durango

I believe that Rookie B are outside the salary cap?

The problem in the 70's was recruiting and coaching, Beckwith, Ridley, Skilton, Jones and Ditterich who were great footballers but lacked any grey matter. They recruited lots of cast off's who were not good enough as footballers, Carl in his last match v's Collingwood said he wanted the team to play football and he would do the fighting.

I have watched the long highlights and disagree with people who said he was slow, he moves well in traffic.

I am sorry to say he looks like Tarzan plays like Jane.

I was at the club when Ray Jordan was coach of the U19 and Reserves his criteria was players who had no mongrel will never make it in the AFL on ability alone. The combination of mongrel and ability like Cripps, Petracca etc

Rating the trade week is like trying to pick the winning lotto numbers we will know at the end of 2025 whether the ratings were anywhere near accurate or not. If the 2 players we pick with 5 and 9 turn out to be Laurie and Rosman clone then we should get a "F" rating but if they turn out to be a Petracca and Oliver clone then we should have got an A+ rating. Richmond traded very good players for a hope or a disaster with a long rebuild like Melbourne with Bailey as coach, I pity Yze because he may never recover as a senior coach if they don't get it right.

Here is a left field idea trade pick 9 for Bailey Smith?

By the way Farris-White is a B rookie

Does anyone see the irony that only 2 teams have won the premiership outside of the top 4 but they both beat the Sydney Swans who were the favorites.

He is no longer a player for the top 23, who will replace Sparrow, so it is a no from me, yes he played for Casey and kicked 6 goals but his body no longer lets him play at the top level.

If you look at Viney this year he had a good preseason which is a first for quite a while and Oliver had virtually no preseason which probably effected his play this season. Give Petracca, Oliver and Viney a good preseason who knows how well we are going to be next year, I said all along that teams need virtually an injury free year to win the premiership.

He has to look at players like Gunston and replicate his style of play using aerobic running patterns. He has a good game in the VFL followed by some poor games but he has the tools to become a good player but he needs to develop them, I would try him on the wing for a while like AMW on the backline.

I have a PhD in physics studying projectile motion what form of education have you got?

I would fight the fine on the grounds that physics tells us that a body travelling will continue to travel after it stops therefore the head continued to travel after the body stopped causing his head to hit the ground. Its like when people don't wear seatbelts the continue to travel after the car stops. Unfortunately the MRO person/s are uneducated dills.

People on this site forget Petty has played only 68 games and missed a lot of games thru injury. Last night he had a good night because he just went for his marks and was gaining confidence in his foot.