Devilhead wrote: ↑Sat 23 Oct 2021 12:55am Maybe we have someone else in mind ...... a rabbit out of the hat?

Who?

I am somewhat dismayed at the naysayers who crank into life the minute the club's tries its best to solve an ongoing problem. We need a backup ruckman for Paddy who is in the twilight of his career and can't be expected to play every game next season. The club looked around for a quality backup ruck...

Just more poor team management from our club Literally left with two ruckman, and now the saviour I guess is the 29yo Campbell who at best is a poor mans McKernan I am left astounded by what our strategy (if any ) is? PS And god forbid we go for Mason Cox, that could just about be a straw looking f...

B.M wrote: ↑Fri 22 Oct 2021 5:21pm Not sure he was up to it?

Definitely not up to it.

Top 20 free agents in 2922. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-2022-free-agents-who-will-command-the-most-money-and-attention-next-season/news-story/0036ea54b2179f17694b16c63e3ccd62 I’m gonna say that would be highly speculative this far out. More importantly have we won our second by then?...

Top 20 free agents in 2922. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-2022-free-agents-who-will-command-the-most-money-and-attention-next-season/news-story/0036ea54b2179f17694b16c63e3ccd62 They'll be very old recruits in 2922. :lol: Yes but hopefully we will have won a premiership by then.

Its nice to see the NGA's outside the top 25. Having watched Johnson in his state games, he is exactly the player we dont need. Although he is a good ball user he has no leg speed or explosive game what so ever. Some have likened him to Pendlebury but he is more like Acres for me and definitely not...

Wayne42 wrote: ↑Wed 20 Oct 2021 10:06pm In 2021 our ruck back ups for Ryder and Marshall were McKernan and Hunter.

In 2022 our ruck back ups may well be Campbell and Hunter.

I think if we take Campbell you can say goodbye to Hunter.

B.M wrote: ↑Fri 15 Oct 2021 4:54pm Well he was AFL material- he played 87 games and was on an AFL list for 7 years. He actually has a BOG at AFL level… so at a point in time he was obviously up to it.

Yes. But not consistently. Therein lies the problem and the reason he was delisted.

Brady the nose said... We were pretty clear with Tristan (Xerri) the whole way along, he understood that he felt he could get more opportunity at another club, he certainly wasn’t leaving because of any ill-feeling with the club or his teammates. “He’s a very popular member of our team, he’s a 22-y...

It's always a fun exercise at this time of year to second guess who the club will take with its highest draft pick. I'm also assuming we go to the draft with pick 9 which, after all of the father son fiasco,  will end up pick 11. I think we will approach this draft with a specific wish list. We want...

B.M wrote: ↑Wed 13 Oct 2021 7:58pm Why didn’t we make a play for Ladhams then??

He would have cost too much and he wanted to play for Sydney who had expressed interest him in the past.

We did really good not to give in to NM. Get him for nothing at the end of 2022 if we are still keen.

NM"s position hard to reconcile. Playing hardball even though X is fourth in the ruck pecking order. On a 1 year deal with the Kangas. The Saints offered him two. NM wants a future second rounder which is way over. X will play all of his footy in the VFL in 2022. No winner but the Saints get to...

Tony Elshaug and Ameet Bains - COME ON DOWN !! Oh wait, they are no longer with us. How convenient for them! Can only hope the current recruiting knows what they are doing. The two kids they are apparently looking at in the upcoming draft sound like real prospects. Owens has a bit of Petracca about...

How do you pronounce Xerri ? Is it Cherry or Zerry ? There's a league player in Sydney with the same surname - pronounced Sherry. Heard Jon Ralph pronounce it Zerry. Guess we'll have to recruit him to find out. Just call him X. That's what he's known as at North. He'll get called worse than X on he...

It's been reported that the club deliberately didn't play Lonie, who was one game short of the trigger needed to renew his contract.

Instead they wanted the option of dumping him.

Doesn't bother me but it might upset some people here.

I wonder what the effect of 2020/21 lost years for U17s and below will be. Whether this year's and maybe next year's draft will be the last ones for a while with some sort of exposure to competitive football. Whether loading up on picks in 2021 may well be our best bet, and trading picks for player...

- Mediocre player leaves Crows for Lions to add to its mediocre bottom tier that were not up to finals; - Mediocre largely untried hyphenated name fringe player with record of stupidity and disciplinary action leaves Tigers for bottom club; - Professional Footballer that strangely enough can't kick...

- Mediocre player leaves Crows for Lions to add to its mediocre bottom tier that were not up to finals; - Mediocre largely untried hyphenated name fringe player with record of stupidity and disciplinary action leaves Tigers for bottom club; - Professional Footballer that strangely enough can't kick...

CarlD wrote: ↑Sat 09 Oct 2021 11:26am

CarlD wrote: ↑Tue 05 Oct 2021 6:08pm

Wayne42 wrote: ↑Tue 05 Oct 2021 5:37pm
How do you pronounce Xerri ?

Is it Cherry or Zerry ?

There's a league player in Sydney with the same surname - pronounced Sherry.

Heard Jon Ralph pronounce it Zerry. Guess we'll have to recruit him to find out.

Just call him X. That's what he's known as at North.

Another trade period is about to disappear without so much as a squeak from our footy club. In fact the only thing of note which barely qualifies as a thing of note is a pick swap. Should we be concerned? The answer to that depends on how you view our current list. Is our list good enough to win a p...

Why aren’t we targeting him? Are we gun shy in recruiting older players?! He would automatically make us a better team!!! Don’t worry about outside perceptions, and improve the list. He is a free shot as a DFA Allows Wilkie and Highmore to play 3rd and 4th His wife has a very good and high paying j...

So is this a case of ex-coach (Richo) picks up one of his old troops? It happens sometimes, but how often does it succeed? Of course it is case by case. With 11 Brownlow votes, even a whiff of success at Melbourne will be more ammo for the media mortars aimed at Moorabbin. Lol Count on Luke being p...

perfectionist wrote: ↑Wed 06 Oct 2021 4:41pm So it's not a straight swap for Christian Petracca?

Legend.