Ted Lasso

I think a professional organisation should back itself to keep it's best player despite free agency, and i am extremely confident Chip would be loving what he has seen under Roos and a few wins next year will be enough to keep him on. having said that i think he deserves a very good contract this time around, has battled very hard in a very difficult period for the club and needs his next contract to reflect how important he is to the team.

Eh doubt any of them will pick Crouch top 8 and i would not be at all upset if we landed him at pick 9

B: Colin Garland Tom Mcdonald Luke Tapscott HB: jack Grimes James Frawley Jimmy Toumpas C: Jack Watts Dom Tyson Viv Michie HF: Jesse Hogan Chris Dawes Nathan Freeman F: Jeremy Howe Mitch Clark Dean Kent FOL: Mark Jamar Bernie Vince Nathan Jones I/C: Jack Viney Jack Trengove Daniel Cross SUB: Sam Blease Assuming we draft Nathan Freeman at #9 Much better looking team, particularly like the half back line and the half forward line, Think Viv Michie is going to prove to be a huge steal for us, as will Dom Tyson and Pick 9 for pick 2, watched alot of Tyson and personally rate him as a top 3 pick alone if he is able to stay fit.

Blease and Tapscott both have talent, i don't think one year under a decent coach would be stupid, and realistically we are going to get stuff all for them so we might as well give them one more year each.

Sheed, Freeman or Crouch, all fit the bill very well. and i rate all three ahead of Kelly and Aish.

Very interesting times ahead, if all of this talk is true and we face a choice of what to use pick 2 on who do we take? Rockliff, Shuey or Shiel? all three are contracted as far as I am aware so any deal would have to involve pick 2 and it's very unlikely we will have the bait to be able to secure more than one. Personally i'd choose Rockliff, still young, leadership oozes from him, hard at it, fits Roos style of player, but that's just my opinion.

The fact we aren't into a lot of the bigger names that are floating around makes me think we have our eye on a few other players, perhaps Rockliff is one, I really hope he is, i'd offer pick 2 and Fitzpatrick for Rockliff and pick 7 if a trade was possible, i'd also offer him 4 years at a big pay and the captaincy for 2014

It will be very interesting to see what happens with Tappy next year great test of bad selection vs terrible development. I think Tappy has the tools to be a decent player, has never had a settled role for long enough to really grow into it and been very poorly coached up until this point, his build and physicality really adds a point of difference to our side that I like. Hopefully Roos can settle him into a position, imo it's the glenn Archer/ cambell brown style back pocket, let him train there all pre season and see how he goes, would wanna make serious strides in 2014 or I doubt he will get another contract.

Remember the GWS factor when you get excited about these young mids wanting trades, these boys listen to Sheeds and the scum dog millionaire badmouth the MFC on a daily basis, it's extremely unlikely they will have any interest in coming near us unless we either A pay crazy overs or B start winning games of football.

Would be good in the sense that he was at ground zero for port's rise, and is credited with a lot of that, very experienced, been around quite abit.

I really like pickles, really think he could be a very good player for us, injuries are the big concern.

Franklin would be huge for them in a marketing sense, but imo Cameron would still be their best forward.

Apparently Tudor ruled himself out a while ago, but I reckon it'll be Simpson, can't see why else we would wait this long.

I'd be thinking Jack Grimes and Jack Viney, but it's abit insane to be thinking that far ahead, there is a decent chance a lot of those players will never play in a Grand final.

I think it's a GWS thing, you could imagine Sheedy and Scully would be badmouthing MFC every single day up there. but I mean an offer of 450 k a year at his age to go back to his home state, play on the MCG every other week and play under Paul Roos and be part of rebuilding the great MFC is a pretty decent opportunity I would have thought.

Brisbane are requesting 1.8 million dollars in emergency funding needed because they totally screwed up a bid for Paul Roos, still bitched about us getting any money. The fact Sydney finished top 4 and are paying Tippett over a million dollars a year and can still afford at least 1.4 mil a year is just crazy, how much extra are they getting? no bloody wonder they're up the top all the time..

Hearing the bombers are pretty keen on him, would be pretty happy if we swooped in and landed him first though.

Will be a very interesting trade period for us, for the first time in a long time I really have no idea who we are going to chase, I hope we can land Rory Sloane for pick 2 ZaK jones for pick 20 Trade pick 38 for Viv Michie Trade Mark Jamar for Anthony Miles Sign Darren Jolly as a playing coach to groom Gawn into the gun I think he will be Sign Daniel Cross because he is a perfect fit on and off field look at Xavier Ellis as a free agent and retain col!

Would Heath play more as a midfielder for us? the pick 2 for shaw and 10 is just stupid, I could understand it with Adams, we'd be getting 2 ten year players and Matt Crouch might turn out to be just as good or better than james Aish anyway. but a bloke who is 28 would want to be superstar quality.

St Kilda are going to face a very long few years if they keep pushing senior players out the door like they are, Watters is as bad as Mark Neeld, he just took over a better list.

The most exciting time of year for a Dees supporter <3 any chance we can pay another side to take Cam Pederson?

What I don't understand is why would any player want to go anywhere near Methendon? Col could go there and two weeks later find out all the players have infraction notices and there will be no games for the next two years, or worse get drugged with something.

Read somewhere yesterday Adelaide were talking about offering Bernie Vince and David Mackay for pick 2 because they didn't want to part with Rory Sloane or Brad Crouch and that's what we were demanding in return. not sure if there is any truth to this, but if there was i'd keep pushing for Sloane, they wanted Aish enough to enquire in the first place and would have known it wouldn't come cheap.

Interesting to run down a team who has never finished below his team on the ladder, even during the clubs most worst period.... oh well I suppose that's classic Sheeds.

IMO gold coast suns will get very heavily involved in the race for Shaw and more than likely land him, Bluey McKenna has past connections to Shaw and Collingwood, they have stated publicly they will be in the market for an experienced hard running half back who has played serious finals before. Heath Shaw fits the bill perfectly and they have plenty of trade options to get the deal done.