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Well I suppose if it was announced on saturday night, or the next day sunday after the PF, that is Preliminary Final weekend and also GF week. The man thing is the Coach will be in place before trade week begins.

It sounds funny to say this, but if a 37 year old, who has played over 400 games, goes off injured earlier in the game, we win. The guy is a freak.

And two out on the full.

11 holding the ball frees to Port to 1 for Suns. I saw 10 blatant frees not paid to the Suns in the last quarter, several close to their goal. The commentators said the umpiring was extremely poor and I think Riccuto said it was as bad as he has ever seen. I thought Dimmas’ head would explode.

I could see one or two of that group leaving. We will make list changes as we do every year, we just have to hope that the changes improve us.

If I said to you we have the two Daicos bothers, would you say we are a finals side? When you lose 7 of 8 games by under 12 points, including finals teams, you are not that far away. A few list changes, development of youngsters like Langford, Lindsay, Kolt, Windsor, Kentfield, Jeffo, White, Sinemma, Adams, AMW, Mentha etc, a fully understood game plan and improved fitness will help us compete for finals again.

And two out on the full.

We ran two desperate finals teams to a goal in the last 3 weeks, without several injured players. We are not that far away.

And Kanga is a strong Pies fan and the Pies want Goschs oval, which will only be available if we give it up. We would only give it up if we have an alternate venue. Do you think the Pies might have had a quiet chat with Kanga and told him to stop worrying about where he would walk his dog? Anyway the announcement of Caulfield Racecourse as our new home, will help our recruiting of players imo, as well as getting our players excited about their new home.

Might be in the Caulfield Racecourse Training Facility fundraising area, or just getting him out of the soft cap, but still working with younger players.

Yes that’s true, but talk is the first part of good communication and he seems to handle that part very well. Reputation and experience are other important attributes and he appears to have those, though of course not in a football scenario yet.

Thanks for posting the link. He sounds very impressive from that brief interview and is apparently across most areas of the club already. As you would know from my posting, I particularly loved the comment that “we would be at Caulfield Racecourse, with an announcement in the near future”.

Are you serious? Clark is a star at Dockers couldn’t get a regular game at Cats. Baker hardly played for us. Martin is playing far better than at Blues.

Obviously the North recruiter and most of the experts thought he would be a better player. Players can improve at a new club. As an example, look at Jack Martin at Geelong, he is killing it. Oscar Baker is another. Jordan Clark another. etc, etc.

It’s interesting no one has announced their retirement. Sounding like the doubtful senior players are going around again.

Back at you.

And of course Baci, Berry, Bubblegum and Blueberry.

He is apparently unhappy at North and is obviously not performing to his best. If we could get him at reasonable cost, that would be good. North wanted Lever to be the general down back. I would do that swap today.

Long may it continue.

Bedford plays every week for the Giants, he isn’t a fringe player.

This is a fairly new non physical act penalty and all I am saying is that home and away games shouldn’t have the same weight as finals, when assessing penalty.

He is 30, turns 31 in October.

That is not correct. Are you seriously saying missing a game this week, plus all of the finals, is the same penalty as missing 5 home and away games? I suggest you speak to an AFL footballer and ask them would they rather miss 5 home and away games, or 1 home and away game plus a finals series. They are not the same punishment and why should Rankine get more than others. Just as a little add on, the previous penalty was where the extra insult of the word “f…ing” prefaced the homophobic word. Is that a worse slur, than Rankine used? Just asking, as the penalty should be for the actual offence. Another interesting fact is for physical acts, the effect on the victim is a factor, like concussion or injury. If the victim in this case is not gay and just laughed it off, should that be a factor? Just asking as a discussion point.

None, but the medical reasons probably are about his current mental health state. We don’t know how this is affecting him. That’s what it’s probably about.

Missing all the finals plus a home and away game, is worse than missing 5 home and away games to any footballer. They are different levels of penalty. I can’t see why people don’t understand that players value finals games far, far, far more than home and away games.