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This whole Cogs situation will end in tears. Hawks and Blues are very confident.
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This whole Cogs situation will end in tears. Hawks and Blues are very confident.
Tougher as in dirtier - yes. Definitely more thuggery. Tougher in terms of demands on the body - no. Repeat efforts, gut running, kms covered, pressure from taggers way more in todays footy. Skills considerably better ( aside from goal kicking) today.I think one had to be there and if one wasn't then you cant make a judgement.
Footy was bloody hard and tough in those days.
Way tougher and mostly higher skills in generally more difficult conditions.
It wasnt like this modern rugby style tackle driven scrum of a game that prevails.
In those days if the score was low it was usually because of the weather conditions and mud not like now when they can't kick for nuts indoors with no wind and despite doing nothing else with their lives.
Not to boast but I knew this from my 8 weeks of Italian lessons. One of 3 words I remember.
Announcing Teague pre-game on Saturday would be epic.
Would be a huge buzz amongst the players and fans.
I'm assuming Papley wants to play for us. If he doesn't, the conversation changes. The last thing Essendon want is another midget.
Name 5 hawthorn players other than Mitchell and JOM you would take at Carlton to win us a premiership and name the 5 Carlton players they replace?
I'd like to think so, but what precisely about the AFL commission fills you with faith that they a) won't keep tampering with the game in order to try to attract more fans, to the detriment of their equalization measures (ala, the fixturing, including and up to the games they hold in China and have held in NZ in the past), b) won't continue to massage tribunal results and tamper with the fate of teams via suspension and fixturing, to ensure that they make the most money, or c) that the various rules committee won't continue to justify their existences by creating rules designed to do one thing yet have a number of flow on effects, such as how the no-runner rule cut down on how much coaching a first time coach could do for his young side when struck by injury, or how it increased the value of a trade for Luke Hodge to Brisbane.
We won't be around for 100 years - well, you mightn't; I fully intend to live to 150 - but the AFL is being run as though a small family business, with the appropriate levels of nepotism and unintended consequences of managerial decisions creating difficulties aplenty. Sure, these things could clear up in time, but my hopes towards that end are not high.
There you go.
Same story being told across multiple clubs and each as sure as the other.
If we're being objective, Coniglio to Hawthorn makes more sense than him coming to us.
Hawthorn have the better development program, one of, if no the best culture in the competition, play regularly at the MCG and have the best coach.
We have money and a promise we'll get better. Not even a coach to sell just yet and then who's that going to be and will he be more appealing than Clarkson?
Coniglio may yet happen, but one can undesrtand why he'd choose The Hawks over us.
Now you’re just talking shitBest 22 yes and it would be for like position players and not assuming retirements. How can you be willing to give away Marchbank or Newman....?!
Geese you have a vivid imagination.Perhaps the Cogs to Blues talk has been sent out by the Hawks as a smoke screen to cover his actual move there. His meeting with Clarko could have been a “yeah I’m coming to you guys” from Cogs and a “great now let’s keep a lid on it but we’re gonna be putting it out there that you’re more keen on the blues. So the heat stays off our deal” from Clarko.
Now where’s my tin foil hat...
Tougher in many many ways I think. I wasnt talking about thuggery at all. Thats another topic altogether.Tougher as in dirtier - yes. Definitely more thuggery. Tougher in terms of demands on the body - no. Repeat efforts, gut running, kms covered, pressure from taggers way more in todays footy. Skills considerably better ( aside from goal kicking) today.
Better to watch back then - most definitely.
Exactly.
People - mainly indians - try to attack Bradman's era; 'played against amateurs, uncovered pitches weren't that hard, never played in Asia'. But he was a batsman again ahead of his peers, and if it was that easy to average 99.94, there'd be more people back then averaging much higher.
Surely if pick 8 (best case scenario crows pick) is on tbe table the swans just take it
What's the point in keeping an unhappy player for a year, they are never going to get a higher pick than 8 for a small forward.
Why wouldn't they just trade Daniher for Papley? Why do they need us?
Walsh is already a better player than Shiel.
I guess there is a reason why Cripps did his press conference today and not Thursday?Probably Teague not wanting to take away from crippas 100th. I wouldn't worry about the noise coming out of hawthorn re: cogs
Outside of Norm Smith, can you name me a coach who has had as much success in a short period of time?
Four flags in seven years. Four top four finishes outside of that in the past ten years.
Even with a depleted list, he's still got them within finals contention this year.
Probably Teague not wanting to take away from crippas 100th. I wouldn't worry about the noise coming out of hawthorn re: cogs
but not sure that all parties were on the same page in regards to the appointment
Me thinks Thursday the train might just come into the station.
Might be a good day.