Redleg

Rubbish. He was sounded out by the AFL and GWS to be their first Coach to bring a profile to the club. He moved states to do the job and was successful at starting a club in hostile territory. He is nothing like the player you mentioned as he played his entire career at one club and basically coached for his entire career at another. The GWS job came after he had retired from Coaching. Easy to rewrite history. Congrats on yet another negative post.

Agree. That is my experience with him on a few occasions we have met and others who have told me the same. I was told of a story one evening when KS was out dining with his family and on leaving, passed a table of young men. He stopped and of his own volition engaged the guys about who they followed and for about 10 minutes, while his family waited had a discussion on footy. My son was one of the guys, so I know it is true. The guys were really impressed and KS apparently is known for this. Sometimes we build our dislikes of people for reasons that are not factual.

I wouldn’t have thought not “officially “ being a Demon, would have stopped him from going on a 3 day camp, if he wanted to. He is officially training with us and involved in all club activity, I would imagine. Unless of course you know otherwise.

He has kids and may have opted to stay home with his family. The others are likely all single.

I just wonder if we have been unable to afford the costs attached to the Irish players and maybe now, have decided we are able to again to get involved.

So am I . A 196cm goal kicking forward who played senior footy at a good standard this year and who has good endurance, is let go by a club with a shortage of key forwards and a main one who is injured and doesn’t want to be there. What do the Bombers know that we don’t, or was it purely a salary cap issue? On face value it is a good get for us.

Data shmata. Win games, rest is fodder.

You guys should all be on the No T$ No BS thread.

They don’t rate character, attitude or personality I would imagine.

Quite possible, as next year or two can often see teenagers develop late in height and build. I think Garry Lyon for example grew about 7-8 cms at about 18-19. A mate of mine grew 10cms in his last teenage year.

You are not saying I hope OD, that you wanted to continue with Darwin are you? If nothing else and you are looking for a reason to have stopped it, just ask the players or someone in the FD. Good riddance I say.

Disagree. We make the finals for example, by one game, not having lost the regular next game after Darwin and calculate the difference in revenues from finals participation, gate, sponsorship, membership, merchandise, attracting new players, which in turn increases the preceding items again. Also what if substitute game is say a home game against Bombers for example, the gate alone for that would cover the Darwin game.

From the proceeds of a game in Melbourne with ticket sales, sponsorship etc and a better finish to the year increased membership etc.

Not surprised.

I am excited about Rivers. I had not considered him available to us with our last pick and after taking him looked at his highlights and read more about him. I know highlights are pretty useless, as even I had one or two way back when, but this kid seems to have some real attributes. He is a nice size and can go hard at the ball, then is able at least in the highlights, to give off accurately and quickly . He can cover ground with his kicking and has some pace. Have a feeling this kid could be ok for us.

Will need to catch a bigger fish first.

In 1857 women in Britain were first allowed to divorce their husbands.That is something to contemplate in between breakfast and ablutions.

Yes I know that, but to play a high level physical sport in those conditions is ridiculous enough but to then have the disadvantage of having to fly home, recover and play again in a short break is totally unacceptable. Thankfully we have finally come to our senses and put our players first and short term financial gains second.

I have just come from Darwin and am now in Cairns and I hope this doesn’t make me a racial profiler, but I look at every young indigenous boy I see and wonder if they can play footy. We certainly did the right thing ending the Darwin game. It must be debilitating for the players.

Pickett and Rivers.

I am upset about Kemp for 2 reasons. First I think he could become a very good player and second that Carlton got any new players at all.

That is what I meant. Set the deal up now if possible and do it if Port take another player.

Do that and you could have Robertson and that would shut a lot of criticism down. Only one club to pass on him then needed.

Apparently yesterday someone noticed some horns starting to grow on Pickett’s head.

If it’s true that he hasn’t run for 6 months, it would not be difficult to see him missing most, if not all of the season. Playing any games this year might be a bonus.