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Can we get a new off-season moves thread. Expect this to get interesting quickly.
Prespakis is a MASSIVE get for Essendon. One of the best players in the game and only around 21 years old.
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Any and all moves for the coming off-season, here is the place. Will be interested to see who Port poaches from our triple premiership winning side
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Are there still tier-salaries? Or is it one collective salary and they pay whatever they want to the players? Can't begrudge a player leaving if they're getting a massive pay rise to play down the road.
If it's 150k it has to be an ASA payment. Linked to the old CBA in the other thread - clubs are limited to 100k, although the top 2 players aren't counted in the cap. Not sure how this will change for this season as I think they're still negotiating it.
Tayla Harris wanted 160k from Carlton a few years ago, who said weren't prepared to pay - so not surprising they've said they can't afford it.
Prespakis also a Dons supporter, also expecting her sister will also go there from Geelong as she played in their VFLW side.
Stephen Rowe copped Caro's arrow because he said Daisy wasn't fit to carry Erin's bags. In terms of naming a medal after them. She then went off at him for his parochial Crows bias and how shitty it was to tear Daisy down.
Erin has won every medal there is to win in AFLW and multiple times. Daisy has won 2 club best and fairests...
Did not know this. So we would have 2 players outside the cap? It'd probably be Randall and Marinoff. I'd be offering Hatchard the same as Marinoff though. Both are equally important to this club.
Port's coach is finally in place, Lauren Arnell, formerly of Carlton and Brisbane. I believe that would make her the first senior coach to have actually played AFLW!
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That would be correct.
Off the top of my head, that's 3/4 of the expansion sides that will have female senior coaches next year, which is refreshing to see.
Yes, Lauren Arnell (Port), Bec Goddard (Hawthorn) and Natalie Wood (Essendon). None of the other 14 sides have a female senior coach at the moment though.
Think Rowey's point was more about the Melbourne media bias but played the women so to speak in Daisy so the point got lost.
And i think he does have a point (not the bit about Daisy), listen to a fair bit of SEN and it was all Melbourne in the leadup, think they forget that 3/4 of their programing is actually national not just for vic. Even take 360 last night was right at the end before the game was even really mentioned. No doubt had Melbourne won it would have been front and center and Wheatley's hero would have been Daisy.
Just find it werid at times how how both the media and the AFL could easy get more exposure for the womens game (GF time slot perfect example) but for what ever reason don't.
I think this is it.
One thing that never really connected with me was the "finally, this is what we've all wanted, Daisy vs Erin", like no, not really for me, our team had so many stars, it was Crows vs. Melbourne.
Was anyone really waiting for the great Daisy vs Erin showdown?
Well from a crows perspective Erin isn't our best player any more so I never saw it as Erin v Daisy plus earlier in the year Erin was BOG against Melbourne.
Daisy is a good player, but the Vic's talk about her as if she is a superstar, they constantly put her and Erin in the same category and that's just wrong.
Rowe was right in one sense that Erin clearly a level above but he probably shouldn't have said she wasn't fit to carry her bags.
The complete lack of coverage on all the footy shows about the AFLW grandfinal was disappointing as the week before it was mentioned alot mainly because of Melbourne being in it. Just think it was disrespectful to the Adelaide Football club and their amazing achievement
The other thing about a Daisy vs Erin showdown is that they're players who were unlikely to line up on each other. Phillips plays midfield/forward, Daisy plays deep forward or occasionally as an extra defender? It's not like two star midfielders going head to head. Hatchard vs Paxman could have been an interesting showdown. Or even Harris vs Randall.
The only way "Daisy vs Erin" was going to be interested was if they both kicked a bag of goals, and that was never likely to happen.
I liked Clarke commenting that there had been lots of talk of individuals, but that's not the way the club saw it.
The only way "Daisy vs Erin" was going to be interested was if they both kicked a bag of goals, and that was never likely to happen.
I liked Clarke commenting that there had been lots of talk of individuals, but that's not the way the club saw it.
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I didn't realise West Coast had been that bad
like, I knew they won the spoon last year, but I just checked and wow.
2020 - 4pt win at home vs 1-5 team
2021 - 1pt win at home vs 0-9 team
2021 - 39pt win at home vs 1-8 team
2022 - 2pt win away vs 2-8 team
So they've only had 4 wins before today, 3 of which were by less than a kick. Against teams with a combined 4-30 record :/
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Didnt watch much of the game today but what I saw of Erin didn't look too good. We certainly had the best of her years in AFLW.
The game actually looked terrible.
The game actually looked terrible.
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I found it bizarre media claims Port were the best expansion side (I think Essendon are).
Today just showed how far off the mark they are.
Today just showed how far off the mark they are.
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Sucked into the Erin hype. Last year showed that we're hardly reliant on her anymore, and she played like her age today.
The Eagles really aren’t much chop again in fact their team is worse on paper than it was last season, the Power should’ve ran away with it after half time they really had all the momentum but look like they really have bought into that Power tradition of getting ahead of themselves and thought they’d done enough at 3qtr time.
Bombers look the best of the expansion teams think they’re a real chance of finals, have class with Prespakis, Toogood and a couple of others and even their more inexperienced players look like they have more seasoned bodies than the other expansion sides.
Hawthorn and Port are the next rung down, both have solid contributors but look like they lack class and enough hardened bodies to run games out. Phillips a non-entity even before she got a kick in her calf that hampered her, thinking that she can play those sorts of midfield minutes is really delusional. Looks like we got the wrong Dowrick sister as Abbey for Port looks like she’s going to be a very good player.
From what I saw of Sydney they look like they’re starting from real far back looked like an AFLW team from 5 years ago.
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True. Even Chicks Talking Footy got sucked into the hype by describing our off season as a ‘dumpster fire’ because we lost Erin (they quickly backtracked when called out on this though).
Erin was able to carry us in 2017 because she was one of the only elite players in an 8 team league in its inaugural season. More and more players have become elite in the seasons that followed, while age is starting to catch up with Erin.
Not to mention that even with Erin as their best player, the talent drops considerably compared to our side in 2017 due to the talent pool diluting through expansion.
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Erin's never been the same since she did her knee.
I remember during the 2021 GF (where we lost to Brisbane) thinking she was done, she looked to be two to three steps off the pace and just didn't look like the same player anymore.
Earlier this year she was able to take a back seat to Marinoff and Hatchard and contribute in a reduced role, which I think suited where she's now at as a player.
While I think it's great that she's been able to go to Port, I suspect it's going to be a frustrating year for her because there'll be too much pressure on her to perform at a level she can no longer perform at.
To be fair, she was pretty bloody handy last season. Not the competition-leading player like before but still in our best half-dozen players.
Port were playing pretty well until around halfway through the third quarter when they just hit the wall. It was a similar story in their practice match against Essendon as well. They've got such an inexperienced side and they've had a short preseason, so that's bound to happen. This will probably be a long season for them but they'll improve after a few more years.
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