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I always have trouble getting over things that never happened.
eaglevision
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To be fair in hindsight Nic Nat with one functional Achillies tendon and no preseason would have still been our #1 ruck.
I can’t believe the board are also the list managers, amazing how much influence they have
Old Fitzy, he can do it all!
sharps24
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In the immortal words of Tom Barrass, "if someones selling midfield pressure I'll be buying it, at any price" and he did the mad bastard!
Hopefully Gov, Edwards, Bazzo, Ginbey, Hough, Johnston under a new backline coach can be an upgrade on the Gov Barrass plus Rotham, Witherden, Hunt, Cole back 6.
Very keen to see what I'd look like if Kelly moved to high half forward next year, would also be keen to see Duggan or Cole trialed in the same spot or Maric get that position back as well. Probably not going to happen until 2026 as there'd be no-where for Cripps to play, but I can definitely see some combination of trade targets and natural progression among existing players making more sense in the middle alongside Reid and Yeo.
Easy. The Beagles.
Seriously, I reckon next year we give precedence to the ‘kids’. There’ll still be enough experienced players. So Sheed, JD, Cripps and Petro can help improve the Beagles by mentoring.
WAFL...cripps will be playing WAFL.
Waterman, allen and Ryan (assuming not traded) is more than enough experience.Easy. The Beagles.
Seriously, I reckon next year we give precedence to the ‘kids’. There’ll still be enough experienced players. So Sheed, JD, Cripps and Petro can help improve the Beagles by mentoring.
Add Jwill, dewar and long.
I think thats your staring 6, with maric on the bench.
sharps24
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Easy. The Beagles.
Seriously, I reckon next year we give precedence to the ‘kids’. There’ll still be enough experienced players. So Sheed, JD, Cripps and Petro can help improve the Beagles by mentoring.
I've thought that every year, and what I've learned is that in professional sport you either play at the level or you retire. If the club doesn't retire you, they are going to play you. There is really no such thing as the 250 game player being retained by a club to pad out the 2nds. For one the players ego won't allow it, and for 2 the list management team aren't in the habit of spending 2 million dollars worth of salary cap on senior players for the beagles either. Now yes Gaff was the exception to this rule this year and Pyke gave the go ahead to drop Darling for 2 games as a shot over the bow that its time for the senior players to pitch in now Simmo is gone, but both would have been pencilled in as best 22 at the start of the season.
For us to be playing Sheed, JD, Cripps, Petch, let's say one of Witherden or Rotham retained as backup, one of Flynn or Williams missing out of firsts and and possibly Tom Cole as well. Thats 1/3 of this years 22 relegated to "mentoring the 2's" which is a huge cost. It's just not going to play out like that I don't think.
I'm not sure exactly how payroll works but apparently players who are on base contracts- presumably all the guys on their first, and some on their second contracts- also receive match payments. It would not surprise me to find out that you could basically breach the salary cap if you sent half the senior players to the beagles for a large chunk of the season and played the kids ahead of them. I think it's something like 4-5k a match, lets 6 of those 8 senior players lose their spot to a 1st-3rd year draftee next year. Do they get paid less for missing AFL games? I don't think so. But the base contract guys get paid more, lets say 6 of them get played over those players named that's an extra 30k a week maybe, that's potentially 6-700k over the course of the season to commit to something like that. Can that be done? I guess it can because we must of done something similar in 2022/2023 with all our injuries. But you certainly wouldn't go into the season planning to do that.
RookiePick
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Should get her involved in S&C
Elizabeth 'Massive' Gaines.
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They're not going to pick him, Mitch.
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Getting things back on track with media discussion, Seven West is up to…some…things…again.
Rolling that out mid morning, I'd move to the back of the room in embarrassment to be honest.
Something tells me Ross Lyon would fit in well with the 7West execs...
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Yeah, wtf it's only August. Time and place....
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Only McGovern and Junktime in the 44 man all Australian squad
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Yeah, bizarre take.
Even with **** all top end talent and an interim coach for a third of the season, we still improved on last year.
Norf, with all their top end talent and master coach Clarkson managed to regress this year.
They're a joke.
Surely this is fake. One, Santas dancing this time of year? Weird choice. Two, surely they can't be that stupid? Can they?
Dockers fans are having normal one this morning I see
Well done boys.
Jeremy McGovern
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 All-Australian
Squad member 2015
Jake Waterman
Never previously All-Australian
Never previously squad member
Miguel Sanchez
(Unique injury) TBC
Hahaha he’s literally in the All Australian squad and you’re still throwing the insults.
How many goals did he kick in junktime this year?
Honestly this rules.
Inexplicable sexy Santa dancers months before Christmas. The ubiquitous corpo 'Town Hall' bullshit as a back drop. It's 2024. It's 11AM.
This is the sort of rare insanity the corporate drone lives for.
