Adam The God

Heard an interesting little rumour today at training. Apparently the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve Trust have extended their MOU with the club, so despite near donuts on SEN this morning, let's hope the admin have this sewn up soon...

There's a pending state budget, so I think you'll find if there's something in there, we couldn't announce it until the Treasurer releases the budget papers.

The Victorian Government is guaranteed by the Commonwealth and vast majority of state and territory debt is owned by the RBA. All spending though is a political decision. I think this will still get done.

Is that you SWYL?

If you've watched the Fox Footy interview between Gary and King, King indicated Max would get rests this year. Again, I think we'll see more Chris Scott type management from King. Geelong have been experts at managing their older players.

Given the environments King has coached in, the likes of Scott and Bevo, I'd be staggered if he's not up for tagging the opposition playmakers.

If I'm a player agent, I'm advising my client to go to Melbourne over Hawthorn. The Merrett debacle will have ramifications. If you're going that hard, you need to get the deal done. Mitchell and Hawthorn looked incompetent.

I think we sort of want the Blues to get close to making the 8 and do nothing in finals. We want Voss there for as long as possible. A bit like Buckley at Collingwood, but Voss is even worse.

And also I'd imagine Tim plays a relatively hard game with Freo who continually poach our players. Not exactly an unbiased source then.

Yep, at this stage, I'm happy to load up on elite youngsters with JT at the wheel.

Fear is not a good motivator and never has been. It might have been used in the past, I used it in my first few years of coaching, but just because it was used, doesn't mean it worked.

The most negative poster on here, Greg. Congratulations.

Bloody Tim Lamb's at it again. 🤦

Paul Kelly is an Adelaide supporter I'm afraid.

But surely our Demonland peanut gallery knows more than AFL insiders? I'm surprised by that.

I think the action seemed to cause the injury though as he did seem dazed, despite passing concussion test. Therefore, to my mind, it's a punishable offence.

Dwyane Russell... that's your source? 😄

I figured, going by the video posted to socials yesterday that featured him, but thanks for the heads up.

Clarry was the best player in the comp in 2022, and arguably in 2021 too. He was also brilliant in the first 10 games of 2023. So saying he hasn't played well for three years is not really correct.

I'd argue this is a much bigger gamble than Clarry. Clarry was the best player in the competition when he signed on. We knew about his poor history and had managed it up until that point. He had rarely been injured... Contrast this with Walsh. Started off beautifully in a very poor team. Has a checkered injury history and allegedly a crook back. Sure, Carlton should know whether that back poses a chronic problem, but a deal like this seems very sketchy given Walsh isn't even the best midfielder at Carlton.

Wasn't sure where to put this, but Carlton remain 2-3 years behind us the whole time. Now they're signing the likes of Walsh, who can barely get on the park, to new 8 year extensions on big money. They had their mini implosion last year with Curnow ala Trac and Oliver at the end of 2024, and pulled the trigger earlier than us in that timeline, but Walsh and Cerra are injury prone, Cripps is 603 years old. They're lucky they've got a bunch of father sons coming through, but their midfield will be ho hum in 2-3 years IMV.

Hopefully. But it'll be interesting to see if Richmond can pressure our mids better. Ball use under little pressure is always better.

I find it hard to track when I'm not at the ground, but going by CBAs, Steele was playing a disciplined defensive/extractors role and around him we had speed (Windsor and Kozzy) and spatial awareness (Langford). But the big improvement seemed to be just having better ball users at the coal face. Steele is very solid. Langford is a beautiful kick, but the really impressive guy in the midfield mix outside of Steele was Sparrow. I thought he was an important link up player as well as providing good pressure around the stoppages. Otherwise, not enough of a sample size for me. I also think we'll probably hold our tricks back for the real stuff.

No. It was based on overlap and getting it inside as quickly as possible. And again, it doesn't tell us how we were moving the ball from back with overlap, which remains similar to what we witnessed against North. As I said, what we saw more of was more thought from the middle of the ground with our entries. We also saw plenty of long and direct kicking straight to the 20m hotspot. Something we did a lot of last year too...

Did you see the Freo game at the MCG last year? Did you see the Bulldogs game later in the year? Perfect examples of fast, overlap play...