Maybe there is some truth to the potential Puopolo trade. Maybe a small forward line is the way the game is heading.
Maybe there is some truth to the potential Puopolo trade. Maybe a small forward line is the way the game is heading.
Would trading for Stringer make any sense if we give this and next years first round pick? My reason is that next year if we get Blakey we would have to use our first availabe pick anyway.
I think there is a lot of merit in the first point. There really was a lot of negativity surrounding the two expansion clubs and the concessions they were given. Eddie Everywhere led the way with his multiple platforms of invective.
I am not sure what you mean by the second point.
I think it is too early to say that the Giants will or won�t win a flag. Dynasty talk just feeds newspaper readers, radio listeners and forum doomsayers. The future is still wide open though.
I remember Dermie prompting a discussion on SEN years ago about how many flags St Kilda would win with there current list (this was during there winning streak on 2004 and followed on from all the high draft choices they had secured in previous years). The idea that they would not win one flag was not even contemplated. I think Brereton suggested 3 or 4.
It is so hard to win a single premiership - which we clearly know, but I still wouldn�t discount the possibility of the Giants bouncing back from the �horror� year in which they finished fourth after the H&A. There window is not closing just yet.
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All in all, the better team won on the day and good luck to them.We will never know that if the game had been closer whether the umpires would have lent a helping hand. Glad deep down that we didn't have to find out.
Feeling we have the team to beat Richmond next year because we have mobile tall forwards that won't be run off like Walker and Jenkins were. As long as we don't pull the 0 and 6 trick again we should be in good shape for the finals. We are so lucky to have such a close knit team that performs admirably year after year despite the AFL handbrake.
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We have them where we want them, everything is going according to plan!
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
My doubts about a northern club winning a flag without concessions is that they need assistance to overcome things taken for granted by southern clubs.
If you look at the flags won by qld and NSW, you have the lions which was a super team assembled by a merger and cap assistance. Since that has been removed they are at the bottom of the ladder.
Swans won flags with cost of living allowance, and have remained competitive by good management and a couple of guns via academy's.
Gold coast got the same concessions as GWS yet sit outside top 10. GWS can't get past prelim with startup concession s but are now losing players that concessions are removed.
I have a feeling the MCG gives a Vic team a 10% advantage in a grand final, so an interstate club has to be a 10% better side just to break even. You can build a 10% better side by 10% extra cap space.
I think 10% is underselling it. Stats probably point to more like 20%.
The AFL has, suprise, suprise, an integrity problem. I don't think it will be fixed until Gill is gone. He is guided by the Vic media.
Sounds like Richmond's Anthony Miles has been linked the Swans. Don't know anything about him except that he's been playing well in the reserves but only managed to play a few games this year. Is he the kind of player we'd want?
Wouldn't have him in a million years. Has caused a lot of big issues at Footscray. Any club that takes him does so at severe risk.
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Nup. Didn't get a game for reason/s. A lot of young players got the nod before him.
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Certainly a side like Richmond who played 12 games there in 2017 have a bigger advantage, but you have to make the finals. Melbourne had as many home games but bombed out at the end. Sides like Essendon and St Kilda who have Ethihad as their home ground don't perform as well there.
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