News Insightful and Inciteful - 2022 Media Thread

[Keys]

I have no love for Cornes, but he is correct

One thing i have long been kind of critical of, is that we very rarely, if ever, court players publicly to come to the club

Its been suggested that we do a lot of work behind closed doors, and that may be true. But if it is true it isn't exactly working because i would hardly say that we have ever really been what i would call a destination club

And i think a lot of that comes back to the fact that we are so financially stable; we have such good membership and attendance that we don't really need to recruit superstars to generate interest. So that unless someone nominates to come to us, we really don't bother. We never seem to "chase" star players coming out of contract (with the recent exception of Kelly). And at the end of the day, everyone loves a fan. If you are a player looking for a trade do you want to go the club of someone who really really wants you to come there, or a club who is like, meh, if they come, they come?

I would love to see us become much more proactive in the chasing of players. So in the years to come we see something like "Johnny superstar coming out of contract, West Coast chasing hard for his signature", or "2 out of contract young superstars nominate West Coast"

And if we don't the capacity to bring these players to the club, that's also fine. At least it gives us the right of first refusal

This approach works for Sydney, it works for Geelong, it works for Collingwood and it works for Richmond

We need to make it work for us

How’s it worked out for Fremantle?

I’d rather we target who we want instead of a scattergun approach that sees us used by player managers to negotiate a better deal fir their client

Jackson wasn’t a priority for us

 

[The wily weagle]

How’s it worked out for Fremantle?

I’d rather we target who we want instead of a scattergun approach that sees us used by player managers to negotiate a better deal fir their client

Jackson wasn’t a priority for us

Again, we want the right of first refusal

If we can't accommodate someone or they are surplus to requirements, great. But we want to be their first choice

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Personally I'm glad we don't play media games.

 

[bzparkes]

Again, we want the right of first refusal

If we can't accommodate someone or they are surplus to requirements, great. But we want to be their first choice

Well, that's not great at all.

See Port Adelaide this year.

Had 2x players tour the club and announced they were publicly interested, then had to scrap going for them due to JHF requesting a trade.

Pretty embarrassing/shambolic from Port, tbh.

I can't understand why supporters want this stuff played out in the media.

It wasn't so long ago that everyone was mocking North with their 'war chest'.

 

[JackOutback]

Eagles have always preferred to build a team through the draft, then top up in a few key areas. No problem with that, though I think we are at the beginning of regular player movement, so the Eagles may need to adjust their thinking.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

One thing we need to do is to stop recruiting list cloggers just because they're cheap and simply nominated us, such as Witho, Langdon, SPP, Ah Chee, etc.

 

[The wily weagle]

Nic Nat and his partner just welcomed a baby boy, Ezekiel. One for the father son
Hopefully he inherits his mums endurance so he isn't playing half a game every week
Well done to both of them

Nic Naitanui and partner welcome first child and announce engagement

AFL superstar and partner make heartwarming double reveal

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Truckosaurus]

Nic Nat and his partner just welcomed a baby boy, Ezekiel. One for the father son
Hopefully he inherits his mums endurance so he isn't playing half a game every week
Well done to both of them

Nic Naitanui and partner welcome first child and announce engagement

AFL superstar and partner make heartwarming double reveal

www.foxsports.com.au

Nic was only present for 65% of the labour?

 

[Barrybran]

Nic was only present for 65% of the labour?

Yeah but when he was there he dominated and the doctors and nurses loved him

 

[Truckosaurus]

Yeah but when he was there he dominated and the doctors and nurses loved him

The doctor handed him the baby and Nic palmed it straight to Shuey.

 

[Goroyals22]

Nic was only present for 65% of the labour?

That wasn’t the worry, he only was there 65% of the conception..

 

[Cuzz09]

Just the tip

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[larrikin]

 

[Goroyals22]

An interesting read on someone playing favourites.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

There’s a certain irony in a poster who bashes the same players over and over again accusing someone else of “playing favourites”

 

[ziad]

An interesting read on someone playing favourites.

A coach favours good players ??

 

[Grahame]

One thing we need to do is to stop recruiting list cloggers just because they're cheap and simply nominated us, such as Witho, Langdon, SPP, Ah Chee, etc.

Mostly agree. But don’t mind if they just get a one year opportunity or rookie to show their wares. For example JJ looks best 25. But agree the names listed aren’t. Some players do thrive in a new environment.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Jones was an SSP tho. Ah Chee was on 1 year contracts since we traded him in. All should get 1 year contracts ideally unless they're a proven B22 player but sometimes they won't move over for a 1 year contract esp if not originally from WA.

 

[Farang83150]

Jones was an SSP tho. Ah Chee was on 1 year contracts since we traded him in. All should get 1 year contracts ideally unless they're a proven B22 player but sometimes they won't move over for a 1 year contract esp if not originally from WA.

What's any of that got to do with the ever insightful media?

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

One thing we need to do is to stop recruiting list cloggers just because they're cheap and simply nominated us, such as Witho, Langdon, SPP, Ah Chee, etc.

There's also the comparison with who would be available at the draft at the pick used in the trade.

SPS vs the nobodies (and literal nobodies, ie the club passed) drafted at the pick used on him for example.

 

[bzparkes]

An interesting read on someone playing favourites.

All managers play favourites, some are just less obvious about it.

 

[Tugga27]

An interesting read on someone playing favourites.

Or an interesting read on someone whose just not good enough.

 

[Altum Volantes]

An interesting read on someone playing favourites.

If anything, it shows a good piece of talent assessment.

Naish KILLED us in that Richmond game but he had been a means to an end for weeks anyway due to the injury/COVID situation. The fact that he was getting it 20 times a game was killing us because the lad’s disposal was short of the standard - and that stood out in our team of the first half of ‘22, which is a hell of an achievement really.

 

[Altum Volantes]

AFL App has had a crack at our Best 22 for next year (old mate Schmookie)



It’s actually not too far from the pin I reckon.

He gets points for including Tommy Cole, usually completely forgotten.

Jamaine Jones

31

Jamaine Jones

Age

26

Ht

180cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.0

2star

K

4.8

2star

HB

4.2

3star

M

2.1

2star

T

3.8

5star

MG

159.6

3star

D

10.5

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.5

3star

T

4.0

5star

MG

196.5

3star

D

9.0

3star

K

4.2

2star

HB

4.8

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

4.2

5star

MG

166.0

3star

is probably the biggest omission - but you’d be looking at a 2 man combo of Petruccelle/Waterman/Williams/Jones I think.

 

[squashface]

AFL App has had a crack at our Best 22 for next year (old mate Schmookie)

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It’s actually not too far from the pin I reckon.

He gets points for including Tommy Cole, usually completely forgotten.

Jamaine Jones is probably the biggest omission - but you’d be looking at a 2 man combo of Petruccelle/Waterman/Williams/Jones I think.

Can't see us going in with only Nic.

Williams will be in the 22 I'd say