Ted Lasso

I think in an ideal world you have the bulls who win it and feed it out to the better outside players. we've just built around too many bulls and so Trac has had to play a role that doesn't completely suit him. His best talent has always been winning the ball and using his power to burst out of stoppage.

Contest is still king in big finals. Those big body beasts just get more and more valuable. Pies found out, so did the cats, so did the hawks when danger turned the clock back.

if Trac wants a flag in the next couple of years he needs to find a way to the Lions because they're only going to get better with another preseason into the Ashcrofts and Allen and Draper coming in.

Wow the umpires are [censored] Brisbane. If the free kick count wasn’t so out of whack I suspect the lions would be 2-3 goals up and looking very good

The dees position seems to be clear. The door is open but it’s not a fire sale. If we get a deal that makes us better we will look at it

Man I hate grand finals when we aren’t involved. 2021 has ruined these days for me

In fact it's the opposite, we were in for Windhager on good money, we're in for Flanders, we're in for Mihocek. Can't go shopping without a solid bank balance.

I thought clarry did spike in form slightly towards the end of the year! Have to hope that a new coach and system, a full pre season maybe a much better 2026!

I like Sullivan Robey, Xavier Taylor, Dyson Sharp, Josh Lindsay and Lochy Dovaston. I'd be very happy to add 2 of that group to our list in exchange for Trac.

I believe we will ask Collingwood to trade Mihocek to us to avoid losing the compo

6 plus 7 for Trac, 23 and the Spargo compo would be my angle. gives them points, we get a deal we can sell to the members and looks good and the reality is 6 and 7 get sucked up the moment the Suns get a bid which could easily come at pick 1 or 2.

I am sure we're having conversations on if we match or up the offer to him, i agree with the sentiment that you need to spend money to sign good players and perhaps this is a situation where it'd be worthwhile. I think the Trac deal gets much harder if Flanders nominates the Saints though

Imagine being a Jack Steele and carrying the team while they've been garbage for years only to watch Sam Flanders walk in on nearly a mil a year.

Told ya. It’s all about them $$$$$$ Hes good but he’s not worth that

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

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.