Diamond_Jim

Trevor Nisbett Achievements: Football manager West Coast Eagles 1989-99; chief executive officer 1999-present; Service Award for 10 years’ service to West Coast 1999; Australian Sports Medal for service to Australian Football 2000; awarded inaugural AFL Graeme Samuel Scholarship 2003; life member West Coast Eagles Football Club 2004; West Coast Eagles board member 2002-present; AFL life member 2013 http://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/news/2014-08-09/trevor-nisbett

and did you expect anything else. Young Saad gets done for 18 months for an energy drink on match day that is completely legal the day before and the day after (rules are rules say the media) and yet we have the Bomber victims. Unfortunately it won't change while the media is itself an extension of the good guy footballer club.

Thought Hogan's game was good but not at that level. Brayshaw and Oliver far more dominant. Pleased to see Salem getting recognition.

Ah the smell of double standards in the morning : "In 2015, Nisbett said any amateur player who engaged in thuggery should be deregistered, coming after an incident in Perth amateur ranks where a player had his jaw broken. Nisbett said the Gaff case was different. "This is probably different circumstances ... because we have a process in place the AFL will deal with it," he said." https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/highest-grading-you-can-get-gaff-sent-straight-to-tribunal-20180806-p4zvua.html Almost Trumpesque ?

The ruck position will die out in time simply because clubs will not invest the time in development. Think about it you probably need four players at different stages of development. In a 40man list that is a significant investment in one position. You could sponsor players in other competitions a la the Academy system perhaps. Alternatively you can develop the two pronged player as we are doing perhaps with Weideman albeit slowly. The other problem is that with only one VFL team where do these up and coming ruckmen get any match practice.

being down a player in soccer is an enormous loss as well but they manage for far lesser offences

It would be 18 v 17 on the field

out of interest would you then restrict the team to 17 players on the field (this is what happens in soccer) or would you allow substitution ie use of the bench.

agree Jumbo as I posted a few weeks back the modern line breaker runs about 10 metres ...just enough to stretch the zone. Hunt really has to reinvent himself.Watched him at Casey several times and even at that level he rarely got any run going.

bit like Port last year

So you and the media as well are going to stick the responsibility on an 18 year old kid. Can you imagine the pressure that will be brought to bear on him to achieve just the outcome you have posited. Judge the perpetrator ... not the victim

ah ... we've won one game against a contender by a couple of points ... the rest were against the also rans....nothing special about our form as has been said all year. In recent games against the contenders we in one instance could not and in the other barely defended a significant last quarter lead.

wow ... not improbable scenarios any of those six. Will be very hard to win 2 of the next three based on our post bye form. So it could be good night Irene if we lose to the Swans given the odds of winning both the remaining games is very low. We really have stuffed up this season. ?

The club need to consider the following: Impact upon Angus Brayshaw Impact upon supporters Impact upon sponsors Impact upon wider image of the club Can he deliver at the same level playing wise Need for his skills Dollar cost Impact upon other players on MFC List If they do all that in a professional manner with reasonable transparency I will support the decision made. I trust it is not an easy decision.

The only reason for their existence is the spurious argument that you need two local teams to maintain the momentum in the local market. It is a death market.... look at Brisbane... three premierships in the capital city and yet they cannot turn a profit. What hope a GC team at Cararra .. the Waverley of the Gold Coast

The toxicity with the Brayshaw family would be enormous. I think his cards have been marked re coming to Melbourne. One also has to consider his reputation going forward. (Read sponsors) It's a distraction we don't need for the kind of money we would have to offer

the charging of Leigh Matthews in a court of law should never have occurred. Disclosure long after the event of what happened to cause that charge to be laid showed that it was wrongly motivated. On the other hand the tribunal should if he is found guilty throw the literal book at him.

what is the West Coast equivalent of Demonland many thanks

nah ... we lost to them in our usual last game failure ... Roos' last game etc etc. Next three weeks will tell us a lot about this football club.

One of the best TV shows ever made. They could do a sports version .... it would be so easy ... can you imagine sending up Bruce and BT ?

Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Bugg was publicly hung drawn and quartered before he got to the tribunal. The club offered virtually no defence and many on this forum understandably were extremely critical of the act. Now we have a star player ( a possible Demon next year). How will West Coast, the media and this forum react? Double standards is my bet.

good question

Watching Sydney last night they rebound through Alir Alir. Collingwood did not seem to make him accountable. I wouldn't mind playing Tim Smith on him as a defensive forward. We have to double team Buddy.... how that works in practice I am not sure. Maybe Dec K gets a call up. Need to watch the game but from the radio Spargo was very quiet in that second half.

Looks like the Eagles will have a regulation win unless Dockers can turn it around in the second half

100 points...noice