Keep your expectations high

[Long Live the King]

Tend to agree that the club is pretty well placed. With some further development from those mentioned and guys like EVW we will be ok. Joyce and co need to stick to their guns targeting the best available in the comp and if that means putting the cue in the rack for this year then so be it.

 

[HongKongRoo]

Higgins is clearly a better disposer of the ball than Gaff. Don't think that's up for debate. His disposal class is up their with Wells at his best.

Better than Wells. Wells had too many passes going over the head of players. Higgo just lowers his eyes like Boomer and hits the target

 

[gokangas]

With Polek, Hall and (hopefully) Finlayson and Newman, our list improves markedly. I am very confident of a big 2019. No excuses not to play finals.

 

[roojor]

Also TT has hardly rated a mention

 

[Cool Kangas]

With Polek, Hall and (hopefully) Finlayson and Newman, our list improves markedly. I am very confident of a big 2019. No excuses not to play finals.

Who’s Newman?

 

[blackshadow]

Who’s Newman?

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[Jesslc]

I got annoyed and got into a poster about attacking lukeymac too much the other day (stand by it) and then I come into this forum and see Gaff getting far worse treatment...

Play on. He's a time wasting-flagless-little coward puncher.

 

[Tas]

Still think the coach will play him in lock down roles and I dunno if he's got the legs but it's an interesting idea.

He is cactus in a couple of years unless he is unleashed.

 

[Tas]

Just thought I'd share this here, a post from the Main Board - IMO it's a myth about being a "destination club", it's just about PR strategy:

We would have had more success chasing lesser players from teams not doing so well, like your Polec and Hall for example, it doesn't really take much to get these deals over the line. We are being criticised basically for being unable to lure players other clubs can't either.

Treloar wanted to go to Collingwood... Richmond couldn't get Treloar to change his mind. Failier? Lynch wanted to go to Richmond, Collingwood couldn't get him or May to pick Collingwood... failure? Everyone wants players like Martin, Kelly, Gaff... most clubs either can't fit them in or weren't even worthy enough to be considered.

It is easy getting a player who wants to go to your state and nominates your club, you just have to haggle a deal. Trying to get players of top 4 clubs who are happy where they are to leave clubs is something extremely difficult to pull off and those type of deals do not stop us from getting guys like Polec or Hall or Higgins or Waite or Dal Santo.

Saints have petty much levied almost the same offer to everyone we have but no player has cared enough to even talk to them. Is it better to be them?

 

[InFineForm]

I got annoyed and got into a poster about attacking lukeymac too much the other day (stand by it) and then I come into this forum and see Gaff getting far worse treatment...

Play on. He's a time wasting-flagless-little coward puncher.

Stick a Gaff in me - I'm done.

A couple of things. At Hall's best he's been dynamic, but no-one else seems to want him. Why? (I'd love him to be great, but...)

In saying that, I am very hopeful that organic growth in LDU, Jacob's return, and improvement in one or two others gets us to a mid range finals team (winning a final). Sets us for 2020 perfectly for mine.

 

[Tas]

Okay, pause and ask yourself this, is there that much difference between Higgo & the lying rat?

IMO, Higgo's disposal makes him the better player of the pair, so think about this.

If LDU can turn the corner quicker than expected and deliver in the guts, then we can plonk Higgins on the wing and it will make no differences to our expectations pre-Gaff.

The same applies with a fit Ben Jacobs in the side. Keep your expectations high folks.

Looking at our best 22, Gaff would have been a boon in some aspects but he would have disrupted the hierarchy in another way which we would have had to resolve imo by pushing Higgins forward.

Our best midfield still has Cunnington and Jacobs in the middle. If Polec and Hall go on the wings then the best 18 has one more position, that would have been Gaff or Higgins. I don't think Polec/Hall play any other role.

Our rotation becomes Dumont, Anderson, McDonald and Ahern. We also have LDU, Walker and the soon to be acquired Thomas and Scott that come into the picture a little down the track.

If we push Higgins out of the midfield, Gaff would have been a good pickup but he pushes Dumont and Ahern down. It is why I think Kelly is the far more critical target. Higgins is 30 now, still think he has some good footy to play but not sure how much. Kelly coming in gets us the same type of damaging player for a long period of time and it gives the option to push Higgins forward as well to do more damage.

