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Mullett didn’t you recently know open up another account, were exposed and stopped posting under it? Can’t remember the name, can you assist?
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Rumour 2024 Rumours and Speculation (Rumours total 25, last 28th August)
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I came looking for a rumour or three. Had a look, thought I had gone to a Powwa board, but no, alas, I was where I thought I might find a rumour. Guys, how about stopping putting crap on each other and get back to making these threads what they are meant to be.
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Thats not a rumour!
Gee, you are so right George. Sorry I posted a fact in a rumour file
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How long did it take you to think that load of gobbeldygook up?
Careful you'll get brain strain.
Why hide who you were in another life?
It fools nobody.
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Nah that was Mostyn the "ärtist" formerly known as Kristof aka Mego Red wasn't it?
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Yeah, that was me.
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It helps to have 10 choices in Vic and only 2 in the other states. Always a few VIC clubs with salary cap to spare to make an enticing offer, not so much in the other states
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Yeah I already tried pointing that out to Scorpus showing relatively more (pro rata) players were going back to SA than VIC, undermining his conclusions. Assume he agreed as didn’t rebut.
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Respect for that. Remember it well Kyziah Pickett draft pick.
Think the weasel still owes someone a bottle of Grange too.
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I don't agree that because on a pro-rata basis SA clubs received more players that it shows SA players are more likely to return or return home more.
23 SA players moved clubs versus 48 VIC players (excluding home state team swaps).
At maximum go home factor (all players leaving their interstate club to go home, and no players leave), SA clubs should receive 10 players, versus 3.5 for VIC clubs.
The actual numbers are 4.0 for SA and 2.8 for VIC: -6.0 on expected go home for SA, and -0.7 for the VIC clubs.
So per club, VIC players move less, but choose to go home more, and the opposite for SA players - out of those who decide to move of course.
That shows that SA players moving clubs are less swayed by go home factor than VIC players who overwhelmingly choose to return
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Yes I lost a bet with Carmo that we wouldn’t go into a recession, I lost that due to Covid, so yeah I would have closed it but I closed it beforehand for the reasons given
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Nicks will be lining up a contract extension on making the Top 10 in 2025, ie Finals.
You just watch us come 10th next year
Did anyone hear the rumour mill on triple m this morning an anonymous caller stating that Houston’s to saint kilda and mattes phillopou to port (spelling may be incorrect please don’t crucify me) god I hope not
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I wouldn't be surprised.
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no but it probably suits both clubs. If port want Phillipou, I have no doubt whatsoever they are shipping Houston to get him
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Why would Houston want to join St Kilda other than the go home factor? If he does go, a stupid career move.
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Oh for sure..but think Lobbe, Hartlett, Howard, Wingard etc.. Port have form shipping players to get something they want. There are a million things they could tell Houston if they needed him to move to snag Phillipou
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I doubt it but even so given their relative ages and future potential Saints would want a whole lot more than Houston.
It was just what was said on the rumour file, person claimed to know someone from with in st kilda and the deal supposedly is as good as done
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I think its a dumb idea under the current format. Obviously the want is for 7 v 10 and 8 v 9 to play off in the bye week of the finals. This wont work. It makes the finals a 5 week competition. Surely 4 weeks is enough. The finals should be dynamic. Not a grind.
Under this format there is the very real possibility a team that has played 3 games will play a team that has played just 1 going into the preliminary final. Instead of adding excitement to preliminary finals, we could be seeing thumpings. The format has to change.
My idea would be changing the format to a more dynamic seeded elimination finals system, removing the qualifying finals week off reward system. Its just seeded. Teams 1 and 2 at the end of the season get an automatic bye into the second round. 1st week of finals determines final seeding and wild card winners. Final 8 teams play out the elimination.
