Rumour GFC 2026 Player Trading, Drafting FA, Rumours and Wish lists Pt 1

[catempire]

Lots of squabbling. Is it necessary?

I blame the AFL for making trade “week” so long.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

this is what losing a granny does to ya.
Alright phone away now.bye

Under rated post. Caros eye just twitched and she doesn't know why

 

[CatToTheFuture]

I blame the AFL for making trade “week” so long.

In the face of trading off a quality product for advertising revenue they are trade weak

 

[Phill Hendo]

In the face of trading off a quality product for advertising revenue they are trade weak

Trade week is much more enjoyable when you haven't just lost a Grand Final.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Trade week is much more enjoyable when you haven't just lost a Grand Final.

Feel like pure s***

Just want the suns to give us a player and pick 7

 

[Mac Chappy]

I blame the AFL for making trade “week” so long.

Surely they could make it Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm.

 

[Mac Chappy]

Feel like pure s***

Just want the suns to give us a player and pick 7

For giving them Ablett, we’ll take Rowell and pick 7 and then call it even after that

 

[Stan The Caddy]

I blame the AFL for making trade “week” so long.

True, it is too long. There's too much posturing by the list managers because they're given the time to do it.

 

[Generalissimo]

Trade week is much more enjoyable when you haven't just lost a Grand Final.

It's not so bad when you know why you lost (too few in&under mids, to a lesser extent weakness in the ruck) and also know that you've got Bruhn and Worpel and possibly Marshall coming into the side next year.

 

[D BRIDGE]

It's not so bad when you know why you lost (too few in&under mids, to a lesser extent weakness in the ruck) and also know that you've got Bruhn and Worpel and possibly Marshall coming into the side next year.

Not so sure Bruhn & Worpel both playing in a team with Atkins at the same time is an optimal thing.

Hopefully Bruhn pulls a Smith and returns after a year out in career-best form (unlikely but let's hope).

 

[iameviljez]

Not so sure Bruhn & Worpel both playing in a team with Atkins at the same time is an optimal thing.

Hopefully Bruhn pulls a Smith and returns after a year out in career-best form (unlikely but let's hope).

I think TB has a few more strings to his bow, at the very least.

 

[Generalissimo]

Not so sure Bruhn & Worpel both playing in a team with Atkins at the same time is an optimal thing.

Hopefully Bruhn pulls a Smith and returns after a year out in career-best form (unlikely but let's hope).

We all saw in the GF what happens when Axe and Danger are both down. The oppo take the ball out of the centre square again and again and again without resistance.

Next year Danger's midfield load will be lessened even further because he's about ten million years old at this point.

We need at least one more centre square bull, preferably two so you can rotate them around.

 

[Mr Meow]

Trade week is much more enjoyable when you haven't just lost a Grand Final.

Nope it's always boring as shit and people here are always snarky to each other.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

We all saw in the GF what happens when Axe and Danger are both down. The oppo take the ball out of the centre square again and again and again without resistance.

Next year Danger's midfield load will be lessened even further because he's about ten million years old at this point.

We need at least one more centre square bull, preferably two so you can rotate them around.

My only problem there is that with two you need somewhere to rotate them to. I don't think Bruhn or Worpel have a second position and we'll likely waste a year trying to find one.

It could also be in the way we use the 5th position on the bench too though. Bruhn already has low ToG%, Worpel never looked right after the syndesmosis. Rotation off the bench could be viable but it would ask a lot of the other players.

 

[Mr Meow]

We all saw in the GF what happens when Axe and Danger are both down. The oppo take the ball out of the centre square again and again and again without resistance.

Next year Danger's midfield load will be lessened even further because he's about ten million years old at this point.

We need at least one more centre square bull, preferably two so you can rotate them around.

I think the first paragraph is rewriting things a bit. We were even in clearances until early or mid 3rd quarter. The Neale introduction absolutely killed us and broke the dam wall. Our constant turnovers and requirement to defend transition before that tired us out. Then we seemed to offer not much competitiveness at all when they capitalised on that.

