If we put the ball on Maxy's head like we usually do, Harris Andrews will have a field day.

Ball use into the forward line is super important.

Is it just me that thinks it shows great character from the young man to want to honour his initial contract, despite the lure of playing alongside his twin brother at the club they grew up supporting? I'm of the opinion all draftees should be required to fulfill the first 2 year contract. What a p...

Is it just me that thinks it shows great character from the young man to want to honour his initial contract, despite the lure of playing alongside his twin brother at the club they grew up supporting? I'm of the opinion all draftees should be required to fulfill the first 2 year contract. What a pr...

Seriously?

If a kid gets drafted, I think he's pretty happy if its pick 1 or pick 100.

Curly Give it a rest, seriously And if clubs did have him 1 or 2 Yes, they had it wrong. DeGoey, Brayshaw, Moore, Lever, Heeney, Wright ... in hindsight were easily better picks. I do realise Heeney and Moore were bid players, but we didn’t bid on them. As everyone knows, I had Christian at #1 Whic...

Curly Give it a rest, seriously And if clubs did have him 1 or 2 Yes, they had it wrong. DeGoey, Brayshaw, Moore, Lever, Heeney, Wright ... in hindsight were easily better picks. I do realise Heeney and Moore were bid players, but we didn’t bid on them. As everyone knows, I had Christian at #1 Whic...

They did do that?! A bid came in the first round for both players, and they matched. So now you’ve sort of got your head around it, let’s look at the original argument. Moore and Heeney were in a group of players who (with hindsight) could/should have gone as the number 1 selection as they have tur...

Must be Nicks crappy hair do that makes him stand out

Misogynistic bastards!!!

Oh, wait.......

It’s just a more professional competition. Game was always going to evolve and move with the times. Would kids rather a seat at Marvel under the roof watching elite professional sportsmen... or standing on cans in the outer on a cold afternoon watching a semi professional sport? Romanticism over ti...

Another HM hijacked thread. Telling everyone what they're thinking.

CURLY wrote: ↑Tue 23 Jul 2019 7:41pm Kid will be a gun. Easily better than Smith that the WB took at 6.

Big call. Smith looks like he can play too and he hasn't had back surgery. Can be very difficult injury to manage.

I hope you're right though!

He still dominates at stoppage. He is not as good as Gawn and Grundy, however, he gives Shuey an armchair ride. He doesn’t read the footy in general play. He ha# also been an AA ruckman. If NN played on Marshall now Marshall would get 15-20 poss, 5-8 marks, 15-20 hit outs Nic Nat would get 10-12 po...

Jesus! Talk about going over the top?! He has plenty of development to go, to get to the level of Gawn and Grundy. Or even to where Stef Martin or Goldstein when they were at their best. Then you’ve got Nic Nat. He is still getting well beaten by the bigger ruckmen at stoppage, and has to build his...

Or possibly all it says is that two coaches now rate Blake's ability to be flexible and fill many different holes for them, week in, week out? I missed the posts where he was referred to as GOAT B.M. But plenty, myself included, would just like to see him get a solid chance. What's to lose? Its not ...

The_Dud wrote: ↑Thu 18 Jul 2019 7:04pm Better tell him to watch out for the M Voss speedbump on the wing!

That bump still gives me shivers when I see it!

As much as I loved those big hits back then, running past the footy to try and make someone a quadriplegic is something the game really hasn't missed.

Yeah? By all reports he's a very likeable man. I'm sure he was a factor in a number of re-signings too.

Doesn't mean he was the right man going forward.

Me too Hope he gets a fair go which means not being written off if he’s not a Star right away Yep. Has all the tools and has earnt a decent crack at it. Interestingly, he's had much better games in the VFL than last week IMO. Is this a case of Ratts merely injecting some youthful exuberance, or jus...

Stoked! Liked the look of this kid from the start.

However, I'm a big Acres fan too

So we have 5 players that would get games at other clubs?! Is that the point you’re making? To me that’s an indictment on our list, and shows where we are at atm I think what the next 6 weeks will show AR wasn’t the only thing wrong with the club, but I suppose it will be the next coach who’s at fa...

Thank god Lethlean got him cheap. Would be interested to know which way his contract is loaded. We may have paid 1.6mill for this year. Cheap ? Surely you're joking. $800,000 a year for four years = 3.2 million for a broken down, injury riddled player way past his prime. St.kilda also forfeited the...

Thank god Lethlean got him cheap. Would be interested to know which way his contract is loaded. We may have paid 1.6mill for this year. Cheap ? Surely you're joking. $800,000 a year for four years = 3.2 million for a broken down, injury riddled player way past his prime. St.kilda also forfeited the...

Pretty simple ask I reckon

Maybe, maybe not.

But anyone who thinks coaching doesn't have an influence at AFL level is taking the piss.

Only GC has a worse list. We are just below Hawthorn, who are also rubbish. Carlton have heaps of Upside, with some really impressive talent, including who I think is the best player in the comp. Any team you name besides GC, I could name 3 players that are better than our best player, which is sti...