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well obviously not robbie flower; he only won one bluey truscott trophies, so he must've been hopeless to have not claimed that many despite playing in a perennially atrocious side...goes to show what a fallacy b&f placings are, really i don't think the dees have, over the last 40-50 years going back to the mid-80s, had that many outstanding mids at all oliver is an absolute a-grader in my view trac definitely has the potential to challenge him, but for oliver to be so consistently outstanding from day dot has been so exciting to watch

yes, he would be a good get it's pretty rare for interstate kids to go from one vic club to another tho? most tend to go 'home' - the one exception i can think of off the top of my head is james aish, the sa boy who was recruited by the bears, was desperate to go to the filth, and then was shipped to freo last year

faang companies have no interest in paying to telecast a small fry domestic competition there was a study done not too long ago that showed that the cost of running the two northern franchises was greater than the uplift of the 9th telecast match but, as others have said, it's all about capturing 'hearts and minds' (and private schools) and converting them to afl supporters over the course of the next couple of generations, not an immediate move to drive viewership, attendance, etc. afl is playing the long game, at least in theory

thought that was an awesome game to watch

carn the pear

this zerrett and pick 6 would be an extraordinary offer on the flipside, clayton is the best mid i've ever seen in my time following the dees since the mid 80s lyon's comments are interesting

hopefully he gets the help he needs

hopefully shaw gets the help he needs media already speculating he ain't coming back

filth-supporting mate reckons his contract is heavily backended and there's no way the pies can accommodate given big deals for grundy, moore, de goey, etc.

brown can play at chf, then

be funny if he went to the tigers after what he said during the recruitment process to land at the pies can't see him being anywhere other than at the filth in 2021 but stranger things have happened...

ha, tony sheahan!

they got the irits when travis boak didn't leave the pear to come 'home' to them too

less punchy, presumably

i have always heard that the afl hierarchy was more focused on expansion rather than contraction i personally can't see the new northern franchises disappearing, which means it's the small vic clubs which are under pressure: north, saints, footscray, and us are the obvious low hanging fruit fingers crossed we survive any impending cull

never waste a crisis, as they say...

tom morris reckons that the hawks are 2 years plus a trigger for a third, whereas ours is a straight up three year offer - although i thought there was some speculation that third year was a combo of playing / coaching

love nev is he in our best 22? i doubt whether he'd be in the filth's best 22?

dial-a-quote

yeah, if those happen i will be highly impressed by the afl's predictive powers

quite the contrary, i think - gus believes he's an a-grader and doesn't need to do the hard work to remain at that status

Did he have a Goodwin?

a premiership a brownlow medallist (trac, oliver, gawn) seeing us winning at the g

what noted carlton nuffie riley beveridge actually said in the video is that he thinks that while they'd love to land an oliver type, he thinks they have capacity to add a player at the level of the next tier down

watts was dropped to the vfl / sanfl by every senior coach he had he wasn't good enough move on