AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
This has been on the agenda for a while. The Club has been emphasising the conflict with his 2 boys and the difficulties that poses. SOS has a difficult decision to make but it is his to make. On the agenda before the trade period.
Agresta I would assume.
I dont agree with this, anything after the first 2 rounds is pretty much a lottery. SOS has done pretty well consideringAh man...Barass is always right
Shitload of accountability in the club is a good thing, not sure what else he could have done though besides pick better with later picks which is funny because we used to be able to nail late picks and blow the good ones consistently.
Recruitment and list management seems to be the most unstable area of the club. Not sure if that’s consistent across the comp, just hope if the best we’ve had this century is replaced with someone as good or better. Very subjective position though
If Walls son gets the job because of his father, it proves we havent come very far.
What do you mean by he's just had enough? Sick of carlton? Bored of working?
Nothing to do with Walls son. My friends sun works under him as a talent scout in WA. Probably not up to the SOS level but he has proven himself.
Couldn't rate this more highly. I think of all the kids you listed the only one that concerns me is Dow. I'd have said O'Brien until I saw him thrive under Teague in the last half of the year. The rest of them have shown plenty (except Stocker but that's way too early to make a call there) that you have to call it a pass mark. You can't rate SOS's strike rate on trading based on all players as many were GWS packaged players that he took to get a key player on the cheap (eg. Plowman, Marchbank). If Phillips is the only one off that pile who turned out its probably a win and he's effectively been on traded as a back up 28 year old ruckman for a 23 year old from a very, very good football club. It's hard to make a call on Pickett whether SOS can be held with any sort of accountability for that not working out and Bugg was probably one you can say was a poor call. As for getting a big name player that's where the assessment lies. Shiel, Coniglio and now Papley. You expect Martin to go through still. Coniglio certainly seems like AFL intervention and no CEO of a league should be making comment about where he wants a player to play and probably pulling strings accordingly to ensure he is remunerated and stays where is best for the league. You can't fight city hall and you can't win that battle. Similarly I think Martin was also mismanaged by the AFL telling them to "play hard ball, stand up for yourself at the trade table" but not actually telling them they still need to get a trade done. That's sounds a little conspiratorial but it's how it feels to me. It was just incompetence on the behalf of GCS. Papley, well, that hinged on the Bombers so again out of SOS's hands really the Swans werent going to go into 2020 unless they had either Daniher or Papley. You're losing a top 6 player. So really you can only look at SOS in terms of Shiel, but now players are wanting to come. Whether that's SOS or Teague or a cohesion of both and finally getting all the right off field elements correct that players want to come that's the question. I for one rate SOS but he will need to land a big fish next year there's no question.
No wants to enjoy life take care of his many business interest and watch and let his sons progress and develop without the added pressure. If there is anything deeper than that I don't know. My source hear doesn't not like to discuss footy outside the club.
One boy has made his job fairly easy. Jack had a breakout year and there is no issues there. If calls need to be made on his other two boys it will be interesting and I don't see how Ben Silvagni gets into the squad with the forward line we have.
Definitely not pushed, but form what I read into it Liddle is ruthless in regards to accountability, performance and KPI's. SOS is fully dedicated to the cause but doesn't need a statistician putting unwanted pressure on him.
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