The Lobster Effect

13 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

Are the Dogs permitted 15 players on the mark? If not, could the ump give another kick with a 50m penalty?

It's a shame Caleb Daniel was injured as imagine him on Tom Boyd's shoulders for the man on the mark...

5 minutes ago, DemonWheels said:

Enjoying Carlton going goalless for the first half against a team that’s younger and less experienced.

Surely Freo aren't that good, it;s just Carlton playing crap? It's not like their form in Melbourne's been great.

Good luck to Bolton in his press conference haha

2 hours ago, brendan said:

Feel sorry for Stewie dew got offered the dees job but didn’t want to move, now he has wrecked his coaching career taking the suns job 

I don't think Dew rejected the job but Sydney stood in his way as he was contracted at the time (there's a gentleman's agreement that clubs should let contracted assistants leave if they're going for other senior coaching jobs but Sydney argued it technically wasn't a senior coaching job due to the succession plan).

On 6/7/2018 at 9:59 AM, DavidNeitz9 said:

Our only televised home & away game for the year

That's ridiculous! VFL tv fixturing just as bad as the AFL...

11 hours ago, Old Man Rivers said:

Bailey Fritsch - Moves Like ROBBIE

Is that because he's skinny?

16 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Was in the Midfield for all the positional drills. 

Bring on those silky kicking skills!

So who's position will Salem take in the midfield for next year? 

Maybe he's still growing?

Now Port have 4 ex dees on their list!

Watts, Trengove, Toumpas, Barry

Every draft seems to have a few surprising names to miss but if every club passes them up then that has to tell you something....

4 minutes ago, ben russell said:

Three rounds down and Gryan Miers yet to be picked. Surprising.

Off to Geelong

Rumours are that the Bulldogs will get Dom Barry with a late pick (Collingwood and Hawthorn have also chatted to him).

29. Jordan Gysberts

31. Cale Morton

36. Lucas Cook

47. Jimmy Toumpas' brother

Is he better than pick 47?

If not, I'd still rookie him. If he's does well next year could give him one more year.

How many rookie spots do we have?

24 minutes ago, DemonAndrew said:

saad goes for 2018 second rounder - great get for the peptides alongside smith and (potentially) stringer

Seems a pretty good get, if the bombers stay in the same position as this year that's only pick 28 for Saad.

Goes back to the point of draft picks being over-rated due to the uncertainty. Would the odds only be 50/50 that pick 28 would end up being a regular 22 player?

3 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Dylan Grimes gets a premiership medal. Good on him

Who's better out of him and Jack?

28 minutes ago, Demon77 said:

So is this a case of Watts approaching the FD and asking if he could do some window shopping?

Nah, it's been initiated by the club. Wattsy wants to stay.

3 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Goodwin just confirmed he's gone.

"We're happy for him to stay at Melbourne but we're also really comfortable for Jack to explore some options."

Yeah I saw that too on channel 7. He's as good as out the door!

I found this bit interesting from the article Roos wrote:

"Let’s be perfectly frank. The reason the Giants exist is because North Melbourne didn’t go to the Gold Coast.... If North Melbourne had gone to the Gold Coast there would have still been 16 teams. North Melbourne refused to go to the Gold Coast, so what did Andrew Demetriou do? He created a new team...You can’t have a 17-team competition..."

Do people think this would have been the case?

Having a bye every weekend wouldn't have been great so maybe we would have stayed on 16 teams for about a while, say 10 years until the AFL decided to introduce Tassie and GWS to have even numbers. 

Unbelievable! What a game.

Imagine being a Port supporter.

Home crowd free kick that deliberate to Port!

1 minute left. Wowee

Go port. Eagles don't deserve to be there, were pretty lucky to scrape in.

6 hours ago, layzie said:

What channel was this on or how can I watch it?

SBS. Can watch via their app.

Anyone catch the doco tonight?

He is a fairly strange cat. Wonder if he got on with anyone at the Dees.

Came across a mixture of sensitive, arrogant and passionate. I don't think people at Collingwood would have been that excited every time he tried to make a stand!

Just in case people can't access the article here are some extracts:

'Jake Spencer is likely to join the off-season merry-go-round of backup big men looking for new homes.'

'He has been told by the club they will offer him a new contract next season but is one of a list of second-tier ruckman looking for more opportunity.' 

'Spencer was labelled one of the in-demand free agents by premiership player David King recently because of his upside and aggressive style of play.'

Don't quite agree with King there!

16 minutes ago, fndee said:

How far out is important. Can’t imagine anyone here, or even Jesse himself, would want Hogan with the ball over 30 metres.

 

Does anyone else think it's surprising that Jesse can only kick about 45m? 

He'd be so much more dangerous if he could kick as long as Milkshake or Hunty.