AFL 2025 Silly Season

[mots02]

I also didn’t have ‘people debating the value of Fiorini’ on my bingo card

[Brodlach]

Not at all, I just have a different opinion to you. It’s ok to not agree

Are you new to the internet?

What, we all gave to agree

Nah, just that everyone with a differing opinion is a fool who must be mocked incessantly.

Gotch you, shouldn’t have a different opinion. “One of us, one of us”

How about I just say “I’ve got a secret but can’t tell you”?

[daysofourlives]

Hawthorn has offered a deal to Essendon for Zach Merrett.

Pick 9, a future first, a second rounder this year or next and Henry Hustwaite.

Which becomes pick 12 to 14, depending on academy rorts, a pick in the high teens or early 20's next year, a pick in the 30's or 40's this year (in a crap draft) and some spud

Pass.

Hard disagree.
I’m taking that deal

I agree with you Jim, if im Essendon im taking that and running.
im praying that you dont accept it, its way overs for a 30yr old, its about right for a 28yr old imo.
Happy for us to hang onto those picks and turn them into Butters next year.

I would be happy to offer that deal for Bailey Humphrey, 2 1sts and a 2nd minus the player that GC would have no interest in anyway. That would surely turn the Suns head

[Booney]

Gotch you, shouldn’t have a different opinion. “One of us, one of us”

How about I just say “I’ve got a secret but can’t tell you”?

Now I am on board with him.

[wenchbarwer]

Good article on why the Merrett offer is shit:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/dis ... 5n2j6.html

[Armchair expert]

Tarryn Thomas is free to play in the AFL again

[wenchbarwer]

Tarryn Thomas is free to play in the AFL again

AFL sneakily announcing this while the Curnow & Merrett drama takes all the headlines. Who would have thought???

[Booney]

Tarryn Thomas is free to play in the AFL again

AFL sneakily announcing this while the Curnow & Merrett drama takes all the headlines. Who would have thought???

And turned off reply comments on the socials.

I wonder who has asked the AFL if they can draft him in? They, the AFL, wouldn't have just announced it for the sake of it, someone has enquired.

[Armchair expert]

Tarryn Thomas is free to play in the AFL again

AFL sneakily announcing this while the Curnow & Merrett drama takes all the headlines. Who would have thought???

This was posted on bigfooty by "Gerard Whateley" its brilliant - read it in Gerards voice

We can hold two thoughts at once: what Thomas did was serious and unacceptable; and a club with proven appetite for oversight might be the safest place for the long, unglamorous work of reform.

And that club is Geelong.

Only their environment - stable, insular, relentlessly adult - is built to absorb the performative noise this recruit will no doubt attract.

If the AFL is serious about supervised redemption rather than theatre, it should do more than merely “allow” Geelong; it should prefer them. The Cats have a documented knack for turning the discarded into the functional - even the exceptional (see: Stengle, delisted to All-Australian) - because they pair duty of care with duty of consequence.

This is not absolution. It is probation with a football attached. Let Geelong set the terms: education, reporting, zero-tolerance tripwires. Which is why the mooted AFL-funded additional rookie spot could prove to be the perfect containment vessel - a sealed crucible where Thomas' progress is measured, not presumed, and where the steady hand of Andrew Mackie rests on the kill-switch.

[DOC]

Full marks to whoever it is. I have read the other posts and you have to read them in his voice.

[Booney]

All I can hear is Whateley gargling on Geelong nuts.