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Trading Petty, no one bar Kane Cornes says we were offered a top 10 pick from Adelaide. At the time he was a top line defender who we were thinking could be moulded into a forward. We have a dearth of quality talls and he’s young and a quality tall. We need him to stay on.

Who on earth would take him? Richmond maybe? But we are not getting anything more than a 3rd round pick. Which for this years draft is probably sufficient.

I don't disagree that the make up of our midfield is too one paced. Goody says we're trying to change that, but for injuries...

If he's part of the midfield, he'll be going back going forward.

Makes it even easier mark it can’t get tackled from behind so either wheel and go or push back and hit the next option

The issue sides have moved away from contest to contest football now it's a pace running game with ball skills and we are one a paced poor skills midfield, last week showed up Oliver, Viney and co and they just chased stops all day, it also does not help that Max cannot jump at centre bounces and relies on contact, more and more opposition ruckman just jump into him and nullifies him to get get first use.

I love Kossie. Make him Captain now I think.

Sestan was the non playing emergency last weekend, so he’s probably not far from getting a game. Would be in over Howes this week if it was up to me.

You wouldn't find a more overrated player on our list then Salem. Adds nothing other then useless dinky 20m switch kicks. Great servant but I'd be looking at trading him for a pick in the draft.

Well that's a lot better than liking posts that link him back to wherever Can he stop doing that and knuckle down to what we're paying him good money to do? And he needs to stop getting reported for undisciplined acts ... he's no good to us on the sidelines He's definitely a keeper but we need him available, playing well and committed

Hmm it says a lot when we have pages of comment on Soccer on AFL site.

If you're not over his horrible disposal and terribly dumb decision making I'm not sure you're breathing. If it wasn't bad enough that he cost us the final against Carlton, he then screws the club at the end of last year in order to extend his contract by taking advantage of the mess the club was in with Petracca, Oliver and Pickett. His one in 6 or 7 ''hard'' games, when he actually does play well, doesn't suffice. The cliff comes quickly for some players and it's come for him. And he's here for 4 more years !! Lamb is a moron who blinked and I doubt Goodwin has the balls to drop him. Just stuck with him.

What you say is all true at the time. But we didn't know that some of the players became complacent and were up-to-no-good. In hindsight can you imagine what we would have got if we traded out Oliver end of 2022?. It would have taken an absolute Nostradamus style prediction to see how 2023 would play out but what if we didn't resign Gus on a mega multi-year contract? We would have got a minimum 2 high end picks for Oliver and could have significant $$$ to chase other players in '24 or '25. We probably should have traded Petty to Adelaide with the 2 picks. That is where i think Tim has stuffed up. The other stuff I mentioned above, there is no way any sane person would have done it.

We already tried to get Lewis, he said no. That was prior to knee injury. No thanks, we don't need another lumbering tall forward. We need agility forward of centre.

The game still relies on contests and stoppages. We just need to get way better at winning contest, see 2017-2024. Stoppage work against GWS is what needs to be replicated. Where we need to get better, obviously, is on turnover. Right now, we stuff up on turnover, mostly because we bomb it long to an outnumber, instead of using forward handball and run to open up the forwardline.

