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Game Day R21 - Foldnorf v Richmond at the Dump
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No good Nakas got destroyed by Xerri
Time to say goodbye Baker Rioli & Bolton
We Salute you Dusty but it's over champ.
No good Nakas got destroyed by Xerri
Time to say goodbye Baker Rioli & Bolton
We Salute you Dusty but it's over champ.
I know I've said this so many times before to you and others, but thats where we've been recruiting in the draft FFS. We've been recruiting the support cast, not the main list of stars. How anyone can't see that is beyond me. We are looking for whether those players can play footy, once the standard improves from the next group of stars, then we will start to see their quality.
Many (I think I was one of them) had Lambert in the delist bucket in 2016, pegged as a poor small forward, many on here I know bagged out Shedda. Sometimes these players that are the next string down just look a heck of a lot better playing with teams that are on the up.
Future history hasn't been written yet, I remember quite a few bottom of the table stages in that 37 year period. I hope not this time as I'm pretty sure I won't still be around
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This was the correct result. The result the club needed.
Out list is where it’s at because of prolonged success. If we accept that the way forward is via the draft, then we need to maximise our access to the best talent before Tassie and/or AFL draft rule changes compromise everything.
Finishing second last achieves nothing except disadvantage when we can afford it least.
I don’t like it. But I know it’s necessary.
Out list is where it’s at because of prolonged success. If we accept that the way forward is via the draft, then we need to maximise our access to the best talent before Tassie and/or AFL draft rule changes compromise everything.
Finishing second last achieves nothing except disadvantage when we can afford it least.
I don’t like it. But I know it’s necessary.
We have culprits who blow simple chances every week which is why we keep underperforming.
North pretty much took every chance they had. Not the first time it has played out this way vs north.
It’s embarrassing today to see how far we’ve fallen. But as the saying goes, you never know you’ve hit rock bottom until you’re there and here we are.
The path forward is pretty clear from a playing stock point of view. Once those that want to leave have declared their hand, we draft as much elite talent as we can. The only player of those covered in the media that I’d keep is Bolton.
Two skilled & quick midfielders have to be the immediate draft priority - we don’t need any more plodding ball accumulators. Plus we also need a gun key tall forward in this year’s draft and another in next year’s draft.
New strength & conditioning team goes without saying. Plus a massive turnover in assistant coaches - new voices & ideas.
Our succession planning post the flag eras has been a failure. Time to start again.
The path forward is pretty clear from a playing stock point of view. Once those that want to leave have declared their hand, we draft as much elite talent as we can. The only player of those covered in the media that I’d keep is Bolton.
Two skilled & quick midfielders have to be the immediate draft priority - we don’t need any more plodding ball accumulators. Plus we also need a gun key tall forward in this year’s draft and another in next year’s draft.
New strength & conditioning team goes without saying. Plus a massive turnover in assistant coaches - new voices & ideas.
Our succession planning post the flag eras has been a failure. Time to start again.
If everything went right perhaps. I thi9nk having someone like Lynch and Gibcus as lynchpins at either end makes a big difference to our quality. Maybe I was being a bit more optimistic than I should and maybe the 8 was a stretch, but I'd rather be a glass half full type than some of the misery guts we have on here (not necessarily including you in that btw).
I'm not even sure why some of the constant negative nancies on here even bother to watch the games, it must make them so miserable to only see the worst in the game.
It’s the 4-5 years in the bottom rungs of the ladder winning no more than 4 games a year that I’m not looking forward to.
You’re either still in primary school - or a codger with alzheimers
Agree with this. But we don’t have a time machine to go back and change things. The only question now is what happens next. And to that end, the best draft hand possible is essential.
Only for 1 year. Our focus with a bad list and drafted 1 or 2 good kids was just to make the finals and sack coaches.Future history hasn't been written yet, I remember quite a few bottom of the table stages in that 37 year period. I hope not this time as I'm pretty sure I won't still be around
Any value in putting Lynch on the trade table? 8 games in two seasons. Isn’t going to be there for the next finals. But he does increase the chance that any decent midfield work ends in a score or stays in forward line.
We got confirmation today that we are the worst team in the comp by a fair bit. We are smaller, slower, more poorly skilled and less competitive than every other team.
We are so lucky Matt Clarke has gone. Having the wrong bloke as recruiting manager for seven years has lead our list into the toilet.
We are so lucky Matt Clarke has gone. Having the wrong bloke as recruiting manager for seven years has lead our list into the toilet.
If O’Rourke really said that then we’re in more trouble than I thought. That is *smile* ridiculous.
Nah, I doubt anyone is giving us a good pick for him due to his injury history. I'd rather keep him and allow him to help to train the next group of talls, whether thats the tap, Gray or any forwards that we draft this season. I reckon we will get better value holding him and having him impart his wisdom on the next group than whatever we'd get in trade for him.
Still don’t understand how our senior stars of recent have aged so very dramatically and become geriatric-like yet other senior players at other teams act like those retirement residents from the film Cocoon?
Is toxic waste from the West Gate Tunnel project being disposed near PRO?
Is toxic waste from the West Gate Tunnel project being disposed near PRO?
I'm sure it was just a generalisation for Tommy Boy and the dumb media to swallow, but Ooze deserves 5 years max IMO.
