Josh Rachele - "The Victorian"

[Veer Right]

Alex Neal-Bullen wants to go back to SA, so a straight swap for Rackele makes a lot of sense for both teams.

ANB would be a great addition to the Crows, hard worker, tough, one of the best endurance runners and tacklers in the league, leads by example, 27 years old, and should have 4-5 good years left.

The biggest issue would be Melbourne's culture - If Rachele has already got a bit of a discipline problem, imagine what he would be like spending after spending his preseason on a bender with Simon Goodwin!

I wouldn't want ANB if he was free.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

I'm no Crows or Rachele fan, but swapping someone nearly 30 for a bloke in his 3rd or 4th year would be insanity.

 

[Toump Ass]

I wouldn't want ANB if he was free.

Lmao anb would be your best player.

 

[Drummond]

Hands down the worst club in the comp.

Gutless, selfish hacks everywhere you look.

 

[Soggy2112]

Genuinely don't know how L Murphy gets a game each week

It’s a question I ask myself approximately 12 times a game.

 

[Soggy2112]

Alex Neal-Bullen wants to go back to SA, so a straight swap for Rackele makes a lot of sense for both teams.

ANB would be a great addition to the Crows, hard worker, tough, one of the best endurance runners and tacklers in the league, leads by example, 27 years old, and should have 4-5 good years left.

The biggest issue would be Melbourne's culture - If Rachele has already got a bit of a discipline problem, imagine what he would be like spending after spending his preseason on a bender with Simon Goodwin!

It makes zero sense.

Rachele is a future AA forward, with potential to be a decent midfield option, 21 and contracted for five years.

ANB is a very good role player, but that’s it, and is 28.

 

[poorboy32]

It makes zero sense.

Rachele is a future AA forward, with potential to be a decent midfield option, 21 and contracted for five years.

ANB is a very good role player, but that’s it, and is 28.

Please future AA forward

 

[Soggy2112]

Please future AA forward

Why please?

 

[poorboy32]

Why please?

Has a long way to go they just don’t hand them out.

 

[Substance]

Having 2 senior teammates incl the captain, publicly throw you under the bus, has got to hurt.

 

[poorboy32]

Having 2 senior teammates incl the captain, publicly throw you under the bus, has got to hurt.

You wouldn’t walk back in the place

 

[Soggy2112]

Has a long way to go they just don’t hand them out.

Almost like he’s in his third year and is likely to improve quite a lot

 

[poorboy32]

Almost like he’s in his third year and is likely to improve quite a lot

If he does it won’t be at the crows unfortunately

 

[Soggy2112]

If he does it won’t be at the crows unfortunately

You’re not wrong

 

[Flags_In_The_Bag]

I’m hearing he will be part of the Neal Bullen deal.

Of course YOU are hearing this...lol

 

[Consolaçao]

Can you imagine this sort of thing happening with a 21-yo at Geelong or Sydney?
Completely hanging out to dry a young player in need of support and direction. Who’d would want to come and play for this team?!
If he walks, i’d be so disappointed, but i’d not begrudge him for a moment.

 

[HTPunter]

Lmao anb would be your best player.

As a Saints fan he probably doesn’t understand a general/small forward whose goal is to be the hardest worker in the team, and not just get Joe the Goose/cheap free kick goals while losing Ala Higgins or Butler

 

[HTPunter]

Probably the worst decision of the year I reckon.

discussions should have been had behind closed doors. They’ve aired their dirty laundry out in public.

Blokes like Lachie Murphy don’t do enough, and barely engages with the media, but is in the leadership group. Rory Laird

29

Rory Laird

Age

30

Ht

177cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

25.4

5star

K

12.9

5star

HB

12.5

5star

M

5.4

5star

T

2.3

4star

CL

1.0

3star

D

19.6

5star

K

10.9

4star

HB

8.7

4star

M

3.4

3star

T

2.4

3star

CL

1.1

3star

D

14.6

4star

K

7.4

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

3.2

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

0.4

3star

happy to go out and get 30 but doesn’t matter what happens with them.

Sure Rachele has been half hearted at contests at times this year - but they backed him in at the time. But now all of a sudden that contest v Port is “the” contest that matters. Geez I wonder what the real reason for dropping him is…

 

[HTPunter]

Why didn't you pick Watson in the last year's draft then?

I don’t think that poster is Brady Rawlings…

And also because Rawlings is shit and has no idea

 

[1970crow]

Seems a dreadful overreaction by the club

About par for us. We wanted to sack Stengle over what would be an AFL 4 week suspension. And when we coukdnt sack him we decided to suspend him for a full season. We're a not a football club, we're a public service department.

 

[5minutes_of_Dew]

Not sure where the future AA calls are coming from on Rachelle. He has been OK without doing anything spectacular.

But, he's a first round pick, you'd expect him to be decent.

Send him over to us crows, on the cheap. The last 'troubled' small forward we picked up for a bag of chips is working out fairly well so far.

 

[DrEvil_]

It’s a question I ask myself approximately 12 times a game.

He is there to provide on field leadership

 

[The acurate one]

Bring back Leading Teams, that'll sort him out.

 

[Soggy2112]

Not sure where the future AA calls are coming from on Rachelle. He has been OK without doing anything spectacular.

But, he's a first round pick, you'd expect him to be decent.

Send him over to us crows, on the cheap. The last 'troubled' small forward we picked up for a bag of chips is working out fairly well so far.

Of 1st-4th year small forwards:

Goals:
Paul Curtis, Josh Rachele (30)
Kai Lohmann (27)
Connor MacDonald (26)
Jack Ginnivan (25)
Rhyan Mansell (21)
Nick Watson (18)

Goal Assists:
Josh Rachele (18)
Bailey Humphrey (16)
Paul Curtis, Connor MacDonald (14)
Harvey Thomas (13)
Nick Watson (12)
Rhyan Mansell, Jack Ginnivan (10)

Score Involvements:
Connor MacDonald (144)
Jack Ginnivan (123)
Josh Rachele (121)
Kai Lohmann (115)
Paul Curtis (112)
Nick Watson (89)
Rhyan Mansell (80)

 

[Go the Guts]

Straight swap for Alexander Neal-Bullen.

ANB is the ultimate professional who gets the best out of himself, a huge part of our premiership-winning culture.
The Victorian is Victorian and would be a great cultural fit, he can smash windscreens with AFLCA winner, Best & Fairest, and fellow premiership star/ Shepperton boy Clayton Oliver.

Perfect!!!

LOL. The most prolific goal kicker in the AFL 22 years old and under in 2024 (30 goals this year) is a straight swap for a role playing 29 year old (in 2025). Fair swap?! OK then. Thanks for the laughs!