Surely he had a contract in place and the StKFC would have/ should have met all the entitlements of that contract on its termination. Very unprofessional by the StKFC IMO. GT – to me is a snake in the grass! . What makes you think that they did not pay him out with respect to entitlements etc????...

Attard is differant to stoppers like Ling Bakes and Sewell as they play primarily on other teams best mids while Attard plays deep in defence. I couldnt care if he average 5 possys a game as long as he beats his opponent . Exactly...fully agree LOOK where he plays....THINK about what his assigned t...

No saying he would go back to Adelaide....but realistically of the players that we could afford to lose..Watts....is one of the very few on our list that could have trade value. If we assume that GTrain plays on....we have G, Kosi and Roo that would all be in front of him. His only role would appear...

Priority 1 has to be keeping everyone healthy. Indeed. Our current reduction in injuries give some hope....as dose the hiring of the AIS boffins. On the downside we need better traing facilities and this has not been resolved...and allowing for build time this is say at least 18 months away.... The...

While I grit my teeth that it is not us... The fact is that the Cats have worked hard to get where they are.... They have considered where they were weak .....and have improved their list in those areas. They did not ignore them....nor except that a so-so player was good enough. Asa poster said abov...

He is achieving the tasks that the coach has set him...

They stuck with their coach too. Yes after fully restructuring his job.... **to turn him into a 100% coach....something that GT argued vehemently against as being the way to go... ** by employing Balme as the Football Manager without involving Thompson at all...and only advising him after the fact....

$7500 now...and $7500 sspended...


So effectively $7500!!!

Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!

Collingwood's approach of cutting anyone they didn't see as good enough to play in a premiership (the Clokes for example) and try and blood as many guys as possible while not playing favourites too much. Of course, being gutsy in that way looks better when they get the results they have this year. ...

Take tanking to mean for the purposes of this string to mean setting yourself up for next year....rather than to mean to secure priorty or low picks only...

Play to win. Whether or not to emulate the bottom of the ladder teams is not one of them. My tanking comment.....reloading etc was not meant to refer to the Tigers or Blues... But rather to compare ouslves with other ""final eight" teams who have rebuilt themselves...or are doing so....

Yes the Club needs to lift it's game members wise. Archie will need to make sure that the 2008 Membership Packages and Promotion is a stp up from what has happened the last 12 months. With exiting Tassie and GT, membership numbers were always going to bea struggle this year, BUT even so the Club's r...

That is why our players need a massive pre-season at the end of this year. . and notable that many of the players, and key players at that, did not really have a proper pre-season for 2007. Contrast with say the Cats who tanked last year and maximised their pre-season.... However fitness, including...

JeffDunne wrote:If anyone at the club is thinking anything other than option 1 they should leave now.

I actually agree....

but have just put this up asa discussion point

Thanks for the Summary...

skeptic wrote:
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Hopefully X is FULLY involved with this aspect!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And there is the rub.... What is best to try and win a flag this year, What is best to try and win a flag in 2008, What is best to try and win a flag in 2009 are all different things - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What is best to try and win a...

The Saints will be better in the short term if Harvey and G play on. However, with the rest of the player st. mart listed, one has to question whether the sort term benefit really compares to the long term risk. And there is the rub.... What is best to try and win a flag this year What is best to t...

it is becoming increasingly clear that the club erred gravely by sacking GT Yes they did err gravely......they did not sack him early enough.... the following players, and why have their careers not gone to plan..... (the post on X, and after writing a brief history of Barry Brooks on another post ...

The main lessons here are .. IF you trade....only trade if you get something reasonable or good in return... IF you go for picks...then do not fritter them away...(ie look at the Haks for well used picks...) By and large when a good player goes you do not receive good value back (and get less from t...

Barry Brooks: Tasmania U18, All Australian U18, First round pick 2001 (#15) - 7 AFL games in 6 seasons....Ruck Matthew Ferguson: Vic Country U18, All Australian U18 , Second round pick 2001 (#22) - 8 AFL games in 5 seasons....HB/HF Raphael Clarke: Northern Territory U18, All Australian U18 , First ...

With the apparent large amount of young potential ruckmen available for this years draft, we should look to use our second draft pick for one, and take another as a rookie. We should retain Matt Clarke as a part time ruck coach. ??? I am not sure what your source is....but having heard Sheehan talk...

As of the END of this season... 36 - Robert Harvey................ No 34 - Andrew Thompson.......... Yes 34 - Matthew Clarke............... Yes 31 - Fraser Gehrig.................. No 30 - Aaron Hamill................... No 29 - Michael Gardiner............. No 29 - Brett Voss......................Yes

With the apparent large amount of young potential ruckmen available for this years draft, we should look to use our second draft pick for one, and take another as a rookie. We should retain Matt Clarke as a part time ruck coach. ??? I am not sure what your source is....but having heard Sheehan talk...

The story behind Joffa getting dropped after 99 matches was that the person who's record he would have broken four matches later was on the StKFC Board, and didnt want his record overtaken by Joffa. Selfish. Simple as that. He played in the 2's at the G and was back in the team the next week. ??So ...

vacuous space wrote:Experience isn't the problem. We had one player under the age of twenty in our side, and he was one of our best. The problem as I see it is that we have too many guys - of all ages - who aren't pulling their weight.

Good point