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Do I 'doubt that Clark will not play much this year?' I don't doubt that I don't know, and that no-one will know until he does or does not play much this year. Hope that's clear.

I wasn't talking to you rah rah rah. lol Seriously though, mjt, let go of your dislike for me - you're embarrassing yourself. Please go and find my 'snide, disgraceful and pathetic' comments about Neale Daniher. But you won't will you? Because while you think of me as a 'try hard' and a 'know it all' - you don't try very hard to know anything you comment on. Here, I will save you the ignominy of looking for the nuanced views of others. I wrote this in another thread: Neale Daniher was a very good coach and would be alongside Northey in a list (we all wish was longer) of the best coaches since Smith. However, decisions made many years ago effect the club well past the point they are initially made.

They play different roles, and have different capabilities. As you continue to tell us - Clark is struggling, so Fitzpatrick is his direct replacement. Dawes is a big body that will be given a bullocking job that Fitz can't do and Hogan shouldn't do.

Then you must think you're wonderful...

ND was a very good coach. The list management decisions and poor drafting from his time still reverberate to this day however.

How do you figure?

Once assigned a team - any newbies - select 2 players you wish to keep, and two players born in 1992 or later. You will understand once Jarka has assigned you a team.

Yes, but I think he was relating the way the players were treated onfield aswell; the players were incredulous that we would only have one gameplan. They didn't trust him that that was the case because of the multitude of ways the multitude of coaches have asked them to play in the past. I have had this discussion in the past and there will be some diehards that remain - you only have one gameplan. You can change tactics for sure, but not the way you are instructed to play. It's hard enough to get 20 blokes playing one game style well, let alone another or a few.

Great read. About ten threads could be started (or added to) from that article.

In Neeld's second NAB engagement we beat Collingwood. The NAB are unglorified practice matches. What you read into them is frought.

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Good work. They must have changed that in the last ten years or something... maybe I had it wrong to start with...

I have said this before and I blindly follow it: Winning is the reward for my support. Not the other way around.

I don't think AFL members count?

Why do people get so offended when others point out spelling and grammatical errors? It's just a bit of fun pointing it out. There's no need to add malice to our intentions, Burgan does a great job, I found it odd and funny and related to the Demons. Hence...

It is not grammatically incorrect, it just doesn't make sense.

I never thought that Roos would only be here for three years. He might not be head coach, but I still think he would move into a role at the club that drove strategy and had the knowledge and the where-with-all to get things done. For NFL fans, the 'Senior Vice President of Operations' is the terrible title given to this role. So even if he is not head coach, we have to try and convince PR that whatever he sees as his next role - it can be done at the MFC.

Where is the above coming from? What would motivate one into such an act? And it looks terrible...

Yeah, but it goes beyond that, when you have a player not on the LTI who you know will not play for two months or more, you are (forgive the pun) 'hamstringing' yourself by having less eligible players than other clubs (I was about to say 'normal clubs').

Yeah, what is that about?

Apparently Clark is 'Progressing Positivity'... Whatever that means. Clark progressing positivity: Misson Matt Burgan

Glad to see you are all ready to go and that it all went well. You actually made it to the Semis as you finished the season on top. As for the NFL win, it's caused more headaches than celebration as these blokes in the league went a bought an ugly trophy that I have to get engraved myself...so I win and I am out of pocket... Looking forward to getting back to real footy, no offence to NFL which I do like.

You're right. Mjt's number sound about right too. The cap is about $10m now so James will command quite a bit of that. 6 or 7 percent of it maybe...

Jeez. S-home said that the Crows are rattling us to bring us down from our Roos induced high, I was politely saying this was just some local SA pablum to assuage the Crows masses. What that has got to do with Scully I don't know...

If I recall correctly, he was given a four year contract after 09 that has become a bargain according to a few whispers. I sincerely hope he is in the top 10 paid players on the Primary List - if he isn't he will be an Unrestricted FA. Only Clark, Dawes, Trengove, Vince, Grimes, Jones, Watts, Howe, Garland, and McDonald could possibly be paid more. So hopefully one of those is under the magic figure. And it is calculated as payment per year over the life of the contract not the wage in that particular year if a contract is front or back ended.