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Off to Collingwood to replace Grundy.

Couldn't agree more!

Isn't that JVR's role? Wouldn't we be better off chasing a BBrown type forward rather than Cadman?

Love your work ET but #pleasedon'tteaseus...

Cal Twomey's latest: But now the Demons will be locked in trade talks. If he chooses Fremantle the reigning premiers would be expected to target two first-round picks for Jackson, including a very early selection this year inside the top-10. The Dockers hold pick 13 in this year's draft, but could look to move up the draft board using other selections, with the club bracing for trade requests from Rory Lobb, Blake Acres and Darcy Tucker, with Griffin Logue also considering a move to Victoria. West Coast holds picks No.2, 20 and 26 this year but as AFL.com.au reported in May, would need AFL approval to trade its first pick under League rules. The AFL would be expected to tick that off given Jackson’s age and experience. However, the Eagles look set to protect their strong draft hand this year, with pick No.2 not considered likely to be part of a trade package to attempt to land Jackson. Looks like Freo but it will take some time for them to get their trade package sorted. So now we wait. It will be a long month!

See, I said I know nothing about him 🙂 My read of DL was folks see him as the answer to our 'tall' fwd woes. So if Cadman isn't a replacement in a year or two for BBrown and we have JVR of Cadman's size what is the attraction of Cadman?

I wonder if MFC has set its sights on Cadman in the way that DL has? DL logic: We need a tall fwd + Cadman is a tall fwd = Lets get Cadman. I know nothing about Cadman and don't doubt his worth but maybe the Club has other priorities. Just saying. So I have an open mind on how we might use the draft picks we get for Jackson eg we may prefer two picks in the 9-12 range than pick 2 or pick 3.

That is the $64 question. One on which the fitness, medical and coaching department need to look each other in the eye and have a serious heart-to-heart. I reckon Pert and Roffey will be asking the hard questions of the FD. They may not have the data and the graphs but the 'eye' test spelt out what was happening quite a while ago.

GCS will after the Rankine trade: Adelaide's first and their own: #5 and # 7. However, there is some noise that Crows don't want to deal #5 so playing hard ball as they did with the Swans for Dawson and Swans had to accept what at the time appeared to be 'unders'. So GCS's two top 10 picks are better than GWS's bundle of first rounds, while they have #3 are are unlikely to include another top 10 pick.

DIO, how badly do you think their suspensions will affect our chances of beating the Lions this week?

On Kozzie, from foxfooty: "Meanwhile Edmund also reports the Power continue to circle Demons young gun Kysaiah Pickett, who was drafted from SANFL side Woodville-West Torrens. It’s believed Pickett isn’t enamoured with Melbourne but loves playing for the for the Demons. He’s also contracted for next season". Poorly worded. I think he means Kozzie isn't enamoured with Melbourne, the City rather than MFC. Still very concerning that Port are rattling the cage to get him next year.

Interesting given that it was a shortened preseason. So on the back of that tough, short preseason we charged out of the starting blocks for 10 rounds, did better on the 3 metrics than 2021 and then started to hit the wall and injuries exacerbated it. And we never recovered enough to go the distance. The graphs and your comment suggest we might have got the timing of our fitness schedule a bit out of kilter. Hopefully, we get it right next year. As an aside, I'm avoiding using the word 'loading' as it is very emotive and could sidetrack the discussion of the illustrative work @Watson11has put together.

Thanks for adding the trend lines. It is easy to see why we went 10.0 this year from a fitness perspective. What the trend lines show that after round 10 2022 we were worse in all three elements and the gap vs 2021 got bigger and bigger. Maybe we went too hard a bit too early in 2022? We virtually fell off the cliff as the season went on in 'High Speed Distance' which would be consistent with our inability to move the ball quickly down the wings and implement our overlap running from d50 to f50. In 2021 this element was relatively flat for the whole season. The increasing rate of the drop off for 2022 is quite alarming. It all says we did fantastically well to be second on the ladder as about a third of our players (most of them in our best 10) had heavily strapped knees, feet and ankles for much of the second half of the season.

