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Unfortunately Bannan can be poached. While she has been with us for 2 years the AFL rule relates to having played 3 seasons which she has: 2 seasons in 2022.

Not seen anything about dees' players yet. I daresay a number have been targetted so no news means no-one has been enticed to leave, so far. That there are no whispers is encouraging. Ess and Hawks have a max of 5 players they can sign from other clubs. If Hawthorn get 2 from Lions that leaves 3 those two teams can get. Will any of our players move interstate? 🙏🤞they don't. Sydney is the danger team. Having signed Molloy they can take 4 more and have a raft of additional benefits: Granted an additional three list spots for season eight, reducing to two for season nine and none for season 10 Can sign up to five players during PSP Can offer a "secondary relocation reimbursement/payment" to those players Can offer longer-term contracts with an additional two seasons more than that which is allowed in season eight, for two players only Can offer longer-term contracts with an additional one season more than allowed in season eight, for three players only Of those benefits the only one the other teams get is # 3. Those longer terms may be quite enticing to a player who may be uncertain about her future. Could be worth a lot more than money.

Here are a few more possible/probable moves: Woodlands from Crows to Port. https://www.womens.afl/news/118352/out-of-the-woodland-port-to-prise-spearhead-away-from-the-crows While not psp signings, also mentioned in that article: As revealed by womens.afl on Tuesday, St Kilda fan favourite Caitlin Greiser – the League's leading goalkicker in the 2020 season – is also likely to move, having attracted the attentions of Richmond. Following the loss of Woodland to Port Adelaide, it's tipped that Adelaide will land Leah Cutting from St Kilda and Jess Allan from Greater Western Sydney as it looks to replenish its playing group. Bates, Bodey and Svarc from Lions to Hawks. There's growing industry confidence that at least Bates and Bodey will lob at the Hawks, while Svarc is still believed to be weighing up their interest and also has other Victorian clubs monitoring her situation. https://www.womens.afl/news/118355/hawks-eye-lions-premiership-trio-as-psp-pursuits-heat-up Cuthbertson from Freo to Port https://www.womens.afl/news/118359/dockers-defender-on-the-move-on-eve-of-psp All are big loses from the more successful AFLW clubs

Conjecture or inside info?

I decided to go to my normal ticketmaster account I use for bookings. They have added a layer of security. Was able to get in on pc but oddly not via mfc apps on phone or tablet. All that aside for @La Dee-vina Comediathe invoice and payment details were in the ticketmaster account when accessed via mfc.

Haven't tried the app yet. Info should be available on any device.

Do you see the invoice and payment of your membership?

Thanks for the clarification. I couldn't possibly put myself listening to him. Maybe SEN need to word their material better because what was written didn't seem much like what you described.

HFC offloaded him for sal cap and to develop young players. I agree FFC need big bodied midfielders but with O'Meara, (Jackson and others) so my point was they won't miss Mundy that much, which was the point of the post I first responded to.

His dodgy knees won't stop him throwing his weight around or getting in and under. Nor stop him protecting the young midfielders. Also he has played 18 and 21 games in the last two seasons so his knees seem less of an issue these days.

Unfortunately, the AFL is starting a new weekly 'trade and draft fix' https://www.afl.com.au/news/875183/gettable-your-weekly-trade-and-draft-fix-starting-in-2023 To me this makes a mockery of the supposed AFL policy that players are not to be targetted mid season. Obviously that policy has been surreptitiously abandoned. For the AFL to sponsor and feed the rumour mill is appalling, imv. As it is, we have 3 weeks of trade week rubbish but to be subjected to it all year is beyond the pail. We don't need to watch it but their discussion will be reported on all forms of media so the fake news and rumours will be hard to avoid. It seems clubs are on board as "Recruiters, list managers, players, agents and draftees will all feature on Gettable, which will be must-watch for fans of all clubs". So there will be heaps of fake news/rumours: all in the interests of AFL click bait. Will really feel for the players that are affected by any rumours aired.

They are expecting O'Meara to be the new Mundy and will probably be better.

