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The correlation is that coaches say a lot of things…

Turner’s talent won’t allow him to ever ‘rip’ any game apart. He is a third tall and if he plays his role - he can make life easier for JVR and keep defenders accountable. We have to remember this as fans or we risk setting ourselves up for ignorant disappointment.

The crux of this asinine conversation was ‘were we keen to offload’ and we just weren’t. How can I tell? Oliver is still here. The rest is the normal amount of noise that trade week brings including agents and players agitating a situation. The reporters got wind of the agitation but misread our willingness to engage in a trade - they were wrong.

Land needs no bait. We are going to click anyways. If Freo is any Warner and Pickett they are going to have to loosen some capital - I can see them allowing for Jackson to go to facilitate that. But he may have other designs - this will be the last generation of players with effective no-trade clauses.

Neale Daniher assured us that Chris Lamb had a long future at the club - delisted later that year.

Tom?

I thought this was a mea culpa. But if I can’t get an apology then a thread that has them all is something I suppose…

For me, if you are not a star - what’s your role? And if Langford can play a role in that fwd line that gets him exposure at AFL level - I think that will benefit him more. Surely we have to play Petracca forward more in the next 3 weeks? Rivers will also need to sure up on the defensive side of the ball sometimes, Oliver should have always spent time at either end learning to get easy (back) and hard but valuable (fwd) footy. I think there is scope for Langford to play meaningful minutes with this midfield.

It’s Woey. Is am optimistic about this season and the terrible conversion is not stymied that. We are coming from a ways back in a number of areas - getting that many I50s and missed shots is a luxury frustration I will gladly put up with as we progress from where we were. The tiresome sniping of depth players is as noxious as it is expected - beat the bell curve of fandom and realise that they do not matter - they are replacement players that don’t dictate wins and losses (but jeez they’re good for excuses!) Petracca, Oliver, May, Gawn, Lever, Viney, Rivers, Pickett, Fritsch, Langdon - these are the players that will dictate our fortunes.

Going by the game that hasn’t happened yet?

‘Blatant rip off’ What can one do with a logo that some club somewhere hasn’t already done? Any logo will be a ‘blatant rip off of something else’ so that shouldn’t be a determining factor at all.

Can we please have a tedious back and forth about the difference between a logo and an emblem? Approx. 70 pages worth. Thanks rp

Oh jeez

Groan I don’t read posts or books, and I feel things upside down but never back to front.

Love some mature bodies while we have our stars in their prime.

That’s a false economy; late picks in the draft are looking across all available, scouted players. You can make ‘needs’ based calls with those picks. However, the SSP decision is working from a pool of train-on players over summer at the club and any that chose to train elsewhere. Whoever is most promising AND agrees to come is who you should put on the list. Perhaps the better place to lean on ‘needs’ is who you invite to train with the club over summer.

If your making a decision on SSP based on what the best 22 needs - god help us. Culley surely gets a go. Whether he ‘has a spot in the 22’ is as meaningless as speculating who is going to get the next season ending knee injury…

Poor kid. He will be a great player, just delayed a year.

When we drafted him he was ‘“‘two years away’ from being ‘two years away’” He may surprise… Apologies to Fran Fraschilla who coined that a decade ago.

You’re posting on a fan forum dedicated to the AFL… Must be doing something right. Regardless of your personal anecdotes of your friend group minus those who don’t like sport and minus those that are already invested in the code - it’s hard to argue the sport isn’t doing well. There are those that long for the glory days of the unsustainably brutal and increasingly foggy past - but they are the lenses of rose colour.

And Max isn’t allowed to overrule.

Maybe keep that in mind when you next get your dander up about anything you reply to.

Yes, tragically for some on here and their training reports, we can play with only 23 players at a time…