titan_uranus

I’m very much in favour of exploring the Matt Kennedy situation. We need more midfield power. He wants that opportunity. But he can genuinely play forward which helps with rotations.

And two of the last 17!

I would have thought W/L is one metric, amongst others. Goody has a better finals W/L record than Chris Scott. Doesn’t make Goody a better coach but it’s still a relevant metric. Flags are obviously another relevant metric.

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Correct. Hadn't missed a game from Round 10 last year until he got injured this year and needed surgery which ended his season. Lachie Keeffe, who hadn't played to that point, took his spot as the third tall/back-up ruck (with Hogan and Cadman the other two).

I don't understand this at all. Firstly, why are there players within NGAs who are ineligible to be drafted under the NGA rules? How does that happen? Secondly, why is this only being reported now, as if it's a new thing when the journalist, Cal Twomey, said on X that it's not new at all? If it's not new, why did he just write about it? If it is new, why?

He has the 7th best W/L record of current coaches, at 57.10%. The current leader is McRae on 68.92%, then Chris Scott on 68.32%. Then Longmire, Hinkley, Kingsley and Fagan (who is just in front of Goodwin at 57.80%).

Because the asking price is our first rounder (plus more), which is pick 5 in a strong draft laden with midfielders, which we also need. The gap between what we get from Houston (28 years old) and what we get from pick 5 (18 years old) isn’t big enough to warrant the level of outrage you seem to demand of us.

Ridiculous thing to say. Hogan leaving led to us getting May. Without May where would we have been the last 6 years?

We lost to Sydney by 22 didn’t we? We also beat one of the two SF losers and lost to the other by less than a goal. Do we take solace? No. We finished 14th.

If we end up with a Geelong v Sydney GF again then it will mean those two clubs plus Hawthorn, Richmond, West Coast and Collingwood, will have won 18 of the last 20 flags (the Dogs and us being the other two). And then the other two sides won the four previous flags, which mean that we are guaranteed to see that 23 of the last 25 flags (2001-2024) have been won by 8 clubs.

He kicked their only goal in the fourth. Had a poor year by his standards, and probably by any standards tbh. It’s somewhat remarkable that GWS were as good as they were this year despite him being mediocre.

I wouldn’t be so sure. Geelong looked great last week but how much of it was Port not showing up? Their H&A form going in wasn’t that impressive. I would have had GWS favourites next week had they hung on tonight. A bit like us last year, had they avoided the choke and got through with the pressure off I reckon they’d play with more freedom and their best IMO is second only to Sydney.

Not sure about Fagan. To me it was more a combination of Brisbane finding some goalkicking accuracy, the mids lifting in the fourth, and GWS [censored] the bed. Still, he has four prelims in 6 years of contending so he’s clearly doing something right.

This sort of makes my argument. Gibbs had 1 year left on his contract. He would have been traded the year he requested but the deal fell through at the last minute. Papley had 4 years left on his contract, so Sydney held him to it. Trac is more like Papley than Gibbs. Having 1 year left presents the club with the risk you leave the following year for less/nothing. Very different to a player with multiple years left.

We never led Collingwood and we never played well enough against Carlton. GWS were 20+ points up at 3QT in both games, 44 up in the third and 30+ points up in the fourth. At home, against an interstate side.

Won them a few games himself this year but was awful tonight.

That free was bad IMO but they never should have been in that position. 44 up 20 mins into the third and 31 up 4 mins into the fourth.

Surely Brent Daniels didn’t hear the whistle when he took the advantage…

How [censored] disgusting. I cannot stand that mob and now I have to watch them play Geelong in a prelim? GWS choked worse than we did last year. Led both finals by 20+ at 3QT and lost both. Completely fell apart in this one, had a 7 point lead and the ball in a slow play with 4 minutes left, too.

So you’d keep them all out of contract waiting to see if we can find, what, 10 new players in trade week?

This is usually how it works for out of contract players. The club runs the risk that if it doesn’t accede to the player’s request, the player will put a price on their head when nominating for the draft to ensure they get to their preferred destination, and so the club does a deal to avoid getting nothing at all. For a contracted player, run the counter factual and assume we say no. What does the player do? Sit out the year in protest? How does that help their cause?

What is this?

Not yet official but seems close. Same article also says we’ve not offered Tomlinson an extension yet, and that Hore also has to wait to see if we extend him.

I’d be interested in Cerra but only on the basis that we’ve done medical due diligence and are satisfied his repeat soft tissue injuries can be fixed. At any rate, even if his soft tissue problems are fixable, he’s no longer worth a first round pick IMO. Not without something else coming back.