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Yes, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the human race...

This is obviously not right 'norm'...North are letting go of a better tall forward in Brown. Why would they then want to bring in an inferior model in Tommy. That's definitely not a win win for them and a pretty dumb move I would think. Just makes no sense at all...

That looks close to about right... Their willingness to part with $100k for next season was always a joke. It's going to cost them big time.

Typical in football circles is to copy what has been done elsewhere. The flavour of the month theory. There is very little innovative thinking in football unfortunately. Coaching appointments mirror this... I don't know anything about Noble but because it worked for Fagan doesn't mean it will for North & Noble. Given I wish every other club in the competition to fall apart...let me say I hope this doesn't work.

How Geelong does it??? Well they haven't since 2011 and don't look like it any time soon.

They've paid overs on this... Anyway, I don't know why they held out when they could have done this day one. Dumb all round.

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If North wanted to do that then they would have kept Brown rather than bring in Tommy.

I think he's scared of Jack Viney...

The main reason is that we need a training base that gives us pretty much 12 moths a year access. Given cricket has the ground for between 4 to 6 months then it doesn't add up despite the emotional attachment...

Exactly, if someone wants to take on the other 800k a year they have rocks in their heads...

Trump is looking for a new gig...

This happens at every football club from AFL to local footy. It's just human nature. As much as a coach says it doesn't, and he might truly believe it. Malthouse even admitted it a few years back. Basically said one rule didn't fit all...he's right. The other side of this is you will always have disaffected or just plain out of form players at every club and they will always find something, someone to blame. Often not themselves.

Fair call 'Bob'...it is, and definitely not the right thing to say.

They've picked up a very good coach.

Actually it's not where I stand 'Bob'...it's where the competition sees him now. Yep, I have been a critic since 2019. I reckon he lost all form (he didn't recover from the 2018 prelim) for whatever reason and we played him when he should have spent time at Casey. They lost the opportunity in 2019 to send a message, see if he could regain form, confidence....rest him if he was injured...whatever. Why I keep going over it now is that some seem to think he has trade value when he has next to none. There isn't a queue of clubs wanting his services. We accuse others of overrating their players but in this case some of the trade scenarios are ridiculous. They (fans on this site) seem to think some magic trade will happen or that a club needs him...we have been crying out for another key forward and we went and got someone else...it shows us and the rest of the completion where we value him. Why would we think another club, say GWS as was suggested would need him to replace Cameron...if he could then we should hold him because we need that player probably more than them. We are probably at the head of the line for a club that needed him. We don't think he's got it to come back into form or we are not willing to risk it. We are in a similar position to Collingwood with Dawes, they knew he was done, they needed a KPF yet moved him on...he was gone. I hope someone does take him on as it will relieve some salary cap stress but I don't know that there is anyone as dumb as we were when we took on Dawes. If we have to hold him then I hope he can really turn it around next season and stick it up me and anyone else that doubted him. It would be great to see.... Tommy has been a great servant and a credit to himself to carve out the career he has but his time may be up.

I hope they stand firm as I also hope Treloar stands firm at Collingwood.... Make a contract great again...

Except Tommy is not worth a cracker...

Yes, but we were a total basket case at the time. Despite their issues I think both EFC and North have better people in charge than we had. ...but, let's hope not.

It was becoming pretty obvious by early in 2019 that we had made a mistake but at the time in 2018 I think anyone would have re- signed him. He was running hot...the story of Tom's career.

Unfortunately they know he's not the answer and think he's cooked. It's similar to us bringing in Dawes...a waste of time for them. He offers nothing.

The whole thing was a farce from the start. Eddie and co pulled the wool over the commissions eyes. All because of a couple of good academy players that Sydney and GWS picked up. The commission were really p...weak in how they handled the situation. At least now it's being scaled back.

I hope you are right, but I think he could be done...

I've seen nothing so far that makes me think this post is wrong...

Matera was a special player... Polec is probably the closest to him in style...of course not putting him in the same class. I guess Gaff has been the consistent one year in year out, Smith pretty good... The Saints spent up on Hill but he's hit or miss...his brother was a player before injury took its toll. Our own new boy stacks up pretty well as that running machine, we're lucky to have him. Thinking as I type, McCrae has been used more as a pure mid by the dogs but he is one of the better wingman in the game...if I had a free hit, he's the one I would take. I can understand why we might not chase another this trade period unless someone falls in our lap.