Recent content by LuckyLee

Where are we getting the three early first rounders that we’ll need for a Reid trade? Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

Nearly all the guys you named are already in our Best 22. Who are the guys from outside that are coming in to replace the EIGHT looming retirements that I named? Especially without any top level draft picks this year? (Actually make that NINE looming retirements if you also add Hoskin-Elliott...

For argument's sake let's assume all of Pendles, Sidey, Howe, Jamie, Mitchell, Cox, Murphy and Mihochek are gone by the start of the 2026 season. Who do we see as their replacements from within our existing ranks? I'll start with a couple and see if you can fill in the blanks: Howe >>>> TJ...

Ah, righto, didn't realise he was that old. Should have looked it up before asking a dumb question. Sorry. Which brings me back to my original question - how many on our list could get us two first rounders? (And would we be prepared to trade any of them?) We're gonna lose Pendles, Sidey...

He’s 16 games in over four seasons. How much longer do we give him? Cal Brown got 70 games over about 7 seasons and was a complete bust. I hope we get a read on Fin well before that. Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

You throw around the word “great” very loosely. Fin is at best “average” in most categories and isn’t going to move the needle of team performance one iota. You have fallen in love with our list just because they’re wearing black and white stripes and are setting yourself up for disappointment...

The guys I named have made the jump - they’re now bona fide long-term AFL players in their respective teams. And for each of them it took less than a dozen games to prove it. So far Fin and Reef haven’t managed it over longer periods, whilst others like Allan aren’t showing enough to get a...

Yes, you’re likely correct, which gets me back to my original point that there’s a cliff approaching, as our oldies drop off without adequate replacements or the top end draft picks to bring them in. Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

Off the top of my head… Dogs - Weightman, Darcy & Sanders Cats - De Koning, Holmes & Dempsey Dees - Van Rooyan, Windsor, McVee All of the above came into the seniors of Finals contending teams aged 18-20 and within a very short space of time established themselves as Best 22 players. Apart...

Guys like WHE, Lipinski, Sidebottom, Frampton, Noble, Cox should have been pushed aside by now if we had genuine A-grade talent in our development ranks, as was the case with the likes of O’Bree, Lockyer, Medhurst, Anthony, etc over our strong, Premiership winning 2009-2011 period. But this time...

DOGS Jamara Ugle-Hagen (22) Sam Darcy (20) Ryley Sanders (19) CATS Max Holmes (21) Oliver Dempsey (21) Ollie Henry (21) Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

Geelong supposedly only rebuilding with mature agers is a myth. Last weekend, Geelong had the following five players aged 21 or younger: Max Holmes (21) Oliver Dempsey (21) Tanner Bruhn (21) Ollie Henry (21) Jhye Clark (19) Several of the above are already really important, high quality AFL...

No he doesn’t. In 2025 and 2026 he’ll need half a dozen mates of same age and A-grade quality around him but we just don’t have them and lack the draft picks to get them. Have you seen what Brisbane, Sydney, GWS and Gold Coast have in their cupboards? Closer to home even Finals contenders...

They’re B-graders. If they were A-graders they’d have pushed their way in at the expense of our aging stars and fringe players like WHE and Lipinski. But they haven’t. You need to take off your rose-coloured glasses and have a good look around the league - virtually every other side has several...

Why jump straight to the conclusion that Fin comes in for Pendles? He has shown nothing to date at AFL level in his four seasons on our list and has certainly not seized his opportunities, however limited they may have been. He’s slow and a poor user, with no X-factor. Time to see what others...