Axis of Bob

No. Well, I did some work there years ago, but effectively no.

Nobody ever said Spargo was quick.

Just a few of the NAB Youtube games. Nothing live. I guess we all need something to do during lockdown! ?

Runs like the wind, but is still very raw. Would have been interesting to see him with an extra year of footy but there's a lot to work with. But that speed/endurance combo is rare, especially so at 6'4-5.

I've been pretty strong on our poor balance up forward, especially regarding our lack of small forwards. Well now we have picked 3 players in the first round (including Kozzie) in the past 2 years of different types, that can address that need. Considering our smalls in the last round were Kozzie, Spargo and Hunt .... there's definitely significant scope for improvement. Plus they're two of the best users in the draft, so they have scope to play higher up the ground.

Very good player. Extremely clean and a great, quick decision maker. He's small but still tough and an excellent kick. Played wing, mostly, last year but could easily play as a small forward with his quickness and ability to create goals.

They sucked in the contest this year without Cunnington, who looks near the end.

North are going the Melbourne route for building from the inside the contest with Phillips and Powell. They needed to.

Good news for him then, because he's going to GWS!

Drew Banfield.

Yep, but they've got so many picks to make this year and their 3rd picks was going to be in the 60s. They had to get some half decent picks, otherwise they'd have to get 4 players at the tail of the draft and give them all 2 year contracts.

Chaos!! ? But seriously, there was likely to be chaos with such an even group at the top and a weird year, especially with journos having trouble getting information, as they've been saying. Could open up some clubs to do some pick trading now too.

Definitely. Surely someone would have offered something for pick 2. Maybe the other clubs in the area thought that they could get their player anyway.

Phillips to North. Good pick, for mine. If you're trying to build a club the right way, through contested footy with high character, he's someone you can build a club around.

Interstate teams in his range (5-15): Gold Coast, GWS, Adelaide, Fremantle. It's not the most attractive group of clubs, which is probably more the issue. But, still, it's not the best way to start an AFL career. It certainly isn't endearing.

This is a terrible take. You're essentially saying that attracting good people is an indication of failure and that trying to bring in good people is an indication of weakness. Should we be not trying to attract good people? You're just trying to shoehorn this information into your own personal judgement of Goodwin. Anyway, I'm very happy with the appointment. He's different from most, but he's a great teacher and an extremely knowledgeable football person.

Sad to see Mahoney go but it seemed like it was coming. He'll be a good fit for Essendon provided he is given the authority to do his work. Good luck to him.

Unpopular opinion: I enjoy watching the modern game more than the games in the 80s. There's more going on in the modern game, it's more contested, the pace is higher, the quality of the players is higher, the tactics go beyond 'ruckman behind the ball' or matchups, and the goals actually mean something. Looking back at those old games .... it just looks like glorified circle work to me now.

Jake Lever: 106 intercepts in 2020. Ranked 10th in the AFL. Steven May ranked 34th, Michael Hibberd 80th, Christian Salem 95th. So punching the ball isn't 'all he can do', although he ranks 10th for one percenters (May 9th), so he's still pretty good at it.

Based on how Collingwood has set their picks in the mid teens, there may also be a strong chance that Collingwood simply isn't much interested in McInnes. Effectively, they'll take him for peanuts if he lasts past their picks, but they aren't that fussed to miss out. They have history don't this too, as they passed on James Stewart back in the day.

Tasmania should already have a team but adding a team doesn't make sense. People in Tassie already follow footy, so most of the benefits will be cannibalised from existing (mostly Victorian) teams. The time to do it was in the creation on the AFL but it just doesn't make sense anymore. Adding a team to create a bye for nearly no benefit to the competition isn't going to fly. It will have to come from a relocation from Victoria. Throwing money at a 500,000 population (or, about 10% of Melbourne) in order to reduce the revenues for the rest of the clubs for no real benefit? It's a nice romantic argument of 'fairness' but, unfortunately, it just doesn't stack up.

If 2020 was a full 22 game season, the following players would have kicks 40+ goals: Hawkins, Kennedy, Gunston, Dixon. So you're saying that it's unacceptable if Weid isn't in the top 4 goalkickers in the league next year? Even though he'll be playing as a second tall with Brown? If you look at the second forward for each of the teams those players played on, only Darling was more productive than Weideman. So you're thinking Weid's production will increase when Brown comes into the team, and so much so that he will be one of the top 4 most productive key forwards, even though he will be playing as the second tall option? And anything less than that is 'not acceptable' ...... ?

I think Mitchell is a good chance to be drafted in the second round, from what I've seen. Excellent mover, good pace and kick. Plays pretty outside at the moment but he's got a heap of development in him.

But then that's the only thing that he'd say. His interview would last 5 seconds. And it would still be an empty cliche. He probably even said that we'll be judged on our actions, or let footy do the talking, or something equally meaningless at some point during his radio slot because it is also cliched nothing-speak. Even talking about 'actions not words' are just empty words. Gawn is actually one of the better footballers to listen to when interviewed because he's pretty straightforward with his answers. That's why there are a few snippets of interesting information that can be gleaned if you look past the standard offseason talk.

A week ago we acquired one of the premier key forwards of the last 5 years in exchange for Brayden Preuss. Now people are upset that during the offseason break Max Gawn is mentioning that we hope to be better next year when doing a radio spot, because he didn't do anything. Effectively offseason media is a Rorschach test for supporters. We just have a lot of supporters who think every ink blot is a mushroom cloud. What should he have said? Please provide an example that would be satisfactory, from your point of view.