Cranky Franky

Every generation says pretty much the same thing. Despite our protestations we all end up emulating our parents & grandparents 🤯

Come on gang whats happening. Friday evening & no information provided. I'm going spare !!!

Not quiet sure what you're saying. I've given 3 examples of premiership coaches where the Clubs signed up the coaches for long deals and later regretted it. If the Club had waited until mid 2024 it would have made a more informed decision.

Totally untrue. Melbourne was pondering whether to reappoint him or not so he jumped ship. It was the right decision. Richmond had a premiership coach in Robert Walls coming back to Melbourne & were keen to get him. Northey got wind of it & jumped ship.

Not relevant - Richmond had Walls who was a premiership coach in the wings so were fine with Northey going while Geelong finished 11th in 1999 & Cats rightly refused to extend Ayers beyond 2000 so he left.

They all thought they were smart at the time - later on not so much

Surely you have to factor in the talent they had. Imagine if in 2021 Goodie had Al Nicholson & Matt Collins in defence & Ben Beames on the bench.

These extended contracts are great for the coach as it means a big extra payout. Not so good for the Club. Look how its worked out for Clarkson @ Hawks & now Footscray or West Coast. And tell me the last Premiership coach that was poached due to the contract not being long enough ???

Dumb idea. If he's already contracted until the end of 24 why not wait til mid 23. 12 months can be long time in football

What an odd comment. You may as well speculate his poor form was due to staying up all night with an x box addiction. And Gary Hardeman (with an e) a fisherman ????? His poor form was because he was older & way past his best.

6 Lever 5 Brayshaw 4 Melksham 3 Rivers 2 Langdon 1 Sparrow

I've been one of Dunstan's biggest supporters but his ball use last week was often poor. Several bad turnovers.

I thought our lack of leg speed stuck out like sore thumb. Apart from Moniz Wakefield the 6 or 7 quickest players were from Carlton.

Short but memorable career. Played with real passion.

Initially I thought he was more like Lucas Cook or Michael Newton but he has improved in the last month so lets see how he goes in 12 months time.

Just can't stomach those entitled Carlton vvankers. Plus he cheats at almost every ruck contests. Definitely NO.

The Alice Springs Turners are a great football family.

I think we may be at cross purposes. My comments relate to 2022 where the BT totally mismanaged the players who were out of form and/or injured and cost us any chance in the finals. I hope they have learned from 2022 & don't repeat the mistakes.

Maybe you missed Max Gawns comment that half a dozen players in last year's finals were "banged up" & carrying injuries.

Surely thats because we are now lowering the eyes & trying to kick to forwards in good positions. In rounds 10-15 we were either banging it in haphazardly or trying to kick long goals from 50m.

If the fraud charges against Egan are proved it would clearly undermine the report. It would mean the report was written by someone with questionable credibility.

Willy deserved the win. They were hungrier, played smarter, played in front & were much better coached.

Fully agree with you - Harmes is a mile off the pace this year. And Hibberd the perfect match for Dusty esp after Rankine killed us last week.

It started with Langdon being rushed back & playing with a sleeping bag taped round his chest & finished with a broken team that struggled to compete. Ironically when we were forced to ruck with a fit Brown & Weid in one game we actually won. Bedford, Chandler, Baker & several others were badly under utilised instead of replacing injured & out of form players.

ATM he's had 2 good years & 4 poor years. 2022 was a disaster & we got no explanation from the Club. Gawn stated that 6 players went into the finals injured. This largely due to the BT playing guys who were out of form or carrying niggles despite any number of potential replacements killing it at Casey.