Great work. Thanks @Watson11. I'll leave it to others to interpret your graphs for loading purposes. From the graphs, with a few exceptions there is little doubt that from round 10 2022 we were worse in all three measures. Round 11 2022 was when our injuries started, some players were ill and we had three losses in a row. We didn't get a full 14 day bye. Progressively from round 11 our injury toll mounted. I won't list all the players but the list is long and it kept growing especially knee and foot injuries. It meant fewer fully fit players had to carry more of the work load. Not sure where the breaking point is on a player or a team but we hit it. The error in our ways imv is we didn't use our VFL players enough to give the injured players a decent spell to rehab with the side benefit of getting some experience into the next group of players. I'm sure there are many other factors that caused the 2022 drop off after round 10 and equally sure the club will go through those in great detail.

I definitely have no ill will. Not sure if you saw my post a few above yours.: I genuinely hope that wherever Jackson goes his career potential is fulfilled. I respect him for not having said a word publicly. He let the media hype swirl around. Could not have been easy to be unaffected by it. I'm disappointed to lose him but if he is always pining to be elsewhere then its ok to go and I'm excited about the multiple players we will get in return via trade or draft. Our list needs a refresh and this might be our best chance for that in the next 4-5 years.

Freo have six players likely to ask for a trade: Lobb, Logue, Henry, Acres, Meek and maybe Tucker. At least a few of those are because Freo have made low ball offers, they slide down the order and uncertainty around their role if Jackson arrives. If Freo lose most of those players and don't get Jackson it leaves them in a bit of a mess with their list and perhaps player trust in future.

I get the immense disappointment. We had him for three years and he helped win us a premiership. Other young gun trades have been worse eg Rankine pick 3 goes home after a few years without making a mark at GCS. Boyd after one year at GWS goes to the Bulldogs and virtually won them a flag. Sadly for him and other potential young guns incl HW$NBN their career collapsed for one reason or another. They carry such a burden of expectation with the $ and the hype and I'm not sure any of them realised what they were getting into when deciding to go home or get big $.. I genuinely hope that wherever Jackson goes his career potential is fulfilled. I respect him for not having said a word publicly. He let the media hype swirl around. Could not have been easy to be unaffected by it. I'm disappointed to lose him but if he is always pining to be elsewhere then its ok to go and I'm excited about the multiple players we will get in return via trade or draft. Our list needs a refresh and this might be our best chance for that in the next 4-5 years.

That is weird. Blicavs plays ruck/midfielder/relief ruck. It looks just like the role he has at the dees. Does J Ralph really think if that was what he wanted we wouldn't tweak the role for him.

That is so so pathetic! Where was this angst last week when Dangerfield whinged to his bench then to Robbo that Ginnivan had laid a chicken wing tackle on him. Dangerfield who is president of the AFLPA. Did he not break the player's code? Robbo carried the story for him to the point the AFL investigated after the MRO findings were published and found Jack had no case to answer. jack-ginnivan-chicken-wing-tackle-on-patrick-dangerfield Oliver was appealing for a free in game. Dangerfield carried on through the media days after the game Which of the two, would other player's think broke the 'player code'? Players would be laughing at Cornes for that comment.

Looks like the airlines have jacked up the cost of tickets to Sydney.2022-finals-ticket-prices-for-swans-vs-collingwood-magpies-melbourne-to-sydney-airfare I wouldn't be too impressed with this: "The SCG holds 48,000 fans, so only 28,0000 tickets are available for club members. The 50-50 split means Collingwood members have been allocated 14,000 tickets, but that could increase should Swans members not take up their entire portion". 100,000 fans trying to get 14,000 tickets! I thought the PF had become the Final for club members. Bit ordinary that 20,000 tickets have been reserved for corporates, sponsors etc. I suspect that is more than is held back for the GF.

As the likely delists are eligible to play in the VFL GF it will probably be next week.

Not yet. The defacto version is the Treloar trade and the Grundy trade. The difference to what is being discussed is their is no player attached to the trade.

"Carlton is not seeking to offload Zac Williams, despite a report on Monday suggesting he was “gettable”. An RSN report said Carlton was “subtly shopping him (Williams) around”, despite the 27-year-old being just two years into a lucrative six-year deal. That report has been categorically denied to foxfooty.com.au." The skeptical me thinks they hadn't yet told Williams/his Manger he was being "subtly" shopped around!

Very good of Freo to sign up the players that we might be interested in. Not! With all the players they have signed up, the posturing to keep the 4-5 'wantaways' they are setting up to drive hard bargains for any trades with us or other clubs. They want Jackson they should get the deal done and move on.

The example was lifted from the article so not sure I have the answer. I'm guessing the $500,000 in the example wouldn't necessarily be in the first year but could be spread over several years.