Diamond_Jim

We have at least three players in the VFL vying for Bedford's role the main two being Chandler and Moniz Wakefield. You can throw in Laurie and Woewodin into the mix as well. While Bedford is the most advanced of the group all are capable at VFL level

why not play them week on week and see which is the better forward pocket marker (the joys of a hypothetical)

Prefer Naughton but I'd take the King twins

Sandringham Sautner I assume aka Newton's nemesis

Any news on contract length and remuneration. Relevant to future hires

Weid had his opportunity in 2022.

So much for the"premiership dividend" Hunt as a best 24 level player leaving a club in the window for a 3-5 year no finals club in return for probably one guaranteed further year and $50-100k

Oliver by the length of the straight

Medical checks are made as part of or prior to the trade period. The actual trade has to be final and unconditional by the end of the trade period. Bulldogs and Pies were given leeway on salary details and we saw how that turned out It's up to the player as to whether he agrees to a medical check but one would think it unusualto refuse. No reason that tests are limited to physical checks. Saints could ask DeGoey for a psychiatric test but I suspect he'd say no.

Pick 8 He was pick 3 I give up This deal has now become what can the the Anchors dig up

Bulldogs defence is atrocious. Strange they couldn't take Tomlinson. Would not be surprised if we had offered to sweeten the pie with a salary subsidy of 100k but still no taker... yet

This is a good deal for a rebuilding club but for clubs who already have a valuable top ten it's difficult to see how it gets done. At around $650k you can shuffle things but $850k for two years for a $350k player...very hard

Was wondering when the "footy clubs are special places" angle was going to come up "Football clubs are unique environments. They become a second home for players, and coaches are often required to be much more than just football mentors,” he said. “Coaches are regularly called on to provide advice and support on non-football related issues, particularly with younger players who have left home to join an AFL club. “It would significantly enhance the investigation if someone who intimately understands that environment, and has deep experience in managing the wellbeing of players, was included on the panel." https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/racism-investigation-must-include-an-experienced-football-administrator-says-aflca-boss-20220926-p5bl21.html

Love the Cat's mad Monday theme On the TV ratings it strikes me that the Friday holiday has provided the excuse for many to exit Melbourne thus further reducing the viewers. Under 400k viewers in Sydney is amazingly low...Swans have been there now for over forty years

He could come via Mars

Now we're talking Who pays $1m a year for a non goal kicking ruckman.... Madness Ruckmen... most injury prone position in the team...who contracts a 29 year old for five years As an earlier poster pointed out... if we take Grundy at $700k we have around $1.3-1-5M invested in the ruck position. That's a fair % of your overall cap. Does it maximise your win chance as against investing in an elite outside mid or forward. Make no mistake.. Pies have done the sums and they see it differently.

Okay at its simplest Hearsay is a witness saying X told me that he saw Y happening 1.can generally not be used as evidence that Y happened 2. it can however be admitted as evidence that X said it if the fact of saying it has evidentiary bearing on the case Point 2 is particularly important as corroboration for a complaint made by X

Fast track development means the talent is matched against equal talent at quite a young age. In the old days a coach would tell a very good player that for a season (say under 16) play using the non preferred only. Just doesn't happen anymore

Agree ... thought it was good Obviously now just a television presentation... the old idea of both crowd and TV entertainment was always a hard gig

Collingwood three straight losses Did we have 12 players injured each time? Brisbane play a slow high forward game so they are not a real test

There are common threads to each of these stories and now another is added.... “When the (ABC) article came out, dots started to connect with me and lightbulbs went off. (But) our experience was nothing compared with what those blokes went through.” Ah Sam-Rioli outlined five months ago in The Age how Hawthorn football officials arrived at their home and attempted to persuade the partner of a young footballer living with them to return to Darwin. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/we-were-watching-those-blokes-break-the-hawthorn-women-who-would-not-stay-silent-20220919-p5bj8u.html

Nearly bought a GF package from MFC about 8 weeks ago. Lunch and seat was the deal IIRC for $1440. At the time I thought to myself I could sell the package at face value if we didn't make it. Does anyone know if I would have been successful? Nice to know for future years Thanks

Was it great for the first ten rounds though. It gave in the main wins by 16 points. The only team that adopted the run against us was Port who couldn't hit the barn door that day. Collingwood has now outplayed us in three straight games for example. Geelong is now smashing us.The list goes on. Anyway we seem to be stuck with what I term the Python Play (squeezing your opponent to death) so we will see how next year goes

Surprised that he was not picked up by another club at the end of last season. Can't see it happening now.

The move smacks of desperation frankly. I suppose they thought at end of 2021 season Jackson would cover the Gawn issues with a break glass type ruck at Casey (Majak etc). Jackson clearly leaving from mid season spooked them. The gameplan is slow and cumbersome to say the least. Amazing what six months can do to one's MFCSS but the 2021 finals series being an aberration is becoming startlingly clear