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*not merely as sexy as who we should target player wise. It's easy to draw inferences on players skills sets, acumen and talent - harder to draw a line on coaches, particularly all the assistant ones from afar. I stumbled across Brett Ratten leaving Hawthorn a few minutes ago - and thought to myself - that I've always rated him, as a person and as a coach, can't tell you why, just a sense... wouldn't mind getting him on board again at the Dee's. But, in one - out another - and without character assassinating people/coaches I've never met - has anyone got a version of a champion data write up for our assistant coaches - I hear from some Demonlanders that Troy Chaplin, shouldn't be retained etc etc...

Maybe I’m a romantic - is Bugg still relevant in the FD’s eyes? I personally rate him, and also personally don’t think his reportable offence was anywhere near deliberate as people make out (this isn’t the point to debate)- I can even excuse his goal kicking yips because he was getting himself in to position. AND nor do I think he is a ‘pest’. All that preface for one question - will he get a game again for the dees?

salacious...

I'm sure this has been asked before - but I am away hiking in Sweden and have just got some wifi with a beer in hand... anyone know how to access (if you can) a replay of the adelaide game? Obviously I can't do it - even as an afl/telstra subscriber. Any advice would be great Cheers

Oh sorry thought my sarcasm was writ large - he does a great job and funnily enough is human - yep - makes errors.. which is easy to pull apart in retrospect . Clearly I need to choose better sardonic emoticons

That’s all well and good @Leoncelli_36 - but the coaches need to know that performances like Lewis won’t be tolerated, he’s been too old and too slow since he came on board - and those two factors alone prove he is not leadership material - nor the fact that his 299 games of experiences went to cut out the biggest likelihood of going down the corridor - hopefully the coaches punish him and end his career on 299 ?

mmm, talk of trading is 'the' reason that people step up. uh huh.

just snuck in

it would have been fine if he went with the conventional drop punt... we wouldn't even be discussing it.

Fugazi @Nasher fugazi....

Stay on @000 - you can block those folk .

As he's never been know as 'loose lips Josh' - I'd imagine there would be an announcement in 48-72 hours as a best case scenario.

well that's torn it...

whats your vested interest.... I ask with interest?

sooooo...who's the alternate to J.Smith, and why?

It's like Putin's view of the west creeping towards them by slowly gathering countries from the former Eastern Bloc into Nato and the EU... a free kick there, a free kick here... yadda yadda yadda....

If it was a conspiracy, or they were trying to 'get one up and curry favour'... I'd wager GFC wouldn't be inviting said umpire down on press conference day to have a coffee in the open cafe where all the public can see you... tin foil hat time...

I thought you were giving me props for a moment there @timbo ie: "word mofo!" Alas, not to be.

my particular jury is out whether it is 'debacle' at this stage...

mate they're not that bad... i was in the outer with 2 geelong supporting mates for '187'... and one had the keys to the car for the lift home... those generalisations [censored] me a bit to be frank. plenty of kindly old ducks sit there knitting scarfs too... i was also there for - a draw (yze's specky and miller taking a kidney out of Lonergan) as well as '24' in enrights 300th - where the crown celebrated like they had won PRIOR to the game...weird weird stuff. prediction by a similar amount - 4 goals...either way.

He is saying pragmatically, the more exposure to 'finals' pressure games the better we get at them... and that is only good for the playing list to 'learn' how to play and experience it directly. That's WTF he meant by that.

Gee he talks...it's just words...compete...it's do or die, bloody press conferences, where coaches spout inanities.. see ball get ball etc etc our time is now, no passengers, if we loose, it never really hurt them...

@stevethemanjordan - you're bang on. It's an uncomfortable truth, that's for sure.

They've had Henderson out all year...

happily an ignoramus - how does that help with forward craft? (and has chaplin helped with ours )