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Lewis is an average player and as for Peatling, he managed to string a few good games together. Perryman has 5 years of good games behind him, while Kennedy appears to be on the outer at Carlton and would be a worthwhile pickup for us. Quality wins premierships, not players who happen to make up...

I think he'd be a terrible pickup. Only teams at the bottom of ladder in desperate need of experienced players should consider Graham.

He's come in midseason and had to adjust to the pace of AFL which is nothing he would have encountered before. I don't think we should be prejudging him until has a full summer's preseason training behind him and a few games into the season until we pass judgement.

I would have thought it obvious that we made a terrible mistake. Yet people on this site still talk up Derek Hine.

I guarantee you that if Carlton is able to score Petracca next year, you can mark them off to play against Brisbane in next year's grand final.

Maybe we would be better getting a replacement recruitment officer?

Apparently according to Essendon supporters, MacKay was going to add the finishing touches to a premiership this year. Not only did Essendon not win the premiership this year they failed to make finals. In the Essendon games I attended this year, MacKay spent most of his time standing at the...

Petracca >>>>>>>>>>> Houston. When Houston wins a Norm Smith I'll apologize for this post (which he won't ever do). Be happy it looks likely we're going to get get Perryman. I'll take Perryman any day of the week over Houston, who has never indicated he wants to go to Collingwood, while...

When are you guys going to realize we were never going to win a flag this year, and highly unlikely to win a flag next year. Just look at the profile of the Brisbane team that beat Geelong last night - mostly young players in their early 20's drafted in the national draft at draft picks between...

It's never worked playing Mihocek in the backline (except at VFL level, which is different), while there's absolutely no reason at all why Membrey would be a good pickup for us (except that he comes cheap).

Tom Lynch is a much better player. End of story.

We don't need flankers, particularly hacks like Hind and Owies. Ask yourself, if you think these players would suit us, why is it they can't get games in clubs that are below us on the ladder? We need key position players, particularly a key forward since Kreuger and Ash Johnson have shown...

This time next year Nth Melbourne will be beating us, with Schultz having minimal impact, while Ginnivan is in the top five of Hawthorn’s B&F, and you’ll still be maintaining that the club did the right thing in clearing Ginnivan and trading for Schultz.

You forget he’s 21 years old.

I think you make a lot of sense in what you say, but whether we bounce back next year will depend on the development of players like Allan, Dematia, TJ, Harrison, Eyre, Dean, Steele and Smit. Malthouse used to say that your older players don’t get any better and players like Cox, Mitchell...

Ok let’s look at it another way. We both agree that Jack Ginnivan isn’t the nicest prospective son-in-law for the daughter to bring home to meet her parents. However, he knows how to play football and he’s 5 years younger and more mobile than Schultz. We also have Richards and Harrison to play...

None of us aren’t celebrating our premiership win. But don’t you think it was folly to trade for a player who doesn’t suit our needs while giving away a top 10 draft pick, and trading away a 21 yo premiership player for peanuts?

Many of us in fact didn’t like the Schultz trade at the start of the year. Those extolling it I thought were still on a high after the grand final win.

You’re confusing trades with drafting. Hine is paid to procure us gems from the national draft. That’s where all the best players come from. No disputing with you that clever trading was behind our last two premiership wins. However trades are signed off by the coach and list manager. The head...

Every time Hine selects somebody his response is that they fit into our program. So basically he doesn’t select the best players or players on a needs basis (tall forwards), but rather ones that adapt into our program. Little wonder we haven’t recruited well. Having said that I like the batch of...

We lack power forwards, quality tall defenders and leg speed through the middle. Nothing against Schultz, but how does he solve any of that?

In reality our first and second year players aren’t very good. Low draft picks and rookie upgrades outside the national draft isn’t the way of producing 10 year players. Our VFL team is near the bottom of the ladder so their lack of contribution to the senior team isn’t surprising. It has...

I’m not sure McCreery was ever going to be dropped. He does so much behind the ball. Of your list I’m convinced TJ is going to make it. McInnes will make it. It doesn’t help when your coach subs you out and then drops you. Dean, when you think about it, hasn’t played in two years before this...

It’s not Fly’s job to draft players. He did an absolutely magnificent job in his first two years at the club, but the players are older now and there’s no one coming through to supplant any of the senior players in the side. Harrison is the only one I can think of who is in our best 22. When...

Look at all the premierships won in the last 20 years. The reality is unless you nail a first round draft pick, you’re never going to win a premiership (role players don’t win premierships). The last first round draft pick Hine nailed (if you rule out father - sons) is Scott Pendlebury. That was...

Lipinski is smooth as silk and a beautiful kick. He’s not the one to move on. The problem is we don’t have a mix of fast legs in the midfield. When you’ve got nothing but one paced players in the midfield the team suffers. Even Nick Daicos is down on output because he doesn’t have any support...

We won last year’s premiership without him.

Years ago Hine should have been sacked. Last year’s premiership was due to clever trading and father - sons picks in the national draft. We having drafted anybody of note from the national draft in years. Look at our record over the last five years. Who is it who has come through? Tall forwards...

All I want to know is when are we going to sack the imbeciles at the club who gave away a top 10 draft pick for Schultz and gave away Ginnivan to Hawthorn for nothing.

If you think Frampton would have been the solution to our problems today, you obviously haven't watched enough of Frampton this year. He's basically VFL standard. All the Adelaide people could have told you that.