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Hinkley would tell the dees players to take max out off the ball just out of habit. the Hinkley appointment does become interesting if it increases our chances of luring Zak butters. You don’t make a coaching call because of that but if it’s a 50/50 choice for example perhaps that becomes a factor

I think most coaches would be thinking if this team can fix up the inside 50 connections and find a key forward they can bounce back really quickly, especially if clarry comes good

I vaguely remember bucks talking about how he doesn’t rate the role of ruckman in the game and I am curious how that would work with a team built around max gawn

Couldn’t be worse than mark neeld was…

If experienced John Longmire or Adam Simpson Untried. Hayden skipworth, Corey Enright, Brent Montgomery or Daniel gianceracusa

Choose a direction and commit to it. I think we need to focus on the draft. Maybe move on 2-3 guys to improve draft hand and build a team. We’ve seen how quickly things can turn when a club is decisive. I’m just convinced this current scenario is doomed. We need change

Play the kids. Let’s see what kolt, Jeffo and Laurie can do with an extended run

I mean the umpiring is indefensible at this point.

That is not in any context a free kick hahahahaha

Geez port fans are gross. They belong in a zoo.

It’ll be a real test for player power because there is no way freo do this willingly.

It’s so funny. Is the idea Fremantle faked their interest so Melbourne would pay 200k a year more on an extensions they were going to offer anyway? Reality. Freo and west coast tried. The dees flexed and blew them totally out of the water.

I can’t see any world where freo let Jackson go

This is such a big deal for the club. Not just because kozzie is a gun but it signals we’ve moved on from the doubts and cultural issues that have plagued us. A player like kozzie would have been able to get really big dollars anywhere, 9 years says he believes in the club and it’s direction and is also confirmation our welfare in dealing with homesickness and so on is highly effective. I think the criticism in the media of us jumping at shadows is lazy. We’ve consistently signed out big name players well out from being out of contract, Petracca, Oliver, viney and Gawn are all recent examples. This is simply how we operate as a club and today we got a great result

The saints are absolutely not a serious club if their offer for NWM isn’t as big or bigger than this. Losing him would be a bigger loss for the. Than kozzie would have been for us.

The money and term are great but I heard what’s actually convinced kozzie is @Adam The God offering to become his PA

The worst one for me was they gave a red hot insufficient intent against sparrow early and then the same umpire let daicos handball into into row 27

May has 15 of these with lever every quarter… it’s a non issue

I wonder how much of the welfare\community support would be baked into the contract to make him feel comfortable and supported. I am sure the MFC would basically accept any terms that mean kozzie is a career long demon

We seem to be building in the right direction now which is nice. If that continues there is no reason we can’t win 8-12 games for the year and either sneak into the 8 or just miss it but with real momentum for 2026, much like we did in 2020

Fitness looks a very real issue now.

Paul Guerra is a massive Essendon guy, nearly joined their board multiple times and a huge footy fan. He hasn’t played at the top level but it’s not like we plucked this guy out of Antarctica. He knows enough and will bring far more commercially than others. This is key when we also have to assess a new home ground and a poor crowds. FD decisions are made by a team, not by one person and it might actually help to take some emotion out of it and just make sound business decisions about an employees performance vs expectations

Sean Darcy got dominated by Gawn today to such an extent that he Might wake up in cold sweats dreaming of max grabbing it out of the ruck

Our forward line does look a lot more capable of at least applying ground level pressure and some spark this week

My guess is the club has landed on Nicholson and they’re just verifying before announcing