AFL 2025
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Can’t wait for the bleating from some disgruntled Dees players. The Petraca stuff is just the tip of the iceberg too
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So the Board have made one big decision.
The next is a realistic look at their list and where they think the team is on the cycle. Is there legs for one more go at it before rebuild? or is it rebuild now? because that shapes who they chase.
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They've got to get rid of Clayton Oliver. Currently on $1.7m a season and worth about a fifth of that.
If it was the NBA you'd trade him out to a tanking team with a few picks attached, but it's not so easy in the AFL. They will have to eat a big chunk of his salary, you'd think.
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That Oliver contract has gone very bad, but, at least from the outside it looked perfectly reasonable at the time.
There are a few others they have to look at as well. How many kms are left in Gawn, May and Viney's legs? Will Petracca ever be 2023 Petracca ever again?
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oof it's worse than i thought
Gawn, May and Melksham are all 34 (or as close to it)
McDonald is 33
by the start of next season Viney, Lever and Petracca will be 30 or 31Their "best" player is also their only gun south of 30 in Pickett.
Now, Collingwood are proving that champion vets still have a role to play in the game, but you need young talent to balance it out. Melbourne don't have that.
That job might be a trap
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2025:
That Oliver contract has gone very bad, but, at least from the outside it looked perfectly reasonable at the time.
There are a few others they have to look at as well. How many kms are left in Gawn, May and Viney's legs? Will Petracca ever be 2023 Petracca ever again?
Oliver was definitely worth that at the time and given other clubs were circling, it had to be done. But there are other players who on big overs that they should’ve been more circumspect on.
I like Petraca and don’t mind Gawn, but any time another Melbourne team is under the pump it’s great, it means my team isn’t
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The main problem is Oliver being back-ended. I get why you do that, it does allow you to keep top-end talent for a while, but this is the risk.
