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The key difference is Dunkley was under contract when he first requested a trade so you had a contract to hold him too. Smith is out of contract so there is no contract you can hold him too.

I agree on you on your point on Canberra but that’s easy for me to say given it’s unlikely to be my team that has to relocate. Your arguments about NT’s weather and population are the same arguments that got used against Tassie before the finally got someone with football business acumen to...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/nsw-sydney-bondi-junction-stabbing-defamation-benjamin-cohen/103734072 Not a major shock but the kid that was wrongly identified as the perpetrator of the Bondi Junction stabbing is suing Channel 7 for defamation.

I haven’t listened to the interview yet but given that Nathan was only contracted until the end of this season it’s more or less a moot point. Whether it’s stays in or goes out it won’t affect our recruitment and retention moving forward.

I believe the only in season mechanism to replace him currently is the MSD. SSP are set periods during the off season as are DFA. There has been discussion about bringing in a Mid Season Trade period including trading for draft picks but it hasn’t been brought in this year.

Her name’s not hard to find. It took me all of a minute, it’s Tasha Smithies and the judge basically shredded her professional integrity as a lawyer so out of her, 10 and Wilkinson I would say she copped the worst of it.

I watched the whole judgement and on the whole I can’t say any of the main players came out looking great. No doubt Lehrmann got the worst of it as he’s now been found in court (albeit a Civil court) to be a rapist. It blows my mind that this happened because he was the one who brought the...

Also what are the chances that someone ranked lower than us takes Long before our pick if we have one? If he’s willing to wait wouldn’t we be better off holding off until seasons end when we can sign him as a DFA?

I’m assuming they mean $5mil on top of any money available because of the salary cap increases. Also there will be players around the league who will have a clause in their contract for their remuneration to adjust in line with any CBA increases. I don’t know the percentages but I believe it is...

To be fair to Ned Guy he had a screwed salary cap and if rumours are to be believed an interfering president to contend with during his tenure.

But that’s the point, if it’s work level based, then the clubs would only get the same level of access if they put in the same level of work. It creates an equal access scenario that says if a Victorian/SA/WA club puts the same level of development into a kid that the northern clubs in they get...

According to the guys on The Tackle we’ve ruled out trading anymore first rounders and that is what those two will cost.

At the moment we have a blanket ruled for eligibility for both sets of academies. The NGAs can only match outside the top 40 and the Northern Academies can match any pick. I wonder if a fairer system would be to have both academies with matching threshold based on the amount of work that goes...

That was the textbook hospital hand pass or kick as it were

Don’t be surprised if Andrew Dillon’s rhetoric is more about pushing the bar up on the 20th licence rather than actually being happy to stay at 19. And even if that isn’t the case you wait until Tassie comes in and the whinging starts over the unfairness of when clubs get their byes and how the...

Wasn’t it Tassie we’re coming in, in 2027 with the stadium ready in 2028? Or is it 2028 with the stadium in 2029? The AFL has said they’d be happy for Tassie to come in a year ahead of the stadium. I reckon they’ll want at least a two season gap between two teams, how much more depends on how...

I think there is little doubt we are going to go to 20 teams. Although we don’t have to history says the AFL dislikes odd numbers so the likelihood is that when the AFL announced the 19th licence it was almost a given that a 20th licence would follow. At the moment it seems we have 5...

Pendles fined by MRO, free to play (don’t think there was much doubt, but nice to have it confirmed) https://www.afl.com.au/news/1096310/match-review-mro-hands-down-verdict-on-scott-pendlebury-hit

Mihocek just wanted the tougher shot 😂

I reckon that’s insulting to gutter journos 😜

Referring to the media.

Can someone please explain why everyone is suddenly coming after Pendles? He’s been a little down on his best but that is a rather high bar and he’s still been among our better performers I thought. He’s certainly not one of the players I’m most concerned about.

This is pretty much the only references in the article regarding Collingwood. The next paragraph shifts to talking about Bombers and Swans.

Just on Ryan and Allan, I wouldn’t be quick to write them off just yet. If I could be stuffed looking back over the last four years I could probably find 100s of similar statements being said about Fin Macrae and Reef McInness. Even amongst midfielders and General Forwards and Defenders some...

They haven’t been perfect but I reckon the VFL team have been better at the fundamentals than the AFL team last night.

Have only just got home to watch the second half, but how has Allan, Jiath and Ryan played so far this game?

It sounds like Caroline’s usual muckraking. Question though, does anyone know what the issue was between Craig Kelly and the AFLW was?

Given Fly is never in the coaches box, he’s always on the boundary with the players he won’t be saying that. If he was in the coaches box I could see him maybe saying first half “WTF was that?!” But I could not see him saying the second line about any player under any circumstances even if he...

I think even here posters do sometimes go too far and cross the line between criticism and player bashing. Though I will grant you when it’s posted here I think it’s more callously thoughtless rather than malicious and I generally when I see it just hope if any player normally visits footy...

I’m sorry I’ve gone back and forth about whether or not to post this but I’m angry and need to get this off my chest. Some of the vitriol I’ve seen posted about him in forums and social media and much of it coming from those who claim to be supporters is quite disgusting. The fact that it has...