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CJ is the ace up our sleeve. I feel like a lot of us have written him off. His best is really damaging and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we have that running machine ball magnet rebounding off the half backline and rotating onto the wing causing headaches for the opposition in the years...

I think the exciting thing about swapping 2025 future 1st and 2nd picks with Carlton is that we will almost have a parallel competition to follow next season. Usually the two results i give much of shit about are us winning and Geelong losing but now every Carlton game will have something vested...

Carlton were crippled with injuries in the last 6 weeks of the season. They have a very good list. Their 2024 ladder position doesn’t reflect their level. They could easily finish top 2 in 2025. The only wildcard is michael Voss who is a very shit coach. Let’s hope he manages to send that list...

Over to you Tom. We’re expecting 23 high level injury-free games (+ finals) from you next season. Good luck.

And we transferred our 2025 draft picks from our ladder position to Carlton's which means we want them to finish bottom of the ladder.

Eagles took our futures over Carlton’s. So our future draft suite is in Carlton’s hands.

Would Bailey Smith get walked to the national draft or the pre-season draft?

https://www.zerohanger.com/out-of-favour-hawthorn-defender-eyes-opportunity-with-rival-afl-trade-news-156011/

So effectively we are seeking Barrass and F3 (~42-48) for 2024 1st pick. That works for me. I love that we haven’t caved into the narrative of 2 firsts or nothing. I just continually come back to his age. If he was 23 then it would be reasonable but not someone turning 30 next year. I’ve even...

You just got put on my doggy list. ps Congrats on the instalike and reply from TONYC3163 😅. The guy is quick you have to give him that.

Exactly pick 14 (no more no less)

I’ve never felt more watched than with you three. Every one of my posts gets a flattering little emoji or instantaneous reply. I have an image of the three of you staring vacantly at your phones for my posts like three dogs waiting for their owner to come home. It’s quite sweet. Re Barrass this...

I like this way of putting it. There should always be a place for empathy but at the same time one can not allow emotional blackmail. Dancing that line is tricky but is what needs to be done by all parties. It also means not flinching when the inevitable insults are flung in your direction. This...

Mark McKenzie explaining our 2025 draft hand to West Coast

The question has to be asked, is a 29yr old full back (no matter how good he is) what this team needs to go to the next level? We have a pretty good 23yr old full back waiting to return from injury as well as having added a very good, potentially elite, intercepting tall defender. In fact I...

There must be squillions of these spurious claims made every day between parties. If they all went to the Federal Court the entire system would be hopelessly bogged down. There must be a method of, either filtering out the baseless ones, or disincentivising (presumably financially) the claimants...

Ok I’ll give you positional value but I won’t give you age (years of service) or durability or scope for improvement. Personally Im not altogether convinced that gorilla full backs are still such valuable commodities. Interceptors are great but we have a lot of them (and Houston also has that...

Im going to be very interested to compare the final results of the Barrass Smith and Houston trades to see if there is any consistency in what is considered fair trade value. Houston is a seriously good contracted player with 2 AA’s and has four clubs chasing him. He plays in a better team and...

Somewhat apropos to the discussions in this thread.

The advantage we have is that we can sit and wait all week long and its not going to effect anything else for us whereas West Coast seem to need our picks to get other deals done. So lets just sit back and force them to initiate the close of the deal.

This 100% Nah I won’t be doing that

2 first rounders and a 2nd 😂😆😁 Are we “desperate for Tom Barrass”? I thought Will Schofield was a pretty straight shooter. He’s actually making that suggestion seriously. The Tim Kelly example is very apt. West Coast sold the farm for him and look like fools now.

What I find impressive is that despite the Swans Port Geelong and GWS all finishing top 4 and getting many plaudits from the media none of them were in the premiership window pr went on to win the flag. Perhaps the bigger question is “how did the none of the teams that finished in the top four...

As other posters have pointed out Chol actually did what what was asked of him for the home and away season. In the finals he allowed his opponent to take a lot of marks on him but I would argue that his positioning and taps also created a lot of opportunities for the smaller players around him...

My observations are that our game plan has changed a bit since Lewis has had a decent stretch in the team. Most of our scoring in 2024 hasn't been through the big tall fwd taking lead up marks out at the 50. I get the feeling that Mitchell has made the moneyball assessment that the most...

This is really what Tom Barrass is worth to us given the strength of our backline.