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I am not 100% sure and i reckon Mach5 would have a better idea, but i reckon we were open to taking Varcoe for Clark but he wasn't keen to come to us.

I think the only position you'd want him in is head of development and we already have a pretty handy coach filling that role I think he'd be a pretty good choice to head coach the Lions

I don't think we'll get very far as a club if we're picking up guys like this, i wouldn't have thought any of the above would be in our top 30 players let alone best 22.

Huge chance to end up at Carlton, but rate the kid and would love him

Hypercritical scum had a go at the MFC and questioned our integrity and accused us for breaking the rules and chasing Michael Hibberd in season ... only to do the exact same thing to the Eagles with Mitch Brown and Eric Mackenzie, which the WCE are rightly not happy about on the eve of finals. They are hands down the worst team in the comp on just about every front.

for the MFC, or for the Lions?

Could we give Jesse a run at CHB? he's smart, got some speed and played a good amount of footy in defense. i rate his ball use and his contested marking has always been strong, maybe playing the Role Watts does a bit more and getting down back and helping would do him some good, getting his hands on the ball a bit more and feeling like he's impacting the game without kicking goals.

So round 1 next year the speculation starts? or is it only two years out for Hogan?

I actually think he played some very solid footy at times this year in a really poor team, for the right price i'd certainly have a look at him.

That's a really interesting dynamic in the whole situation, Tom Boyd as an example is a developing player, that's how he's being treated at the dogs, but he's on a million dollars a year so the pressure of the contract is huge, not sure you can really take the pressure and expectation off and then pay someone big bucks.

Thanks LH, i did jump to an assumption there, apologies for that, i just can't remember who else posted about Dion.

I assume you're referring to me there, i called early last year that we'd chase Dion, that was proven to be correct, i also said that chase would continue this year, which it did, and i can assure you now that the chase went right until a huge offer came from RIchmond, we wanted Dion if he was at our price, but weren't going to pay overs, there seems to be an attitude by some Demonlanders that if someone posts that we're after a player and we don't land that player that the posters credibility is shot forgetting that they were correct about the chase, clearly we chased Dion, but for a player like that we were never going to be the only side and we were beaten for him, it happens, but if we "went cold" on Dion it was only quite recently, the club would have quite a long list of players we chase every year the % that we actually land would be less than 3-4% of those

are you reading my comments? i just said in another post, dropping someone for form is different to trying to pressure a decision, i don't dispute that if he is underperforming he'll spend time at casey, but if he's not he plays seniors it's pretty simple.

I reckon if you read back through the posts you'll find the answer, i think Jesse will stay and it's a non issue but i was responding to another posters comment.

sure but that's a different discussion, there is a difference between dropping someone for poor form and dropping someone because they aren't sure if they'll stay and go at years and trying to pressure a decision.

I have always said i think Jesse will stay so it's a non issue, but... the club in a hyperthetical world can't do much, Jesse has a contract and the only way he gets traded is if he wants to, you can't play a guy like Jesse at Casey for not making a decision fast enough when they still have a year to run on their contract, it would make every player avoid us, and those already on our list very nervous.

Richmond has a core group of footballers?? not sure you could call Alex Rance a core group. he should just admit what blind freddy can see, it's a financial decision, 250k a year extra is not something you scoff at when you're a young, injury prone footballer.

That'd beat our seniors hahaha

Jesse has a contract, if he wants to spend the year deciding we can't do much, we can delist him and let him walk to another club but ultimately it's up to him, good clubs retain their good players so it's as important for us to not be scared off and to get it right as it is for him

Collingwood will find it extremely hard to get a deal done without giving up a very good player, Essendon on the other hand could simply just grab him in the PSD, pay him what he wants and everyone is a winner, well aside from the Suns but their stupid comments have cost them.

Because he has a contract that gives him the right and he's allowed to be genuinely undecided, people forget this guy is 21, i know when i was 21 i would have really struggled with this, he's loyal to Melbourne, we're on an exciting path but his family is in perth and there is a pull home. Paul Roos said last night on open mike that Jesse had shown absolutely no signs or given any indication that he was going to leave the footy club so that's a good sign

Wonder if the Tigers would be tempted by Dawes and a swap of later picks?

No, i think most of these decisions would have been 99.9% made already, i think they'll definitely hold off til after the VFL finals, maybe someone like Newton might get a look at a Rookie spot if he dominates in the finals

In my honest opinion, Rance and Martin are the only thing keeping Richmond from being every bit as bad as Brisbane Lions, they have no idea how deep the hole they're in is, there is no talent coming through on their list.

Get on the blower to the Tigers, straight swap of Dawes for Lennon, they get a key forward, we get a young underperforming mid