AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
You can identify talent if you take the blinkers off . I went to watch Graham play his first two games and it was obvious that we had a ripper . Now this is a kid who had no preseason and hadn’t played since late 2016 , yet he was three years behind CEllis in terms of AFL development . People just have to accept that 43 doesn’t go into 22 unless you have a pile of injuries. I’ve been watching highlights of Higgins and I can tell you he’s already passed cellis as the little bugger has some strength , toe and ferocity. Good football clubs invest time into these blokes as they could be potential 10 plus year players and they also know they need to move on list cloggers. We’ve invested 3 years into CEllis and he’s sliding further down the pecking order so it’s his call as like Lennon found out the club will cut its losses in the hope to find the next Graham.Yes, how could one forget your blatant and misguided attempts to downplay and denigrate Anthony Miles. Yes, we well remember you being at several VFL games and reporting back here that Miles' 32 or 35 possession games were jus average, but CEllis' 14 possessions were all class. Your disdain for Miles is legendary in these parts.
His efforts were so mediocre that he won the VFL team's best and fairest and was fifth in the Liston voting. If you don't have it in for Miles or have it in for certain posters, than you are just a plain ordinary judge of footballer - which is likely. Yes Miles is a mediocre talent who happens to win more ball than CEllis and lay more tackles
I'd back TigerImposter in on our VFL team any day of the week. He was o the mark re Townsend a good 12 m0nths before the rest of us and he's there most every week.
Yes I disagreed with bringing Graham in given he was coming off such a restricted year I thought it was better to take the conservative approach with him and ensure that he was right to go for 2018. I've never ignored Ellis' deficiencies, what I have constantly said that is that despite these the kid has been showing signs of the talent he has so much so that he was named emergency for our premiership side, not bad for a kid who is behind a dozen or so VFL players in your opinion. When it comes to the crunch I'll take the clubs opinion on the kid thanks.
So talking about Miles deficiencies which were keeping him out of the senior side is downplaying and denigrating him. Give you a tip it wasn't just me who thought he was average, the selection committee also thought he was average, hence him only playing 5 games this year despite racking it up in the VFL. When the end of the season rolled around and he was out of contract and free to move to any club if he wanted the 17 other clubs didn't think he was worth pursuing hence no real offer was forth coming and his only option to keep his career going was to sign a 1 year deal with us. I don't have disdain for Miles, I have an opinion that is similar to the 18 AFL clubs, he is a very good VFL player but limited at AFL level once he is part of a side with a very talented list. Take a look at his history, dominated in the NEAFL when at the Giants but struggled to break in to their side, moved to us when we were a mid table side and was able to be a good player, when more talent was added to the list he was quickly overtaken, in part by a player in Prestia that you spent many an hour downplaying and denigrating. But hey I'm the poor judge of footballers.Yes, how could one forget your blatant and misguided attempts to downplay and denigrate Anthony Miles. Yes, we well remember you being at several VFL games and reporting back here that Miles' 32 or 35 possession games were jus average, but CEllis' 14 possessions were all class. Your disdain for Miles is legendary in these parts.
His efforts were so mediocre that he won the VFL team's best and fairest and was fifth in the Liston voting. If you don't have it in for Miles or have it in for certain posters, than you are just a plain ordinary judge of footballer - which is likely. Yes Miles is a mediocre talent who happens to win more ball than CEllis and lay more tackles
I'd back TigerImposter in on our VFL team any day of the week. He was o the mark re Townsend a good 12 m0nths before the rest of us and he's there most every week.
It was mentioned that the death of a friend impacted his performances during the year, just because your fit to play it doesn't mean that your mind is totally in the right frame of mind to perform at the highest level.
I'd picked Graham as one we should get before he had even been drafted. As mentioned above I wanted the club to take the cautious approach with him because he had come from a long way back. Glad that the club didn't and happy to be wrong about it.
Griffith is a player who does not impose himself on the football field.
The reality is he’s got his work cut out and for him playing in the GF he had Buckley chance as there were a handful of emergencies named.
There were 3 emergencies named for the Grand Final and one was a ruckman, so basically he was a 50-50 chance of playing if someone had of had to withdraw, this is despite guys like you continually saying that he is way behind a number of others. As I've said I'll take the opinion of those that deal with the players on a daily basis over guys like us who watch them once a week and have no real idea what happens behind the scenes.
He was never going to play in the afl team after the Geelong game. He was sent back to the twos and was average at best as he displayed his usual inconsistencies and his lack of grunt. He had his pants pulled down in the VFL GF and I still stand by that he’s the 30th man on our list based on the natural improvements in players drafted after him in the last four drafts. Go and do some homework.
Yes and people like you will continue to conjure up hype on players when the reality is that they’re a long way off the pack. I refuse to argue with you as I don’t want to waste valuable hours like i did arguing with you over Lennon and Yarran .
Obvious bc Markov Stengle Bolton Higgins Moore Short Menadue and even Conca and Miles are ahead of him. All the younger players will go passed him after another preseason and he will slip further behind.
...., but you will continue to troll posters to no end just as you did on the Lennon thread and the mega Yarran one . The laugh was one bloke played zero games for us and the other a pittance. I would have thought you would have learnt a lesson by now in over rating players.
Emergency means nothing as I’ve already stated as there are now at least five other younger players ahead of him. Now do the calculations on how he’s going to get a game before Bolton Markov Moore Short Higgins etc etc. conca fit would have been named emergency before him. Also this bull shit I continue to read that the club rates him is small talk bc if a player is on the list of course the he club rates him. They even rate our rookies in Smith and Stengel.
Agreed on Menadue, think he has all the tools to be a very good AFL player. He was always going to take a while to develop but reckon he's been handled very well, given a sniff of senior footy, while allowed to play with attacking flair in the 2's.
Are you suggesting the match committee picked him as an emergency for the biggest game the club had played in 35 years as a joke?
Being named emergency for the GF in a team that was basically unchanged since he was dropped due to the way the Cats pussy whipped him in round 20 still meant he was a long way off and was probably 25th in line. He was never going to play and you’re just talking up rubbish as usual by imagining he was next in line.
