chookrat

This probably explains it a bit more accurately than my racist against red heads rant. It is also consistent with the AFL promoting gambling to under 16 year olds and relying on gambling commissions for more than 10% of its total revenue despite the link between gambling, mental health challenges and family voilence.

I wonder how many times the AFL CEO met with Clarry to tell him how important he is to the game. Baily Smith is the poster boy of the AFL because of his looks and talent. The AFL is racist against red heads.

I don't know how to talk to you

2018 to the end of 2025 is 8 years. While not coaching in 2021 I think it still counts as the year would have involved reflecting on his 2018 - 2020 stint and also preparing and applying for his 2022 job.

I think you have mixed up Nathan Buckley with Nicholas Cage which is understandable.

Do we really nead a dedicated topic to Rumours given that this time of year more than 90% of posts are centred around rumours, with the remaining 10% bout our AFLW teams stellar start to the season and on news that is reported by the club.

Haha, absolute dead ringer. I hope the club social media use this to build our profile.

What would the coaches know. Every week the internet is full of anonomous experts who pick holes in their every move and every season 17 out of 18 coaches fail to win the premiership. I reckon demonland would do a better job.

I'd love to get Bevo to our club just to do Pressers. He is a bit of a loose unit and not the sort of person you'd want to be trapped in a broken down elevator with.

The problem is if we play TMac in the firsts then he isnt in the VFL to help develop our young backs. My understanding of his role is to provide cover if a key back is injured while helping to develop our young backs in the VFL.

The problem with trading out May is that paradoxially it hinders the development of our backs, unless we bring in a mature key forward and move Petty back. This is on the basis that May, Lever and Turner are our first choice tall defenders with TMac ideally playing in the VFL to help develop Adams, White etc. I think our key forwards of JVR, Petty and Melksham are starting to work well together and I like that Petty plays forward but can swing back of and when needed. In short I would only look to trade out May if we bring in a mature key forward who would be our number one forward target.

This much is obvious re what another club shouldndo but makes no sense re what it does for our list. Why would we trade out May to Dogs so that they can have a tilt at a flag if it doesn't help us. Its like saying Dogs should trade Sam Darcy to Melbiurne because Melbourne need a key forward. Journos sre a bunch of flops.

Maybe they both reached triggers for an extension. In any case Melksham is our best forward and TMac is a clubmam who provides cover for May and Lever, will provide leadership and help develep our young backs (Adams, White) in the VFL, and also gives us flexibility in the offseason to trade out Lever or May if an offer too good to refuse comes up.

Could be Mark Neeld who would have been a Senior Assistant at the same time as Bucks.

If he were Jeff Kennett he would take credit for motivating Adam Simpson to prove him wrong.

George will end up at the Filth

Before Trac's injury last year we were playing reasonable footy and were in the mix to lay finals and alot of this was to do with Trac's good ball use in our forward half. It is just after a year on from an injury where he had multiple operations and had to rest for more than 4 months for his internal organs to heal before he could do any form of exercise other than resting and walking. I think he will benefit significantly from anothor preseason.

Ironically the year that we won our Premiership it was when the entire league was nomadic. Another way to put it is that living interstate united key personnel across the club in the same location instead of being spread across the MCG, AAMI Park, Gotches Paddock and Casey.

I heard he is sick of Kochie's shrill voice.

In that case we should hire who the least expect. Perhaps go throught the whole process and then announce Simon Goodwin as our new coach. This would show that we are not afraid of acting decisively and making the tough decisions (sacking a Premiership Coach during the season) while also not being swayed by public opiniom (rehiring the coach we sacked only weeks earlier).

I have been very much in the camp of backing in Goody but have come to the conclusion that the Board have considered our on field performance over a ling enough period to make the difficult decision to move on our Premiership Coach. It seems like the Board looked at contingencies either prior to this season or early on after our poor start before monitoring the situation throughout this season and making the decision prior to the end of the season so that we could have our new Coaching team before the Trade and Draft period.

For all we know Tom Morris sleeps in a bin outside Goody's house.

Our challenge has not been to do with Heritage overlays but rather trees and dog walkers, both of which seem to be more difficult to circumnavigate.

This is why I have warmed to Bucks. I think he did alot right at Collingwood, handled himself with grace in dealing with Malthouses trlantrums and when he stepped down as Senior Coach, has a presence about him and is great with the media, has had enough time out of the game to be refreshed, and is hungry to win a Premiership having not yet done so as a player or coach.

Maxy for Player Coach and President