Recent content by Philhawk

To be clear, not judging the kids at all. I’m judging Fisher and Stephens, who were both very average footballers long before they joined North.

Teams like Richmond are about to enter their own decline. I dare say they’d be prime candidates for a trade up (with some quality older players going the other way).

If I’m North, call me crazy, but I’d split pick 1 into a bag of still decent picks - and offer them around the league for quality leaders/older players.

Not traded them? You realize if you hadn’t traded them, going 0-23 would have likely meant those picks would have turned into beginning of first round priority picks? Now there’s no chance of that.

No, you didn’t have to do anything? Where are you getting that from? https://www.afl.com.au/news/1041604/afl-commission-signs-off-on-north-melbourne-assistance-package/amp?webview=true

No, it wasn’t. The North list management team made some very stupid decisions to waste them.

Bullshit spin? You had priority picks gifted to you and you wasted them on garbage players, who you then rewarded with long contracts. Spin that.

Sheezel is a clear cut 1. He has it all. I don’t know how, but after starting on fire, Wardlaw looks progressively worse after each game. Not only that, he’s under 20 games into his career and his body already looks shot. LDU is a front runner and Larkey needs to be better at marking overhead...

How long before Sheezel gets sick of always losing?

This isn’t even VFL level from North.

Some of the Crows’ younger players looking pretty promising today. We can comfortably say it’s at least not North.

It’s a shame because if he had performed, he would have easily attracted that $700k contract that would have rewarded North with Pick 2. At this stage he’d be lucky to get Band 2.

Brisbane trading for an old Hodge, WC for Sam Mitchell should be the kind of trades North need to try and emulate. It might not even be a tough sell, but a 2 year (1 to play, 1 to coach) to Pendles on decent coin might be enticing.

Respected 30 year olds looking for a final paycheck that their current clubs aren’t keen to hand out?

If the rumors are true about Zurhaar and LDU, then I actually have no clue what the path forward is. For LDU, trade him for leaders. Forget picks, they’re pointless.