jnrmac

Isn't Frost out of contract at the end of the year?

$212,500 a year? Seems OK to me.

Cricket and footy are pretty much the only sports in the world that are played on a pitch or oval where the grounds are not uniform....

As a spine? That would be terrible. Oliver CHB? Gawn FF??

If that's true - and I don't doubt you - it is an appalling piece of list management. I know there is a new CBA in the offing that may be holding some agreements back but seriously that is negligent of the club.

I wish.....

He's not like most 31 yo's in the sense he has only played around 63 games...

I have heard he owns a house overthere (nudge nudge)

I am tipping....I know this is a big call but.....I am tipping they won't want Vince... Just sayin...

Champion Data provide an easy-to-digest tackle count for every match. Prowess Sports split them up into Tackle Attempts and Effective Tackles. The clubs, on the other hand, often break them down even further, preferring to have dedicated statisticians keeping an eye on held tackles, broken tackles, missed tackles and the like.The most common myth about tackling is that if you have more tackles than the opposition then you’ve probably been chasing backsides all day. Not so, particularly when you look at the fact that almost 60% of teams that have won the tackle count in 2016 actually won the game. Pressure acts are just as important and Hibberd is first class in this area. But when it is all said and done he gets the ball and is a magnificent kick - something we havent had as a defender for many years. Recruit of the year.

Good second half. Abominable first half. One swallow does not a summer make...

Ys they can. A court can force him but ho-one has taken him to court. I wonder why?

If people believe that number they believe in the tooth fairy. How about: EFC: "joe, we're sorry about the drug saga so here's what we'll do. We'll pay you $2m as a tax-free ex-gratia payment on the basis that you sign a new contract when it falls due at $2m for 3 years?" JD: "err OK" This scumbag club led the way in salary cap rorts and ATO evasion*. They rorted the cap from 91-96 when they won a flag*. They kept the 1993 flag of course. *In 1996, Essendon were fined a record $638,250 ($250,000 in back tax and penalties, $112,000 for draft tampering and $276,250 for breaching the salary cap regulations), forfeited their first, second and third round picks in the National Draft and were excluded from the 1997 rookie and pre-season drafts after a joint Australian Tax Office and AFL investigation found that they had committed serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap regulations totalling $514,500 between 1991 and 1996, including $110,000 in 1993 when Essendon won the premiership

He has the records.........hmmmmm.....

I'd like to see each of them have 5 tackles.

Kelly would be a great pick up. The question is the value. Yes you have to pay up to get silk but IMO its really important not to upset the whole TPP situation. If we do get into a window of success we will need a lot of negotiationg room for our current crop.

Don't disagree but how many of those big trades have been successful? Trades like Mummy to GWS and Lake, Burgoyne or Frawley to Hawthorn seem to have more success than the Judd's or Buddy's. They are less disruptive to the playing list and salary cap. To match the price touted for Kelly would stuff us for years in terms of salary cap and player payment 'relativity'. And while he's good he is no game changer yet, IMO.

I think that is clutching at straws. The Boyd deal is in a category all of its own and he was pretty much useless in the lead up to the GF - and pretty much since. Yes he had a great game but I am talking Dangerfield, Buddy, Buckley etc. These deals cripple clubs generally. You'd be better with a Rory Laird / Elliott Yeo type - just below A grade but very solid and 1/3 as much as a Kelly.

Remind me how many have won flags chasing a fish and a pay packet like that? Kelly has all the goods but is still relatively unproven. He plays in a team of champions so its hard to get a form line sometimes.

Totally different roles. Not a like for like comparison.

Hmm as he scans the 2015 draft. Daniel Rioli... Such a waste of time doing retrospective drafting. It's pretty easy though. I think Weid will work out just fine. Good pair of hands and likes to fly at the ball.

I recall them saying the Buddy deal and the Boyd deal had re-set the market for key forwards. You had to draft them because they were going to become unaffordable. They choose to take the best Key fwd available.

Not so reliable your friend.....

In the past 5 years every team knew they can beat Melbourne. Even the spooners - it was their one genuine chance for a win. I suspect that will change this year.

It's usually a player from another club doing it to us.....