Bet some bloke is going to love just getting away games.
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SugarShane
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My point exactly. Prime Laird is not current Laird.
How many jackets you've won in the past and how much you carried the team back then are irrelevant to your status in the team now.
SugarShane
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Should've gone to Collingwood.
Alongside? Here's a tip, all B&Fs aren't created equal. He still has them, but that doesn't put him in the same sentence as Macca and Roo. Laird is miles below Tyson Edwards level and pretty sure he didn't win even one.
That can't be right.
We have missed the finals for seven years, has to be everyone all in.
Tex keeps referencing Tom Hawkins as the model he wants. He's a three time premiership player with his team competing in finals. Completely different.
Continuity not just for tex but for the player that misses... Further prices the crowd have not changed.. culture is still the same ... Jobs for the boys
We definitely don't all fly as one, different rules for different players. No doubt that's awesome for the culture. Locking away list spots like that is negligence given what players might be shaken loose from a club like Melbourne. Look at the stupidity of not paying out Smith and wasting that list spot. Hamill was triple the player this year and could help us if we were to magically climb the ladder next year. Nup, instead we go with an even cookeder Smith because we don't want to upset his ego or his fellow senior players.
It’s pretty decent company, those legends of our club. You can’t fluke two best and fairest’s. It takes a lot of dedication to be even close to the best in an AFL club once! I just want to show the guy a bit of respect. I think he deserves that!
ROB won one, enough said about the quality of recent B&F winners
Cmon mate, this is Trumpish. The masses handing out the hate and vitriol to someone but then somehow feeling “you” are the aggrieved party by being insulted..
I would actually be guessing the bearded one hasn’t got this one right. Bookmarking now - logically ANB replaces Murph in game one next year IMO assuming both fit.
Did the tone of media comments and statements from Dees themselves make it seem like there may be something a little bit extra here?
That was my gut feel re does bubs need extra special family assistance or whatever (total speculation on my behalf). Otherwise it seems an abnormally agreeable and immediate stance from Dees effectively insisting they will get him back to ADL rather than the normal posturing of “we will look at offers and do what’s best for our club” etc
Billy Cart
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I believe it's more to do with his injury and when it first happened, their medicos sent his back out without realising the seriousness of the injury which turned out was life threatening. He isn't happy about that.
Laird is the only multiple winner to not win a bnf in a top 8 season, the only one to have an average position below 8 as well...
| Year | WINNER | Ladder Position | Average position |
| 1997 # | Andrew McLeod | 4 | |
2001 | Andrew McLeod (2) | 8 | 7 |
2007 | Andrew McLeod (3) | 8 | |
1999 | Ben Hart | 13 | 8 |
2002 | Ben Hart (2) | 3 | |
2009 | Bernie Vince | 5 | |
2019 | Brad Crouch | 11 | |
1992 | Chris McDermott | 9 | |
2014 | Daniel Talia | 10 | |
2023 | Jordan Dawson^ | 10 | |
1991 | Mark Mickan | 9 | |
| 1998 # | Mark Ricciuto | 5 | 8 |
| 2003 + | Mark Ricciuto (2) | 6 | |
2004 | Mark Ricciuto (3) | 12 | |
2017 | Matt Crouch^ | 1 | |
1995 | Matthew Connell | 11 | |
1996 | Matthew Liptak | 12 | |
2008 | Nathan Bock | 5 | |
2015 | Patrick Dangerfield | 7 | |
2020 | Reilly O'Brien^ | 18 | |
2010 | Richard Douglas | 11 | |
2018 | Rory Laird^ | 12 | 14 |
2021 | Rory Laird^ (2) | 15 | |
2022 | Rory Laird^ (3) | 14 | |
2013 | Rory Sloane | 11 | 8 |
2016 | Rory Sloane (2) | 5 | |
2011 | Scott Thompson | 14 | 8 |
2012 | Scott Thompson (2) | 2 | |
1994 | Shaun Rehn | 11 | |
2000 | Simon Goodwin | 11 | 5 |
2005 | Simon Goodwin (2) | 1 | |
2006 | Simon Goodwin (3) | 2 | |
1993 | Tony McGuinness | 5 |
Oh great we are going to have a year of Tex bashing 
Most of our blokes still not equipped to polish his boots
He won’t make it all about him and will be trying to bring our forwards on through coaching and mentoring and will be more than happy to take some on ground heat in meantime
Most of our blokes still not equipped to polish his boots
He won’t make it all about him and will be trying to bring our forwards on through coaching and mentoring and will be more than happy to take some on ground heat in meantime
Obviously he’s referring to it being insulting to them not him
Ahh, ok. Fair enough. It didn’t read like that to me but always like giving people the benefit of the doubt so you must be rightObviously he’s referring to it being insulting to them not him
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There's nothing to pay out. It's a new contract.
He and the club may have had an informal agreement, but there's no mechanism under the current agreement for either party to be forced into this
Hopefully scaled down role will mean lots of SANFL games.
jackster83
Save Ken!
Settle down Kochie.
I was saying comparing him to Roo and Macca is insulting to those two.
Bickley or Edwards are a better comparison.
Scorpus
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It's possible you have misinterpreted this clause
It only prevents a club or player from extending the terms of the contract
A club could still implement a "reverse" of this, where the playing contract is a five year term, but if you only play 11 games in your 4th year the contract ends after 4 years. Which would be a reduction of the contract, not an extension.
Mate, you don’t seem Texs biggest fan unless i have got that wrong (apologies if so).
Is there anything positive you have liked about him over the years? (Playing wise inc skills, finals performances, leadership, one club player loyalty - whatever it may be). Or what he still offers now in his final stanza? Or just all negatives only?
For a smart bloke I am genuinely in your perspective and trying to get my head around it.
I’m fine with it, as long as he doesn’t admonish guys like Rachele on-field for not kicking it to himOh great we are going to have a year of Tex bashing
Most of our blokes still not equipped to polish his boots
He won’t make it all about him and will be trying to bring our forwards on through coaching and mentoring and will be more than happy to take some on ground heat in meantime
Still clearly the third best tall forward on our list (unless Luko comes)
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It will be telling if Murphy gets named in the 2025 leadership group.
If he is, his spot in the 23 is assured again.
