Its Time for Another

Stephen Sylvani was just on Trade Radio and said they hadn't even spoken to Melbourne about Billings. So who knows. SOS would be the last person I'd trust on anything. Based on the Vibe. Nothing else. 

Peter Moore Demons Brownlow Medalist

Stephen Icke

Laurie Fowler

Danny Hughes from memory came from Crows. Could be wrong. 

Peter Rhode

1 minute ago, KysaiahMessiah said:

Jeff White says hi 😀

@Gorgoroth beat you to the punch

5 minutes ago, IRW said:

Another small body ..just what they dont need.

When has any player  thrived/ reached their potential after trading to the Dee's.. ?

Names please? Take your time 

 

3 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

Steven May? Michael Hibberd? Ed Langdon? Jake Lever? 

Jake Melksham

Bernie Vince a 20's pick won a B&F. 

Vardy

Stephen Powell did more than alright

To name just a few

59 minutes ago, rpfc said:

I think you should reconsider your dispute resolution. 

Burgess apparently repeatedly implied that his ‘tightness’ was in his head and then he was out for weeks. Burgess is a great performance manager but hubris is not beyond him. 

Burgess was apparently talking about his hip pocket not his hip. Breakdown in communication. 

1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

'One reason for McAdam’s...departure is differences between he and the club’s fitness staff...[He]...suffered both a thigh injury and fractured cheekbone in 2023.'

'There are also some other issues that have emerged through the year in that there's clearly a difference of opinion or style between him and the fitness coaches of Adelaide as to what was best for his preparations and so forth.'

Hmmmm a difference of opinion between he and fitness staff.  We have no idea what that's about but that of course is the guru Darren Burgess. I know who I'd be respecting in that dispute and its not the player. 

Clarry had a well documented dispute with our fitness head as well. 

18 minutes ago, Mister Ed said:

But is he a mummy’s boy?

Nay

There are some things the AFL are doing currently that are travesties. Chief among them is the shredded soft cap. There is absolutely no reason not to have reinstated it to pre Covid levels. Coaches have to be the hardest working people in the AFL with massive workloads at the best of times. To not have reinstated the soft cap levels is an absolute shocker.  We should be in a position to appoint a midfield coach as well as an Yze overall senior assistant role and more. 

Yze was one of the highest paid assistants in the industry so $$ shouldn't be an issue in going after whoever we want for his replacement but it still leaves a skeleton coaching dept compared to pre covid. 

Wasted many many undergrad hours and brain cells at Naughtons. Didn't do us any good in that era. Mind you Vinnie Cattogio came and coached us for a couple of seasons before joining the mighty Red and the Blue. 

I had a look at these highlights and the previous highlights on this thread posted from another Rangers game. Almost every shot on goal missed in both those games. Can't see the elite kick everyone's talking about that overcomes his lack of height. I wouldn't be giving up a top 10 pick for this kid. His skills on those highlights are much worse than Kossies. 

8 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

Why let facts get in the way of a good story ITA?

Unfortunately still a good and accurate story even with the correct facts. Nothing wrong with the accurate story of Cable, Greig, Schimmelbusch & Alves delivering the ball to Wade. Not to mention the Galloping Gasometer. 

4 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

2021 premiership, i assume

Assume he is talking players. 

59 minutes ago, Docs Demons said:

whilst Wade had Goggin then Krakouers, 

Get your point totally. But Wade retired in '75 and Krakouers started in '82. 

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

I'm not sure it's even a rumour. I'm just putting it out to the universe.

Has only worked once in nearly 47 years for me. Thought I might try something smaller.

Come on Andy stop teasing us. Who was the once in 47 years ?

Please don't say Diamond Jim, Fabulous Phil, Brownlow Temps. 

I find him a confusing onballer. He does this thing when he gets the ball. He kicks it to teammates so they mark it. Haven't seen that before. Not at MFC anyway. 

1 hour ago, kryton101 said:

Have you caught any of his Casey games - you might find you answer there?

Know what you mean. But he kicked 4 a couple of weeks ago. I'd give him a go rather than never giving him a go and never knowing. Especially as there was nothing to lose at various stages. 

On 9/19/2023 at 10:17 PM, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

Pick 6 or 7 for 170cm small forward is a no for me. We need an elite midfielder who can deliver inside 50. The way we are entering inside 50 means this bloke would be completely useless. We either kick to the opposition or to a position where it is easily belted away, effectively clearing danger of a roving small forward. 

