Pick 15 for their first next year??And the Pies 2022 first round pick.
Actually I am really interested in what it would take to get Fiorini from GC
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Pick 15 for their first next year??And the Pies 2022 first round pick.
9.15...usual timing for my first coffee to kick in ...Why was everyone on the crapper at that time of the day. What's wrong with you all.
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It was pretty wide spread yea they were dead set thugs , Peter Hudson copped it playing them too but we had a few too. I cringe when I see those hits replayedPhar Ace
Off topic I know, but interesting enough for us all to comment on here. These stories are awful. These two, Greening and Boyle are two examples of where an illegal incident completely destroyed the player’s very promising career. From what I can gather the Neale strike on Boyle was pretty clear, a gratuitous coathanger after the ball had left the area. By a huge man mid career on an 18yo in his 6th game. It is unforgivable really.
The O’Dea strike on Greening is murkier, as nobody witnessed it. It seems to have involved more than the ordinary amount of guilt you attach to these incidents because O’Dea to my knowledge has never publicly explained what he did, how he did it, or why he did it. If he’d just king hit Greening behind play there would more likely have been facial injuries, and O’Dea may have eventually come out and admitted to it. What seems to have occurred is something even more sinister than that, where O’Dea, a policeman, has applied some pre-planned technique to Greening’s neck causing massive life threatening and coma inducing injuries, and some permanent brain damage. Perhaps think of the Phillip Hughes incident, but probably deliberately administered. Thankfully not quite as devastating. He got 10 weeks for it, so it was taken seriously, but it would be interesting to know what penalty he’d have received had the entire truth been known.
So many other dangerous strikes took place where the player was able to play on in their career. But every hit you get like this robs you of confidence, or focus, or can by degrees damage your brain. I am not one who thinks all hits to the head are wrong, but if they are unprovoked and seriously dangerous they are. Sometimes you get sick of a player belting you and just decide to give him a taste of his own medicine, in that case I think fair enough, if it proportionate etc.
It is funny about St Kilda at that time. One of their players in that era was Stuart Trott, who apparently was a tough guy, trained boxer, but to my knowledge, always a fair ball player. He was addressing our junior team once as part of the zone program St Kilda had, and I made a smart remark about knocking opposition players out as if it was funny. He looked at me and said something like: "if you think that is funny or tough you are as weak as piss. Tough players make the ball their object, not the man.” You can bet those thoughts always stayed with me, and I felt embarrassed I had made such foolish remarks. So it wasn’t as if all Alan Jeans’ players were thugs or that he routinely incited these thuggish acts.
It would be good to know how these shocking Neale and O’Dea incidents unfolded though, and who played what part in them.
Not guessing Mate but that was the case fairly recentlyHow do you know? Guess work or a bit of info?
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I wouldn’t be so critical of the players as being thugs, You must remember these players were instructed by the coaches to deal out harsh treatment. I can remember playing football in the 70s and early 80s and we were instructed as Backman,if you couldn’t reach the ball to hit the forward in the back of the head.It was a standard practice. Also gut punches were considered a normal way of tackling.It was pretty wide spread yea they were dead set thugs , Peter Hudson copped it playing them too but we had a few too. I cringe when I see those hits replayed
In play is not as bad as king hits behind play , inexcusableI wouldn’t be so critical of the players as being thugs, You must remember these players were instructed by the coaches to deal out harsh treatment. I can remember playing football in the 70s and early 80s and we were instructed as Backman,if you couldn’t reach the ball to hit the forward in the back of the head.It was a standard practice. Also gut punches were considered a normal way of tackling.
Phar Ace
Off topic I know, but interesting enough for us all to comment on here. These stories are awful. These two, Greening and Boyle are two examples of where an illegal incident completely destroyed the player’s very promising career. From what I can gather the Neale strike on Boyle was pretty clear, a gratuitous coathanger after the ball had left the area. By a huge man mid career on an 18yo in his 6th game. It is unforgivable really.
The O’Dea strike on Greening is murkier, as nobody witnessed it. It seems to have involved more than the ordinary amount of guilt you attach to these incidents because O’Dea to my knowledge has never publicly explained what he did, how he did it, or why he did it. If he’d just king hit Greening behind play there would more likely have been facial injuries, and O’Dea may have eventually come out and admitted to it. What seems to have occurred is something even more sinister than that, where O’Dea, a policeman, has applied some pre-planned technique to Greening’s neck causing massive life threatening and coma inducing injuries, and some permanent brain damage. Perhaps think of the Phillip Hughes incident, but probably deliberately administered. Thankfully not quite as devastating. He got 10 weeks for it, so it was taken seriously, but it would be interesting to know what penalty he’d have received had the entire truth been known.