But the first 2.5 quarters the issues were ball use and lack of pressure. We had the footy a fair bit but did nothing with it. Their defenders got on top of our forwards more comprehensively than ours did theirs.

The midfield certainly needs to be bolstered but the GF day narrative is interestingly being shifted away from the truth. Their superior pressure and skill was what kept us at arms length and then broke us apart. They know how to nullify our weapons (in all but 1 of the past 5 games). A simple "they won more clearances" summary misses several key areas.

 

[D BRIDGE]

I think TB has a few more strings to his bow, at the very least.

More than Worpel?

 

[iameviljez]

The midfield certainly needs to be bolstered but the GF day narrative is interestingly being shifted away from the truth. Their superior pressure and skill was what kept us at arms length and then broke us apart. They know how to nullify our weapons (in all but 1 of the past 5 games). A simple "they won more clearances" summary misses several key areas.

Absolutely. We spent a lot of the first half just shooting ourselves in the foot butchering the ball on the way forward - but Neale absolutely swung the game in the middle, and we could not compete with that.

I don't know what it looked like on the TV, but in-person it was extremely impressive just how well Brisbane shut down the exits to congestion all game long.

 

[MacStradbroke]

The grammar in this thread is nothing short of deplorable

 

[D BRIDGE]

The grammar in this thread is nothing short of deplorable

We're a bunch of footy nuffies, not English teaching grammar nerds.

 

[Stan The Caddy]

Agree and I’m not going to write to the papers about it, but

FootyLad0 changed Foxdog50’s name to Fartdog (presumably as a dig)

Foxdog50 changed FootyLad0’s name to Footy Lady (presumably as a dig)

Why is Lady a dig?

Because he's not.

 

[Generalissimo]

Absolutely. We spent a lot of the first half just shooting ourselves in the foot butchering the ball on the way forward - but Neale absolutely swung the game in the middle, and we could not compete with that.

I don't know what it looked like on the TV, but in-person it was extremely impressive just how well Brisbane shut down the exits to congestion all game long.

It wasn't just that. For most of the second half Mullin got shifted onto Charlie Cameron, which let McCluggage off the chain. They you had Rayner shifted into the midfield and for some unfathomable reason Scott didn't have O'Connor go with him. While we didn't do ourselves any favors with shit kicking around the ground, we didn't get blown away until we lost the ability to put any sort of pressure on their playmakers. One or more of Bruhn and Worpel in there is a more balanced midfield IMO. Atkins and Smith get some support, we get better at putting the clamps on the opposition mids, and farming the ball out to Holmes running by on the edge of the centre square starts looking a hell of a lot more dangerous. And on top of this, when Mullin gets the knack of keeping his matchup accountable by threatening to sneak forward himself- watch out.

 

[Bagelboy]

Can we forget Curnow and just offer GC a few firsts for Humphrey?

 

[iameviljez]

We're a bunch of footy nuffies, not English teaching grammar nerds.

I believe there should be a hyphen between "English" and "teaching"... ... ...

 

[Mac Chappy]

It wasn't just that. For most of the second half Mullin got shifted onto Charlie Cameron, which let McCluggage off the chain. They you had Rayner shifted into the midfield and for some unfathomable reason Scott didn't have O'Connor go with him. While we didn't do ourselves any favors with shit kicking around the ground, we didn't get blown away until we lost the ability to put any sort of pressure on their playmakers. One or more of Bruhn and Worpel in there is a more balanced midfield IMO. Atkins and Smith get some support, we get better at putting the clamps on the opposition mids, and farming the ball out to Holmes running by on the edge of the centre square starts looking a hell of a lot more dangerous. And on top of this, when Mullin gets the knack of keeping his matchup accountable by threatening to sneak forward himself- watch out.

We were crying out for a small defender to play on Cameron so we didn’t have to shift Mullin.

 

[Hamingja]

Can we forget Curnow and just offer GC a few firsts for Humphrey?

When you watch Humphrey play he has a lot of ability but he is still mostly potential at this point. I'm surprised Hawthorn are pivoting towards him given they have the small forward area well covered. They would be gambling that he could get really fit and become a midfielder. I'm not sure. They tried that before with Wingard.