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  1. old55
    Yep, altho I was hoping for less pain - clearly because I voted for 4 wins I think - but I knew 0 was always a possibility as was 8. I was hoping we might simulate the Bombers Knights-Hird transition but it looks like we're going to do it a lot harder.
  2. old55
    You didn't have to be Nostrodamus to foretell it was going to be a tough night at the office. The Hawks members compensation game and reserved seating in the Southern stand wing forced me to level 4 PRE - very good view from there - bloody freezing though.
  3. old55
    Martin and Sellar are failures key forward (I harbour hopes for Marting key back), Fitz and Cook are a couple of years off. Clark has been great forward with limited opportunities, I think we should play him as 2nd ruck to relieve Jamar - he'll be more involved in the game and we can play another mid instead of Martin or Sellar. Jamar played 84% game time on Friday night. It does leave our forward line without a long target when Clark is rucking and Jamar is resting - we need another long target anyway and it's not Watts - we should forget that plan.
  4. old55
    We do need another key forward but it won't be Watts. He will never make it as a key forward and his talent is wasted as a 3rd tall forward. Fantastic decision making anddisposal means we need him to get the ball a lot. I'd prefer he plays key back in an attacking role a la Ben Reid than midfield. He needs to raise his intensity whatever. .
  5. old55
    Hope that's what the problem is.
  6. old55
    Thanks - will do tonight also.
  7. old55
    Admirable. Weak and inconsistent.
  8. old55
    I think Dunn has had an under-rated year - he's good as a defensive forward on the opposition play-maker, he was excellent on Bob Murphy in the Dogs game in the second half. He appears to be disciplined and prepared to sacrifice his own game for the team and he certainly annoys the [censored] out of his opponent. He also has the ability to kick goals from limited opportunities. He's unfashionable but he can play a role. I don't think playing him as sub makes sense.
  9. old55
    AFL matches: 1 2 3 4 VFL matches: 1 x x 2 Chinese proverb say "draw picture", I don't know why they didn't just draw a picture
  10. old55
    a yellow line?
  11. old55
    It slid by because everyone knows it's a token effort. I'm glad he said it because we're playing the game, but it means nothing. It helps set us to do the a deal with GWS and GC and get away with it because why would we need to tamper when we said weren't necessarily going to take him anayway.
  12. old55
    FMD - Henny Penny! I could not disagree more - we are in a very beneficial position resulting from tanking with compo picks (maybe something like 4 and 13) in this year's draft directly flowing from it - how is that "[censored]"? This whole Viney discussion is about maximising our regular 1st and 2nd round picks.
  13. old55
    maybe we can borrow Dermie's line in the sand
  14. old55
    No it would be causing us to pay over fair value as far as the rule is written. The rule is deliberately skewed in favour of the F/S club where they have to use their next pick, not their pick in the same round. Fair value is our pick after the pick a club will genuinely use on the player. Take out shafting us and it may be that say the Lions who finish 14th with pick 7 would legitimately take hiim with that pick to succeed Simon Black - then we'd have to use our second rounder - which would be a win for us within the spirit of the rule. I could easily be persuaded that our compo picks should be in play too and that we should have to use our mid round compo at 13 in this scenario.
  15. old55
    I don't agree - they would be bidding for Viney not because they want him at #1 but because we're committed to him - it may not be "tampering" but it's certainly not within the spirit of the rule which is to cause us to pay fair value.
  16. old55
    The only way GWS or GC would be running to the AFL saying "those naughty Demons made us an offer on the Viney deal" is if we offered them an insulting deal.
  17. old55
    Exactly. I don't think any one here who has proposed striking a deal with GWS and GC was suggesting we first go to the AFL for approval. If it's a win-win-win deal no-one tells. The trades with GWS and GC have to look reasonable. Something like olisik's U17 draft deal would be hard to definitively call draft ta,mpering - it could just be a good deal.
  18. old55
    I think that's good - it's on the table. We can now start discussing a deal with them to do otherwise.
  19. old55
    What next ???
  20. old55
    OK ...
  21. old55
    The Sydney Swans believe otherwise.
  22. old55
    Merging player threads from the main board when they run out of steam there.
  23. old55
    Jamie Bennell went back and according to reliable reports is making progress working on his game, particularly last week. He's been rewarded with 1st emergency this week. That's how it works IMO.
  24. old55
    Morton has shown signs of progress in this area this year, including last saturday night - there was a fair contrast between Cale's and Jack's intensity.
  25. old55
    Who do you have in mind and which matches? I would have bitterly disappointed if Watts wasn't dropped this week because it would mock everything Neeld has said about what he expects.
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