If we can get Kelly, I think our midfield is in a great position.

 

[blackshadow]

Looking at our best 22, Gaff would have been a boon in some aspects but he would have disrupted the hierarchy in another way which we would have had to resolve imo by pushing Higgins forward.

Our best midfield still has Cunnington and Jacobs in the middle. If Polec and Hall go on the wings then the best 18 has one more position, that would have been Gaff or Higgins. I don't think Polec/Hall play any other role.

Our rotation becomes Dumont, Higgins, McDonald and Ahern. We also have LDU, Walker and the soon to be acquired Thomas and Scott that come into the picture a little down the track.

If we push Higgins out of the midfield, Gaff would have been a good pickup but he pushes Dumont and Ahern down. It is why I think Kelly is the far more critical target. Higgins is 30 now, still think he has some good footy to play but not sure how much. Kelly coming in gets us the same type of damaging player for a long period of time and it gives the option to push Higgins forward as well to do more damage.

If we can get Kelly, I think our midfield is in a great position.

Jed says hi!

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[Tas]

Jed says hi!

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Yeah, meant Dumont and Anderson, not Higgins twice... although I am open to cloning.

 

[Checkered]

Okay, pause and ask yourself this, is there that much difference between Higgo & the lying rat?

IMO, Higgo's disposal makes him the better player of the pair, so think about this.

If LDU can turn the corner quicker than expected and deliver in the guts, then we can plonk Higgins on the wing and it will make no differences to our expectations pre-Gaff.

The same applies with a fit Ben Jacobs in the side. Keep your expectations high folks.

Love the outlook snakey

 

[Reverend Shinboner]

As much as I wanted GAGF, his reneg allows to North to maintain a real "us versus them" approach ("people say that no-one wants to play for North" etc.). AND we still are looking at massive trade wins (hopefully) with Polec, Hall and maybe 1-2 others. With Gaff there would've been a higher risk of the club/players getting ahead of themselves.

So, while Carlton gets a headline "Blues win opening day of Trade Week" and North get "North miss Gaff", we can lose the perception/media battle and happily use it to add fuel to the fire.

I'm certainly happy to be able to maintain a narrative of North battling against the odds. And extremely happy with the path the club have taken with respect to trading/free agency.

 

[Skarrz]

Stick a Gaff in me - I'm done.

A couple of things. At Hall's best he's been dynamic, but no-one else seems to want him. Why? (I'd love him to be great, but...)

In saying that, I am very hopeful that organic growth in LDU, Jacob's return, and improvement in one or two others gets us to a mid range finals team (winning a final). Sets us for 2020 perfectly for mine.

No one wanted Waite/BJ/Marley Williams and we have done something special with them

 

[Cool Kangas]

Hoping the guys are doubly motivated to win a flag on the back of the constant banter around “no one wants to go to north” (not that they’ll need it but I’m thinking in the back of their minds it would piss them off).

 

[Dazb86]

2 mil per year might get Honeychurch over the line

 

[Jindrrk]

Okay, pause and ask yourself this, is there that much difference between Higgo & the lying rat?

IMO, Higgo's disposal makes him the better player of the pair, so think about this.

If LDU can turn the corner quicker than expected and deliver in the guts, then we can plonk Higgins on the wing and it will make no differences to our expectations pre-Gaff.

The same applies with a fit Ben Jacobs in the side. Keep your expectations high folks.

Mine are....always are. Get hit down and back up again stronger.

We can do it.

 

[Passmore]

2 mil per year might get Honeychurch over the line

I reckon 2m would buy the whole football club. Whitten Oval included.

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[Shinboner roo]

2 mil per year might get Honeychurch over the line

Not bad, I'd rather 2 tom boyd's tho to play vfl

 

[year of the roo]

I reckon 2m would buy the whole football club. Whitten Oval included.

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Yes but we'd have to remortgage the place to pay for Tom Liberatore's rehab.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Yes but we'd have to remortgage the place to pay for Tom Liberatore's rehab.

It'd be cheaper just to keep him stocked in shard & flippers.

 

[year of the roo]

It'd be cheaper just to keep him stocked in shard & flippers.

Or better yet... can someone photoshop a Heisenberg hat on to BS?

 

[Snake_Baker]

Or better yet... can someone photoshop a Heisenberg hat on to BS?