mo64

You are kidding? What's your definition of big money? I'm talking about someone earning over $800K. Prestia maybe, and the rest not even close.

Edwards, Lambert and Caddy have retired. Cotchin and Riewoldt have re-signed for 1 year on probably a lot less than what they were earning. They also had a swag of early draft picks last years after losing Chol and CCJ, so they would be on relatively low contracts. I can't see who else on their list other than Martin and Lynch, who would be on big dollars.

Or if you are a medi-sub, which counts towards your games tally, but never actually make it on the ground.

Thanks for your insight Dr. Deenooos.

Like many 3rd string ruckmen around the league, it's hard to set the world on fire. Meek is never going to get a gig ahead of a Darcy/Lobb combination. Still hasn't reached the prime age for a ruckman. Agree with DD, he's a much better fit in all respects than Grundy. He can learn his craft from Max, while Max continues to be our no.1 ruckman. The notion of Max playing 2nd fiddle to Grundy is nonsensical.

Jackson hasn't proven to be a gun. We should settle for a 1st round pick by your logic.

Hopper is still contracted, hence has more currency.

Please be true.

So the 2021 Premiership 22 get a Gold Ticket into our senior team forever and a day? It was shameful that Clay Sampson didn't get to play in back to back flags for Adelaide, after being part of their inaugural premiership team. How dare they drop him during the 1998 season, and then trade him the following season.

Hope Richo and Perty were wearing their Reg Grundies under their training shorts. If not, the deal's off.

It's fine keeping them on the list if you have faith in their ability at AFL level. But in Mitch Brown's case, we'd rather play a banged up BBB, despite MB's form at VFL being very good. And MB's last AFL game against the Crows was more than serviceable. Retaining Baker was a head scratcher considering he's clearly not in our plans. Should we lose LJ, I'd much rather go to the draft with our picks than blow it on Grundy.

Your source is still more credible than GNF. I'd be sad to see Harmes leave. Seems like a great clubman.

If I was in Freo's shoes, I wouldn't have any issue with pulling the pin. Freo have probably been courting Jackson for 12 months, and probably put a serious offer to him 6 months ago. In the ensuing 6 months, Jackson's form hasn't warranted the sort of money that Freo had allegedly offered. Plus Freo's own unexpected rise may have them having 2nd thoughts. They may think that retaining Acres and using their draft capital and salary cap elsewhere is more prudent.

I disagree that Bedford and Chandler would get games with teams out of the 8, because both are unknown quantities at AFL level. Bedford has shown some X factor at AFL level, but still has many flaws to his game, in particular his kicking. I'd loved to have seen Chandler given a block of games, because his efforts at Casey has warranted selection. Whilst I agree that Laurie has been inconsistent at VFL level, I wouldn't write him off. He's racked up some good numbers when given midfield time.

We already direct our kicks to the "white line". Not sure if Carey will straighten us up.

Can someone provide me a link of this stat. I'm lead to believe that it's a percentage of kicks inside 50 rather than volume. Spargo is a low possession player, so if he's only delivering the ball inside 50 4 times a game, hitting 2 targets is hardly impressive or a game changer.

Our gameplan is to lock the ball in our forward 50, and mitigate against opposition scoring on the rebound. So I'd put it down to our whole coaching dept. The frustrating thing about it is our 2 best forwards in Fritsch and Brown are natural lead/mark players, and not very good contested marks. And even if they were good contested marks, we'd have a resting ruckman competing against them. And the other frustrating thing is we 2 permanent forwards in ANB and Spargo who aren't a scoring threat to the opposition. I question whether their supposed strengths outweigh their weaknesses as forwards.

If Trac is anything less than 90% fit, I'd play him deep forward, with an occasional run on the ball. Bring Dunstan in to play onball. Move Gus to the wing, and play Harmes in ANBs role, and also rotating in the middle. In: Dunstan Out: ANB

I'd be envious if you said "with nothing but my Melbourne sock on".

Last night's game once again illustrated that we don't need 2 ruckmen on big coin who can't play as forwards. Neither Max nor Grundy are forwards. Getting Grundy won't extend Max's career, it will dilute Max's value to the team.

Many. Richmond did it one year.

The better "TEAM" won. Having more superstars doesn't make a team.

I wonder when the match committee will realise how badly out of form ANB has been? I have a gut feeling they'll make no changes unless there's a forced one.

You clearly missed the point of the loading debate. Nobody denies that loading takes place. It was the nonsense that we were losing games due to it, and we would peak come finals time.

But what about the loading? Aren't we supposed to be at our optimal by now. Hopefully this result shuts up the loading sycophants. We're 6-7 since round 11. This result mirrored our performances against better teams.