I think we are playing a very dangerous game this trade period. You cannot possibly have 90% of the list "available at the right offer".
As much as I realise this list has under-performed and have serious question marks on them collectively and individually, this is utter madness and destroys footy clubs!

Interesting to see Gibbs & Kreuzer not feature in the latest facebook cover page!!! Have they given away the fact they could be traded??? I may be off the mark, but interesting to see what happens over the next few weeks.

Agree totally.

Feels more like a club now than it has for a long, long time. Embrace change MS.

Feels more like a club now than it has for a long, long time. Embrace change MS.

If a farmer wants or needs a particular crop does he plant one seed and hope it sprouts or multiple hoping at least one takes root.?

Feels more like a club now than it has for a long, long time. Embrace change MS.

Crops aren't people with feelings.

Yeah, I am not sure Doc, feels more like corporation than a club, a middling company with average decision makers desperate to cover over the cracks. I may be accused of staying in the past, but I loved the club from when I first followed my father's allegiance, and they have rewarded me greatly, I have been at the MCG for all 8 flags since 1968, but we are in the dying days of a great and unique competition. We are now aping Euro soccer where players run the game. Our strength was our clubs and now it is turning into a grubby business of buy and sell. Free Agency has handed the power to players and their slimy managers. The players should realise that they are extremely privileged and that privilege is based on a competition built around clubs for 150 years from the VFA to the VFL to the AFL. Any player who reckons thay are not doing well should talk to a cricketer how much is the 300th best Victorian cricketer getting paid? He'd be paying subs, the 300 best AFL player would be on about $300k.

Once it is controlled by player/managers the game loses what made it great and what made fans love and support it in such numbers. Why bother with drafting and development, just go down the bottom for a few years build up draft picks, swap them for established players, bring in 15 FAs over a few years and maybe you'll win a flag. The corporation will be successful, the brand will be noticed, the shareholders should be satisfied, but the supporters may have ceased to care. I used to love the team and the game. Now it doesn't hurt that much if we lose and will hurt less as players come and go like one hit wonders in the charts.

I am sure I will be told to get with the program or eff off, in which case I'll choose the latter.

I really dont want to lose Robinson.
We'd miss his grunt, and that's exactly what we need and what he would be targeted for.

If it would take him and Pick 12 for Boyd I'd do that in a heartbeat.

We're after Reid. That's Good. So he's rumoured to cost us Pick 12 and Lucas. so Boyd and Patton are out of the picture.

I reckon there's still a deal to be made for Staker and Dockerty and that might include a player or 2 and a pick.

Hampson is the interesting one and secured on contract but the Hawks and Tigers havent got anything to give us for Hammer...who I rate and want to retain. So what then? GWS have Mummy now and missed on Buddy so Pick 1 and Hampson doesnt look so good for Boyd as it did a few weeks back.

Its a weird world. This month is going to make my head spin.

I want change and really upgrade the quality of the list we rather tham gambling with picks for the future.
Just this year, and we need to set up ourselves for FA opportunites in the future too.

Would love to snag Patton/ Boyd. Straighten us up for 10 years.
Would love to get Reid to give us the KP we're craving for now. If not Reid at least a Staker type (who I was dead against a month ago).

The above are handy replacements for Mitchell, McCarthy. Laidler and Davies.
Gives us plenty of flexibility with Hendo and Waite. Set.

Thomas and Shaw would give me an orgasm....free up Tuohy/ Simpson into the midfield, along with Thomas.
Our midfield already looks better with Thomas Tuohy/ Simpson/ Walker in there.

Dockerty and Adams would be handy smalls for the future too...and Dockerty sounds good to go.

If we could get Thomas, Shaw, Reid, Boyd, Dockerty and Adams and lost a mix of Hammer Robbo Yarran Lucas Laidler Duigan Rnd 1, 2, 3 picks in the draft, I reckon we'd have done very well to improve our list for 2014-16.

I want an injection of class, power, height and midfield ability. I want it all.

Feels more like a club now than it has for a long, long time. Embrace change MS.