Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion

[Chief]

Continued in Part 2:

Oppo Camp - Non-Eagles Discussion

Who gives a **** about finals anyway So overrated It’s all about the draft these days

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[Dylan82]

Rioli jnr starting mid or acting as an aggressive spitter off half forward?

Roaming into midfield and then running off the front as an outlet.

It's how Richmond under Hardwick give the apprenticeship to creative forwards before they graduate into full-time midfield roles.

 

[Free Agent]

Should be in the team in place of Rich now.

Rich is a liability now with his complete lack of run, being exposed defensively and loss of yardage on his kick.

But you know, credits…

Hey your not allowed to say credits.

That's our word. We own credits. Our team is built upon credit through generations. 20 years from now people will remember the time the Eagles had the most credits ever on record in the AFL.

 

[Bender_]

Roaming into midfield and then running off the front as an outlet.

It's how Richmond under Hardwick give the apprenticeship to creative forwards before they graduate into full-time midfield roles.

So playing mids off the HFF at the start of their careers is good for them?

 

[Eastern Rangers]

As I’ve said before, I believe your list is currently lacking in A and B graders in the 24 to 30 age group across all three areas of the ground, to see a fast rise back up the ladder.

Even if you nail your next two drafts, you’re going to be so reliant on the kids and second and third year players being your prime movers, especially through the midfield.

Many of your premiership players are old and just about cooked, and/or almost permanently injured and just about cooked.

Reading a lot of the posts here, many members talk about the amount of WAFL quality players currently on the list, that should be delisted, and that’s before you get to the premiership players that will retire in the next two seasons.

That pretty much means your depth is going to be provided by draftees as well. Unless you trade in some quality players, you’re going to so young and inexperienced by 2025.

Look at Gold Coasts and Hawthorn’s age and games played demographics. That will possibly be where you’ll be at in 2025.

I see a lot of parallels with the Lions teams of 2014, 15, 16 and 17.

Your good kids are going to be better than a lot mature bodies you hope will protect them, so you end up playing a lot more kids than you would prefer. And delisting those mature bodies.

This helps fast track their development for when your kids hit their prime at around 24 years of age, but it doesn’t help in the win column while they’re in the 19 to 23 age bracket.

Much like we’re seeing with the Suns now. They have so many high picks and quality kids, but just not enough quality mature players around them.

And we (the Lions) only shot up the ladder because we traded in a lot of in their prime A and B graders.

Cameron, Neale, Lyons, McCarthy, Adams, Hodge. Then Ah Chee, Birchall, Daniher.

And we keep trading in good players, as well as bringing in first round talent through the draft.

You're both over-rating the role players who have cycled through your list and buying into the nonsense that anyone who isn't an A-grader is WAFL quality.

The dichotomy of playing quality kids metric or mature bodies is a false one and the list of imports you present diminishes your point.

If we have A-Grade kids forcing all the "mature bodies" into retirement then we'd have the best squad of young talent ever assembled in football and your concerns would be meaningless. But that won't happen because while the middle of our list lacks A-grade talent it doesnt lack role players who can execute competitive gamplans at a high level.

In past posts you've talked about us needing to cut the top off our list from an age perspective, now we'll be cutting players at their peak to squeeze in more talent from below.


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[Wild Kelly]

400 MCG goals for Riewoldt.

I know some don't seem to like him, but I've always found him highly watchable. Great player.

Another jumped up stat where a player from a Vic based club can be the only winner.

 

[Ishmael_]

If that is actually a 'hot call', that is why we have all these sling tackles.

He steps, tries to fend, loses his feet, goes to ground and then handballs.

Tightening up on htb seems like such an easy fix for so many ills, so of course the AFL doesn't do it.

 

[Dylan82]

 

[Ishmael_]

Hamish: 'What can the old genius create here?'

Dusty: Out of bounds on the full.

All timer

 

[THE A5]

Holding the ball my ass. Thats a flipping disgrace ump

 

[RookiePick]

It's fixed.

WWE level.

The game is legitimately rigged.

 

[Keys]

Holding the ball my ass. Thats a *ing disgrace ump

It was a great pressure act by Rioli but Brayshaw was already in the process of kicking before the “tackle” and quite clearly got his foot to the anyway

Truly bizarre decision

 

[Dylan82]

The cynic in me thinks that HQ will do just about anything to not have Richmond 3rd bottom as it has a negative impact on their revenue.


So far in this match I'm yet to be convinced that isn't the case.

Appears the slightest hint of a reason is resulting in a free kick to the Tigers, whilst the same circumstance is being largely overlooked the other way.

 

[THE A5]

It was a great pressure act by Rioli but Brayshaw was already in the process of kicking before the “tackle” and quite clearly got his foot to the anyway

Truly bizarre decision

Was more of a bump too

 

[Farang83150]

No KID?

 

[THE A5]

Van flipping rooyen

 

[ep2018]

Freo are going to gift the dees another gem this coming draft.

 

[THE A5]

JVR reminds me so much of naughton.

Monocle AsterixTheGaul WCE_phil does his brother player similar style of footy?

 

[THE A5]

Love this kid

 

[Carbine Chaos]

JVR ripping Young to shreds this last quarter.

 

[Keys]

Van *ing rooyen

Quite the purple patch he’s having

Him and Jefferson could be quite the forward pairing in years to come

Astute drafting

 

[DanWCE]

Rooooooooooooooooo

 

[RookiePick]

JVR ruining Culley's RS nom chances.

 

[Dylan82]

Van *ing rooyen

Very early days, but looking like he could be the key forward of the 21 draft.

Certainly a steal at pick 19.

 

[Quinz]

Awful lot of Eagles discussion in this non eagles discussion thread. Where are the mods? Must I keep complaining until my voice is hoarse?

 

[DanWCE]

This umpiring has been something