Up the Coasters Round 21- Positives and more positives v Essendon
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Well there was that one time, we had pick 1 - Drew Banfield, ended up with 2 flags, good return.
Salary isn’t nothing. Means it’s harder to retain our good players or bring others in.
Also this only applies if we wait another year for him to be a free agent, by which time he will be 27.
Bailey might have developed further by then. English might do a Grundy and no longer be the ‘best ruck in the AFL’ by then.
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Losing isnt the reason people leave Gold Coast....
It being a expensive shithole with zero fan base or culture is the bigger reason
Well it ain't picks, and we don't exactly have a plethora of elite players on our list demanding good salary do we babe?
27 is still good for 6+ years of decent football. We'll hopefully be pushing for finals again in the next 4-5.
I expect and hope Williams continues to improve, but would be looking to cash him in (trade for a juicy price) when that time comes.
Don't ignore his 12 hitouts campaigner. I'm sorry I didn't realize Andrew Phillips and Nick Bryan are Paul Salmon and Dean Cox quality. My bad.
Lucky we have an extra umpire on the ground this year to make sure they don't miss ones like that.
I was watching parts of the game on my phone today. I kept mistaking him for allen as they actually move similar cos all the players look like ants on the phone screen.
We def have a classy player in maric.
Have hopes culley will be our redden
I never usually walk out the stadium happy with a loss, but i did today, winning at this late stage of the season achieves nothing for our future, except we all get to feel good for the weekend. The real feel good will be when we load up with more young talent at the end of the year, and the No 1 pick is a must, last year we split a high pick and got a couple of gems in Hewitt and Ginbey, winning games now does not give us the chance to that again.
They had a red hot crack all day bar a small patch in the 2nd when Yeo played lazy on Langford we probably should have won, thanks Yeoy thinking of the future
, and some youthful exuberance caused some errors at different stages, but today shows them they are more than capable of matching it AFL level.
Hewitt- Superstar in the making, love that he wants to take the game on, even if it does not succeed the first time he goes again, awesome mindset.
Jack Williams- We may have grabbed a diamond here, he is big unit and once he learns how to use that body properly, he will be a problem for defenders, he certainly has the smarts, just needs to refine his body a bit.
Chesser - People are down on him, i'm not sure why, he is what you want a big mid, and his foot skills and vision are pretty darn good, juts needs patience, not everyone is going to be a superstar in his first 10+ games.
Long- This kid is going menace to back lines in the future, plus he has a little spunk to go with his obvious talents.
Hough- Looks like the next Hurn to me in that he reads the play well and does not get flustered.
Maric- For no AFL preseason, this kid is good and has untapped potential, with and big Jack we have set up our future forward.
Edwards- Again injuries have slowed his development, but you can see he has something the last two weeks, just keep in as a mid or forward.
With a proper pre season Bazzo will be better for it, and Culley if we can keep him will add a lot of value to this team when back.
Not a bad couple of weeks as a supporter in what has been a shitty year.
They had a red hot crack all day bar a small patch in the 2nd when Yeo played lazy on Langford we probably should have won, thanks Yeoy thinking of the future
, and some youthful exuberance caused some errors at different stages, but today shows them they are more than capable of matching it AFL level.Hewitt- Superstar in the making, love that he wants to take the game on, even if it does not succeed the first time he goes again, awesome mindset.
Jack Williams- We may have grabbed a diamond here, he is big unit and once he learns how to use that body properly, he will be a problem for defenders, he certainly has the smarts, just needs to refine his body a bit.
Chesser - People are down on him, i'm not sure why, he is what you want a big mid, and his foot skills and vision are pretty darn good, juts needs patience, not everyone is going to be a superstar in his first 10+ games.
Long- This kid is going menace to back lines in the future, plus he has a little spunk to go with his obvious talents.
Hough- Looks like the next Hurn to me in that he reads the play well and does not get flustered.
Maric- For no AFL preseason, this kid is good and has untapped potential, with and big Jack we have set up our future forward.
Edwards- Again injuries have slowed his development, but you can see he has something the last two weeks, just keep in as a mid or forward.
With a proper pre season Bazzo will be better for it, and Culley if we can keep him will add a lot of value to this team when back.
Not a bad couple of weeks as a supporter in what has been a shitty year.
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And if you had won one extra (meaningless) game at the end of 2001, you wouldn’t have had Chris Judd.
Judd > winning a dead rubber game.
It sounds bad, but that’s the reality.
I dunno.... I reckon there is an AFL quality, bonafide premiership quality player there, but Sheed is not an easy plug and play, he needs coaching.
He has to be at his absolute best and and we need to utilise his kicking better. Aggressive half forward or defensive wing for mine, maybe a bit of both. He's a hard runner but slow, decent in traffic but awful on defence.
There's a player there but they need to find it and the first step is acknowledging his deficiencies.
Why would be emulating Gold Coast?
Does one year erase 37 years of culture?
Don't be so daft.
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Not according to the commentary on the Sharks v Bombers today. It's almost AFL heartland nowadays.
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Not according to the commentary on the Sharks v Bombers today. It's almost AFL heartland nowadays.
Hey Southport is afl heartland funnily enough. If they admitted Southport it would have been a better job than a pop up new club… a minor version of port…..
And if you want to get really jealous go and have a look at their facilities and social club…
Cue the “ oh but poker machine sooks”
He reminds of a modern day Lecca a bit. Don’t think he’ll push into the midfield quite as much as lecca did but I reckon he’ll a focre pushing but down the field
Our midfield looks way more contested with sheed out and duggan in
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Perfect result really. Even if you can't bring yourself to cheer for a loss you can at least take solace in the fact that we are still in the hunt for pick 1.
And life is such sweet sorrow for North fans.
And life is such sweet sorrow for North fans.
This was a brilliant result. In the dying stages of the game I was cheering us for the win, but a 1pt loss away from home vs a finals contender was perfect. Retain the #1 pick (for now) and simultaneously get belief into the playing group that things aren't as bad as they appear.
+ve
Our kids are looking awesome Hewett will be a star.Chesser showing he has the talent to make it. Maric, Hough, B.Williams, J.Williams, LEdwards, Long.
Gaff playing very well. If he can play like this, more than happy to see him play on.
likewise all the other oldies that lined up today.
Rotham, just like 2022, showed more further up the ground than in defense.
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XON surely is done? Been given plenty of opportunities and he's just not an AFL player
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Our kids are looking awesome Hewett will be a star.Chesser showing he has the talent to make it. Maric, Hough, B.Williams, J.Williams, LEdwards, Long.
Gaff playing very well. If he can play like this, more than happy to see him play on.
likewise all the other oldies that lined up today.
Rotham, just like 2022, showed more further up the ground than in defense.
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XON surely is done? Been given plenty of opportunities and he's just not an AFL player
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Has to be free agent or nothing though.
IMHO, pretty embarrassing for Dom Sheed.
Former first round draft pick... 28 years old, played almost 160 games, including kicking the winning goal in a GF...
And yet, the last placed team looks better without him.
Former first round draft pick... 28 years old, played almost 160 games, including kicking the winning goal in a GF...
And yet, the last placed team looks better without him.
Wouldn’t hate the Kangas getting a W to make these games a little less conflicting. Still great to see the pride and fight the boys have shown these past couple of weeks. Been wanting to see some green shoots all season, and we’re starting to see them now.
