Moonshadow

Will remain an unforfilled talent.

I fear we'd be free-falling down the ladder without him!

Yes, indeed. Wouldnt be too hard to do on the sly, but it only takes one fu** up to have it come out and the AFL to be pushed to act. Look at what that lovely fellow Brock McLean did last time! I wish someone would give me one of those new brown paper bags, Uncle!

Wasn't sure where do put this. The Age has an article with SOS whinging about his departure from the Blues last year and how badly it was handled. How the club recruited badly and pushed its salary cap. Could he have just hinted that they are worth being investigated? https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/amateur-to-be-honest-silvagni-lashes-out-at-the-blues-20201021-p5671d.html "our list wasn't in a good state and neither was our salary cap"

Yes, would be just our luck However, Jaguar could 'loan' a player a lovely new car for the terms of the contract. Or Tourism NT 'gives' a family holiday during the off season to a recruit. Or a sponsor sells a block of land at a remarkably cheap price along the coast to a sister of player X

Didnt a club just recently offer a new car to a player as an incentive to swap over clubs? That one is pretty obvious. Any range of sponsors or like minded companies can offer incentives outside TPP. Salary cap is for appearances only. Typical Gil. Nothing to see here!

Yeh, lets give up the farm for a broken player. Glad you're not working for the club!

I suspect 5kg more and he may not be running 11km per game to make as many contests, Red. If he can build a better tank, maybe

Snow flake's chance in hell of us chasing him

Ugg boots, Mr Old?

At the time, these were big names: Dylan Shiel and arguably Devon Smith. Brad Hill and Jake Carlisle And as you said, Jack Martin But it would be correct to say big names are more likely to move to successful clubs. Not always. Most players play for 1) Success, 2) Money and 3) Mateship

In the last 4 years I've regularly thought we haven't seen the 'worst' 6-8 on our list improve much. I say worst becsuse anyone on an AFL list is obviously a reasonable footballer, to start with

WTF? Try posting something relevant and of value, if you have the ability

I'm not a fan of the Brownlow as a means of rating players, but this team run down illustrates to me that we have a number of excellent players, but the quality drops off remarkably from there. Haven't had a look, but my guess is the Richmond vote spread is less lop sided

So until a player comes out we must assume there are none? And therefore the topic must be shut down? What a ridiculous proposition!

What are you... 13? Go away

Hope its not 3 years. Doesnt matter that he was drafted later than most. He'll be 32 at the end of this year and missed some games with injuries. Do we really need a guy running around for us at nearly 35? One year, sure. Two, perhaps. Three??? Nah. Unless the 3rd is purely a coaching role

Wish Shaw the best and hope he gets all the help he needs. I believe North wanted Blakey to coach with Roos to assist. But Blakey is reluctant as he prefers the assistant role. Archer called an emergency meeting of the NMFC board earlier in the year to work on a path forward Ben Amarfio trying to run the whole show despite being there for 5 mins, pissing everyone off And apparently they are still paying out Brad Scott from last year North are in a huge hole. Surely the AFL will need to step in

And that has zero to do with him allegedly being racially vilified As usual you are using the straw man line. Big deal if he's an odd cat. Does that justify him being called a monkey? So you don't like him because he's an attention seeker. Seems to me the one person on this thread seeking attention is you

I have heard a bit of chatter around that in one form or another North will be pushed to Tassie, and that internally the AFL are keen on a StK/Footscray merger

Would be interesting to read a report of each club's finances without the creative accounting Don't Brisbane and Carlton have significant debts? Interest rates are very low, but they won't always be so. Did the Hawks take a loan on Dingley or did they fund it themselves? Careful Jeff... there but for the grace of god go I. North must surely be in trouble. 'Tassie Kangaroos' sounds good to me. The pandemic will create opportunities for long lasting change in the AFL

The Age reporting Collingwood are open to trading Philips https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/magpies-open-to-trading-contracted-phillips-20201014-p5655x.html

Previous Lumumba thread locked. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/lumumba-sues-collingwood-and-the-afl-over-racism-claims-20201015-p565k1.html https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/15/heritier-lumumba-former-player-sues-collingwood-and-afl-over-alleged-racism

Always knew they liked a bit of 'special' grass in Queensland

Good luck to them. At least Howe could mark and was a good field kick with us, still is.