Ted Lasso

I like this concept alot, trading pick 2 for a good young player that will improve with our list and a high pick, pick 7 prob gets us a choice between Freeman ( who i liken to Dangerfield ) Crouch ( who i liken to Mitchell or Selwood ) Sheed ( Simon Black ) if we don't get Adams there is every indication those boys will become high quality players, and the thing they all have in common is they're ready to go.

I wonder how Aish is feeling right now, us throwing up pick number 2 he could end up just about anywhere, and for alot of the year he would have been getting himself used to the idea of moving to Melbourne.

To be perfectly honest i'd still just rather not have a dick head at our club haha, if he is willing to leave a club that's clearly on the rise bigtime to chase money from teams that are miles behind them it makes you ask questions of that persons mindset.

Correct, if they are making hand shake deals and as Richard says " gentlemans agreementes " about really talented players wouldn't that be Draft tampering and as bad as our tanking stuff?

Who are we supposed to be trying to poach that's contracted?

I have seen or heard somewhere that we offered him about the same deal as we offered Dawsy but that was back before we got Roos

I'm still of the opinion that Wines would not have looked as good at MFC as he did at Port this year, the support around the midfield, the leadership of the club and coaching is totally different, so from that viewpoint i am not doubting for a second taking Toumpas was the right call. Toumpas reminds me of a Travis Jonstone that works his ass off, but as others have said a huge confidence player, when he's up he will be way up, when he's down he might go missing a little but but i'm very confident he will be a star

Yeah that's exactly what i am suggesting, if the Hawks don't win the flag maybe it's time for a change, Clarko has been there a while and i know alot of Hawthorn supporters who are starting to doubt the teams ability to win big finals, although they got over that last night i reckon haha. but yeah, my suggestion is, if they don't win the flag from this position which imo they should, Freo are good but i'm not sure they will be good enough to beat Hawthorn in a grand final a tthe G then would they look at maybe installing Simpson simply because the change can sometimes help them take that extra step? don't get be wrong i'd much rather Simpson come to MFC but..

It's a professional sports industry, people get poached, coaches players it's just what happens you'd think old mate would have more to worry about like the fact they're playing imo the best team in the comp in perth tonight and it's gunna be a struggle.

Not really related to MFC but what do people reckon the future will hold for Al Clarkson if Hawthorn lose tonight? will they consider moving him on as that will be 3 big chances at premierships in 4 years wasted.

What i'd be interested to see is if they say no, surely they'd have to give a reason, what reason do they have? you were found not guilty of tanking a previous administration stuffed up some picks before the other clubs don't like the idea it's obviously in the best interests of the entire comp that we get back up to scratch as quickly as possible and an extra top 10 draft pick in my opinion is the best way to do it i'd be happy with pick 5 or pick 9 or whatever even with the condition we have to trade it

How does it work, do Roosy and PJ put in their case to the commission in person?

My concern with these sorts of guys is, is he the sorta player who looks better than he is because he's in a good team?

I couldn't imagine the coach would be a consideration, you just need to look at our record how many 90 plus point losses did we have this year and last year is over 10 percentage this year of 52 declining crowd numbers 1 win in 7 years against a top 8 team 34 wins total in 7 years widely thought of as the worst list in the AFL we have a very very strong case, they have to be able to argue essentially that us being found not guilty of tanking overrules those points.

You'd have to think the club would be planning what they'd do with picks 1, 2 or 3 given it's hard to know what we will end up with, if we got pick 1 i reckon i'd be asking the saints for Jack steven and pick 4.

Biggest stuff ups of the year, Brisbane sacking Voss to chase Roos and losing half their players and still not having a coach? Dustin Martin wanting to explore outside offers, asking for way too much and getting rejected publicly by the two worst clubs in the AFL?

Forget his age, more important questions 1. is his body capable of holding up to AFL level? 2. will he offer leadership on and off the field? 3. will he play in and improve our best 22 consistantly 4. is he the right sort of personality to guide our young talent? in my opinion all of these are obviously yes so the two year deal people are saying he signed with us would be an awesome result for the club.

Freo prove elite talent isn't everything, the right structure and game plan is 3/4 of the battle.

Mathews would be getting paid more being a front line assistant rather than development coach, so that's just offering him a better opportunity and Allison and Roos are old mates, haha not sure who we are trying to poach for way overs? maybe Adam Simpson and Scott Burns? maybe he should write something about Brisbane and West coast too haha

Reading what the scum wrote about us in this weeks sliding doors makes my blood boil, we have poached brett Allison and Ben Mathews, both have connections to Roos, not sure how we are robbing other clubs of their assistants.

it would see Scott Watters and Mark Neeld have alot in common, can't see Watters hanging around there long, it's going to be a slog

Pick 2- trade for Adams and pick 10 pick 10- Matt crouch pick 20 - Zac Jones pick 38 - Trade for Anthony Miles a much harder midfield.

Other clubs are annoyed or Barrett is annoyed? keep watching Stkilda, wouldn't be surprised if in 3-4 years they're in a similar position, will be interesting to see if the AFL helps them.

I had dinner with some family friends last night, who are long term North Melbourne members, and even they hate him, thought that was hilarious!

Matt Crouch, pick #10ish - i feel he would make an impact round 1 2014 and continue to improve