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I believe that his knee was giving him a little grief after Tuesday's session.Brad Crouch been Luke Balled
Hardly a deep state purge - chose to leave because he couldn't get his own way.Been very sad and boring, team selections since Lyon came back, refreshing to see the return of the selection melts from the surviving few still posting after the Bigfooty deep state purges.
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He at least performed better than what Collard got selected off the week before.... our standards for selection have gotten very low.I'm not sure this club has any idea what its doing at times , you all know I don't rate Byrnes as a footballer ( so none of the pathetic hate comments) but can anyone who watched him last week honestly say he deserves to get back in this week
How long are you going to keep regurgitating this same, unsubstantiated drivel? I would love to know what basis you make this, frankly, slanderous statement? Did you have a conversation with Bassat where he confessed to you that he was solely motivated by his desire for personal glorification?It was a gross mistake to bring Lyon back out of retirement, and drag back former popular Saint players in an attempt to recapture past glories..it was delusional by Bassat who pretty much saw it as a marketing opportunity as much about himself as it was for the club.
Yep the collard one was a beauty , its a wonder they didn't pick Allison after one good game against a bunch of Ammos .He at least performed better than what Collard got selected off the week before.... our standards for selection have gotten very low.
But on a serious note, the VFL review highlighted his running power so that must be what has gotten him selected. We want another runner for the wider spaces and despite his large flaws as a player, he is the best runner who played at Sandy.
Plenty of blokes can get it , its what you do with it is more importantI'm happy with a bloke with a decent tank, who can at least get the ball at AFL level, rotating off the bench so that ALL our midfielders can play with more intensity.
Crouch wasn’t picked but we could sure use him. Or Clark. Our midfield is crying out for some guys who can win clearances. Marshall will keep trying to do his thing of grabbing the ball and booting it but that won’t work very well against Gawn.We’ll all look like fools if we manage to pinch the win.
I’ll be tuning in to what I expect will be a midfield flogging, high turnover and low skill filled game from our point of view.
Oh, I’ll also add inaccurate.
Hopefully Higgo and Crouch have an impact.
Pretty meh feeling in our house for the footy this week.
We didn’t pick the reincarnation of Plugger who kicked five in the VFL last week. The club’s stuffed!So the majority of the managed players are back, we are playing conservatively with crouch who is one game back from knee surgery, we have chosen to give Collard another chance at AFL level when 2 weeks ago you were all frothing about not playing a small forward when we needed one, Hayes and Caminiti are playing for the same position obviously and Caminiti was really good last week.. oh what else... Garcia played a really good game vs a genuine 2nd rate VFL team and is now the saviour?
Have I missed any other melt?
Agree with the above. Would rather a half fit crouch over a fit Ross . Screaming out for mids especially against Dees and we leave crouch , Clark and Garcia in the twos . I was half looking forward to sun . Now not so much
Yes and we already did this with Crouch and Butler earlier this year and both failed to make an impact. Ross after a break is probably going to have a 20+disposal good game.Seeing Carlton bring in guys under done and seeing them break down makes you realise why they don't rush them back though.
I'm not sure this club has any idea what its doing at times , you all know I don't rate Byrnes as a footballer ( so none of the pathetic hate comments) but can anyone who watched him last week honestly say he deserves to get back in this week
Yep the collard one was a beauty , its a wonder they didn't pick Allison after one good game against a bunch of Ammos .
Byrnes might be able to run but he just doesn't do any damage at all as his kicking is worse than mine and I'm a fat old man
Plenty of blokes can get it , its what you do with it is more important
Apparently Marshall, as the sole ruck, is an integral part of the game plan and if we played two rucks, the whole plan falls apart and we turn into an absolute s***show where we struggle to score.
He…wasn’t picked???Crouch wasn’t picked but we could sure use him. Or Clark. Our midfield is crying out for some guys who can win clearances. Marshall will keep trying to do his thing of grabbing the ball and booting it but that won’t work very well against Gawn.
but more importantly to help us woo some uncontracted players or free agents. No one will want to come to us if they see us as a basket case, no matter how much cash we throw at them.
Teacher.This Saints player was another student in the coaching course or one of the "teachers"?
So what you’re saying is, we’re going to end up having to use our war chest to make our plethora of gops multi millionaires because no one will come to us.Normally I'd agree with you on that-
yes, it's important not to fully tank or you'll never trade targets (like Henry for instance) or RFA targets.
However the following 2 factors are crucial (and specific to us) I think:
1. We are never going to land the kind of RFA targets we need (eg degoey etc), regardless of whether we tank or not- it's simply never going to occur.
So us tanking this year changes nothing in that regard.
2. Yes- tanking this year would hurt our chances of luring over Henry types (ie non RFA trade targets).
BUT- maybe we wont need to target Henry type trades for the next few years?
We've got a huge warchest of unallocated salary cap space over the next few years- if the AFL bring in the ability to buy extra picks using cap space... who cares if we can't attract Henry type players while we bottom out this year (and maybe next year too?)
Instead of chasing trades for Henry type players- we can simply use our spare cap space to buy (hypothetically) ~ say pick 15 or so in the 2024 and 2025 drafts??!!
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League open to pick purchasing as part of trade changes
AFL player movement boss Ned Guy says the League is open to introducing pick purchasing, allowing clubs to use their salary cap money in exchange for draft pickswww.afl.com.au
Roll out the tank I say!