darkhorse72

Unless they send all the teams to a ground no one ever plays one, someone will get a home ground advantage. Unless it rotates every year?

I don't know why he (and other players) dont strap them pregame instead of during if injured? Or are they just re-strapping?

According to on the couch tonight by Ralph, Grundy has nominated us as his only destination. That gives us more power in getting more of his salary covered but he pies. Better to organise that swap before any Jackson deals :)

It was a typical stuff up by the AFL. The first AFLW game observed the minute of silence, then it was scrapped. I don't agree with the position that the AFL took in not acknowledging a queen, that was a good monarch (overall) in terms of being progressive. Given that indigenous round runs for two weeks, the second weekend that would have been no other focus. But I don't get paid the big bucks. Unfortunately Australians don't really understand the role of the queen or queen in English and our democracy. She follows the advice of the government of the day, it has been this was since the little thing called the English Civil War, they no longer dictate government direction in an shape of form officially. that is not to say in private she agreed with the government, she gave console on what should be the best course of action in weekly meetings, but in the end the elected government made decisions on what they thought was best. Best example is our GG giving scomo half the govenrment :)

How did he get a vote, he was tagged out of the game by Brayshaw... Cripps... dodgy.

No way, no votes!

will Neale get a vote in the last game , nope.... he did nothing. Is it Millers?

Angus!!

WIll he get the next 2x3 ?

maybe dye his hair real blonde, that worked in the past.

Remember

Viney did have a purple patch ...

Freo Bradshaw didn't have the best finish o the season. Neale as pointed out ha no competition in the midfield, its him and daylight at the lions. Oliver still may, he had a great finish to the season, even in our losses.

Weed simply can'y mark the ball in a contest. Why is Bowey not playing? (I missed the start)

simply the universe finding balance, as they won so many by the same (law of averages)

The swans crumb so well around packs, they have some really smart "small" players.

I would be very happy for Gunston to join our fwd line, super smart forward and footballer, who has great kicking skills. Fristch and other forward would learn a lot off him.

Has looked good in the ruck, haven't paid much attention to his work around the ground. Better long term option if he fits the bill.

do preseason count so we can get them our of the way quickly :) He's insurance if needed. And May was right.... sadly.

A 8 point game for both sides and a chance the create a break in the top 4 position. But its also hard to get a read on the quality of their opposition. Freo, Suns, Giants, Freo has fallen in a hole, suns/giants 1 win each against west coast and swans. Bit like North smashed sun's round 1 too. It will be a close tough game as they always are against Brizzie. I think we can cover Harris. I agree on Zanker, think she has so much to offer but wasn't the best last year. I think opposition put more time into her now. But she's looked better this year.

I agree. I do wonder about the "go home" players. It really shows a real lack of maturity and restricts one's need to become an independent adult as a natural progression. It's not like he's joined one of the services at 18 (like many do) and is now serving overseas for 6/12 months with little of no contact (Its better than it used to be). What happened to young people trying to get away from their family to build their own lives. (This is not a direct critique of Jackson, but a general view of all those players claiming home sickness).

At least its offical, action can be taken. It doesn't say a club so that gives us more flexibility.

Listening the Brown on the couch months ago, he said each year they got sorer and more banged up over their 3 peat. But he end they weren't in a good shape by the fourth GF. Forward 20 years, the game is harder in terms of impact and faster, therefore the shorter recovery has a bigger impact. Plus as we know this year we had more injuries which meant players took on more load in games than last year. Look at the Cats this year, they managed their players over the year deliberately to ensure they stay fit for the finals. Our conditioning team will assess based upon the data. Whether Burgo's idea of playing though injury was the best approaching this year, I guess will be looked at.

I would argue most of our players were playing sore I the later part of the season. People do seem to be under rating his ability based upon the last section of the year, but he wasn't alone in trying to be consistent in his standard of play.

Jackson is worth 2 x 1st rounders. Its being reported he won't nominate Freo so WC compete for his services which makes it a bit more interesting. Also Peter Bell has been offered the North job and most likely to take it,,, Meaning we'll be dealing with someone else, we won't need to put up with his public games as we did with previously. Interestingly the position they supposedly offered Jackson at Freo, is a role he could do at the Dee's if we really wanted. It would also upset others planning against us, if he could do that role well. As noted by others, Jackson is a known big man quality. That is hard to pick in the draft (Taylor did a brilliant job) even at pick 2. Either hopefully he does announce his decision today so we can move on the the deals side if needed.