4 year apprenticeship means that by the fourth year the player if good enough should be a regular in the senior side. It doesn't mean they don't get a game at all. You need to earn a spot and I'm not sure that too many of the young guys have really showed an awful lot in the preseason to warrant sel...

The reason for the Caroline Wilson reference was to demonstrate that your posts are just like her articles. Make statements ( they may be correct) but don't want to or can't provide any evidence. If people only posted opinion it wouldn't be a problem. However when some posters are challenged they de...

Interesting polemics. I would like to know why people who claim to have a working knowledge of the goings on in this club would come on a site like this, sharing snippets of information hoping to ruin the reputation of all involved including the club itself unless they are the sporn of Caroline Wils...

First of all it was a really bad night to play footy which was why the ball handling and disposal was so bad. So I'm not sure that you can make judgements based on that. However, what I did see was that Gwilt was very clean with his hands picking the ball off the ground. Stevens showed he has great ...

Bj turned in to McGrath to get the free. Great bit of play.

If his kicking doesn't let him down like it did at the doggies then we have a

real player.

I thinks the cats lost the game rather than the Hawks winning it.

Game should have being won in the second quarter.

I believe Geelong will make the GF again playing against the new look Saints

Not only can't he kick but I'm not sure he's a great contested mark.

Not that it really matters but GT ran the football department. In essence it was his responsibility to get the right people to run departments and he didn't. Mind you this has nothing to do with the question of injuries. I believe we are unlucky to have picked up some injury prone players. It happen...

I totally agree Mr X.

Yep injuries have cost us the premiership every year since 66.

Rodger, at some stage you are going to have to accept that we may not

have the best list going around.

It doesn't matter if your playing seconds.

The guy is there as a backup and he's cheap because Melbourne have paid

out the final year of his contract. Makes good sense.

Hawthorn had a youth policy but still picked up Dew.

If he is drafted it will be due to us having some problems in defence.

Anybody remember 2007 without Goose and Max. We had to play

undersized and inexperienced guys out of position.

He also finished 6th in the demons F & B in a season they progressed further

into the finals than us.

Blake and Fisher aren't big enough to play on the tall guys and I would

rather have Fisher delivering the ball forward than any of those guys.

Yes they can run but Gilbert, Baker, Ray and Raph are not the best kicks of

a football.

The only reason we would look at Caroll is because we lack another key defender. We have used Fisher and Goddard in those roles on occasion but that always takes away from our run and options. You need that player with extra height. Remember the last quarter against Geelong where Tommy Hawkins basic...

Play a home game against the pies at the G or get out of our shitty deal

at the dome.

If, if, if. We've being saying that for 40 years.

Bottom 6 is important. I dare say that Dew was seen in the bottom 6 at the Hawks and yet played a vital part in them winning the GF. You need to have every player able to step up not just the stars. In fact other than Hodge most of the regular stars at the Hawks had average days and it was the lesse...

Other than Sam Fisher he would be the most improved player at the club in the last 12 months. Watching him hardly get a kick in the reserves for the scorps to playing some reasonable games in the seniors especially mid- season. I can only imagine that the coaching staff wish every player would devel...

So Eddy can't play but Stevens can even though he hasn't played an AFL

game.

There are couple of H.... with a medallion around their necks who have

a couple of strikes that don't seem to bother their supporters.

We've put the bite on the bulldogs and said we will give #13 for Cordy

Essendon traded Salmon for Barnard and John Barnes. Brisbane traded for Brad Scott, but also got half a dozen players in a merger with Fitzroy that panned out well for them. Heard of Chris Johnson or maybe a father son selection Jonathon Brown or a Martin Pike. Geelong have got Tom Harley, Cameroon ...

We should be having this discussion in 5 years time.