I wasn't suggesting anyone else should have access. What I described was the standard process of an mfc member accessing their account which is held by ticketmaster, though mfc login. Have you tried to login?

Membership account, invoice and payment details are held by ticketmaster (an AFL thing) and is accessed after Login. I just logged in and saw a complete blank page with the message '403 Forbidden' which I think means I don't have access rights to that page. I haven't tried to access my account since last season so can't tell if it is my device(pc)/system or something to do with AFL/ticketmaster/mfc systems that denies access. Would someone else try to login to their account. I followed this sequence from mfc website: - Membership - Login which takes me to the tickemaster website but a blank page and the '403 Forbidden' message. And report back what happens, please? TIA

A little talked about aspect of Kozzie going to Port is the position he plays. At the dees he is head and shoulders above other small fwds/mids. He has licence to roam and go for his shots from wherever. At Port he is competing with 'Junior' Rioli and Zac Butters for the same role. It could be argued they are as good as Kozzie, maybe not to us biased dees fans but those guys are pretty good and stand up in big games. So Kozzie may not be able to have the same impact there. Stay at the dees and he will be an AA and hopefully have another premiership.

"Every club has a story of a player that left and went on to much bigger and better things, Pickett might be that player for Melbourne..." What rubbish he spouts! Corns makes it sound like Kozzie hasn't done much at the Dees as if being at the dees has held him back. The kid has a premiership medal, is revered by fans, teammates and the club. Hugely respected and feared by opponents. Has had excellent development and loves the club. How much bigger and better can it be at Port, a team that yo-yos on the ladder, who will probably change coaches this year. The much 'bigger and better' things for Kozzie are at the dees, not Port eg another premiership medal. Port are some way from that. The lure of family and home is the only materially better thing Port can offer. Cut the bs, Kane!!

So you sleep in Fritsch's bed and take Jayden home...and I thought you were a wholesome type...😉 Clearly mistaken!🙃

Looks like Hunter and Langdon will have company. They also seem to have lost their locks!!

Interesting that it Max said he would be playing 70% forward. Whether that has changed since the meetings we shall soon know.

West is safe as a player needs to have played for 3 or more AFL seasons to be targetted. On that basis, the high end talent we drafted a few years ago should also be safe. I actually hope this works or the AFL will be back for another impromptu idea to equalise the comp meaning weakening the strong teams. The more such ideas they have the more likelihood of our better players going. This would be especially so if the AFL gave fledgling clubs more top Tier spots.

Smith got only 2 games for an almost identical set of circumstances. One could argue Smith's were worse. Having set the Smith precedent the AFL couldn't go any harder on Ginnivan. And Smith didn't lose any income.

Maybe because the people in FD's, Admin, AFL HQ etc also partake in said activities . Pot. Kettle.

The upcoming draft is compromised as the young players were taken up in the last draft so there will only be 'over-age' players; generally those that were overlooked in the last draft. So getting draft picks for any player we lose will not be of much value. I would guess the lack of a 'draft pool' is why the struggling clubs are getting free hits at established players rather than priority draft picks.

I can see why the AFL are doing this: Crows, Lions and Dees have dominated the GF. They have graced the GF 10 times out of a possible 12. (The other times: Bulldogs (premiers in 2018) and Carlton (a flukey conference system in 2019.). North wouldn't be two happy being in the lose up to '5 players' category. But they did a fair bit of raiding and had concessions so shouldn't be complaining. The issue is the AFL moving the goal posts without warning. We traded up the draft order a few years ago to bring in talent ahead of the draft concessions to the latest expansion teams. Now we risk losing some of our best players. Some clubs will get around the # of Tier spots by offering other incentives on top of say Tier 3 $ to bridge the small gap to Tier 2 $. Like Daisy said after the GF win: "...we didn't give away cars to entice players to join..." Which I assume are not in the salary cap. Clubs also offer jobs in their FD etc. Unless our players want to go interstate their options will be Ess or Hawth. The best a player can hope for is to move from Tier 3 to Tier 2. And I suspect Ess and Hawth will already have their Tier 2 spots taken. I don't expect us to lose many players.

That clarifies it. Thank you.