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Thanks for the respectful response, Rab. In terms of legacy as a Demon, Petracca is our NSM in a long long awaited premiership. He scored a perfect score (40/40) of coaches votes for that game. That legacy is good enough for me. Without him we would not have won that flag. Regardless of what happens going forward that legacy will never be tarnished in my eyes. Many players change clubs for various reasons and sometimes it is for more success. It doesn't diminish their legacy at the previous club nor their love for that club or those teammates. I love it when someone is a one-club player like Viney and Gawn I also love B. Brown, Langdon, May and Lever for leaving their first club to help us win a flag. Btw, I've long been curious why you use BP5 not CP5?

Not sure what you mean by 'fortunes'. If its $ the club has made them all wealthy. If it is desire for success (premiership) can't question any of them. If it is giving all they have on the field can't question any of them. If its contract years they all have/have had lengthy contracts which expire within a year or two of each other. There seems to be an implied criticism of Petracca that he is in some way lesser than Viney and Gawn. Maybe spell it out. At the end of the day its a job for all of them.

Ouch! Ouch! I take solace from the fact that 'Luci' is enclosed in a ❤️

Love it! Go for it! 👏 If I was a redhead I could change mine to 'Deranged'!

Day 4 Photos https://www.melbournefc.com.au/albums/1699252/pre-season-camp-gallery-day-four?modal=true&type=gallery&playlistId=1699252&playlistSize=10 Not sure what happened to Day 3 photos 🤷‍♀️

Ah, but you know I have a very good 'spidey sense' and Sherlock Holmes type detection traits ... Nope I am not mistaken! LOL! It was the 'Interests' on your profile that confirmed my suspicion 🙃 At least you didn't post a voodoo doll with 'Luci' photo shopped onto it.🙃

At the risk of a voodoo doll coming my way I thought I would 'out' our hitherto esteemed training reporter now operating under the pseudonym @Ghostwriter Of course it took 2 seconds to work who it really is.🙃

A few hours earlier:😉😁

Welcome back @Ghostwriter👏 And what an interesting profile you have. 😉

No Casey training so far. I wonder if it was ditched (or used only when necessary) as part of the FD review and player feedback.

Dreaming. He will have a massive season and take us close to a flag! But neither Pies nor Blues even have a 2025 first pick and their 2026 and 2027 will be mid to high teens in compromised drafts so will drift out. Chances of the club trading Petracca to them are close to zero. So he stays. 🙌

Oliver - he is just as important to us contending for the flag as Petracca.

Some fun videos in this: https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1698544/community-and-pre-season-camp-live-updates Great to see the club using youngsters in promos. Hopefully, they are on the club's social media pages as well. Kolt might be up there with Kozzie as king of the kids!

On a lighterr note the club has put some good stuff on the website: Day 1 Photos https://www.melbournefc.com.au/albums/1697210/2024-community-camp-day-one?modal=true&type=gallery&playlistId=1697210&playlistSize=52 Day 2 Photos https://www.melbournefc.com.au/albums/1698489/community-camp-day-two?modal=true&type=gallery&playlistId=1698489&playlistSize=36 My favourite Reckon we could get a real Kolt following with kids (little and grown up) wearing those glasses to games. Give those silly wizard hats a run for their money.!

Its embarrassing that some 'fans' are making quite derogatory and somewhat outlandish comments based on their 'vibe', 'sense' 'Trac not looking happy' or interpretations of social media. Nothing objective, yet continuing the vilification ... 'subconscious bias' perhaps.

This 🤮is still available. Quite fitting for some posts in this thread.

Any other observations about training or a training report for us?

Apparently he has several insta accounts. Which one(s) were you looking at. Have there been many posts since the KB game. Re this: His latest posts are advertisements, him being professional on a footbal field distinctly sans ANY demons branded gear. What gear was he wearing?

Kozzie = King of the Kids! Maybe he can convert those in enemy attire!

Interesting. iirc Sam Graham was Gil's preferred replacement for Peter Jackson. His last two AFL positions: afl-congratulates-sam-graham COO, understudy to Greg Swann at Brisbane Lions Graham has been part of the AFL for more than 18 years, with leadership positions across Strategy and Club Services, Chief Executive of AFL NSW / ACT, AFL General Manager Game Development, and most recently on the AFL senior leadership team as General Manager Tasmanian expansion. sam-graham-appointed-ceo-of-afl-nswact An excellent background. Helps that he knows his way around and has contacts at AFL HQ! Either Fox or Graham would be excellent for us.

Best wishes Andy and to any other podcaster affected.

A good analysis. A couple of points: The Bluey favours players that play the most games or play relatively injury free. In any other season Petracca, Oliver and perhaps May and Lever would be higher up the board. Bowey and Salem also missed a large part of the season for those reasons. The Crows pick 28 we gave away as steak knives to Ess in the pick 9 swap. We fought hard to get better than pick 44 for Bedford. In the end we gave it away as steak knives in the Jackson trade. I don't think many undervalue ANB's contribution. But imv we don't need a player dedicated to his role: We will still have defensive midfield/forward tactics but I see roles changing as our game plan and ball movement (hopefully) become more attacking (particularly from d50 to f50 where ANB does most of his work). In the last few drafts we have added players with very good footy IQ and skilled in ball movement (McVee, Windsor and maybe Langford/Johnson). Other players eg Sparrow can protect the paths forward for Petracca etc. Our not so little dynamo Kolt, will dish out a fair amount of defensiveness and get in the face of ops. With a change of ideas from new coaches ANB's role won't be obsolete but I don't think we need to tie down one player for it. The ANB role that will be harder to replace is 'general of the fwd line'. Melksham or Chandler to cover this role until someone else steps up.

The buffoons are the AFL that have so many vague rules around player categories and list management. Your count is correct for end of season changes. The difference is Kentfield was our notional 'replacement' for Brayshaw in the mid-season draft. Brayshaw remained on the list giving an overall list of 45, one over the allowed 44. So now we need to 'lose' one more than we gain to get back to 44.

I give up !!! 😁🤷‍♀️

The first question is: Do we need someone to play that role? Methinks not! After all our game plan is changing, new players, new coaches etc.