Diamond_Jim

I know $20 is not a great amount these days but charging anything for this game is a bit over the top. Perhaps they want to limit the numbers attending and thus reduce stadium costs Crowd under 5k is my guess

Doubt it it was more the Eagles matching the Freo money I'm sure. Freo has a big dilemna. The only way it can remotely match what the Eagles can offer is to trade a player

Agree.. I find it somewhat amusing that his value as expressed by many posters goes up or down by reference to his weekly form. Pick 2, pick 10-14 plus steak knives please

Gameplan perhaps but are AFL players eligible ?

Thought the same. Non aligned clubs were around mid $200k someone mentioned

It's not a silly idea. One of the bigger complaints by the lower clubs is that they have to pay X% of their salary cap even though their players may not be worth that much on the open market. This would allow those clubs to sell salary cap for say 2 or 3 years in return for picks to get first year high draft picks in on base contracts. When the base contract comes to an end they can then use the normal salary cap level to retain players. It offers a potentially quicker way off the bottom. It also means bottom clubs would be far more likely to release older higher paid players as they get an off-setting benefit of selling salary cap space.

Don't disagree but are you thinking of replacing them with similar level players or simply getting their salary off the book so we can prepay a few of the higher paid players. For example we could take Ellison on a minimum contract and trade Tomlinson thus perhaps freeing up around $200k a year. Weid would be harder

Only if they merged with GCS. Pokie money keeps them going Aspley (suburb of Brisbane) was also supposed to join but couldn't afford it. Why are they in the VFL...why not..it's a weird competition

They announced the new soft cap a few months ago. It wasn't a massive increase IIRC but better than nothing. Hard to disassociate player group form from line coaches and then there is the overarching gameplan. Where to start

Calm down OD Comparing relative failure is one thing but the upside equation is very different. Anyway if LJ goes and Weid stays miracles might happen

They've not kicked a goal since entering the zone of indecision Danger ahead !!

Pies have entered the dreaded zone of indecision .......... 26 points up They're doomed

Need to also play some time up forward in VFL. His role is 1.5 goals and 30% ruck plus a few marks around the ground. He took 4 marks today which is not stellar for the first ruck. I like the experimentation. Had hoped for more from Joel Smith today. I think it's his fourth game back at this level

Just means you're not developing a forward. He's not a tall so he's not much good for training small forwards. Winning is nice but it's not really the main reason why we have a VFL team And as some pointed out last week the VFL salary cap is so low he could make more money playing in the suburban league

A very capable VFL player Listed himself in the mid season draft but no takers.

Missed an opportunity not going hard after Hogan. Sure there were risks but the upside could have been enormous

Salem is a microcosm of a bigger issue but it is a good example. His status probably justified coming straight back into the senior side. After two games it was apparent that the instinctive touch was not there. That was the time for a few games at VFL level to get his touch back. Instead we played him week in week out. Sure he had a couple of serviceable games but he was well below his best.

But it was an even numbered Olympic year

VFL premierships are irrelevant. It's a training group. We have played in many of them over the years including the old Reserves comp but they don't contribute where it counts.

Can't see any upside in playing TMac today. Smith maybe.. simply to get some more forward time into him

Going to take a few weeks off football Looking forward to some good off season analysis So many learnings It's not been fun following the Dees this year I'm afraid

Looking forward to the post season analysis Lost this season in the two weeks against Eagles and North Arrogance

We have the AA ruckman against a second stringer but we concede four last minute goals in three quarters That's on the Coach !!!!!

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5 goals to nil in a low scoring game what can one say