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I am reminded of Yes, Minister where a bigwig public servant only needed to know stuff he needs to know. The catch was he needed to firstly know everything to know whether something was something he needed to know. The only way we'll know whether we're getting a really good coach is AFTER they've coached for years. Honestly it's the same catch-22 that Beveridge and Clarkson need more years to show whether more years is the right decision for these clubs. As long as our bootstudder doesn't become our new coach we've got our decision right ( FOR NOW)

Come on, while long-term teams like Essendon and Collingwood have advantages that mean they'll do slightly better it's too simplistic to assume that in a patch of ten years that Collingwood must be lot better than North. On top of that in a three-year period it's not that hard to have more unusual occurrences. While over many decades Essendon might be better at not choosing a horrible morale-destroying staff member than, say, the Dogs or GC that doesn't mean some incompetent [censored] isn't the current reason Essendon players want out.

Yes, and Revolution 9 was one of the Beatles worst songs and may have been a start to them going their separate ways, 14 Years was a song on GnR's Use Your Illusion, 27 is the age a lot of musicians have famously died, Aussie bands 28 Day had hits such as Rip it Up and What's The Deal?, 38 Special had a song Second Chance released coincidentally in 1988 when we came second and finally Sum 41 had song In Too Deep. Ethan, you may be overthinking this! 😉

The Daily Planet? I thought they closed that place down! 😂

He's worked with the Richmond and WC coaches, yes? Maybe he could a slot with one of them.

So that's the day that everyone gets their picks nicked?

I honestly haven't checked. Have the AFL stated which draft picks Tasmania will get?

Carlton would have been so excited getting a coach who won two flags. But in five year Pagan couldn't even get Carlton above 11th and mostly they averaged 4 or so wins a year. Later they get Malthouse - a premier coach with TWO clubs - and I'm sure again the club we're excited. Two years were a disaster and in his other they played finals only because Essendon were banned/relegated from the finals. It's not quite a raffle but a new coach can never guarantee success ( and of course Neeld may have been atrocious doing senior coach stuff and / or the players or infrastructure may have made success like trying to grow roses in concrete.)

GWS made finals in year 5 and probably should have beaten the Dogs in the prelim. Why can't Tassie even just scrape into the finals over twice as long?

Gee, I sure hope we make an announcement soon. All this speculation and theorising is getting on my nerves. I was excited when we got Roos. But other times I've been like "so he's the new coach? Okay. Let's see how he goes in six month's time. Now, what's on TV?" We can do nothing anyway. But I'm hoping our board is competent enough to make the best choice. (whether that's an above average coach who almost won a GF and may now be a brilliant coach or an assistant coach who may now be a brilliant coach.)

You'd really wanna own one of our old geldings? 😂

I'm pretty sure if next year you watch some of a 1960s GF and then part of a live game you'll have no trouble seeing it's the same sport.

I just mean that players can use their hands legally to punch or tap along the ball. I'm assuming if a players punches the ball forward near the boundary they can get away with it if not very obviously deliberate. It looks like a player deliberately tapping, punching or glancing the ball towards a teammate won't be penalised. You're not Victorian? The Harmes tap-on has become the stuff of legend. The best part was the resultant goal had Collingwood lose by just a few points and lose yet another GF! https://youtu.be/xyxSIh6h_zk?si=eP6sep0bCIVNjWjS

Sharp is safe? I was hoping someone good enough to be emergency in a winning grand final team would do well. But in his senior games wasn't he always down near the bottom of the teams stats?

So not from spoils? How about tap on's similar to Harmes' famous GF one, but along the boundary?

Question: Is AFL perfect? Maybe somewhere in the 80s / 90s it was. But these days it is too stop-start. It's interesting to see SANFL viewers endorse it. I'm guessing this will make games flow a bit better, get rid of the howler "insufficient intent" decisions and lessen the importance of excelling at winning stoppages. Anyway if thats the biggest rule change for next year I doubt many will end up disappointed.

Hi 'Pod' People, Any idea when you'll do the next podcast? After the draft? Just before Round 1 next year? I'd love to know.

There's a book called Don't Just Do Something Sit There. I'm happy for us to have most ideas on the table. But let's not go crazy. Maybe trading Trac, Clarry, May and Viney , a la Blight, turns out to be a masterstroke. But let's make sure every possible big change is given proper consideration. (Most years most clubs trade in and out players and whether it's bad luck or bad decisions we've shown post-flag this alone guarantees nothing.)

Okay. But who? Curnow? Is anyone else a chance to want to move across to us?

To paraphrase Homer 'That man's never eaten from a cheese platter his whole life!"

Yes, but at the end of 2022 we actually moved on Wiedeman. We went into 2023 with Brown having played a lot of games in 2022, MacDonald still playing forward , now Petty and JVR set to play forward and possibly the resting ruckman of the 'Gawndy' pair. Thats a lot of talls! So make McKay our highest paid player to be one of five or six talls up forward in a close-knit , recent premiership side? Huh? You're being blinded by hindsight.

When? Carlton's finished above is the last three years. As I said elsewhere we probably felt Fritsch, Kosi, BBB, TMac, Wiedeman and then Petty, JVr, Melksham and even Smith would tide us over.

Who? 17 other clubs? What's that? Maybe a dozen possibilities? And maybe no one's interested in going to a side that's languishing or still in the same city. There may be no real options.

It's always an educated guess. It's easy to use lazy stats and say that a coach years ago with 2 flags is better than Bucks because of those flags even though he (Buckley) actually underachieved. Or perhaps we underated the players Buckley coached. Who knows? It does look like he knows what he's talking about and he's had time to reflect, without getting too rusty. Admittedly every coach appointment for decades would have been carefully and diligently decided, as this one will be too. Then again for better or worse we might end up with a Mark Neeld or a Leigh Matthews. Fingers crossed the latter.

Yep... hindsight - a helpful teacher but lousy critics. I bet there would be some fascinating stuff in the archives on here. I keep hearing that CHF/talls take quite some time to develop. We drafted one at #9 in about 2016 and obviously were patient. Just imagine if we traded Wiedeman at the end of 2020 and in the five years since he'd kicked 300 goals; on here we'd read about it daily. Anyway at the end of 21 we had a flag, Brown and TMac going ok and still a bit of hope for Wiedeman. At the end of 22 we still had Brown , TMac, JVR on the horizon and lots of people confident Petty could become a good forward. I'm not sure what we should have done since. But certainly we've tried a few players forward and recruited Jefferson. What terrible oversights have we made? It's so easy to knock out recruiting, for example. But I bet few can usually show proof of their original doubts or provide better alternatives.