So many other dangerous strikes took place where the player was able to play on in their career. But every hit you get like this robs you of confidence, or focus, or can by degrees damage your brain. I am not one who thinks all hits to the head are wrong, but if they are unprovoked and seriously dangerous they are. Sometimes you get sick of a player belting you and just decide to give him a taste of his own medicine, in that case I think fair enough, if it proportionate etc.
It is funny about St Kilda at that time. One of their players in that era was Stuart Trott, who apparently was a tough guy, trained boxer, but to my knowledge, always a fair ball player. He was addressing our junior team once as part of the zone program St Kilda had, and I made a smart remark about knocking opposition players out as if it was funny. He looked at me and said something like: "if you think that is funny or tough you are as weak as piss. Tough players make the ball their object, not the man.” You can bet those thoughts always stayed with me, and I felt embarrassed I had made such foolish remarks. So it wasn’t as if all Alan Jeans’ players were thugs or that he routinely incited these thuggish acts.
It would be good to know how these shocking Neale and O’Dea incidents unfolded though, and who played what part in them.
Pick 15 for their first next year??
Actually I am really interested in what it would take to get Fiorini from GC
Yeo is like a match made in heaven for Richmond.
28 years old next Friday and if he can get his body right still has a solid few years left.
Cap space is clearly the biggest issue here and whether or not we are willing to jeopardise our draft hand this year.
I'd love Yeo and wouldn't be mad if we went hard for him, but im leaning toward just going to the draft, but happy either way.
*if the rumour is true that he wants out
Yeo has been a good player but he has Daniel Wells written all over him. Stick to the plan, go to the draft and let Essendon or the Eagles pay Yeo his $800k for 8 powerless games a year. He would need a massive come back of Jake Stringer proportions and half his salary paid for the remaining three years to be worth it.Yeo is like a match made in heaven for Richmond.
28 years old next Friday and if he can get his body right still has a solid few years left.
Cap space is clearly the biggest issue here and whether or not we are willing to jeopardise our draft hand this year.
I'd love Yeo and wouldn't be mad if we went hard for him, but im leaning toward just going to the draft, but happy either way.
*if the rumour is true that he wants out
In play is not as bad as king hits behind play , inexcusable
Poor kick and / or decision maker from what I've seen.What’s the knock on Will Brodie?
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What’s the knock on Will Brodie?
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The Dogs trade works, but I'd ask for a future 3rd back, given their Pick 17/18 will likely end up as Pick 19/20 we'd be giving 2 x 3rd rounders for only an 8 pick upgrade. This way the Dogs are using a 1st and future 3rd for Darcy rather than their 1st in both 2021 & 2022, so it's still a win for themPies need points for Daicos.
28 + 44 for Pies future second 20-24)?
26 + 40 + Chol Compo for Dogs first (17)
Draft with 7, 15, 17, (CCJ’s pick)
A junk footballer. No value.
The Dogs trade works, but I'd ask for a future 3rd back, given their Pick 17/18 will likely end up as Pick 19/20 we'd be giving 2 x 3rd rounders for only an 8 pick upgrade. This way the Dogs are using a 1st and future 3rd for Darcy rather than their 1st in both 2021 & 2022, so it's still a win for them
I'd also only offer 28 for the Pies 2nd next year as there's every chance they could finish mid-table under a new coach and then we end up with a similar pick. They are the ones that need points so a 2nd rounder for a 2nd rounder seems about right to me
DittoWith you there mate! Yeo would work well in our midfield - we need some better size in our mix!
What’s the knock on Will Brodie?
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Just been thinking about these type of guys. The players who don’t look quick enough to play other positions, so it is inside mid or nothing.
It seems to me now around age 24yo some of these guys can turn a corner. So Matthew Kennedy and Fiorini are two who seemed to me to do that in 2021. I think for Jaryd Lyons it was similar, around that age of 24.
So there is a chance Brodie, who like those above is a pretty slow inside mid, will turn a corner in the next 12 months or so. If you liked him, this might be a good time to get him.
The thing is though, how many of these type of mids end up in Premiership teams these days? In the Lions final where the Dogs eliminated them, Lyons was moved out of the midfield in the final term, and it was only after that they came back and almost won.
In summary I would say some players become competitive as AFL midfielders around 24yo. But of the ones who take right up until they are 24 to get competitive, probably not many of those will win you a flag.
I still think no on Brodie, but with a little less certainty than I had earlier in the season. I don’t think Richmond will recruit any of these type of players at this time.
Did they offer him head coach?They really rate Fiorini at GC, he just won the “most professional” award at their BF. Carlton have enquired about him, but he is pretty keen to stay and they want to keep him.
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