Ted Lasso

Interested to hear thoughts on the position Salem will play in 2017, will he continue off half back? considering Hibberd is likely coming in and we already have Hunt dominating from half back and some other competition for spots there, with Vince likely playing more of a role there again next year, I personally think he's going to play most of his footy as a Wing/Half forward, we're in a really fortunate position where a lot of our flank players who have been quite young and developing are reaching a point in terms of their fitness where they can have really damaging bursts through the middle, an example of this is Dean Kent who i genuinely think could be an A grade on baller eventually.

Curious timing of his announcement, i wonder if the announcement over at North might be freeing up some cash to get O'meara over the line there?

Predictions... ND27&ND45 - Michael Hibberd&ND55 Chris Dawes - ND30-45 Jack Grimes to leave via Free agency Jack Trengove to be delisted and re-rookied and i expect us to shop around Col Garland, Lynden Dunn, Alex neal-bullen and Cam Pederson to see if there is any value out there.

Aaron VandenBerg, Colin Garland and 2017 first round pick for O'meara rumour has it the Suns have a strong preference for established players over picks.

I wonder if this attitude will also extend to Prestia?

But i mean if the Suns don't accept an offer in trade week, and he doesn't nominate for the draft, surely there would be a point where his contract ends and he's delisted?

If Jaeger simply didn't nominate for the draft would he then become a delisted free agent allowing him to go wherever he wants?

reckon the Bombers would jump at 1?

if he went into the draft i reckon Freo would grab him with pick 3

More to the point, Ball was a great servant of their club and a former captain and i could never understand why that decision was made from there end, they were playing blokes well below him in their side the next year.

I know mate, just thinking out loud :D

I would laugh so hard if the Bombers offered up pick 1 for O'meara and Prestia and ripped him out of Richmonds clutches!

O'meara will just say no to every club other than the one he wants to go to and then enter the draft with a big pricetag on his head so he gets through to them. the GC are going to achieve nothing outside of running the risk of losing him for nothing.

He named it Roosy... going to be the marquee player for the new Hawaii team that he's starting

O'meara would be a huge asset to any teams rehab group.

I remember him saying after the suspensions were handed down that it was important that the suspensions were held because it was their commitment to clean sport, everything else he's done has been totally disrespectful, he's systematically rigged the system to ensure they lose as little money as possible and shown how important clean sport really is, it's a nice idea so long as it doesn't effect revenue, the integrity of the contest is dead and buried.

Surely they can't change a draft rule so close to the draft because it doesn't suit 1 team? Matt Dea would have been of interest to multiple clubs. they have got to stop rewarding the drug cheats for destroying their name.

That's a strange assumption to make lol Collingwood might have offered him twice as much money?

I think Trengove has some ability if we can find the right role for him, Grimes is gone. Trengove has the skills and smarts Grimes would love and age to go on his side as well, i'd certainly give him another year, potentially even as a rookie Grimes is done, he's been great for the MFC but he's been playing out of his skin at Casey and it's still not been enough to get a run, clearly there is something he isn't doing and the club is strong on the fact you need to be doing that to get a run in the 1's

Dawes for Pick 1 and Hibberd?

Reckon the interested sides realize he can't mark or kick? maybe if they're silly enough to look at him they'll be silly enough to give us a first rounder.

Given his form, i reckon they'd be silly not to consider a decent offer if it was made for Andrew Swallow.

So? heaps of players would announce their retirement and it would be celebrated on the back of not being offered a contract, this just looks bad and messy in my opinion, if they wanted to explore other options they could have said nothing publicly and if they wanted to retire they could have, we'd have never known if not for the statement.

I agree 100% with the direction of the club and the need for a clean out, but i have an issue with how this has been handled, surely it could have been done privately, allowing some or all of these guys to announce their retirement and we'd be discussing the great careers they've had and their final games in Melbourne rather than the questionable cutting of older players.

PJ got laughed at when he said we'd be playing finals and have 40k members by the end of this year, and we're only two bad losses and 800 members away from that being a reality, the way they've turned this club around in a short time is breathtaking .