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Very hard to make a judgement without knowing exactly how it all played out but I agree with a lot of points here that his management got a better than value contract and that we also handled it poorly. It did seem that after making the GF we were handing contracts out like drunken sailors to the point where we had to over-correct. From memory I think Neita, Bizzell and possibly Robbo all came into the club one day and volunteered to take pay cuts. We lost Stephen Powell as a cap casualty to St Kilda, put bluntly we were in salary cap hell. At Neita’s B & F acceptance speech I think he finished off with a message to the club telling them to ‘please keep this list together’ which could be taken a number of ways but it felt like departures were inevitable. Whether Shane was given the opportunity to take a pay cut himself or was just suddenly put on the trade table is something maybe someone else can fill in the blanks on. It may have been a case of the cut he was willing to accept was poles apart, I don’t know. He was certainly filthy though over the club’s statement on the website stating what he would have been earning in the next 2 years. This was a time when there was no free agency and probably less info out there on earnings so I did feel for him there. Be thankful for our list management now where these interactions are being carried out much more professionally and respectfully.

Cheers mate, can't wait to get stuck into it!

Huge fan of Il Duca! Long time institution. Get on the lamb shanks!

No wonder he works well with Garry Lyon!

You reckon it could have been worse Dante? Gee wiz! 😝

Where's that chart of the training absentees again?

That's the spirit!

Yep, I bet the squawk talk has sky rocketed..

Here's hoping

Bedford being there today definitely worries me.

Let the fun begin on this thread..

Been waiting for this to come back!

Great opportunity, just don't coach too hard and put yourself in the shop window Ooze!

This is my favourite chart of anything at the moment.

It's like an eye test at the optometrist where they keep asking "Better or worse?"

In their dreams maybe!

Ooh Salem is out of 4-6 territory!

That's the way the news goes..

Yeah pretty scary that we can have a night like that and still hold the opposition to 54 points. Credit to the structure and non-stop running all night.

Yeah for sure, it can become a throw away line to say "possesions don't matter it's what you do with them that counts." With Parish I just feel he needs to add a little extra, it's a real value driven game now and a midfielder like that needs something else to set him apart. I thought he played a good game though.

Well said, Sparrow was a beast.

Hopefully there's someone who knows more about this area but when streaming services acquire the rights to something are there any rules or guidelines that say the product (Whether it’s sport or tv shows) needs to be acquired as a whole or at least a majority of it? Or is this pretty much up to the rights holders doing as they please? To give an example of what I’m asking, most shows on the streaming services are available with all their seasons and tied to that one platform. However, I’ve noticed with a show like South Park you have the first few seasons on Netflix, the majority of the seasons on Amazon Prime and then every season Post-2020 on Paramount +. Is there anything preventing these guys from carving up the product and giving pieces of it to various services like this thus making it infuriating for the customers like us? Or could it all just become one big dirty free for all?

Couldn't agree more, he has no problem backing into a pack and nothing fazes him at all when he has the ball in hand. Thought he had a ripping game on Sun night.

The goal is always what gives you the best chance to win a flag and if it's between goals geared towards that scenario or aiming to go undefeated I know what I'm choosing. Sure you can go the Old El Paso route and try to have both but keeping things simple in the players and coaches minds is the most important thing.

I'm always drawn to the hard runners who get to lots of contests so naturally I look at Parish's game as a decent one but he really didn't do much with it or hurt the opposition by foot. For a contested bull he had 15 contested possessions so it does seem like there were a lot of dippy dappy handball receives for him in his game. I'm a fan but he needs to evolve a bit with more effective kicks or a goal a game. Just something a bit extra than handball, handball, handball.