Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion

[timeforanother22]

Baker should have got two for that bump. Lynch and Balta out. Just take about 10 more injuries and anything could happen.

 

[new breed]

Mate they beat us by over 100 at home in 2022. Pretty comfortable win at Optus last year too when I was there (my first game at Optus on a visit back home) Sure its a long time ago, but they'd be decided favourites vs us at home. Would live to pinch it but theyd have to be off.

Dver since that comeback win in late 2021 vs the Tiges everything has gone to sh*t. Feels like some sort of curse.

Meant only games we're winning are at home.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Is there a less appropriate nickname going around than "the wizard" for Nick Watson?

 

[new breed]

Geelong won't fall away , players like Conway , Clark , Bruhn and Holmes will make sure of that.

 

[Rowan18]

Tom lynch out for months with hamstring tendon injury. Noah Balta out for 3-5 with a knee


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It's easy to forget that Lynch is the same age as Darling.

 

[Shuestar13]

We’ll beat Richmond

 

[kane249]

Is there a less appropriate nickname going around than "the wizard" for Nick Watson?

Flagmantle

 

[WCErevival]

Game stopped due to severe weather? Didnt look that bad when I saw it at the pub half an hour ago.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Game stopped due to severe weather? Didnt look that bad when I saw it at the pub half an hour ago.

Risk of lightning is the problem.

 

[WCErevival]

Risk of lightning is the problem.

Ah fair enough.

 

[kane249]

That looked like a Syndesmosis for Watson there, poor kid

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

5 teams with 0 wins after 3 rounds.

Has that ever happened before?

 

[Rowan18]

5 teams with 0 wins after 3 rounds.

Has that ever happened before?

It's crazy that they want to introduce a 19th and 20th side, there isn't enough talent for 18 teams. Add two more and we could have a bottom 4 that all win 4 or less games in a season. You can't have 20% of your league being utter trash, supporters aren't going to wait around for 10 years to see their team become competitive.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Keen for a Tassie team but it should have been at the expense of a Vic team (or have been introduced instead of Gold Coast).

 

[Wild Kelly]

Is there a less appropriate nickname going around than "the wizard" for Nick Watson?

And what an annoying little pr1ck he is. Just like the other d***head who had that nickname.

 

[chunkylover]

5 teams with 0 wins after 3 rounds.

Has that ever happened before?

Bottom teams are struggling rebuilding through the draft as their picks are constantly getting pushed back by academy and father son bids. The same teams at the top half of the table are picking these players and the natural cycle of bottom to top has stopped. Add to that your teams where mid table is seen as a success (saints and bombers) pick up free agents to keep themselves in the mid table wasteland.

 

[Cuzz09]

I can't remember who but someone said on here how Harley Reid would feel disappointed because other draftees are tearing it up while he suffers at Eagles.

Honestly I'm not seeing how his mates or other draftees are tearing up the comp. If you look at the top 10 draft picks most of them have it just as bad. N Watson is lucky he gets near it.
C McKercher has done ok but at North isn't exactly in a much better place. Will suffer the same amount of smashings.
Duursma likewise.
Sanders probably will have the most opportunities for early success and to rack up the ball in a winning side being at the Bulldogs. Curtin at Adelaide who are a rabble likewise won't.

Most of the top 10 draft picks of last year look like they are in for some painful losses this season and have to earn their keep as Reid does. It's pretty tough being a draftee this season. Whole comp is a rabble and of poor quality from what I've seen so far.

I said that and meant "other kids" in general not his class

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[Cuzz09]

Risk of lightning is the problem.

I find it funny they do that but 100k people sit there at risk

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[briztoon]

Bottom teams are struggling rebuilding through the draft as their picks are constantly getting pushed back by academy and father son bids. The same teams at the top half of the table are picking these players and the natural cycle of bottom to top has stopped. Add to that your teams where mid table is seen as a success (saints and bombers) pick up free agents to keep themselves in the mid table wasteland.

If the academies didn't exist, JUH and Jed Walter probably still play footy (JUH was already playing footy, and Walter came from a footy family), but probably aren't first round picks, or early picks at the least. Tom Green, 2019 draft would still have played footy, but who knows how he would have developed in Canberra.


Blakey would have most likely gone father son to Brisbane or North in 2018.

Most of the rest of NSW or QLD kids probably would have played rugby league. So wouldn't have been in the draft at all. Which weakens the overall draft pool. And those now non academy teams are picking from the general draft pool, and staying down the bottom longer.

Keidean Coleman moved from the NT to Brisbane as a 12 year old to chase footy. He might have instead gone to a Melbourne private school at 14 or 16 on a scholarship, and go undrafted in his draft year and return to the NT (he went undrafted out of our academy at 18, and came back as a 19 year old in our academy).


Otherwise you have two father son kids at the top of the 2021 draft; and one early father son, one mid first round father son and one late first round father son kid in the 2022 draft; and one mid first round father son and one late first round father son kid in the 2023 draft.

So you have 3 kids over two drafts, not available to and impacting on the bottom teams.

Also a fair chance Brisbane would have been worse off without Andrews, Hipwood, etc not coming through a now non-existent academy, and would have been asking for much more extensive draft concessions in 2016 and 2017, similar to what GC and North recieved.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

lol

 

[Cuzz09]

BigFooty is famous

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[Bender_]

Ol' Squeaky Clean Leigh.

Guy has been lying for years about a certain incident that he was involved in, I'd be less inclined to believe anything that dribbled out of his campaigner mouth than something I read on BigFooty.

 

[briztoon]

Bottom teams are struggling rebuilding through the draft as their picks are constantly getting pushed back by academy and father son bids. The same teams at the top half of the table are picking these players and the natural cycle of bottom to top has stopped. Add to that your teams where mid table is seen as a success (saints and bombers) pick up free agents to keep themselves in the mid table wasteland.

It's no different as to when Geelong got their father son kids. Just that bid matching process changed. Clubs used to have to match with their next available pick. So would trade their early picks and use a late pick to match.

 

[briztoon]

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lol

The story didn't start on BigFooty.

It was circulating privately, then one of the people included in the many, ever expanding private chats, posted it on BigFooty on the rumours board.

 

[DickDunn]

Five changes for the winless Crows and Curtin still can’t get a game. Is he looking west yet?