Mickey

Just read through the tears. Honestly felt like I was reading DL in 2024-25.

Hopefully you get enough notice if TMac is in. May not have had the impact of Max but has been a brilliant servant of the club for a long time and deserves the kudos for reaching 250.

The stats also don't show differences in game styles that result in more frees. From memory, Richmond gave away a lot of frees in their good years, simply due to the game style they played. Tigers fans still see this as deliberate corruption on behalf of the AFL and umpires. I don't believe umpires purposefully pay dodgy frees against certain teams. Provided the AFL get these stats and they are used to coach umpires, I don't see it as an issue

Don't actually blame them. The amount of vitriol they would receive for doing their jobs, why give another stat that out of context can be used to abuse them by fans that take nothing but the raw number of frees paid against their team as a personal affront.

Just looking at the Freo team. They really do have too good a list to be as inconsistent as they are. Stacked forward line, awesome midfield even with Young out, backs are ok but have a couple of very good players. No cox is a good thing for Max. All he would have done is try to clobber him, and then stretch our backs when he went forward.

Not sure if this has been posted

Does anyone know why the changed races? And someone mentioned they may have changed benches too? Is it just an 'everything new' thing or something else?

I suspect the majority of saints fans didn't want him moved on either

The last time we kicked 18 goals the coach was sacked! Kingy better leave his phone on silent this weekend Max, Steele and Salem all had 20+

I agree, but you don't lose too many times with more scoring shots, winning the contested possessions and.... oh wait

They absolutely squandered it

Petty in the ruck? Great leap and follow up

Kolt on Nas is a huge no

Looks like Smith finished up in 85 and Garry started in 86. But you'dthink he would have been around as a recently retired player

7 hrs from Hobart to Darwin with no direct flights...

Half an hour, according to Google Maps

4.5hr direct flight from Melb, just under 4hrs from Adelaide and 3.5hrs from Perth The issue may be around being near family during a rough time

Very honest but I think the thing missing here is that they chased him from the moment he signed with Melbourne. They were relentless in trying to get him back, like they were with Jackson. And then to not have done the background work to realise that Perth wasn't good for him, or to put whatever needed to be in place, means it was absolutely a poor trade. It seems like a massive lack of due diligence to me.

On the others who's development Max may have/be stifling: Heath and White are young Grundy was roughly the same age as Max, not as good and also couldn't play anywhere but No. 1 ruck Preuss has done very little at GWS The other young rucks we recruited weren't up to it

Max was AA last year. He's the best in the league. As long he is delivering those sort of performances in his position, I don't think he should be looking for give up game time. When he eventually slows or his output diminishes, it's a different story

They may not get the chance. He'll be offered ridiculous money to go to Tassie

Clarry was not close to BOG. He had it 27 times (if he did that in 2021-23 wed be wondering what he was carrying) for a grand total of 270m gained. He'll cover Tom Green's contested possessions but not much else

The way I see it, we got 11 years out of Trac. The last 2 might not have been great, but before that we got 2 BnFs, 4 AAs and a Norm Smith. If thats not good service, I'm not sure what is, and its honestly more than I thought we'd get when we drafted him (I always thought he'd leave after a few years because we weren't Collingwood). We then got 3 first round draft picks. He didn't hold us to ransom, we got good value for a guy who didn't want to be here anymore. I won't be cheering him, but I'll look more fondly on Trac than I will Jackson, McVee or Oliver. And at least he isn't playing for the Pies or Blues

Big fan of the jumper and glad they are sticking with the Tassie state team colours. Feels like a real club as opposed to a franchise like GC and GWS

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