spirit of norm smith

I am interested buyer of Fiorini. Any potential terms stated????!

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Jhye Clark is a local Geelong boy and alongside Bruhn and Holmes would be seen as their emerging future midfielders. Its likely to be a No.

Fair enough. But strong rucks are hard to find and you don’t want to be left with a Soldo type as your messiah.

Cats can offer us nothing except a salary dump opportunity. Maybe a future 1st and 2nd round pick. No players would appeal excepting for Holmes and he’s committed to staying at the Cats.

@drdrake Highly skilled , high disposal efficiency kicks. Levi Ashcroft - draft range 1-2 Sid Draper 3-7 Xavier Lindsay 8-15 Jesse Dattoli 21-27 Harry Oliver 21-27 Blake Leidler 55-rookie Mitch Kirkwood-Scott 55-rookie Will Hayes 55-rookie

Agree. I think the pick 25 from the Crows should be used on Dodson if he’s available. Serves apprenticeship over first two years. Wait and see.

If Cats are the desired location for Oliver, then what’s the trade ? I heard it could be a future Cats 1st round pick and that’s it, and Dees still paying a decent amount of his contract. Cats were top 4 and add Bailey Smith. Could be premiership contenders already with or without Our Clarry. So with academy and father son picks, Cats future 1st would be likely to be say pick 17-21. Ouch.

MFC best and fairest is on Friday night the 4th October. @Young Angus Cheers.

Thanks. I am backing in the coaching group to make the right call. Not the CEO Pert. It’s Goodwins call.

@manny100 No doubt Riv and MCVee will train with the mids this pre season. I agree they have midfield potential but both played junior footy in the national championships as defenders … running half backs. Both have been very very good as Rivers rebounding defender with spirit and heart and McVee with composure and defensive smarts against small forwards. We have to be careful not to rob our backline as we lack a replacement rebounding half back or a steady composure mid-small back pocket. I’m happy with trialling but prefer them in their current roles. Draft 2 or possibly 3 young specialist mids in this draft. They are there across many draft rounds.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/9beBErUftjdj2eNc/?mibextid=D5vuiz JJ running through draft and trades. Noted good drafting by Taylor over many years (perhaps only questioning Jefferson) but very poor trading over the past two years … zero out of 6. Grundy ❌ Hunter ❌ Schache ❌ Fullerton ❌ McAdam ❌ Billings ❌

“We need to put Melbourne's list management team in the gun for what is the worst contract we have ever seen. There is $10 million left on this deal for 6-years. He has lasted one year of the 7-year deal." - @kanecornes on the Clayton Oliver deal. AFL TRADE RADIO

Deep breath. It’s difficult. I agree it’s gut wrenching !! We love the MFC. We are a kicking bag right now, as through many issues from js29 to Trac to now Clarry, it appears to be in completely mismanaged.

He found a niche in leadership consultancy after footy. Somehow all the footy clubs bought his cool aid and he’s leadership roadshow travelled through the league and other bodies. The Dees were his biggest fan and sponsor and we bought onboard for the people and culture development. That was going well however strangely over the last 2 years, it is alleged we have a toxic culture. Not sure how Plunkett has managed or been part of a solution or is part of of the problem. Only internal people will ever know. But we have to say thanks and good luck. He’ll keep his leadership development mantra and march on.

Good clear summary. 👏👏

Dees might just land up with Campbell & Parfitt as delisted free agents plus potentialDerksen with trade for pick 50ish. If ANB trade gets us “25”, then we’d have 5,25,37, 45 & 61. Useful for pick swaps and allowing JT to weave his magic to try to add 3-4 quality youngsters.

Listening over lunch break earlier and diagnosis is that Peatling likely to stay at Giants. 4 year deal is a solid win for him and his manager. Definitely improved this year and his “hard at it “ style warranted others trying to get him.

Seems like 12 months ago, Clarry had let his standards slip and let people down with his off field commitment and other non advised issues. Club working with him to fulfill commitments and get his mind and body right for AFL football. Despite his hand injury this season , he was getting back from stability and hopefully moving back to his commitments needed within the club and as an elite footballer. But obviously issues don’t resolve overnight and ongoing requirements. Media alluding to: - teammates not fully convinced with Clarry and still querying his commitment and keeping on track - Contract is out to 2030 on at least $1million per year for the next 6 years so heavy weight on the salary cap - Goodwin and coaches support keeping Clarry and working with him to get back to his top form - Pert has reached out to see who’s possibly an interested club to buy Clarry - seemingly limited response from other clubs given Clarry has ongoing issues and his salary is in the top echelon - Cats are interested party and manager/Clarry speaking to them - Dees will want an appropriate level of compensation like at least a low sub-10 draft pick or 2x 1st round picks (clubs don’t either have the trade capital or concerned he’s on the downward cycle and not worth the risk) - likely to stay but it’s all very unsettling for all parties

Jimmy Bartel would add strong culture and leadership. Definitely like to see us pursue him. Dees looking for quality people to bring in. Also heard we are speaking to Rory Sloane. Genuine guy. Genuine leader.

Keep it to yourself and not your continuing snide personal attacks. I have an opinion and can post my opinion. If you want to be a troll, go elsewhere.

Owies for a future 4th rounder. Seriously !!! He is BELOW AVERAGE except for goals per game at 1.2.

If Pert is shopping Clarry, then he can SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND HIM ON THE WAY OUT Obviously Geelong trying to seduce Clarry with their country lifestyle

MFC need to get a very large suitcase and ensure its fully loaded with cash for Andrew Brayshaw. It’s coming with a 6- year contract offer. Freo will need to match the $$ and term to keep him. Dees need to land a free agent to get back into the game.

Sam Edmund 💩really thinks that Kozzzy is thinking about going west. “He’s good mates with Shai Bolton and they socialise together outside of footy. Shai says hey mate, I’m going back home, why not join me. So Kozzy loves the Melbourne Football Club but not Melbourne the city”. FFS. So they’ve all got Trac on 12-month waitlist to depart and for each year now there’s going to be three weeks at least of Kozzzy and Clarry rumours.