Adam The God

He was a good pick, wouldn't call him an amazing pick. But yeah, agreed, academy access and COLA has kept them up. Meanwhile, their coach and team consistently crumble on the big day or even for 3 quarters in qualifying finals too.

And a bloody good premiership winning coach...

Gulden was an academy player. As was Heeney, as was Blakey, as was Mills. You know, like all their best players.

On ya, Greeny! 🤦

If we were playing FIFA maybe, but in reality state league players do not have the elite fitness required to play at the top level for a season. Those guys know what standards get you there and would be good back up, and good for Casey to develop our younger guys coming through. Taberner is a stronger back than Schache if required and Ross is no worse than JJ, Dunstan or Harmes.

Separation of church/synagogue/mosque and football club, thanks very much.

Walsh would work in any system because he's a machine runner. Having Lingers and Walsh in the same team would be a dream, and probably mean we could tweak our system even more.

Nah, I was all for Cerra pre Carlton, but not only has he failed to live up to expectation Inhad on him, he's constantly injured. The Carlton mid I'd like is Walsh, but he too has injury problems and they'd never let him go. He'd be perfect in our system.

Meh. We have way more pressing needs. Like elite mids to support Viney, Clarry and Trac. And half backs to help our transition game. Houston and Cumming are still good ideas, Cumming is preferable given he only costs TPP.

TDK is a nice player, but I reckon they're going to shed a highly paid player soon. He's a difficult one, because they've already got two star forwards and a good ruckman, if I were them I'd be trying to turn TDK into another mid or even a Houston.

And the Blues still haven't win a flag for 30 years...

What are you talking about?

Haha, sorry to be a pedant, OD. I think he's going to be a star. He'd be one of the best forwards in the game if he one grabbed more often. I'm a big fan. You?

Maybe we need to pay Benny better. He was great, and give him a media team around him.

Vote 1 Jaded.

Lindsay seems super outside without elite disposal. He seems a good kick, but I can see why he's nowhere near the top 5, let alone top 10. I'd be staggered if he goes top 10, and would strongly believe it'd be a decision based on needs for the club that takes him.

Surely not? If true, what a joke.

A huge indictment. It's like the board have been hiding under their desks for 12 months. They've had plenty of time to think strategically about how to entice money out of various interests (state gov, fed gov, local gov etc), and come up with what? Kate had 11 years on the board for this very reason.

Yep, we owe quite a bit to Deemocracy as of late.

Hip hip hooray. 🎉

"Landing the club"? All they needed to do was accept the amendments Peter pushed and they would have saved those costs. Instead they weirdly dragged it through the courts and then accepted the majority of the changes, making the vast majority of the process redundant. Completely the board's fault.

I reckon their system isn't up to it.

One of my mates says it, and I've seen it written at least twice in the last fortnight. It's very strange.

I don't think Peter Lawrence is at fault. He merely wanted better governance and has spent years passionately and financially supporting the club. Both AFL and AFLW programs. By the end of the recent court proceedings, the board had accepted almost all of his requests. The club did not need to waste time and money, and undermine our brand. All they needed to do was accept the better governance positions in the first place. And weirdly, they didn't.

Disagree, but we'll leave it at that.