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No he didn't. A few months is 12 weeks. He played well for 5 or 6 weeks after droping himself. The fact he finished 18th in the Bluey says it all. the coaches don't rate him. They know what he can do,. They know what he is instructed to do. They see what he does. Jack is a bust sadly.

Enough there to give him more time. Is dedicated, has talent but lacks confidence and can be like a deer in the headlights with ball in hand.

Ha ha from his Wikipedia page.... Russell unsuccessfully applied for a journalism cadetship in Adelaide in 1984 before starting a journalism career in Geelong in 1989 There's a reason he was knocked back. He writes like a 2yo.....

Yep Sunday afternoon, father's day, Round 23 against GWS at Etihad. You'd pencil that in for 60,000 or so every day of the week.... What a tool.

Like x 1000

Yeah but he is right...

Don't look at what the coaches say about Watts. Look at the votes in the Bluey. Watts came 18th with 99 pts. That really says it all. Dropped in the last game, Dropped himself during the year. The most disappointing player on the list bar none. The most frustrating and polarising player on our list bar none. Has great skills with the ball in hand and is an elite decision maker. Thats it.

watts' result tells you all you need to know about what the coaches think of him. On shaky ground.99 votes from about 6 games I would say. The rest hmmmmmmm......best results are 9th one yr and 10th another. Colin Sylvia mk II Lumumba a pretty disappointing result. And Garland I am genuinely surprised. Seems they value his role on opposition player more so than any offensive capability

Your first sentence is infuriating...... And your second is spot on as well..

Agree

I reckon the top 7 will be spot on with the Bluey. My only question is has Viney played enough games. The way we award Bluey votes penalises players that miss games. And Wow, Toumpas played 9 games and finished ahead of Howe, Dunn, Dawes....hmmmm

Great servant of the club through bad times. Was limited as a player but gave his all. Thanks. Has been shiopping himself around for a while now so I suspect the club told him some time ago.... A club could do worse than to pick him up as insurance. Still pretty fit...

When you finish last you only get a decent pick ahead of the top team. If you fluff that you are cooked. You don't progress relative to the top team. And if the top team gets free agents you get further behind.

You make some goood points but I don't believe it will even itself out: 1 WCE and Coll spend $300k per week more than us on their football departments. That spending will benefit them for years to come and widen the gap between rich and poor. 2 The TV fixturing is appalling. If I was a sponsor I would be sponsoring Coll because they get more TV exposure in prime time than we do. (And the argument against that - ie performance is a factor - has been forever banished by the fact that Carlton had 6 Friday night games and 2 Sat night games. 3. FA players will mostly always want to go to a team playing finals. This perpetuates or entrenches the top teams in the top of the ladder.

Name one poster that says they want Roos out? They just want him accountable. And BTW you are still angry.

With the talk of PPs and the leg-up given to the expansion teams it is worth re-visiting the even-ness of our competition. It is fatally compromised in my view by the fixture, the stadium deals, the TV times slots and the non-salary cap spending. The expansion teams like GWS have stockpiled top talent to trade out and this is distorting the market beyond the compromised draft years. Add to this the free agency schemozle which was supposed to help discarded players like Daniel Cross move to the teams like Melbourne but has really aided teams like Geelong and Hawthorn because older players want a shot at playing finals. Demetriou said a few years back that he saw the competition as even because every team in the preceding 10ys had played in a preliminary final. This was pre the expansion clubs existence and has become a disaster zone now with 7 teams not making a preliom in a decade. In the past 10yrs the following teams have played in prelim finals: St K 4 Syd 5 Freo 2 PA 2 Haw 5 Coll 5 Geel 6 WB 3 Adel 3 NM 2 WCE 3 This leaves teams that haven't played in a preliminary final as follows: Ess Carl Melb GWS GC Bris Rich As for GFs in the last 10ys Haw has 3 Geel has 3 Syd has 2 WCE has 1 Coll has 1 The latest call for PPs from Bris and Carl are a joke. Carl got 3 number 1 draft picks and played finals in 2013. Bris have butchered their list going for Fevola, Beams and getting rid of other key players. But bigger than that is the fact the bigger teams are getting bigger, richer, more powerful in terms of sponsorship, TV deals, stadium deals, supporters etc The competition is unequal in so many ways and HQ has no idea there is a problem or how to fix it. I have zero interest in finals. I won't be watching and I won't be going. It's boring seeing the same teams compete year after year. The AFL has a real problem. What can they do?

How many times does this need to be explained?

Didn't even get a free at the time.... Disgracefull maggots. Waht a hard nut he is. Well done skip!

They have 3 number 1 draft picks and a number 2 draft pick. Played finals in 13. Yeah, give em one. they deserve it.

If your Aunt had balls... He's a first year player. Which bit of the definition don't you get? He has never played in the AFL before this year.

Repeating it doesn't make it right.

Players come and go. We support the club. Best not to get too attached to players in this day and age. They mostly treat it like a job. Its our passion. We will be supporting melbourne long after Jack Watts has fluffed around for 10yrs at our club. We will still be saying "if only...."

The players were not performing for 4 weeks running. The coach had no idea what to do or how to fix it and you don't think that is a coaching problem? Hmmm. You don't believe its the coaches job to get those players playing to an acceptable level each week? And congratulations for working out that some players are self-motivated. There are 44 players on a list that all require different levels of motivation. If its not the coaches job to get those players selected motivated and playing as a team whose job is it? Your view appears to be we don't need a coach except to pick a new list every year. Because they don't get players to 'turn up' each week - that is the players job. And if the players don't do it we just delist them and get a new bunch next year. Great theory.

Cut it out, That's the "better to apologise rather than seek permission and be denied" approach. They have learnt nothing. Arrogance in the extreme. You can't deal with these idiots. FFS they want a 1st and 2nd rd draft pick for Carlisle!! And a 1st rounder for melksham. No wonder they never do a trade.

SWANN: "We need to keep pick four because Melbourne have done a really good job of trying to sell the world that they'll get pick three for James Frawley and that pushes us back to five and that has a little bit of an effect on our ability to trade as well," Swann told AFL Trade Radio. "I know 'Roosy' (Melbourne coach Paul Roos) said everyone he speaks to thinks that pick three is a fair pick (for Frawley) but we certainly don't and we would have thought an end-of-first-round (pick) would be the best for James. It has a big impact on us. "We're talking pick three – it's a massive pick in a draft. I would have thought that would be reserved for top, top-echelon players. "We'd just like to think that it wasn't just a standard fait accompli that James gets pick three because there's a whole lot of stuff that goes into it and obviously it has an effect on others around where Melbourne's pick is." Swann said it wouldn't be appropriate if the AFL gave the Demons pick three as compensation for Frawley just because it knocked back their application for a priority pick last week. Bwahahahahh Bet he wishes he didn't say this stuff but they were so intent on getting Beams they didn't think therough the implications