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Absolutely. And add to that, the majority of AFL teams in recent years are coached by first-time coaches and not retreads (currently 12 first-time coaches versus 5 retreads to my count, excluding us), so it would be surprising if they did not win the majority of premierships (although 19 of the last 20 is a lot). I agree that the retreads are often in odd situations (of the current ones, Lyon at St Kilda, Clarkson at North, Scott at Essendon are in situations where it would have been surprising for them to do much of anything). Of the retreads who are in better situations, Hardwick has turned around GC, and Voss was always an odd choice. Our list profile and quality is a pretty good situation to walk into for a tried coach.

Media definitely afraid to highlight incidents involving Collingwood players. I attempted to post a comment on an article in The Age - my comment was in keeping with their guidelines, and mentioned the MRO/Tribunal and wondered why the inconsistency in general and giving an example of Moore not being cited for that incident. Comment of course was moderated out.

Ah yes of course, I missed the first thread response giveaway!!

I'll put it this way, the appalled responses in the Stringer thread restored my faith in the club's culture!

I had assumed this thread was satire after the original post but now I'm not sure...

Simply cannot cave and trade him. Everyone must hate the way this has played out. But we cannot afford to be conditioned to accept that a trade is inevitable. He is contracted we hold the whip hand. The damage it would do to the club and our reputation to cave to the demands of a contracted player to defect to a bigger in-state rival would be irreparable, and it's just not worth it, even assuming there will be a lot of animosity in keeping him to his contract. We don't need to act like a small club when we have him contracted, and to do so would just reinforce our small position in the landscape. Hold firm please Dees.

This is absolutely the issue with it. You are asking for trouble playing an injury prone petty in the ruck, and I agree regarding the cost of taking jvr away from what we would hope would be further development time in his natural forward position.

In isolation I might see this selection as a bit strange but not worry-inducing. But in the context of a number of bizarre and very costly selections in recent years it is hard to not be concerned any time there is another glaring selection question mark. Even in the past year we have had: - Laurie sub for 2023 qualifying final, which made no sense at the time and came home to roost - Schache sub for 2023 semifinal, which made no sense at the time and mustn't have made sense to the coaches/selection committee either as he didn't get on the ground. Giving a fresh legs advantage to the opposition was a massive own goal. Worth 2 points on the scoreboard perhaps? - Playing Spargo in Round 0 when he was clearly not fit and clearly did not have adequate preparation That's just a sample of selection in 3 consecutive AFL games. You have to be trying hard to come up with a defence for some of these things.

It's Carlton, so no surprise there, as unbelievable as the decision is. Double standards.

Their record could easily be worse than it is too - Brisbane, Richmond and Freo wins all coinflips and somewhat dubious. Agreed re their D, which definitely needs to lift if they want to go far.

From memory, he was also part of the Freo exodus when their cap was impacted by Jackson's move.

He has certainly improved in terms of kicking and execution since the latest move. The error in q2 where he made a poor decision and then executed poorly, kicking straight to a Geelong player for a goal, was the sort of stuff that was always the question mark over his game in previous years and would have been concerns for teams taking a look I'm sure. Speed, fitness are strengths.

Well it lasted all year in 2023 - picked up some undeserved wins, especially the gws umpiring rort in the early rounds, and continues throughout the year especially late season and finals. Curnow and McKay have long been beneficiaries of flopping frees.

To anyone who doesn't think umpiring influences games, lol

Most predictable thing ever is Carlton getting a phantom free for a goal to take the lead late in a game.