The "good vfl player who won't make it in the afl" gets bandied about here a lot. Most of this board were saying it about gowers earlier in the year. Sure, hayes might not make it, but give him a chance at AFL level before dubbing him below AFL quality.
Honestly, if Hayes was on our list this...
We can certainly agree on Melbourne.
The same approach clearly worked for them extremely well up until 2015. While they haven't won a final since, I think they would've been much worse without the players they've brought in since 2015. The net cost of Mitchell, JOM, Vickery and Impey was less...
It's hard to see the genius when you hide it in two words describing the Mitchell trade, then go on to write multiple sentences about unknowns at this stage (Wingard and Scully).
They've traded in a bloke for pick 14, and in two seasons he's played one excellent season and then won a brownlow...
It's a shame to not get Wingard or someone of his ilk, but this time last year, it was a shame we missed out on lever for two first round picks and a huge salary.
Personally though, I'd now take Naughton, pick 7 and cap space over lever. In fact, I'd take Naughton alone over lever.
Yes, it would be. I don't think it was the use of the word failure that got so many of us up in arms- it was the associated bashing of power and the club by some posters, not you.
If that's the way you're seeing it, then we really aren't seeing the situation all that differently- it didn't work out so we should have another go.
Others who have had a go at power/the club and called them incompetent seem to have taken it too far. If failure is supposed to be a chance to...
We probably did try to sell that. I'm sure we would've also mentioned our young group of guns. Then hawthorn probably sold "we've won 4 of the last 11 premierships", finished 3rd on the ladder and have a lot of members. Chad had two good options in front of him and picked one of them. That's not...
What's wrong with him saying that? It didn't make us any more or less likely to get Wingard.
The club had a go. Wingard chose a different club, which was always a possiblity when he had multiple offers. The same thing happens to every other club that misses out on a player.
If we had never...
Dahlhaus has proven ability, and the club offered him a contract, just like they're doing with libba.
Libba has only had one bad season. Other than that, he's had two ACLs and several good seasons. It's the several good seasons that are saving him- not the injuries.
Dahl, Adams and a third rounder for pick 12. I know there's more to it in terms of contracts and clubs generally being poorly compensated for losing players, but that's a strange dream. We'd be lucky if the player we take at pick 12 ends up as good as either Dahlhaus or Adams, let alone both and...
Thanks for the info, but I'm not really sure how there could be an emergency at this point. There's so much time before any decisions need to be made. Was the trade deadline brought forward to today unexpectedly?
Really interesting post, but the likelihood of deliberate out of bounds/rushed behinds are heavily affected by other factors within the game. If the home team is outplaying the away team, the ball is more likely to spend more time at the defensive end for the away team, where you are more likely...
Possibly, or maybe it's that band 1 compo could end up in the teens if next year goes to plan for them, which is much less than they're likely to get this year.
Players already naturally corral everyone onto their left. That's why left footers have so much success, but then often eventually get found out once the opposition knows where they're going (see the disappearance of Macrae's baulk after his first couple of years).
Caleb has repeatedly found...
As much as I have refused to admit it since he left, he was an absolute star for us, and he gave a lot to the club. There were weeks during the McCartney years when I'd come to the footy just to see him play.
It's a shame things turned out the way they did. I don't think I've ever been as...
Nah, he's short, so he must be a defensive liability. And his tendency to use his right foot is a major problem, rather than a result of him having enough composure with the ball to give himself time and space.
And why does he wear a helmet? He clearly needs to be traded.
At least then we can go back to complaining about not having enough talls and targeting every tall in the league.
The surplus of talls has been uncomfortable this year, leading this board to having an identity crisis.
Thanks Lukey! Loved watching you at the dogs for the last eight years, from the dreadlocked excitement machine in the first couple of years to the desperate pressure that helped us to the flag. You'll be missed.
If we lose Dahlhaus because we aren't willing to pay him a reasonable wage, then pick up a much lesser player as a free agent for a market value wage, I'll spew.
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