Exactly - again it is a demonstration that we are the nicest guys in the business - we don’t do “the man talks” that Walshy had, we just wait for people to retire, request a transfer etc. We don’t want to upset anyone.
That should be our recruiting line to entice players, coaches, officials...
They didn’t “fix up Stengel” he had a heck me moment and altered his behaviour slightly enough to be playing great football with the occasional blip - which they were/are happy to ignore.
That’s good to hear as he was a South man - he must have been having a bad day or disliked being around Modra because that experience didn’t warm me to him. I still think that in 2024/25 the Sloanes would be a better fit in that role.
Then Sloane would be a fantastic replacement - spent a few hours with Bickley and found him an arrogant bloke who rated himself incredibly, Sloane would be a much better fit and has the Vic to SA angle covered.
I’ll admit I’m somewhat teamist and don’t know a huge amount about fringe opposition players - but looking at the basic stats why is everyone so keen on Peatling?
Am I missing something, he seems fairly average…what’s the kicker?
I’m a critic of the some of the actions of the AFC but the dealings with Tyson I am not. He had many more chances than were public as I’ve stated many times before - he wasn’t taking his career seriously and was a repeat offender.
He should thank the AFC for where he is now because without...
So Modra 1999, Johnson 2002, and BV in 2013, are there others?
Clearly showing we have not been anywhere near active enough in trading out when we should.
Because we are the nice guys - we reward our players with years of contracts even when the evidence shows they are falling away.
We can’t be ruthless thats nasty. Better to be seen as lovely people than have success.
Other than Bernie have we ever traded a favoured son?
Put me on record as stating I do not want Oliver he is a withering flame who if he keeps up his current lifestyle may only have 2-3 seasons left playing well below his capabilities. We do not have the crew to get him back on track and we are fooling ourselves if we think we do. He lived with...
Quite ironic mate given your claims of hearing stuff in hotels, being directly quoted by John Ralph, attending most games and training sessions but you’re “trapped in Melbourne “ being at a game where Amatey kicked 8 but you forgot it, attending the 93 final….
tough for him to make a decision he’s got a cushy media gig here in Adelaide that he probably wouldn’t get else where - do you really think he would “dominate” anywhere relevant?
Alex that’s a very harsh critique - he isn’t that bad and in fact has shown a bit when played - he hardly coughs up goals, give me two examples of when his opponent has kicked a bag…
Ok so I’ve been away os - from what I’ve heard in summary;
As a club we are extremely happy with our group of players and have decided to not delist anyone, we missed out on any potential trades and we are going to use pick 4 on a potential back flanker…
Perfect
You can’t use the Blight example with Ellen as that was a coach who was incredible at thinking outside the box - we had three tall forwards in Fog,Tex and TT why would you swap an incredibly inexperienced back man to go forward in the last game? This was one example from seasons of unsuccessful...
2024 has clearly shown Nicks is not the man for the job - he rebuilt a fractured group through his positive feel good lovefest and that’s great but now he has demonstrated through ridiculous selection choices absurd match day decisions [Borlase forward on Saturday night] the non subable Murphy...
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