Diamond_Jim

This season has taken the competition backwards by many years. Frankly not sure how to turn it around Attendances barely over 2k even for Collingwood matches. I'd almost be tempted to start again... All games on Saturday afternoon... one game on Evening TV perhaps. Free entry... etc etc And seriously re-think the rules to encourage open and attractive football plus scoring

Or the unselfishness of young McAdam coming to us for a F2 What might have been ???

That I assume is the sweetener 13 for F1 and 25/28 was not a great deal but this one is okay. Sounds like a squeeze... expect some complaints from other clubs

You could make it work. For example you could have non tradeable draft picks rotating through clubs without reference to ladder position. Whether a club exercised the draft pick would depend on need. All VFL clubs would have an academy ruckman with guaranteed game time as well as the "normal ruckman". You could rotate these players between clubs and they would have say 3 years to be drafted before leaving the academy. Clubs would jump at it as training young rucks is such a hit and miss affair

To make 13 and 28 work we'd need to finish top 3

Total madness from an MFC perspective.... Possible pick 5 for Pick 13 and we throw in a high second round pick in what everyone says is a deep draft. Talk about mortgaging the future

can't see Smith going for free. He would need to bypass fourteen odd clubs. Only one needs to bite. It would make for an interesting watch though. It will happen one day.

Ranking surprised me. I would have thought Adelaide is up there and to rank Eagles and Dockers effectively even is amazing. Eagles are a real power brand held back only by onfield performance

Disappointed that he didn't get a senior game when our season was effectively over (Round 19 onwards??). Can't see him making an impact in 2025 but if he can have a 20 goal AFL season and take the pressure of Fritsch I'll be happy. His year is 2026 which will see Petty down back (post Tmac) and Jefferson and JVR as the two key forwards with Fritsch as the impact forward. He's still a 50/50 proposition for me at AFL level. Like most I got burned by Weid with that word "potential" not to menion "breakout."

Like many I watched McAdam closely at VFL level. After some passable early games (vertical leap and mark) he went way backwards in his return stint. No defensive skills and other than his marking he seems to have few other skills (ground skills especially). Hard to say it but Schache showed more at VFL in his first Demons year. I'm prepared to be wrong but if so I will be surprised. Very disappointed with our trading skills when Billings is head and shoulders in front of everyone else

Sounds like Richmond may do an early GWS... Draft lots and then trade the ok but not great players for more draft picks. Makes sense and gives you a much higher success rate. Amazing what GWS did in those early years but still missed out. Something tells me that Tasmania will not be given the run with draft picks that GWS and GCS received. You have to bear in mind they are not an "AFL conceived" team

Pick 10 is a reasonable swap for our F1 IMO. I project a finish between 11 and 4 next year which are picks 7-14 so okay with me if the List Management think that is where the value lies. Pick 13 was IMO not great value on a trade/risk/return basis. Doubling up on picks can have salary cap issues going forward assuming they are successful players. A nice problem to have but one to keep in the back of your mind especially if the media rights magic pudding stalls. Hope we have a medium term plan to get Harley Reid assuming he goes slow on his contract re-sign (Unfortunately every other Melbourne club will be working on the same thing)

NRL have a night grand final but because of daylight saving the pre-game entertainment (KId Laroi) is in daylight. (6:30pm) Strange

Did he play basketball ?

Tasmania aren't in the draft next year or the following year. These draft years are premium for the future of the club. We have a questionable forward line along with queries over our midfield. An injury to Gawn of over four weeks costs us 3-4 ladder places. Saying we will finish 5th or above in 2025 is a big punt From what I've read this is an even draft which does not make it deep from a future quality viewpoint

I'd say a betting person would say our future first will be between 6 and 14 so trading for pick 13 is not a great trade

Players won't accept them if they are "non standard". IIRC the Pies tried that with De Goey and they got nowhere

What I find amusing in this scenario is why Pert didn't use a "cut out". They're are a load of people he could have used as an honest broker which would have made the attributed leak a lot harder to report. We are very amateurish it would seem. Has probably cost 5k members and made sponsors jittery Go the Storm !!

I think I could follow a team made up of PhD students. A few Greek classicists mixed up with some exotic mathematicians. Stress free by comparison to the mess we have now

Somewhere round that probably. The damage is now well and truly done. It's now a salvage job unfortunately

Ironic Trac takes out Roffey and now Oliver takes out Pert (metaphorically speaking) Who is next you wonder

Will Pert get a please explain following the Age article suggesting that he's been shopping Oliver around to other clubs. Even if authorised its amateur hour.... (use an untraceable source) Three other club and industry sources with knowledge of trade discussions said that Gary Pert, the Melbourne CEO who has been running two reviews into the club, recently made contact with a number of teams about whether they had an interest in trading for Oliver. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-inside-story-how-word-spread-that-oliver-was-on-the-market-again-20241001-p5kevi.html

just my feelings in the sense that we have three mega contracts on our books in the form of Brayshaw, Oliver and Petracca. With the benefit of hindsight (form and injury) they were all two years too long. Time now to look to the future In the case of Brayshaw the AFL unfortunately want to get rid of long contracts (over 5 years) and we will be used as the scapegoat

Unfortunately the club will realise that if he stays we have a depreciating asset. The window is shut and it's time to think beyond the next two years. Reading between the train tracks there is a mega undercurent of discontent in the upper echelons of the playing group. Wish it wasn't so but it is becoming damningly obvious

It's not going to be that... unfortunately it's now about simply getting a mega contract off our books. The picks will be middling to reasonable without being high