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Jack Higgins played around half the games this year and last, a drop off from his 2018 performance, and missed both the GF teams He's reported to be leaving Richmond this year... I see the parallel you draw ET

Watch the R18 Essendon game. And more specifically watch specifically the highlights of the R17 GWS game (2nd Qrt with 5:38 remaining) - Hunt and Picket start a chain of play deep in defensive 50 and 18 seconds later Hunt palms off a tap in the forwars goalsquare for Pickett to goal. Speed endurance and getting the ball I'm not trying to hide the fact Hunt has being missing for a good part of last 2 years (mostly due to selection) And ANB started to imapct this year, MRP aside (ffs), coincidentally same age a Tracc who had a breakout year But those two have Spargo covered twice over each. I'm concerned were not backing the existing speed/endurance that actually had us showing some level of competitiveness late in this season...

This!

Just because they're both short doesn't mean there is any reason to draw a comparison between them With a two year investment, I hope I'm proven wrong, but I've really not enjoyed watching Spargo in our team. Sure, he's had a few good games and been a part of some good passages of play. But he's more often been completely ineffective and as you call out needs to: - build endurance and strength - get to more contests - stick more tackles Questionable "to-do list" for a 3 year player being extended for 2 years (and quite surprisingly to be frank) Concerns me that we've signed Spargo and not Jayden Hunt, and rumours of trading ANB, both of whom have established endurance and strength, and get to contests. Demonstrated clearly in the latter part of this season.

Listening to Daniel Andrews this morning... Nothing excites me about 2021 ?

I agree with you somewhat, but, out of 8 on the board of a Football Club, I don't mind there being someone who has a strong background in Football to provide perspective on football operations and a bit of Heart and Soul of the club doesn't hurt either. Brendon Gale is probably the most successful administrator in the game at the moment and he falls squarely into your category of "past players being involved in football or administrative operations". His resume did include a stint at the helm of the AFLPA but otherwise largely comprosed his 244 games at the Tigers before taking over as CEO - his results are amazing and have truly leveraged the Heart and Soul of that club

The Caro story referencing a group of former players and the board is too much of a coincidence for me. Green and crew represent some big, truly Melbourne names from a relatively successful time and they carry some sway.

A Caro Wilson article of September, said a group of former players were making calls to find a challenger to Bartlett on the board as they were unhappy with direction of the club. Fair chance a few of Green's contemporaries were a part of that group and potentially Green's appointment is an olive branch to that group.

Freo could be our 'Alan Bond'

He definitely fills a massive gap

Surely more potential upside than the Bennell experiment? All comes down to the price

Very risky, imagine Jesse and Buddy both driving to training... Potential carnage

You could be describing half our players from the last 20 years...

Agree Cotchin's tackle was way worse than Lynch knee. Should've been a week, maybe even 2 weeks in a normal H&A season Cotchin is a massive sniper

Cotchin tackle... would be 2 weeks for ANB

He's the CEO. His ownership is not in question. And he signed Goodwin for 4 years, so his Rod Grinters are kinda on the line... My point was more simple though... The email update was just empty

That email took us nowhere and gave us nothing Classic corporate waffle

Boom! The mail on the money

Just rewatched the Rd 22 2018 win v Eagles highlights Great to see Omac take down Jack Darling with a fair, regulation, hard nut tackle... Whichever way it goes, I'll always see Omac as a strong role player who performed many times for our jumper Hope the best for him!

Coq? Or Parrot?

There's merit to this angle

Assume a forced pay cut enables a giant G.F. to any restraint of trade clauses

Generally only exit for the top job... Maybe this is a bigger story?!?

Is there a consensus here that Hawthorn will release him from contract? Assume a post-Covid soft cap environment may make FD contracts a little more flexible, particularly if a forced 2020 pay cut was imposed But still, assistant contracts have been a stumbling block before IIRC

Great news This kid looks a genuine talent