P-man

Haha..the first few pages of this thread make for interesting reading.

The hypocrisy of this lot. It's truly breathtaking. At least Abbott is gone. No matter the circumstance, having that lunatic no longer in charge can only be a good thing.

Still chuckling. May or may not have something to do with the boatload of kava I've had tonight..

I get the feeling he isn't greatly respected by his peers. How could he possibly be with the constant arrogant dribble that comes out of his mouth? I'd be especially interested in hearing Dunstall's view of him behind closed doors. This article, like the last one, is nothing but an excuse to have a crack at clubs he feels the competition would be better off without. His own beloved Port was virtually on the scrap heap before the AFL swept in with a multi-million dollar rescue mission. Never a whisper of that from this dope. The title itself is a laugh: "Crowds and on-field success the keys to avoiding player exodus says Dwayne Russell". It would have been just as insightful if it read: "Australian rules football played with an oval shaped ball says Dwayne Russell". The problem is, you can't even say that he will be made to look stupid if Hogan stays past 2017 and the club is competing in September in front of healthy crowds. That ship has long sailed away.

You're right. Apologies to any earwigs reading this.

You just knew he'd be all over that Etihad crowd. Conveniently fails to mention the average crowd attendance of 29,710 which is higher than several clubs including finalists in North and the Bulldogs. Destined to go higher as the club's fortunes turn around on field. The two clubs he seems to have a hard on for are marginally ahead on average attendance - Fremantle at 31,461 and West Coast at 32,150. It's verging on depraved this vendetta he has against clubs down the bottom. Just a grade A turd of a human with the intelligence of an earwig.

Spot on. Happy to see him continue to give us that elite ball user out of the back half that we sorely lack, but in time he will become a midfielder and a damn good one. it says a lot that Petracca names him as someone to look up to. Somewhat damning on the other senior players but a testament to Christian. Fingers crossed for an uninterrupted 2016.

Champion. Will be back to his best in 2016 with hopefully a well deserved AA nod not far away.

Garland 7th is a genuine surprise. Never would've predicted him to finish ahead of Garlett. Or Gawn for that matter. Clearly he is largely playing his role to instruction. Salem is a jet. Big chance to go top five next year.

And well done Bernie boy. Throughly deserved. A Demon through and through.

1 vote, bloody hell. Phenomenal effort by JV. Mad love for that kid.

"My Melksham brings all the boys to the yard.." Please God no.

Are they smiling?

There's surely no way the club would offer this potato a 4 year deal.

Following the game online. Frawley is getting an absolute roasting on Bigfooty. That bad huh? So sad

I'm not Beamer's biggest fan but this is unfair on him. Both were at their peak.

Salem finishes 11th playing less than half a season

We haven't had too many All Australians to boast of in recent times which places him in pretty exclusive company. Cheers Russian. Good luck with the next chapter.

Well there you go. Remarkable he was able to still perform at the level he did. What a champion. .

Glad to see common sense reigning supreme. Laughable to pass on a player of this calibre because of a few off field activities that every second AFL player dabbles in. Whether we are a realistic chance is another matter...

Judge players by what they do, not what they say. Especially when they are teenagers who are a year or two into the system.

lol..this is the stuff of comedy.

I'm merely talking about performance. Naturally you take a win over a loss. But there's nothing wrong with lifting standards and expectation with respect to performance. "A win is a win" is nice and simplistic, and winning is no doubt important for the mentality of this group, but we're on a path towards being able to compete with top four sides. Performance can be appraised regardless of the result.

Some strange nominations. Against WC we were 20 points down at 3/4 time. Relatively competitive showing up til that point against what is now a premiership favourite. Against Port we were 2 goals down at half time, after which they kicked 10 goals to 2, but both of those sides are far, far superior to the Lions. Hell, as dire as we were in the first half against Carlton, the second half was better than any of the dross from the Brisbane game. I took next to nothing away from the performance other than the 4 points. Both sides butchered the ball from start to finish. Brisbane were kept to a low score because they couldn't hit a teammate 15 metres away. As I said, bin it and be thankful we happened to be playing Brisbane that week. Anyone else would've been a loss. 7 wins is better than 6, and 13th is better than 14th. But don't tell me to take heart from the performance itself because we "won ugly". We played a shitful opponent. Next season I want to see us put a team like that to the sword. A 10 goal win is on the checklist. It's been a while.

Frawley finished eighth last season. Ahead of Nev Jetta. I have little doubt that it happens.