Bluemour Melting Pot XXVII

[Dowingham]

I'd peg Fogarty as a Andy McGrath type....certainly not as a small forward.

Again, subject to dd and Samo, get Isaiah Butters as a rookie.

Andy mcgrath was a no1 pick. Did we just get a steal?

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

From what Saads manager was saying he could spend sone time up on the wing as well.

Considering he collects the ball at HB and runs to HF, I’d say he’ll spend a bit of time on the wing

 

[BigBreakfast]

I’m not overly unhappy with the outcome or Austin per say. But I think it’s important to be honest in summing up our performance. AFL draft and trading is part of our game’s competitive environment. We paid overs. We could have handled the trade differently and performed better; importantly it’s more than reasonably likely that with SOS at the helm we would have performed better than we did. The bloke who Jake Niall referred to as holding a Richmond passport publicly underpinned his decision to replace SOS on the need to improve LM efficiency; and by consequence performance. That hasn’t been the case; he was wrong.

Now we move on

I disagree with the premise that this period is part of the competition. I believe it is purely a transactional opportunity to improve lists. There is no imperial measurement of winners and losers, just subjective analysis of transactions, players, LMs, PMs, players...
The only imperial, bottom line evidence is played out on the ground, not on Zoom or in boardrooms. We got what we needed, done.

 

[spry]

Going to start calling him:

Lachie "Not a small forward" Fogarty

Small, nuggety mid

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I caught myself doing a fist pump watching his highlights.

How’s the repeat efforts, tackling and clean hands! That good. Raw effort. Love it.


Well done team.

 

[Motsfan]

I disagree with the premise that this period is part of the competition. I believe it is purely a transactional opportunity to improve lists. There is no imperial measurement of winners and losers, just subjective analysis of transactions, players, LMs, PMs, players...
The only imperial, bottom line evidence is played out on the ground, not on Zoom or in boardrooms. We got what we needed, done.

The only measure is the next flag.


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[Blue__Balls]

I can’t see that being true. We would have explored that option if true, if not Austin needs the sack

Subsequent pick swaps by Essendon shouldn't be used to judge Austin.

We offer that to Collingwood. Collingwood call Essendon and Dodo offers the same but with Pick 7. Collingwood tell us no deal.

 

[TeeJay Blue]

I don’t want to be a downer but it was a malignant cancer.

Well yes. But have we considered whether or not Doc was early in dealing with it? From what was revealed, it sounds to me that he was.

 

[AndyLucimitis]

Reckon the only thing that potentially stops that eventuating is his body.

Seems to have the ability and the attitude, so if he can stay fit he'll give it a fair shake.

Something Wells said in an interview about Fogarty - he laughed and said something like ' he doesn't lack confidence'. Maybe a little cocky ????

 

[Blue and Silver]

I caught myself doing a fist pump watching his highlights.

How’s the repeat efforts, tackling and clean hands! That good. Raw effort. Love it.


Well done team.

Contested ball player like Lachie Neale. Doesn't accumulate like him though

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[Blue__Balls]

I don’t want to be a downer but it was a malignant cancer.

What's your point?

 

[ctwenty1]

Well yes. But have we considered whether or not Doc was early in dealing with it? From what was revealed, it sounds to me that he was.

Yep and I hope you are right and I expect Doc to be ok and play for awhile yet. But I reckon the club would have considered the slight overs worth the insurance

 

[Mikkey]

I don’t want to be a downer but it was a malignant cancer.

Cancer is always malignant. You can have a tumor that is not cancer thus not malignant. The reason people with testicular cancer can recover quickly is if the cancer is "encapsulated" in the testicle and cancer cells have not spread. In these cases you need no chemo / radiation etc as all of the cancer cells have been removed.

 

[The Flying Doormat]

Some newbies for the ignore list

1st time I've added anyone to the ignore list. And we've had some classics over the years.

 

[Juddrockz]

Dodoro seems to "win" a lot of trades but Essendon continue to go backwards.

Geelong seem to give away their players cheaply but continue to play finals.

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The Cats players must be playing for pittance though,to squeeze so many top players in?

 

[Poorman53]

The Cats players must be playing for pittance though,to squeeze so many top players in?

Cotton on

 

[ctwenty1]

Cotton on

It’s their version of our Visy

 

[HBF]

Except Essendon got the same player for pick 36 just 3 years ago when he was GCS best player

Are you seriously still going on about this.

 

[carlton_99]

Do you reckon the club was happy to pay overs (slight i might add) for Saad given Doc? No Simpson and potentially doc for 2021 would have concerned the club presumably.

Doch should be back in training in 6 weeks...

 

[reubs1066]

7 months

Diagnosed in May, training again in July....

 

[HBF]

Off topic but they can’t trade now until 3pm tomorrow? Artificial situation created by the AFL for the media

Forgot about that.
Classic AFL.

 

[Blue_Fusion]

Williams has already shown he can play through the middle, so we aren't experimenting with playing him in that role

There is a bit of uncertainty if he can do it week in, week out though...

We'll soon find out.

 

[Mikkey]

The Cats players must be playing for pittance though,to squeeze so many top players in?

That is a big issue. If a club is consistently entrenched in the top 4 and in the premiership window, players will play for less money. The whole exercise with our rebuild was that we wanted to be an established finals team. "One off" teams like the Dogs never got into the situation where players play for less and free agents come.

 

[HBF]

Thoughts on Riley Knight or Brandon Matera as DFAs?

Pass on both.

 

[Koutamightafides]

The difference between Willo and Saad is that Willo hits lasers that land on a dime. Saad is inconsistent with his ball drop because of how much he can weave and lean to move into space, as well as how far he will tend to carry the ball before disposing.

If I were coach, I would feel Willo is someone I would be comfortable with in that advanced position, well over Saad and Walsh. Walsh would generally make great decisions and should be able to compensate for his floaters, while Saad will generally buy himself space, but fluffs are few too many I50 entries.

80% disposal efficiency he can't miss that many though .

 

[Poorman53]

It’s their version of our Visy

Think they may be even more generous from what I have been told.