Ted Lasso

I would assume a lot of the appeal of the crows just left with Burgo as well

Correct. picks outside the top 5 in this draft barely even hold the value of a first rounder. it's such a shallow pool and so heavily compromised. It's why the idea of accepting the Crows pick 14 for Trac is so absurd. it's going to be more like pick 19-20 in a weak draft.

I'm curious why Trac has changed his tune about which teams he's open to going to, isn't he super close to his family? is he trying to get away from them by going interstate or is just he's looking at the market and realising the only way he gets to play finals at a team that could have a chance of doing a deal is going interestate?

Seriously though, why would anyone go near Essendon at the moment? haha

For me it's the young guys! i'd love to see Kentfield, Jefferson, Tholstrup, Laurie, Van Rooyen, Windsor, Bowey, Monez Wakefield, Langford, Lindsay, Adams and so on all have huge pre-seasons and lock in spots. I really like our young guys, hopefully especially the key forwards will absolutely thrive in a new system with faster ball movement

YES! the dangerfield comparisons pre draft i think had everyone a bit flat! We probably did lost the Tyson/Salem - Pick 2 trade in hindsight though it sounds like we'd have passed on Kelly or Bont and gone for Billings so maybe not.

I was the same with Matt crouch. I was so flat when we traded the pick for Bernie Vince that became crouch. I thought he was going to be an absolute beast. Another I really liked was dom sheed! Last year as @Adam The God knows it was Harvey Langford coz I didn’t shut up about him for months in our private messages, so wrapped we finally got one!

High end picks... I'm just keeping Trac kicking and screaming if it's for pick 20 and 22 or something like that the suggestion of Adelaides 2 picks would be a horrible deal for the MFC, it's MASSIVE unders for us considering we have no actual incentive to trade Trac unless it makes us better long term

With you, I'd only be trading Trac if it meant we got high end picks, they took on his whole wage and we planned to throw the kitchen sink at Zak Butters next year. But i mean Steven King has a stated goal of finals, which we're unlikely to achieve without Trac.

One of my favourite things about Demonland is the posters who know absolutely nothing about a bloke beyond he coached Casey instantly and baselessly writing him off straight away. It's like they live their lives munching on sour grapes.

In fairness, Goody is absolutely bang on. Goody was so desperate to cash in on 2021 with more flags that he missed the competition flying right past him and into a totally different game style He was a brilliant coach and Melbourne person, someone who deserves nothing but respect from the fans and even since being sacked he's been all class.

One of those things Daz, i am sure if we matched the deal we could have still signed him, but i am pleased the club didn't want to overpay for someone for the sake of a signing, like the Saints have with their entire offseason.

Everything in hearing says the saints will be nominated by Flanders in the coming days. I don’t think we presented badly, they’re just splashing money we weren’t prepared to match perhaps.

I think if you can get back into the high end of the draft and clear the space you add to the exciting core of young players and free up cash to go after someone like a Zak Butters potentially next year

In this draft it's unders, it's not a terrible deal but pick 14 will be pushed into the second round. and if they win the flag next year you might get 2 x 20's picks. It's hard though because no contender is going to want to give up any players either, so i mean they can only offer what they've got. I can't see how this deal possibly gets done to the Crows without a third team becoming involved.

Not to mention Tmac played significantly better footy this year than either May or Lever

Would happily take Finlay for a bit of midfield depth.

I must admit i don't mind listening to this and doing a little bit of work, some of it is absolute rubbish, but it's not the worst background noise

Judd is dead to me. Luckily i lack conviction and will forgive him as soon as he re-signs. but until then. DEAD TO ME..

Precisely why they have my full support.

I have a feeling the James Hird fan club might make another push to replace Brad Scott as coach to be honest.

Fantastic news. Best path back to finals is a fully fit and firing Petracca and Oliver so lets see Steven King earn his money!

Trac is a whole lot more like Dusty than he is danger but lazy player comparisons seem to group all powerful mids together. Danger is much more in the Nat Fyfe, James Hird, Nathan Buckley mould, big powerful and strong overhead

The Rising star is such a funny award, Murphy Reid has had a great year, but i really like the 2 we took, i am really excited to see what Lindsay and Langford can do with a full pre-season behind them

I think you'll find this has a lot more to do with the contract on offer than the midfield time, he'd get that at any of the 4 options, but in this case he's going to get a significant payrise by going to the Saints. I am really happy for Melbourne to bow out of this race rather than overpaying, Flanders is a good young player but if the talk about what is being offered to him is even remotely true it's not someone we're any chance of getting.