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Diamond_Jim

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  1. Diamond_Jim replied to ignition.'s post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Can he part time ruck and would he move to the East on a one year contract. I'm all for one lottery ticket but don't want to tie up too much
  2. How did we end up with so many Laurie "type" players. If you include Spargo and Bedford we probably have 6 of these players of the same type, height and skill level. Did we come up with a Hibberd understudy.... can't think of one
  3. Agree Not too much joy for viewers either. Watching the same gameplan at VFL level is even worse
  4. Diamond_Jim replied to biggestred's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Time to drop Alice... Used to like it but no more I live in fear of being GCS' bunny in Darwin. Bulldogs lost to GCS this year and lost the following week in Melbourne Bulldogs also got an SA team in Gather Round (and lost)
  5. too small we need a tall
  6. Diamond_Jim replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    The boundary line game is finished. Ask the Lions who are probably best suited to play the style with multiple fit high class experienced forwards. The strange thing is that when two corridor teams meet (GWS v Pies for example) the corridor gameplan often falls down as well
  7. Diamond_Jim replied to BaliDemon's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    You simply can't carry two injury prone under performing aged forwards. If we had no salary cap and a list of 60 then maybe.. but in the real world something has to give
  8. Diamond_Jim replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Take a look at the third quarter Last quarter only marginally better (put the scores out of your mind as that was the thing that kept it interesting)
  9. Diamond_Jim replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Lions played slow boundary line football like we do. Collingwood probably should have won by around 20 but they didn't really take the game on either. Not sure I would call it a great game. Tentative close game more like it
  10. Diamond_Jim replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Lions kind of deserved that Have played conservatively all day
  11. Diamond_Jim replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Lions need to attack... not hug the boundary
  12. Diamond_Jim replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Slow play that quarter by both teams
  13. Go hard for whoever missed their finals team if they fit the bill.
  14. With deals like they have given to North and the entry of Tasmania plus the inevitable 20th team a year or two later the future draft landscape is a minefield
  15. Diamond_Jim replied to BaliDemon's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Had the same thoughts yesterday. Cannot continue the same error in 2024. One year contract for a makeshift forward. Perhaps a Melksham type if no talls available (McAdam is a decent start)
  16. Watching the 2021 GF again. Before the game Fox had a segment on Bulldogs smothering. Not one looked like Maynard's uncontrolled leap forward into a player... Football Act !!!!
  17. Only a row.... In the AFL members I could have a section. If on level 4 one got most of the stand
  18. Diamond_Jim replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Robbie Williams got a million which was considered a bargain
  19. Diamond_Jim replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Would it be healthy or maudlin if I watched the 2021 GF witth Dennis Cometti commentary. This one hurts even more than last year... What a waste
  20. Tend to agree.... there's not much else available. (Save for a back up ruck of the Preuss type) We may even not take up all our list spots if TMac and BBB also retire
  21. Umpiring living up to the men's standard but we'll take it
  22. The flipside is that assuming North get bottom of round 1 for McKay is he rated as one pick difference? Could be
  23. About the 5th last game JJ played one of the best VFL games I've seen in the midfield. He has the talent
  24. There's smoke... there's uncertainty... there's fire How large is the question
  25. They do but what does it say. One of the things about contracts is imagining imponderables and dealing with them. GCS contracted Ablett junior and massively front loaded his five odd year deal. The contract had no clawback provisions when he left early. Then there was the Treloar fiasco. (Admiitedly not the lawyer's fault that time)