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Hmm.. 🤔🤔🤔 ..   something  NQR about all this... but what 🤷🤷🤷

Other side of the bye might be revealing.  

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    With recruiting veterans, there is always going to be some element of risk in terms of performance towards the end.

    At Melbourne, we got great value out of Leiws for most of his contract.  Eventually he became pretty marginal as a player, but I'm sure the value he bought to our culture from finals sucess etc was invaluable.  Even if he makes no further contribution, I think BBB was an important ingredient to our 2021 premiership.

    Similarly Brisbane got pretty good value out of Hodge and who knows what mentoring Gunstan might provide off the feild that might help the further development of Brisbane's forwards.

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    Bothe Rich and Gunston have been considered A graders, perhaps even elite players at stages of their careers. Neither are playing well and are man enough to admit it. I say good on them and it'll be interesting whether they make it back to being useful players in the Brisbane line up. 

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      On 16/06/2023 at 03:20, Roost it far said:

    Bothe Rich and Gunston have been considered A graders, perhaps even elite players at stages of their careers. Neither are playing well and are man enough to admit it. I say good on them and it'll be interesting whether they make it back to being useful players in the Brisbane line up. 

    I admire the attitude of these guys but it comes back to the authority that the coach and selection committee have. Say that these guys aren't playing well as they seem to think, but what if Fagan doesn't want to drop them? What if his idea of form is different to the player and he might have a different role in mind for them for tonight's game. The decision from these players to drop themselves takes this out of the coach's hands and slightly undermines them in my view.

    Say that ANB or Spargo felt they were out of form and went straight up to Goody and said "We believe we are letting the team down and it is definitely true because a bunch of people on Demonland think so, We're hereby dropping ourselves".

    Where would Goody's system be if players dictated selection the same way? Like I said, I admire the act but it doesn't sit right 100%.

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      On 16/06/2023 at 03:51, layzie said:

    I admire the attitude of these guys but it comes back to the authority that the coach and selection committee have. Say that these guys aren't playing well as they seem to think, but what if Fagan doesn't want to drop them? What if his idea of form is different to the player and he might have a different role in mind for them for tonight's game. The decision from these players to drop themselves takes this out of the coach's hands and slightly undermines them in my view.

    Say that ANB or Spargo felt they were out of form and went straight up to Goody and said "We believe we are letting the team down and it is definitely true because a bunch of people on Demonland think so, We're hereby dropping ourselves".

    Where would Goody's system be if players dictated selection the same way? Like I said, I admire the act but it doesn't sit right 100%.

    I'd be very surprised if the coach and match committee were blind-sided by Gunston's and Rich's decisions. I think it's more likely that their decisions were made after each had had a discussion with the coach about what their immediate future holds. That doesn't necessarily mean that Gunston and Rich jumped because they had been forewarned they may be dropped, though. 

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      On 15/06/2023 at 22:24, beelzebub said:

    Hmm.. 🤔🤔🤔 ..   something  NQR about all this... but what 🤷🤷🤷

    Other side of the bye might be revealing.  

    Some people dodge flak, some don't.

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      On 16/06/2023 at 04:15, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I'd be very surprised if the coach and match committee were blind-sided by Gunston's and Rich's decisions. I think it's more likely that their decisions were made after each had had a discussion with the coach about what their immediate future holds. That doesn't necessarily mean that Gunston and Rich jumped because they had been forewarned they may be dropped, though. 

    Yes I'd be surprised too and I would hope that they came to a mutual decision. 

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      On 15/06/2023 at 19:55, deanox said:

    My guess is it's to do with match payments.

    While contracts will vary, players that are omitted are unlikely to get match payments, while in many cases players who are injured (and therefore unable to play) can continue to receive match payments.

     

    Definitely looks like this is correct based on the last CBA.

    https://www.aflplayers.com.au/resources/afl-collective-bargaining-agreement-2017-2022

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      On 16/06/2023 at 03:51, layzie said:

    Say that ANB or Spargo felt they were out of form and went straight up to Goody and said "We believe we are letting the team down and it is definitely true because a bunch of people on Demonland think so, We're hereby dropping ourselves".

    Based on this after any given match half our players would be dropping themselves.

    But LOL at the thought of ANB or Spargo or any player actually saying this to Goody. 🤣

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