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Play him in the Forward line. 15 years in the Midfield is a long time, we could still get a few good seasons with him in the side if he could help kick a score

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    15 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Play him in the Forward line. 15 years in the Midfield is a long time, we could still get a few good seasons with him in the side if he could help kick a score

    He could certainly lay a lot more crunching tackles in a congested forward line than most of his compatriots

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    18 hours ago, 48 Year Now said:

    The club has always ignored his terrible disposal because he is so brave, passionate and an accumulator of disposals. The result is when he drops his disposal numbers he looks ordinary as he can’t rely on finding a man with the few disposals he gets. He has been poorly coached for much of his time at the Club.

    This post makes me want the old 'thinking face' reaction option back.

    I'd be slightly generous to him and say his disposal was 'unreliable', but even then, unreliable is not good. It is a little bit like there are two possible points of failure in each disposal - sometimes it is a poorly executed kick, sometimes it is a poor decision for the kick, and sometimes it comes together in a single crucial moment that costs you a semi-final (notwithstanding the team effort to kick 2.6 in the final quarter).

    It does make me lean a little more in favour of Viney going up forward. Let him be the hunter-killer in the chaos, where even a brain fart can still get surprising results with much less risk.

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    19 hours ago, monoccular said:

    Sad but true.

    Who and when was an underperforming ‘big name’ player dropped? Can’t remember myself.

    Grundy.

    But the less said about that the better..

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    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.

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    50 minutes ago, Gator said:

    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.

    Wasn’t Lamb stuck in a pretty hard place with everything though?

    Interest from North for Viney for more money (who went on to win our B&F), Petracca frankly burning the club down publicly at the time of Viney’s signing (considering Tracc wouldn’t deny any of the media reports which is tacit confirmation he was ready/threatening/wanting to leave) and we were, now known factually, floating Oliver around to other clubs because he was off the rails.

    What leverage did Lamb have to work with considering the club was an absolute [censored] show at the time? If Viney left, there would be a 1000 page thread on ‘why didn’t we re-sign our 2024 B&F player’ right now and how it’s one of our biggest failures.

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    5 minutes ago, BoBo said:

    Wasn’t Lamb stuck in a pretty hard place with everything though?

    Interest from North for Viney for more money (who went on to win our B&F), Petracca frankly burning the club down publicly at the time of Viney’s signing (considering Tracc wouldn’t deny any of the media reports which is tacit confirmation he was ready/threatening/wanting to leave) and we were, now known factually, floating Oliver around to other clubs because he was off the rails.

    What leverage did Lamb have to work with considering the club was an absolute [censored] show at the time? If Viney left, there would be a 1000 page thread on ‘why didn’t we re-sign our 2024 B&F player’ right now and how it’s one of our biggest failures.

    Viney still had a year to run at the end of last season.

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    8 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

    Viney still had a year to run at the end of last season.

    Is this a lesson in the pitfalls of trusting AI? Locked in until 2024 season? If he signed a 4 year extension, then doesn’t that mean 25,26,27,28?

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    23 minutes ago, BoBo said:

    Is this a lesson in the pitfalls of trusting AI? Locked in until 2024 season? If he signed a 4 year extension, then doesn’t that mean 25,26,27,28?

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    The original deal was to 2025. He is now signed for 3 more years.

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    4 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

    The original deal was to 2025. He is now signed for 3 more years.

    Right ok, thank you for the correction, then I’m wrong @Gator . He did indeed Blink.

    Never trusting Google AI again.

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