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    On 10/10/2023 at 2:19 PM, Dee Boys said:

    Hawk’s a mate of mine. Sadly he’s just re-signed with Geelong this morning.

    Yet, unless I blinked and missed it, there’s been nothing announced as to his re-signing a day and a half later. Hmmm.

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    With the number of empty places on our list, how can we afford to trade enough picks to get into a position to nab Reid?

    I get the feeling we might look at using what we currently have and what we get from the Grundy trade to end up with a couple of top ten picks without actually improving beyond the Freo pick (I’d assume the JJ late second round pick will go to Adelaide for McAdam) and then look at the Wizard and possibly someone like O’Sullivan or Caddy, as well as a couple of second (and third?) rounders.

    If none of this makes any sense, I’m blaming my medication 😂

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    I’m of the view that as we have a number of list spots to fill, we’ll probably not offload picks in an effort to move up in the draft chasing the likes of Reid, Duursma or McKercher, but rather, we’ll go for either Caddy or O’Sullivan, both of who look like excellent prospects
 particularly O’Sullivan who I think has possibly been rated a bit lower than he deserves.  Interesting times ahead.

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    3 hours ago, kev martin said:

    Could they put Fritta or Hibbo in for half a game. Though Fritta looked matched ready against Sydney.

    Assuming he qualified to play, which he doesn’t, I think you would find that considering Fritsch went for scans on his foot today after Sunday’s scare, they would not be risking one of our most important players in a VFL game.

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    1 hour ago, In Harmes Way said:

    I remember the good old days fondly when H&A rounds ended and this was my favourite thread

    Yeah, back in the day, I used to really look forward to reading the Harley Reid thread. 😉

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    14 hours ago, Grand New Flag said:

    Unfortunately, I am terminally ill, I have been for 3 years.  This will be my last season to pass on what I hear.  So enjoy it while it lasts.

    As someone with stage 4 cancer I can empathise with your health situation and wish you all the best.

    However, that won’t change the fact that I have found some of your posts to be a little too self aggrandising and often, without being able to cite specific posts, just a rehashing on what was already being speculated in the media, but as if it were a great revelation.

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    54 minutes ago, rpfc said:

    Some smart people AGAIN been taken in by the charlatan of all charlatans


    I can laugh at the ridiculousness but for posterity:

    Going Crazy Will Ferrell GIF

    If he were a racehorse, he’d be DNF.

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    2 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

    It's usually dry in Sydney this time of the year. Driving two hours with a Swans mate to the Scg. It's a quiet ride home.

    The long range forecast says 70% chance of rain, but that’s in the morning. Afternoon is cloudy with some sunshine. But I’m not relying too much on that forecast as they rarely get it right.

    5 minutes ago, sue said:

    Because they can't review points in the short time available before the kick in.  Lots of time if a goal is called to play ads, have some insincere spruiker gee up the crowd, play some random music, etc. and do a review.

    Yeah, I’m not sure what I was thinking, but that was definitely a bit of a brain phaart on my part.

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    48 minutes ago, sue said:

    It's ironical that points aren't reviewed in the same way that goals are before play recommences.

    This probably says more about where my head is at than anything else, and this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but I’ve often thought about the fact that a touched ball going through the goals is awarded a behind, while a touched ball going between the goal and point posts is also awarded a behind. Shouldn’t the latter be either a ball up or a boundary throw in?

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    13 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Actually a mistake that us sitting at home watching replays can pick up.

    Now let’s put ourselves in that goal umpire’s position.

    One minute to go, deafening noise as the ball approaches the goals, 2-3 desperate Swans players jumping for the ball, obscuring his view of the ball, while he must keep back out of their way. All this happening quickly. He hears a sound of post being hit, it was a Swans player’s hand, that he wouldn’t see, then sees the ball spinning as though it hit the post. Another Swan yelling at him and pointing to the post and he makes a very innocent mistake.

    This is certainly not the first such mistake made by an official. Look at that ridiculous penalty to Sweden against the Matildas. Even with replays VAR. 

    Last week’s soft call was another mistake which has cost us probably 2nd place.

    It’s up to the AFL to improve officiating wherever possible.

    They haven’t even got a GM of Footy yet nearly 2 years after Scott left and Gil is still hanging around like a bad smell, even though his successor has been appointed.

    Agree with all of that, but, and I’m probably wrong, I thought all goals were reviewed before the centre bounce to restart play took place
 in which case, how could that not have been picked up? It beggars belief!

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    7 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Looks like the ball hit the post from that pic you’ve provided.

    I saw the mini replay on Foxtel a while ago and the ball clearly misses the post, but the weird thing was the commentators trying to say that it clipped the padding
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    8 hours ago, John Demonic said:

    I know it's tedious to talk about, but my only fear going into the finals is not any particular club, or venue, but poor umpiring in key momentum shifting moments. 

    That’s something that can affect both teams
 I don’t subscribe to this ‘umpires are out to get us’ conspiracy.

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