Cranky Franky

Completely disagree. There is no such thing as unrestricted right to pick your employer in the AFL. The draft & salary cap are there to try & make a more level playing field. Free agency has helped Hawks, Cats & Tigers to top up their lists. Makes good sense to bar preliminary finalists from free agency. Ma

Exactly - an A grade spud. He got awards as St Kilda & Freo's finals player 'cause Lyon was in love with him. Supporters at both clubs hated him. Turnover merchant with no skills. Clarkson delisted him at Hawthorn quick smart. Saints would have won a couple of flags if they'd have had a quality defender in place of Dawson.

Dreadful decision by the Club to let him go. So many of our better players from the mid sixties to mid seventies were let go or left for greener pastures - Dillon, Parke, Brewer, Kenneally, Callery, Groom, Keenan, Fitzsimmons, Thorne

You really are a clueless nincompoop.

I'm disappointed that you had to add the annoying post modern "to be honest". Are we to assume that your usual comments are dishonest ?

May well we gloat but chances are that they will bottom out then rebuild & win another flag before we do.

Not sure whether you are actually dumb or just pretending to be dumb so I will keep it simple. Letting Frost go & keeping Oscar (& recruiting Tomlinson) did not improve our list & cost more $. The reason our team improved in 2020 was less injuries, key players improving & some clever draft picks.

Barely played this year & missed a lot of games last year. Sign him up !

Great words fellers. One of the great tragedies is that some of the magic he wove on the field was never recorded because not all games were on TV back then. I recall some incredible weaves & runs in the late 70's but alas no cameras were at the ground.

You are (almost) on your own on this one. Mitch Brown showed in the last round he is a mile ahead of Oscar as a cheap defensive back up for a year or 2.

We went forwards this year because we had fewer injuries, because May & Trac stepped up & our recruits did well

That is complete billshut. Why do you have to make things up to further your argument ? Frost wanted a modest 2 year deal & we offered 1 year. By any objective measure he is a mile ahead of Oscar and even if you are super generous to Tomlinson then you could say he is on a par with Frost but is on 1 & a half times the $. It was a stupid, dumb decision that took us backwards.

The street scenes look like 1965 because I spotted a couple of HD Holdens.

I don't mind opinion but these comments are blatantly stupid. He had some poor patches of form but overall he was a very handy player who played some very good games for us. He was one of the elite kicks in the competition & was a very handy player at Port & helped them sink us when we played them last year.

Good to hear people's opinion however a number of your comments are not supported by any evidence or facts such as "gifted about 100 games". I doubt anybody would agree with you so I'm wondering what metric or measure you used ?

Go on the GC supporter site - he is as popular as Oscar is here.

The problem is that the BT only wants to play him across wing & defence where his lack of pace catches him out. He should play fwd.

Nothing much will change until the AFL deals with the biggest cause of concussion which is CONGESTION. AFL is often like an ugly rubgy maul with 30 players around the pack. Whoever gets hold of the ball immediately gets hammered. Until they find a way to stop the congestion concussions will keep increasing.

Thats all true DD but you make a fool of yourself by judging 1st year players when we won't know who got it right for probably 5 years down the track. Comparing 18 y o Pickett to 23 y o Liam Ryan is absurd. So far the consensus (except for a couple of posters here) of media, coaches & supporters is that our current draftees are outstanding.

Can you confirm that you are going to post one of these for every single player who comes up for speculation no matter how ridiculous ?

Extending his contract on the basis of ONE good year was idiotic. Maybe after 3 succesful seasons ok. Also crazy to give a solid player like Harmes a 5 year deal.

Serious ? You guys are like the forgiving partners of a problem gambler who keeps promising to quit. Jessie has been in the headlines again & again & barely played a game since he left us. Sheeet we may as well re sign Jurrah & Mitch Clark while were at it

Good talent - would definitely make him an offer.

I reckon Mike has been a woeful interviewer. Had Bob Skilton on & Bob was about to get into the turbulent times as our coach & his sacking & the drama with Stan Alves. Mike just stopped, didn't ask a follow up & things petered out - we didn't learn anything.

Exactly SF - people are just looking for excuses. Port flew down on the day they played us. Goody has mentioned our fitness coach has experience in the EPL & short turnarounds. They were lethargic from the get go.