Adam The God

Perhaps they'd take Howes' role in the back half, but I'd like to see him play wing and then we can push Windsor into the midfield. Probably not next year but in 2-3 years. And Bowey's current role. I really think we should look at Bowey as a mid.

This is the go. I hope we're sniffing around Butters. If Hinkley goes, he may well ask to be traded. Allegedly, he waited for Hinkley to re-sign before he recommitted most recently, so it might be time. If Port miss again, surely Hinkley gets the boot...

That's what I thought, just like Watts.

That's fair.

A bloke called Jesse Hogan...

No, I'm saying the opposite. We need to stop whinging about every little thing that doesn't go our way, stop playing the victims and get on with it. Fortunately, Goody doesn't play victim, he gets on with it, and tries to plan as best as possible. I think we're a good travelling side, and extra money is extra money. That said, the way our club tries to fundraise is pretty poor.

The last two times we've played them at the G, they've beaten us.

He's also been clearly playing a different role in many games he's played this year. He often sacrifices his game so that someone can get off the leash. For a guy that had pretty much no pre season and has been hampered by his busted finger, he's been pretty damn solid, just not to elite heights. But good luck without a full pre season. Elite Clarry will be back.

Given the Hunter experience, I think we'll steer clear of any other troubled former Bulldogs. 😉

Dazzle has some enemies. 🤣

Righto, maybe that can be my new display name when I'm allowed to change it again...

No, Petty is a premiership winning key defender and is 24. Houston is a 27 hear old half back flanker. AA maybe, but half backs are a dime a dozen. JT picks them for fun. Key position players are always worth more than half backs.

Interesting that we're interested in another half back. If Petty was set on returning to SA and we got Houston and their first rounder, we could make the best of a bad situation. Would rather keep Petty though.

Yesterday's Demonland podders ❤️

And Geelong...

So Levi Ashcroft is on the bench of the AA team and yet is expected to go #1?

Curnow is fair too. If Cripps or Curnow go down, they're not winning the flag IMO.

Luke is a legend of the Footscray Football Club because he's one of only two Bulldogs coaches to ever win a flag and he's also got them to a second GF. But unlike Goody, Luke has never had a side finish top 4 and it speaks to his coaching and his system. Conversely, Goody has had 3 top 4 finishes, one minor premiership, one premiership and another year of making the PF in 2018. I agree with Binners, Goody is a legend of our football club.

I agree on Kozzy. He's super important for us, but disagree on Cripps. He's so far their most important player it's not funny. But agree to disagree.

Those two losses to the WA teams hurt, but the two games I'd argue hurt us more are the 1 point losses to Carlton and Brisbane. We win both those games and we're second.

Love this @binman.

Thanks @Webber, am listening now.

Does he? I'd take JVR, Turner and Petty. And if we throw Petty down the other end next year, that leaves a spot for Jefferson.

Rubbish. That is a Thatcherite myth. It is public money or government money. We can't pay our taxes unless the currency issuing government spends it into existence first. It's a circular argument to suggest otherwise. As former RBA Governor Ian Macfarlene said recently "the spending came first. A lot of people are surprised when they hear that but that has always been the case". A more obvious situation is to look at JobKeeper. $200 billion appropriated when the overnight rate was zero (ie little to no significant interbank lending) and tax revenue had fallen through the floor. As Federal Treasury said in 2002, Commonwealth debt is issued to manage interest rates, it does not fund the Commonwealth. State taxes do fund the state government though, except they get access to cheap debt as through COVID where the RBA bought up huge amounts of state and territory debt (like the ECB does in the Eurozone, otherwise the disastrous monetary union would collapse) at 0.1%. It's similar for private banks, who create money (credit) when they lend. Loans create deposits. They then use their reserves in exchange settlement accounts to settle obligations to customers when they come due. As for training ground, you'd have to say Roffey has had a huge failure at this point.

I've been wondering about Woey playing lockdown, and leaving AMW to attack. Thoughts?