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The club needs an off-field purge more than the playing list. There isn't any point other than playing to win IMHO.
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Essentially it’s not tanking... it’s more that we are just playing all our youth, getting all our stars injury free and ready for next year and seeing who’s worth keeping and who needs to go..
Sounds good, but it ain’t happening, there will be no backing off.
Every administration we have ever had is the same. Too scared to fall off a bit. If he actually have some balls, we could use this disgusting pile of cr@p to our advantage.
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I don’t think it matters really... look at the draw remaining...
Freo (a)
Hawks (a)
WC (h)
Tigers (a)
Cats (h)
Lions (a)
Dees (h)
Power (h)
Giants (a)
North (h)
Carlton (a)
Tell me which ones you would pencil in right now as wins.. I reacon brissy and Carlton are certainties.. although brissy in brissy...
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I would argue that if we wanted to tank we would continue to play our aging, injured or cooked players. For example, tanking = continue to play Sauce over ROB. But yeah, Gallucci, Murphy and Fogarty need to play all of the remaining games. Milera must play half back flank. Gibson and Mackay back to the SANFL. Gibson delist. Not up to the shutdown role, gives us nothing.
You don't tank, that is deliberately trying to make results happen to drop you on the ladder.
I know some might not mean it in the true way of tanking but some no doubt do.
You cotton wool players who need it, find out who you keep or move on, experiment etc.
If you lose more games than you otherwise would have by doing that, great, better draft pick.
We are in big trouble in 2018, standing right on the cliff of needing to decide to do these things to prepare for next year and the future.
The health of our list being the main reason.
But we know it won't happen and we will play for 8th/10th/whatever spot all year, have players get surgery done late, make decisions after resting players in the off season that they now need surgery, mess up their next pre-season etc.
I know some might not mean it in the true way of tanking but some no doubt do.
You cotton wool players who need it, find out who you keep or move on, experiment etc.
If you lose more games than you otherwise would have by doing that, great, better draft pick.
We are in big trouble in 2018, standing right on the cliff of needing to decide to do these things to prepare for next year and the future.
The health of our list being the main reason.
But we know it won't happen and we will play for 8th/10th/whatever spot all year, have players get surgery done late, make decisions after resting players in the off season that they now need surgery, mess up their next pre-season etc.
Haha shit, brilliant.
Nothing in this post requires correcting.
Tex and Sloane will need a couple of games to settle as well, we can win a few in row late but should be about curtains by then.
Despite tanking, if at the very least you roll the dice on the younger, inexperienced players, because we learn nothing otherwise.
The AFC board should start looking at back office restructures too, they are incredibly complacent at West Lakes and this farce of a season will cost memberships from an aging fanbase. It’s very telling of club culture when its performance suffers more from losing a GF than not making one at all.
I heard Fagan not so long ago say something about this club is not one that can afford to drop down the ladder, have poor seasons, drop off.. so they have to be creative, stay around the mark etc.
So you know what aint happening.
I'm not sure (apart from obviously no one wants to be shit) why this club in particular can't afford to do that, but anyway.
So you know what aint happening.
I'm not sure (apart from obviously no one wants to be shit) why this club in particular can't afford to do that, but anyway.
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It’s what we all expected so doesn’t come as a surprise. That being the case, the club has to ensure we use the rest of the year to get players right physically, games in to younger players and bank picks 7 & 8.
As long as his price doesn't drop below Band 1 compo then it's a must.
Best thing for us is to get him absolutely cherry ripe, even with a mini pre season, to have a crack in the last 6 rounds of the season and hopefully play out of his skin to show potential suitors that he is still worth a big contract.
Once we get players like Walker, McGovern, etc back we might sneak into the 8, possibly make a semi final. But yeah, going to have to go 10-1 the rest of the season to get 2nd 3rd or 4th and that is impossible because the 3 games after the bye are almost certain losses, esp Eagles at their home away from home and Tigers at the G. I say just play out the season and give some of the younger players (Fogatry, Gallucci, Dooday, Milera Jr, bring in Ben Jarman) more games. Might have been different if we did not drop 3 winnable games this season.
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Thanks to our fitness staff and a tough run home, they may not have a say.
We have a huge, extremely loyal fan base...of course we can tolerate a bad finish this year.
A successful draft haul would see a resurgence of belief in the fan base that would carry us into 2019 anyway.
Stop with the mediocrity Fages, buy in some decent staff and give it a proper crack next year.
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The club will once again do the exact opposite of what a club in this position should do.
The club should pump games into Gallucci, Fogarty, Poholke, Murphy, McPherson (when fit), O'Brien and more. Injured players should take their time in recovery. This will likely cost the club finals.
What they will do is shaft Gallucci, Fogarty and others as soon as possible, instead giving games to Otten, Gibson, Mackay, Jacobs, Hampton and Cheney. They will rush players back from injury. We'll grind our way to 8th and lose first week of finals. That'll give us a double digit pick and no success.
The club should pump games into Gallucci, Fogarty, Poholke, Murphy, McPherson (when fit), O'Brien and more. Injured players should take their time in recovery. This will likely cost the club finals.
What they will do is shaft Gallucci, Fogarty and others as soon as possible, instead giving games to Otten, Gibson, Mackay, Jacobs, Hampton and Cheney. They will rush players back from injury. We'll grind our way to 8th and lose first week of finals. That'll give us a double digit pick and no success.
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Massive error not playing Milera off half back to accommodate Mackay in side - awful decision
Having said that trading out Charlie Cameron without trading in a direct replacement just as bad a decision because has created a domino effect
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That’s going to get ugly
Mhm. The two interstate teams they played there scored 17 and 33.
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I've said before that it's like the fates lining things up for Crows to draft some good SA talent - maybe as far as taking things out of the Club's hands with all the injuries we've copped as the Club's policy seems to be to never give up getting as high up the table as possible.
Crikey, you might have just blown the Club's cover!
So we play our best 22 in the SANFL and the remaining AFL list in the AFL? This ought to really piss off the SANFL - can we still win the SANFL premiership?
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