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Did you have the handbrake on or something?

*goes* a long way

I was just asking you a question. I thought it was an odd way to characterise an approach to trading. I guess I have my answer though. You just reflexively criticise other clubs. I know now there's real meaning or logic behind it.

As far as I can tell, Collingwood's strategy has been to name random Brisbane players and hope that we would try and convince them to leave our club. There doesn't appear to be any evidence that Collingwood has put any work into actually getting that young, ready-made midfielder that they've...

When did that happen, Boris?

No. But you never know. Leppa does like his tall, mobile flankers.

He evolved the other way, really. Started his career as an inside midfielder, spent some time in the forwardline as he wound down.

Thanks for the response. Certainly a lot to look forward to for the Doggies. I can't agree with the bolded though. He looks like such a natural, damaging forward I reckon it'd be a real shame to play him up the ground. I reckon if you were moving Stringer out of the forwardline to make way for...

Do you think he might be a little similar to Stringer and Crameri?

Yeah, might've got my wires crossed there. Cheers etsal.

With respect, that is probably easier to believe from a Collingwood supporter's perspective than a Brisbane supporter's. The comparison I come back to is Sam Docherty last year, who also had a father suffering from cancer. Having been taken at pick 12 in 2011 and worked his way into the best 22...

Aish would most likely go much higher than that if he was in this year's draft. I think pick 4 and Aish is overs, mostly because I believe we don't need to pay that much. We need to stop talking about 'fair' trades. No club is interested in a fair trade. They're interested in making the most...

I guess the two who seem to tick a few of those boxes are Harwood and Lester. Early 20s, they've gotten through the tough early part of their careers, and are physical, selfless players. They're both a bit limited, and they don't really seem like the type that Leppitsch favours. They'd only...

Honestly, most of this is pretty much spot on. We're bloody close to getting exactly the guy we need and we don't want to miss out because we're not prepared to be bold enough. But that doesn't mean we can afford to trade away Aish along with pick 4. Even if he did want to go to Collingwood, it...

I reckon he'll get some generous offers. Melbourne might need to pay over the odds to hang onto him. Hope they do, though. Not a huge fan of players leaving through free agency.

Three Brownlow votes might be worth a letter.

North were in there too, weren't they?

For what it's worth, when you post a statement like that and close with 'end of story' you make yourself look like you haven't thought about it very much. It certainly doesn't make your point any more convincing.

I feel like a laid out a case why Rockliff is the better option for Brisbane, and all you've done is rubbish that with a bunch of assertions. I'm really not interested in whether Beams is better than Rockliff, but I stand by my point that if Brisbane could pick one of those two players right...

I actually think this daft discussion can be brought back to the topic of the thread a little bit. I think part of what Wild Bill saw of the Lions last season was these long, frustrating periods of uncompetitiveness during games, that cost us wins against Adelaide, West Coast and Carlton, and...

STFU? Wow, charming. You said something stupid, you were called on it, and now you're getting upset. If you don't like being told that your posts are ridiculous, why make ridiculous posts? Seems like an obvious solution to this one.

Or frontload a few existing deals.

That's a ridiculous way to look at it. If Sloane walked out and his preferred club refused to offer more than pick ~40 in trade, no one would think that was fair.

Sounds more like we need a polygraph.

Mate, you actually need to read posts before you quote them and respond to them. Anyway, hopefully a big win for the Victory tomorrow night against the Roar.

But surely you appreciate that there's more going on here than that? None of these players have requested a trade to just anywhere. They've all wanted to go back to their home cities. I just don't see the parallels with the Demons. This is a familiar story for Brisbane. Even when we were the...

You seem not to have read my post. I totally agree that there are other factors at play here. I'd have thought that was pretty clear, but apparently not.

Oh, almost certainly. I'm just curious as to why Melbourne fans would know about the balance between homesickness and other factors better than anyone. It seems like Brisbane fans would already be better positioned to make that judgement. Over our history we've lost many players to homesickness...

Lost a lot of players to homesickness, have you?

Maybe not, but say if we offered a player from a particular club a higher than market value salary, they might turn around to their own club and demand that to stick around. I think there's a perception that we're too weak to retaliate in any meaningful way. It might be true, but it might not...