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Geez petracca is a big unit! Kid physically looks like he's been in the system a couple of years already!

Brayshaw is far more impressive than degoey imo

I just don't feel Bennell has the attitude/application to deliver on his talent on a consistent enough basis to be the type of player that the Melbourne football club needs, for the cost I think we could get a better player/package which could deliver more consistently

Imagine the confidence jimmy Toumpas got last year when he'd come up to afl level plays okay but clearly needs time to get used to the pace of the game but gets dropped the next week while watts gets chance after chance Not a great example imo

Wouldn't go near Harley Bennell Dion Prestia would be a good get

I think we will keep Trengove because If he gets fit he has a lot of upside His injury history would leave him with stuff all trade value

Spot on, kid has talent, but he just isn't hungry, Big difference between wanting to succeed and refusing to fail.

Cocaine?

This attitude is part of the cultural change, we may be huge long shots but the club needs to believe we can win every game to be great again, I think the club thinks it can beat good teams if things go right for us, but belief is something else entirely and something I haven't seen in our club since rev was coach and a bloke called neitz captained

Trent Mckenzie, Charlie Dixon and Brandon matera would be good, straight swap for jack watts and a pack of skittles?

a quality ruckman is something we desperately need, Jamar has been servicable but look at the difference Mumford is making to the giants

Agree totally, and i think Brendan Mcartney can take a lot of credit for it,

he played against the Giants also, competed really strongly and kicked a couple of goals

And alot like the Essendons football clubs defense during the whole saga, mindless arm waving totally void of any facts or significant arguments to back up their position.

2013 - 2 wins 56% 2014 - 4 wins 82% we are coming from the very bottom of the barrel, the doggies were about where we are now, so that's in perspective a decent head start on where we were when Roos took over

They were never fooling anyone besides their own supporters, i still firmly believe they will be hit hard by both WADA and Worksafe over this and following that the players would have to seriously consider legal action against the club. if they walk away from this it would be close to the greatest failure in Australian sports history.

Very similar to what took place at Port happening at the doggies, highly turbulent off season, leads to some quality appointments leads to a rise up the ladder no one thought they were capable of, especially without Libba we're coming from alot further back though, our real rise will come when guys like Salem and Brayshaw get up towards the 50 games mark and start being able to impact games of footy consistently,

Jumbo source is josh Mahoney saying " we feel we are in a strong position financially to retain our emerging talent and bring in a top end player into the club in the next few years " Combined with the play for Dangerfield last year

We've got the cap room to offer him a monster deal, Sam frost and Dom Tyson to get In his ear and we have shown clear improvement so far this year so his addition would be a big one In our push for finals 2016 so I think Shiel is gettable. Would love Dixon as well thoug! Dream off season

For me, Dylan Shiel is target 1. But I think the natural progression of our midfield plus introducing petracca and Trengove back into the mix will mean we will improve in that area anyway I'm concerned Dawes can't kick enough goals to be more than a third tall forward/ ruck so Dixon would be a great fit in that sense

Not 100% sure of his trade value but I assume he wouldn't be at the top of the Suns retain list with Ablett, Martin, omeara, swallow, Bennell, lynch, kolo, Prestia and co

OOC at years end, would be a really good foil for Jesse Hogan, already has two bags of 6 goals to his name, capable of pinch hitting in the ruck someone we might have an interest in?

I am pretty concerned about the match up for Tippett, pretty confident with Tommy Mac being able to stop Buddy though

Positive: jimmy can get the ball.. Negative: he can't seem to do anything with it. to me that suggests that alot of his issues are probably related to confidence, the belief he can do more than a ten meter chip pass, and that he can run and carry and actually create for his team. i'd say his stats are almost totally irrelevant until he can show a capacity to use the ball with more impact

The day Essendon can display what they took and that it wasn't banned is the day I'll consider viewing them In any other way, But they won't do it, what went on in 2012 was clearly the greatest failure by any club in AFL history and they couldn't even keep records of it