due to dedication. He deserves to lift the cup for what he does now and for what did in an environment that killed more talented individuals

Not sure why Lewis is part of the plan to get a Big Fish FA next year. He was in his last year of a contract with the Hawks and they didn't need to offer him another contract past his current contract. Therefore they could get their FA at the end of 2017 and have Lewis paying for them in the 2017 season proper. Its a conspiricy theory that does not add up.

Frawley was played in his last year to up his compensation. No doubt about that..... No point dropping him to Casey as pick 3 would not have come our way. No amount of 'party line' comments to club training boundary riders will change this fact. Roos comments and selection were designed to up his value, albeit in a position that was not his own and had nothing to do with the future of the club as he was gone 1 year prior to leaving. Delusions regarding conversations and delusions of grandeur regarding relationships with players are I play here. I prescribe a large dose of anti psychotics to fix your problem Saty.

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