I think we could play: Howes May Petty Bowey/Salem Adams Windsor

No, it used to look like this (see below). I had to code this widget from scratch because the default “out of the box” option provided by the software didn’t suit my needs. By default, the widget displays the last X number of posts on the forum. So, if it’s set to show the latest 15 posts and they all happen to be from the same thread, that’s all it will show—15 posts from that one thread. But since this is on the homepage, I want users to see a variety of current discussions, not just activity from one thread. There’s another option that displays the last X number of threads that have been posted in, which is closer to what I want—even if one of those threads has had 15 recent replies. The issue with this mode is that it shows the profile picture and name of the thread starter, not the most recent poster. That’s a problem because some threads run for months or even years, and the original poster might not be active anymore. I want the homepage to reflect current activity, so I think the last poster should be featured instead. On the old version of the software, I bought a custom widget and made a few tweaks to get it looking and working the way I liked. Unfortunately, that custom code wasn’t compatible with the new software. That's where ChatGPT came in. It understands the structure of this platform and helped me rebuild the widget from the ground up. After a lot of trial and error, I now have a working version that does exactly what I want. Say what you will about AI, but it's been invaluable for customizing the site beyond the limitations of “out of the box” tools. I have a working knowledge of coding—I can usually understand what code is doing and make tweaks if I know what the end result should look like—but AI has taken things to a whole new level. Tasks that used to take me hours, days, or even months (and sometimes years) now take minutes (seconds actually). It’s capable of doing things I never thought possible. I can just describe what I want, feed in the code, and it quickly delivers a solution. If it doesn’t work or look quite right, I tweak and try again—and it never gets frustrated or impatient, which makes the process much easier. I am always very polite to my AI because I don't want it to kill me when it takes over the world. Here is what the widget (that's what they're called) looked like in the old version of the software. Originally it had the persons name in the coding but it added an extra line which I thought was a waste of screen real estate and as it already featured the poster's profile picture I thought it was redundant. The version with the name never made it to the live site.

It's a hybrid of scores from stoppage with aggressive forward handball (see Round 1) and the modern transition game that sweats turnovers (with less emphasis on territory), uses aggressive forward handball to move the ball quickly, utilising leg speed to break lines and kicking to keep chains going from turnover. It's also different with and without the ball, and matters whether it's a fast play versus a slow play. With the ball on slow plays, we look to possess the ball keepings off with shorter chips across half back to either open space up ahead or draw the zone out, so we can go over the top of it, or through it with an angled kick that allows us to bring the ball quickly through the corridor. For someone who has apparently coached the sport before, you seem to have a lack of interest on tactics, structures and ball movement, or you simply view the game through an outdated lens. I agree we were terrible against the Suns, and terrible in the last quarter against North, but since you were fishing or whatever you were doing when your boy Jeffo debuted, you missed a pretty clear example of what we're trying to do this year against GWS.

People are forgetting one big difference: one has a round ball that doesn't bounce in different ways, and you don't handle the ball, but if we bring it in the side, we might be in with a chance.

There forever waiting in anticipation to prove the naysayers wrong. Which camp are you?

If the hawks are going for Oscar Allen, I’d imagine his asking price would be fairly hefty. Lots of hawks players prices would be rising too. Cant see them re-signing all of their current players within their salary cap either this year or next if Allen goes there. Could be a good time to target one. Lloyd Meek contract ends 2025. 26 yo. Serong 2025. 22yo. Calsher Dear 2025. 19 yo. Dylan Moore 2026. 25yo. Jai Newcombe 2026. 23yo. Josh Weddle 2026. 20yo. Mitch Lewis 2026. 26yo. Nick Watson 2026. 20yo. Unless some of them take unders, Hawks may not be able to match what they would all ask for, especially if they do take Allen. I think that’s 8 of their starting 22. Mitch Lewis is probably the riskiest, only 70 games (same average of 10 as Mcadams) since starting in 2018 but averages 1.79 goals a game… Allen is averaging 13 games a season but a worse goal average of 1.48. Massive risk paying both of these guys big bucks for the potential of both of them playing a low amount of games respectively. So I recommend hawks keep Lewis AND recruit Allen and giving them massive contracts.

We picked up May, Lever, Hibberd, Langdon and Brown and won a flag. We then gave long contracts to absolute stars of the game in Petracca and Oliver along with Brayshaw. We then kept our high picks and drafted JVR, Windsor, Tholstrup, Langford and Lindsay. We recruited some cheap stop gaps along the way. Our recruiting has been excellent and can people tell me who we should have recruited that was available and would have led to the bank of young talent we now have. You can’t have both. Big stars cost big money and high picks to recruit. Had we gone that way they’d be no young talent and would we be better off??? Injuries cost us the 23 flag, we were Cherry ripe prior to Petty going down followed by Melksham and then Gus. It wasn’t drafting that cost us. You can’t have it all.

I wouldn't! But what would I know!??

I wouldn't.

Your right and same thing for Barass, they won’t get him either. Whoops!