Diamond_Jim

No way can Lamb be blamed for Grundy. That had to be an 80% Goodwin decision as the playing abilities of both Grundy and Gawn were well known to everyone and easily discoverable by game tapes and intelligence from other clubs/players. The others are clearly in Lamb's bailiwick.

Looking back we could/should have played this better. Back in the 70's there were lots of choices with the benefit of hindsight. Imagine if we had pumped money into an expanded Junction Oval complex. (Imagine if we had any money at the time.Remember even Collingwood teetered on bankruptcy.) The League was a mess with the VFA fast surpassing them with its live Sunday football. If it's any consolation I don't believe Richmond or the Pies will be seen to be having comparatively great facilities in ten odd years. Richmond.. one oval.. no pool.. limited parking etc etc. Pies are in a heritage building (the swimming pool) which is not a great shape for gyms etc. The old Olympic Park oval is fine but no second oval and massive indoor facility

Unfortunately the game appears to becoming more one of strength rather than open skilful ball movement. You could see that in the finals last year where even with a "full team" we were bustled off the ball. A great pity as our style was delightful to watch

yes but you would miss being girt by sea

seven or so minutes from game time and a lot of empty seats. Oh well.......... Go the Orange Men

Great win by the Storm. 37-10... unlucky not to be closer to 50-10. Complete dominance A side note... Storm's winger is a mature recruit from an NZ Aussie Rules background who then tried Rugby 7's.

Storm certainly don't get the media coverage they deserve in Melbourne. Reverse it and say it was coverage of AFL in Brisbane or Sydney and people would be screaming. Yes I know AFL coverage in Brisbane and Sydney is not perfect but it's better than we cover the Storm. Looking forward to a Storm premiership (if they weren't stripped of those flags their record would be phenomenal)

Over ten years ago This saga is entering joke phase

Not the result I was hoping for

game over

Geelong defence are killing Port

As I recall we have to include a chunk of Brayshaw's contract in our salary cap and the percentage increases in the later years. Then there's Joel Smith's payments ? Makes it just that more difficult going forward given all the other back ended deals we probably have on our books (Petracca, Oliver? Gawn May? just to mention a few) You wonder if we have almost pencilled in a down period for say 2026 -2029. Makes sense in a way

I'm way too scarred by Dunstan, McAdam Hunter Billings etc etc to have any interest whatsoever in a player such as CD. His skill is the short lateral kick (70 degrees or so) to a relatively free player. These days the skill required is a quick ten yards and then a medium (40 metre) 0-25 degrees degrees kick so you are in front of the "masses" rolling back. He also tends to run in an almost circle before disposing of the ball which gives even more time to the "masses" rolling back. As I recall he also go a fair few kicks from just sitting alone on the 50 metre defensive arc. Not sure you can afford to have a player in that position for too long these days. Finally we already have our fair share of smalls in the team

A lot of good/interesting points in that article. Dare I say that life is all about the "brand" these days

TV content and clean air against the NRL Vegas non-event. The season is now boringly long IMO

Objectively our future first is equivalent to pick10/11 and at best pick 4 or at worst pick 16 Would be bad trading to also throw in pick 25 for pick 13 IMO

Houston signed a long term deal on middling money and then hit AA form. This "trade" is about re-oening his contract. Port are playing hardball as they should

ah we beat them by a couple of points in Melbourne

Rioli for picks 6 and 20. When the Tiges were flying he struck me as about tenth in their best 22. Suns have so much draft capital it's scary

The Board spill at MRC has been confirmed

Rioli for pick 6. Sounds high

Unfortunately it has come to that time as it often does in many businesses that we need a circuit breaker aka a scapegoat. Not sure who it should be but we aren't getting out of this mess with a steady as you go approach. Post 2021 has definitely not been what we were all imagining

Need our second pick back from Adelaide. It's not a bad pick now . For example it's higher than the pick at which we selected fritsch and I think rivers I'm not adverse to trading our future first and dipping into the draft three times if the recruiters think the depth is there

Correct Port will want to win big time for a home final

Don't really understand West coast With their wealth and home ground advantage you would expect to see some improvement Same for north given their extra draft picks and Tasmanian advantage Two years ago I would have said Collingwood was on its way down for a long time and hawks ... Who knows Coach and gameplan are now as important as good players perhaps