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But he could be.
Might not be yet but still reckon he rarely gets out marked. Always brings the ball to ground at least
Why didnt they go back with a bigger offer for Acres then?
Nah he was recruited to play the Blicavs role. That type of player is the cherry on top.
Except he's been playing the KPF role instead. Would be nice to see how it worked with even a half functional midfield.
He needs to play the CHF role and float up the ground, get to the contests, provide marking options etc. Ideally he would float forward to create mismatches and score that way. He is not a KPF and we are wasting his potential in that position.
In an ideal world yes. But any KPF we did draft it would take them 2-3 years to replace Jackson up forward anyway. So regardless we'd have Jackson as a KPF for at least 3 years here due to the shit that went down in 2018.
Per basically the man himself, he doesnt want to go anywhere
They set an unrealistic target of 2025. Realistically it would take a little longer than that. You draft one more KPF and you'll be right in that sweet spot in 2026-27.
Jackson was not the mistake. Giving up two first and 2nd for him was the mistake.
We will never know until Bell puts out a memoir called how I accidentally ****ed my footy club on quite a few occasions.
Given all the rumours last year, this would make a lot of things make sense. Gus would have suited us SO much better than JOM
With our outs though we were never in a position to challenge this year or next, and the club knows it. keeping acres would have made us a little bit better in 2023, but we need other wing options for when we will really challenge - NOD is one of them and we’re working on the other.
I actually would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that trading room. I wonder how much Lamb (Melbourne list manager) was just talking absolute shit about how good we are to Bell. "Cant let him go for that, you guys are going top 4 next year, we can see how good you are..." blah blah blah.
That just makes the Jackson negotiations all the more infuriating. We should have TWO more seconds this year to play with, that's actually a decent hand to work with. Like I said in the post above, Lamb must have talked absolute bullshit to Bell in those chats. I'm still on board with trading for Jackson AND I think he looks good but **** me if I hate how pathetic they were in those trades. I'm not even being unrealistic in what I wanted being paying two firsts with a Melbourne 2nd coming back
Agree, he is looking rather expensive at this stage. i expect him to be good, but he’d need to be REALLY good to make the trade look like a win.
Good, we need to retain all the talent we can atm, stay patient and just build through the draft with what picks we have. You'd think there is no way he leaves but you just never know, I am still shocked to see Lachie Neale playing for another team (albeit that is probably on us and I don't think we be 'pushing' Brennan Cox out) and it seems like every team in the afl has an ex freo player at this point. As always action over words and we need to sign these blokes up for the long term, that's signs of commitment rather than saying they aren't leaving. Similar to the players/club talking about winning a flag, rather than say it, just get to work and do it, fans don't need to know that you are trying to win a flag, that should be the expectation every year. There's no shortcuts to winning a premiership and it takes a lot to go right, the last offseason is an example of us getting ahead of ourselves and moving away from what was working (i.e shift from drafting to trading, a sign they thought we were close), also felt the list management team had been drinking too much of their own bathwater, they thought Blake acres season was a fluke and didn't want to pay a fair price when they could have just signed him up for average wage, and could have signed logue at the start of the season for depth. Instead they look like fools a little bit, Jackson is going to be good but WHY did they bend over and hand the second to Melbourne, when there was literally zero incentive to do that, he is out of contract. Reckon its looking like a 2-3 year build to get the list back in shape, but one thing a lot of people should consider is that Tasmania will be coming in and those drafts will be compromised so I have no issues being crap for a little bit and letting the young blokes develop. In a couple of years provided we keep the talent on the list, and draft some skilful players the team is going to be incredible, a bit shit for the coach too I reckon he is gonna pay the price for poor list management, there's just not enough onfield experience/leadership - our captain hasn't even played 100 games.
Keep the scouts that are finding the Freddies of the world at 60odd. Sack the dude who is in charge of the trading.
Yea walls is a gun recruiter…. Which makes our whole list management strategy and trading even more bewildering
