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Yep - the tail end of Hopgood’s career was around when I started paying enough attention to know the ins and outs of each player, so I probably am being generous. Definitely wouldn’t count Tingay, so Alves it is.

Hopefully he may live up to the dizzying standard set by Ricky Petterd in #15. We're due to have a #15 that can play. The last one we had was Paul Hopgood, since then we've had Funcke, Smith, Petterd, Rodan and Stretch (source: DemonWiki) - all borderline AFL but NQR players.

I look forward to the bleating of dissatisfaction on here with the answers given.

They train for a couple of hours a day, and not every day. Goodwin is a full time employee, and I doubt he clocks off once 37.5 hours is reached for the week. Reckon there’s plenty of time in his day to watch training and do the others stuff as well.

Immensely ?

I dun care none about he's grammer or he's hare so long as he football's good.

What that shows is how dumb it is when people equate the value of a draft pick by players who have been taken in that position in the past. Going off that graph, if you had pick 4, you'd trade it for pick 5 as you have a higher likelihood of getting a good long term player.

So? Smith isn’t saying people shouldn’t play. And besides, Joel is a grown adult who can make his own choices.

Why bump a 5 year old thread just to make this inane contribution? Fair dinkum.

Maybe next time you have no idea what’s happening behind the curtains, you might consider that before criticising?

This thread summarised: I don't understand what this trip is for or what the coaches will get from it, therefore it's a waste of time and money.

Jamie and Harley are distant cousins from memory.

This is the sort of stuff my teenage daughter does with her mates on TikTok. Young men make choreographed dance video in 2019 after a few cans - quick, get the gallows ready!

Yes, this is why we’re talking about picking him out of the dumpster. Obviously if he was in the nick he was in when he was flying, we’d be talking about multiple first round draft picks. The risks are implicit in the price we’re paying, which is sweet FA in terms of opportunity cost (alternative is the 70th best 18 year old). His salary is a sunk cost - we have to pay someone.

There’s always one mung bean who posts something like this. Stretch played 47 AFL games, so it can’t have been that obvious he wasn’t going to make it. He also played the majority of those 47 under Paul Roos, and seeing as you know more than him, no doubt you’re in hot demand as an AFL coach. Oh, you’re not? I don’t expect anyone to shed a tear over a player who has fallen short of the grade being delisted, but I don’t think it’s a big ask to show some respect, or if you really can’t do that, STFU.

I’m not that particular - I don’t mind if our next great small forward isn’t indigenous, nor do I mind if out next indigenous great isn’t a small forward.

Looking forward to “The The Chazz Thread”!

You want Bennell, but don’t want Murray because he’s a DH? That’s a pretty hefty double standard I would have thought.

I would have been happy to grab Membrey or Bruce. Bummer. Membrey is a much better player than he gets credit for on here - definitely more than just a Kent Kingsley (and so was Kent Kingsley, incidentally). He’s a 40 goal a year forward consistently and aside from one run of the yips in 2017, is accurate in front of goal. Ah well.

Jack Hannath?

It’s definitely weird logic. We could have not traded second rounders for the likes of Hibberd and Melksham, and played draft lotto instead and *maybe* (I’d say 1 in 10 chance) got a player of their quality, and not had two players in their prime who played critical roles in a team that reached a preliminary final. I’m struggling to see how that’s better.

Is keeping Daniher really a realistic option for Essendon once he tells the club he’s gone though? If he really doesn’t want to stay, if they keep him captive I really doubt that’s going to lead to the player fully committing to the cause, which is essential in such a high performance job. They’ll have a deadweight on their list until his contract runs out, and then he’ll just walk. There’s also no way Sydney will cough up a player of any value that they don’t want to lose unless another constraint dictates the need to. They know Essendon are full of crap. Daniher will get to Sydney, there won’t be any other players involved, and Dodoro will be shown to be all bluster. Again.

The same people who voted in the B&F are the same ones who decided he was surplus to requirements. What that tells me is that B&F finish isn’t a good indicator of how the FD rate a player, even if they acknowledge that he had a pretty good season.

It might have been that I was thinking of. It’s funny watching them operate though. They seem to be the only ones who actually try to operate in the way mug footy fans think it should work.

It’s not really the Josh Mahoney style (months of legwork is usually involved in our trades), but I’d be wondering what pick 26 or the next year second rounder we got from Hawthorn might shake loose. With all that still to do, you’d think they’d be interested. You would also think they’ll be tight on list space with 2 players being traded out and 5 in.