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I guess we can find some room for him...

Hill gonna kick a bag of 10 at this rate

Or did he get a false negative Or did he get complacent and having never tested positive after usage 5 days prior previously not bother this time only for this time to be the exception? Lots of possibilities

Exactly As I said earlier in thread, exploiting the self-reporting loophole in the drugs policy has been going on by every club (mine excluded of course), not exactly sure how this is news, the loophole is in there by design from the AFLPA, who wouldn't agree to it otherwise. Of course the...

Actually thought this was already common'ish knowledge. Same as if players admit to drug use prior to testing, it doesn't count as a strike under the voluntary code. Can see why it is very attractive and easy for clubs to keep players on the park. Have no doubt every other club (except mine...

Swans must have got a talking too last week about easing off and allowing pies junktime goals...

Carlton read the predictions in this thread before the game I reckon...

PSD might be, but you can't force a player to sign with you. He doesn't want to be there and is uncontracted, after the draft if he refuses to sign he becomes a de-listed free agent and walks to his club of choice anyway.

Would have liked to see Gould given a bit longer, and picking Owen in 2022 as a rookie then dropping him in 2023 seems very quick for a young ruck when we aren't exactly blessed with options there...

Funny thread Longmire has won silverware (2012) Has also been to 3 further GF's (although the team s**t the bed in 2 of those (2014,2022), which must at least partially reflect on him and the teams preparations). Reckon taking highly different teams to multiple grand finals shows he's a...

If that's the case then the AFL, should probably be looking at its own processes to, as its guidelines say that they are there, and not having them no doubt contributed to as something as obvious as Aliir's concussion being missed. So a failure in two parts, firstly Ports, secondly the AFL's.

Yeah but then it would be defendable, even if it the incident looked horrible they could say "we did the test and it showed all clear, so we trusted that diagnosis, obviously it was a mistake as symptoms developed later" Not doing the test no-matter what the result is, is a failure of process...

Exactly, you can't find what you don't actively look for. It's really poor, whatever decision making process allowed for them to not just retake the field, but not even be tested on coming off the field needs some serious scrutiny. Happening once can be an accident, happening repeatedly from...

un-arguably a great of the game, will be in the HOF and legend status without a doubt.

Have cancelled my kayo this year due to how s**t it's been, ( also the gall to increase price whilst delivering worse stream quality)

Would suspect yes, which is a real shame as he looked to have turned the corner in back half of last year But has regressed this year and hasn't looked like forcing his way into our senior side with 2nd's performances either.

You're wrong FYI A player can refuse to sign with a club, there is nothing that can force them to (even a matched offer), if they do so and then go to PSD, they can set whatever terms they like as they are uncontracted, the previous RFA trade / contract has 0 bearing on the matter. *I am not...

Not arguing the reasoning, just the possibility of it happening, it has demonstratably happened. Clubs can manipulate the RFA matching by offering short high value contracts, whether to ensure band of compo for other team OR to try make it harder to match, with the player and club under no...

But they also loaded a contract at much higher value to get the RFA over the line, then added extra years at a much lower rate as an extension, bringing the average $/yr much lower.

Disagree there, pretty well known that that is exactly (although not $2m/yr) what Brisbane did with the Daniher

Eagles list management would have to be crazy to do a straight P#1 for English trade given the state of their list.

Strange OP, Plenty of interstate clubs prefer Vic Country kids due to them having often left mums nest to go to boarding school etc and already being used to living away from "home". They equally try avoid Vic Metro due to a re-occuring "homesick" factor that keeps popping up with them, often...

Earlier this season I would have been in your camp. However, there was a complete lack of effort from the players on the ground yesterday, it looked like they'd given up. Reckon maybe 4 or 5 of their players actually put in acceptable efforts when they didn't have the ball... That comes down...

Only 3 changes imo GAJ > for Williams Carey > Hart Plugger > Coleman Don't think Martin, Buddy or Judd get in over existing TOC picks (unless we start picking players out of position, which is always a risk)

I mean none of that should come as a surprise either, we were literally the youngest team in comp last week. Geelong were bigger and stronger, we are a good 2-3 seasons away from being close to them physically. Agree Heeney hasn't been living up tom the hype, but its hard when young mids are...

Not sure why anyone is surprised... We had no backline, so pretty straight forward that their forward entries were much more effective, and we also miss out on scores generated from defense (which over the last couple of years has been up around 50% of our scoring). Predicted before the match...

Clubs stay up at the moment by forward loading co tracts during thier build, then backloading at the top to extend that time. Take away the ability to do that and clubs can't hold onto good players as easily via backloading

Would be surprised if we can pinch this one, a well past it Jack Reiwoldt kicked 4 on our makeshift backline, Jez will have a field day and we will probably play Hawkins into form.

Easy solution, get rid of front/back loading contracts and make contract values public... Half the problem is solved almost instantly

Meh these are the sorts of unders you get when players are ooc and have full control of where they go. Dawson was already elite when he left us so no surprise he's still elite