Fritsch and Hunt grew something like a foot around this age. Charlie Curnow was 190cm in his draft year and now 193 or 194cm. Come on Little fella eat your greens. There's a good 10cms crying out for you.  

I seem to be on my pat malone on this but the treatment of Schache this year has been one of the season's mysteries for me. He was never given a chance. He is exactly the type of player we have needed at various stages during the season but was never really given a chance. I would have at least given him a couple of decent games so he could settle in to the system a bit and see if he could deliver. He was brought on for 10 minutes as the sub a few rounds ago and then the final was an utter debacle. How could he not have been worth a try compared to T Mac. There was nothing to lose. Obviously they don't rate him but at least give the guy a go, especially in the circumstances this season. I'd hate to get treated that way by my Boss in a job and stay happy and focused. 

2 hours ago, Ferghus31 said:

Just Heard on Perth Radio Bulldogs and West Coast Desperate for our early picks if we could lure  Aaron Naughton  and Liam Ryan  imagine them with Pickett and Mc Adam boy some powerful forward line

 

I don't know much, especially according to my son, but one thing I do know reliably is not to listen to a single thing you hear on Perth Radio. Veracity = 0

I get the feeling the comparison here should be between Spargo and the incoming McAdam not Chandler. 

1 hour ago, Cheap Seats said:

I don't know if this has been brought up (sorry if it has somewhere else but ice buried my head in the sand after Friday).

How Weitering wasn't taken off or put under concussion protocol astounds me. He shouldnt be playing this week.

Rules for some different rules for others? The AFL is corrupt 

If Smith hadn't have helped him up he may have been down long enough to force their hand to take him off to do the concussion test. This would have made a significant difference in the last couple of minutes. 

I couldn't believe neither Clarry or Vines notified the Ump that Cripps was bleeding. This is an absolute no brainer and no issue around sportsmanship as far as I'm concerned. Is done all the time in games. It would have forced him off the ground at a critical stage of the game. It was a no brainer and a bad miss.  

@WheeloRatings could we get the top 5 deliverers of the ball i50 and how many of their kicks were retained and possibly compare this to say the top 10 in the league.

I think it was last season at some stage there was a stat that was something like Trac had 19 i50's at that stage and either 1 or none were retained and Clarry had 21 and 2 were retained. It doesn't appear to have got any better this season. 

On 8/25/2023 at 9:51 AM, Gunna’s said:

If Yze is successful, what is everyone’s thoughts on Stuart Dew replacing him as the midfield line coach?

Don't know why no one responded. He was incredibly highly regarded at the Swans. Back when I was coaching juniors I attended a coaches session put on by the Swans and the stuff he did was transformative. They credited him with developing a whole philosophy they had adopted and then he developed training exercises to execute it. It was very simple, clear and easy enough to teach to juniors.

I will say though that I love the idea of Ratten as midfield coach although he seems to have made it clear he is stepping away from footy for a while. I thought the best our midfield ever operated was when he was the midfield coach, even though that was quite a few years ago now.  

11 hours ago, JimmyGadson said:

A habit that so many one eyed supporters miss in their gushing over him. 

It's the kind of habit that just kills us and just completely undoes all of that mesmerising contest work. 

Part of this habit is actually technique. If you watch him kick whilst on the run under little pressure, he kicks the ball across his body instead of hips facing leading player. This often results in a shallow and high trajectory kick that is almost always advantageous to defenders. It's really really bad and nobody talks about it. 

The most frustrating thing about this is he has shown in the past that when he chooses to he is an excellent kick of low trajectory passes to leading players. Hope springs eternal. 

Is speed of ball movement the missing key?

The last few games it's really stood out that we are kicking into a far more crowded forward line much more often than the opposition. It appears to be because the dynamic speed of ball movement we had at the beginning of the season has gone enabling opposition teams to get back and choke our forward 50. We seem to consequently have to kick from further out and on more acute angles or attempt snaps closer in under great pressure which has led to our goal kicking accuracy dropping off a cliff. 

It was clear at the beginning of the season that our speed of ball movement had improved significantly and after a summer of goal kicking practice and shots closer to goal our accuracy went through the roof. Do you agree this is a key issue and can we fix them in time. 

Just saw you've cut off questions while I was typing. Second week in a row I've been too late.