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The question is not if he is any good, but is he what we need? I imagine we have a clear idea of what we need, and outside midfielders might be it for this trade and draft season. If medium forward is not on that list he will go elsewhere, or on our rookie list at best. Looks good, though.

Lever will say nothing until the Crows finish their season. Quite rightly, his focus should be on winning a flag this year... before he nominates us and works at winning another next year... as for your missus...can she take a decent intercept mark?

Yep, that one...

If Lever nominates us to come home, then we may do Frost for Lever as a swap? Seem to remember we let them have Armstrong for a steal because he wanted to go home. Normally if the player nominates a club, they get it done. Sam Frost would be valuable enough for a like-for-like, with the pressure of losing him for nothing. (*Perhaps I'm dreaming...)

Wasn't this a Lever thread? Some of you panty sniffers should start a man-hate thread so you can dump on your favourites. We drift from a trade suggestion of player X to a slanging match that has nothing to do with the topic.

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We are consistently outmarked. If I was coaching against us, I would seek to keep possession through marking, and have an outlet mark just outside 50, and a High HF marking CHF option. The Dees fail against these targets by not killing the contest way too often. We have focused on improving our ground ball game, and I believe we have taken huge steps here. The next thing we need to tackle is the contested marking at the key posts. Afte that, we then need to clean up forward 50 entry. A lot of our defensive issues come down to structure. When we have time to set up behind the ball, we do OK. WHen we are too cute for our own good further up the field (another glaring problem), our structures are caught out, and Nev has to defend whatever he can, even if it is sideshow bob, Franklin or Hawkins. It is just the structure. When we can move the ball more assuredly (without being overly cute) we can avoid the damaging turnovers that mean that Oscar and his defensive mates have little or no chance of even making a contest, let alone having the body shape or capability to win/halve it to advantage,

I did a really bad fart that smelled better than this mob. Why waste a moment thinking about them? It is galling that they (the club, not the players) used every tactic to avoid responsibility. Its even more galling that the AFL has never properly sanctioned the club because they are too pissweak and beholden to their favourites. I hope they have the Jab Watson curse that lasts 100 years.

I saw that article, and for a team with such a poor win loss record, that is now improving, the stats are meaningless. For a team like the Hawks that won more than it lost over previous seasons, perhaps you could run a correlation over in/out vs wins, however I imagine the correlation would be weak at best. for a team like ours, it is a completely worthless stat. Ask it after our third premiership.

Quite acceptable to wear your red and blue, I would think. If you want to wear yellow and brown, wait for incontinence to hit after you move into the nursing home....

As for the report, he hit the kid pretty hard, when he was unprotected and late. Be interesting how the MRP review it.

Listening to KB read his scripted tosh is embarrassing. He tries to create the story, and I bet he smells of urine and old farts. He may want Trac's biatch at Richmond, but it's not,going to happen. Sainters would be looking at 2018 and beyond for this kid, and the rest is a bonus.

This whole thing is such a joke: it is not a 'supplements saga'. It is a systematic doping saga. there are so many complicit, guilty fools trying to spin the story for their own benefit, it is painful If there is 'truth' here, someone release the evidence that supports it. Otherwise sit down, shut up and hang the sign with 'drug cheat' around your neck and suck it up. I can't wait for these idiots to descend into a bun fight to protect their individual legacies where the truth will actually come out. stupid, club, stupid people. The current 'returning heroes' rhetoric sticks in my craw.

Type 1 diabetes relates to a failure of the pancreas to produce insulin, as opposed to type 2 diabetes which is more about the insulin resistance of cells. You can forget that half-science bs above about Mcmuffin. If he has type 1 diabetes, it is corrected with matching the insulin injected to the carbs consumed and burned, totally manageable in a performance athelete. an AFL footballer with type 2 diabetes would be a major concern. This would require a Plugger Lockett style diet and lack of exercise. young forwards take longer to develop. Judge this contest at the end of their career. He is really a passenger until Roo retires, then he has big boots to fill. happy with Trac, he served massive needs for us.

The Australian article is worth the read. Not an apologist's arse wipe, like the other drivel about this case. When Hird took full responsibility he was on the right path. His advisers swooped in an whispered in his ear. He has not won a single appeal. He looks like a sullen schoolboy, now playing the victim. All of these idiots should have given him better counsel, rather than trying to turn him into a martyr on his death bed (or ICU bed).

This whole EFC thing is a joke. The Board is ultimately responsible from an organizational point of view for setting the culture and allowing stuff to happen with poor oversight. The CEO carries the can as responsible executive. As an analogy, poor Jimmy Hird is just the confused 'sales manager' promoted above his capability. He was a great sales rep, but a crap sales manager. He had no idea that everyone else was doing all sorts of stuff. He is, however, accountable for his actions and those of his direct reports. At a minimum his lack of awareness and ability to ask simple questions of what was occurring is astounding. He had a lovely trip to INSEAD to do a management course whilst everyone else copped the heat. Even there he failed to learn about responsibility and governance. Little Jimmy sales manager was happy to take credit for the results, but had no clue about anything else. Speaks of over-promotion and under preparation of JAH. The whole EFC needed a revolutionary clean out (Bellamys is having the same thing happen now). However, the lack of ownership and accountability of all involved (even the GIll-fish and Vlad) is most galling. Blame everyone else and take no responsibility. Play the victim. Defend the victim. Enough. They should have been put out of business, not have turned over half their list by the time sanctions rolled around, got first prize in the beauty contest (draft pick #1) and be ready to move into the 8 already. The AFL have a lot to answer for, letting the EFC get away with the equivalent of trading (morally) insolvent. The destruction of records is a willful, criminal act. The 'heads up' given to EFC by the AFL is complicit.

It is difficult to articulate any degree of insight when we (and the journalists) are not in the room. Saying that they were avoiding anchoring bias is about as valuable as suggesting they had mapped out the MNP's, or whatever. It's rewriting history (like the Harvard case study method, BTW), and offers us no insight into how they did it, or whether it was anchoring or first positioning. A behind the scenes review and interviews of each step of the deal would offer more insight. We could then understand then negotiations and how they played out. We could also learn if the two guys who went to Harvard were even involved, or if this was just a spurious link. Anyway, if you enjoyed it, that's cool. It just seemed like a stretch too far to give the piece an angle.

Learned at Harvard....and any decent negotiation or sales course. Wow, a simple behavioural concept of anchoring bias made into an article to suggest that the Adel/Geel was somehow special. Obviously fluff filler whilst nothing else is going on.

Isn't he under age? Otherwise he would have been a lions Father/Son possibility? Think he is next year.