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Agreed. I don’t think that Murphy would compare all that well in ability to Chad Rintoul who might be seen as a similar type of player… but for someone to compare him in any way to Tyson Edwards …. FFS

Or joining the Belgians, Japanese and several others in eating Australian horse meat? Bring back the Steeplechase racing to help extend the sporting lives (and actual lives) of many hack race horses.

Mathew Krueger did well in his 1st season, but he was Pick 1

He probably would have played in 1999 if we hadn’t delisted him at the end of 1998. Keating would likely have been a bit better ruck than Herbert & Golding after Rehn & Marsh did knees. Jeez, I’d completely forgotten Ben Marsh was a premiership player in 1998.

Lucas Herbert had 2 no stats games in 2009 when Blight was still coach - Round 10 & 16. Lucas Herbert and Mathew Golding (admittedly only a kid) of 2009 make Strachan look AA quality in comparison, and ROB a rucking legend of the game.

Pardon my lack experience of illicit drugs like many of you on here, but if he had OD’ed on the stimulant cocaine and hence went into hence a hyper excited delirious state with racing heart beat and intensely high blood pressure …. then subsequently became totally non-responsive suggesting his...

He’s one of a growing band of Crows players who would likely benefit from a new Coach. I don’t think he knows his role in the team, or if he does it’s not to his pleasing. If he wants to be a midfielder then he needs to understand, and commit to, gaining a substantial increase in his fitness.

We didn’t really draft anybody else in the 2022 end of season drafts. We effectively downgraded the contracted but injured MacPherson and Seedsman to the Rookie List. They were subsequently delisted at seasons end.

So if today’s rumour of Dusty to Gold Coast being a done deal prove correct, then I’m expecting a draft stitch up by Richmond, GCS & the AFL. Meaning Dusty will get a 2 year deal on paper sufficient to get first round (or at a very minimum mid-first round) compo for Richmond. This would seem...

Premiership coach Luke Beveridge was a 3 club journeyman of similar or lesser status as a player to Clarkson.

Ideally the stats should also include goal assists. A small forward who can hit up a team mate for a set shot with 1-3 of their 10-12 disposals per game is worth a helluva lot more than one that nearly always kicks to opponent or OOTF. Expectations are always low when Murphy or McHenry have the...

Great to see one of the better skilled players on our list finally getting a game. I hope that he lives up to my high expectations …. rating him around the same mark as Soligo.

You’re a very generous marker! If a C-grader is an average AFL player, then a few of those boys are solid Ds SANFL games are open and McHenry doesn’t stand out in a good way at that level either. D-

Easy to find video on YT of Curtain playing back, wing and forward for Claremont during last year’s WAFL finals series. On the video though, he’d have to improve to be better than draftee Max M, but he will never ever be within cooee of 17-18 yo Ben H.

One on one marking … he’s generally very good at that …. particularly when the ball is drifting over the back of the contest. But I don’t think he’s yet learned to spoil, meaning to punch the ball 10m over the boundary fence when it’s the smart thing to do.

DEI unlocking productivity ….. you’re having a laugh! It’s a political mantra that has invaded workplaces where social compliance is now undertaken to avoid public shaming by highly vocal, highly politicised minority groups. While diversity of thought and openness to challenge are critical to...

Considering Luke B is only 31, and given the low quality of his small defender replacements, he’d likely still be out there in the best 22 pushing for a 2025 extension.

Didn’t have ready access to stimulants at half time of the 2006 PF?

Sort of agree for the rest of 2024. But it we are serious about improving we need to trade for at least a B-Grade ruckman with genuine ball skills - eg kicking freely without have to plan the action for 15secs & being able to quickly handball more than 2m.

I still prefer Butts to Keane. Keane leaks too many goals through dumb errors … it’s like he is still learning the game (which of course he is). A bit of run from a good deep small defender would likely help take some pressure to rebound away from Butts playing lockdown KPD. A Key Position...

I think that Borlaise would offer Port a handy upgrade on BZT, I wonder if they will come knocking?

That’s a fair observation for the 2012 draft, but there was genuine talent available at where our picks would have been in 2013 draft. Notionally we would have had picks 8 and 26 in 2013. Used wisely 8 could have been Christian Salem, Dom Sheed or Patrick Cripps. Maybe 26 could have been Zach...

Don’t anything about Victorian Tobyn Murray, but our Toby Murray nominated 18 months. Does that mean he’s a done deal, or does it just mean he can’t be stuffed relocating for 6 months?

He tackles well on the few occasions he catches an opposition player …. so perhaps it’s a non-statistical pressure forward role!

He’s not even fit to tie Jonathon Griffin’s boot laces. To be fair to ROB, he might be better tap ruckman than both Lucas Herbert and Matthew Golding who had the job is 1999 when Rehn and Marsh both did knees, and Pitman missed games. I’d hate to see ROB’s hit outs to disadvantage statistic...

It would be nice if the SANFL could move to the old Panther Park site at St Mary’s for their proposed development (displacing the Rugby League who would need to be compensated and found a new home). It has more development room and security than West Lakes and is no less convenient than Footy...

Adel Uni teams/players used to be collectively called Uni P……s back in the day. Not so much in heated situations but just to be mildly derogatory, sometimes while attempting to be humorous. It seemed ubiquitous.

The ideal move would have been for Laird to have faked the long bomb to the goal square that all the Port players were expecting and instead kicked it long (and ideally low) 45 degrees to the left to the Crows player left on his own 30m out on a 30 degree angle (Jones). The late, long, high...

So 3-4 picks in the MSD (for Milera, Parnell, Sloane and maybe Pedlar) mostly on 6 month contracts …. Maybe one will prove a genuine long-term prospect, maybe one will fill a short-term hole, and the others will just bolster the SANFL side for 2024?

Max is half the player that Ben Hart was at the same age.