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I was genuinely surprised that we didn't delist Buku Khamis at the end of 2022, he played both forward and down back that year, had one good game forward to start the year, went back to the VFL to play down back again, then played 3 games at AFL level and was a bit meh down back in those three...

Uh, the salary cap exists?

I double checked the numbers and it's closer to about 60, but still, that's a conversion rate below 40%. Generally, there's a direct correlation between being shorter in the AFL and having greater accuracy, not because of any biomechanical reasons (if anything being taller helps you generate...

If he kicked for goal more accurately I think people would be a bit more forgiving. It's not as if there's a lack of extremely fit 5 foot 10 blokes in Australia. I think it's fair that the ones among those who rise to AFL level tends to be those who among other things can nail the occasional...

Without knowing what the personal reasons are, and irrespective of how it impacted him mentally ... going to the boxing was two days later? Irrespective of how it "looks" what's wrong with something personal making the player unavailable on a Thursday but not in a Saturday? Ridiculous. It's not...

Because we want to try and pick our best team to try and win games this year to try and make finals and win the flag? Sanders' form over the last 2-3 games hasn't demanded selection, and he's also less flexible in playing other positions than other players we've been rolling through the centre...

It was also to do with the fact that Ward's management team came to us looking for an extension and instead of taking that as an opportunity we told them to hold off and wait until closer to end of the year.

Nobody's saying that there isn't room for improvement, just that people were judging the actual results wildly differently by literally calling for a sacking of the coach and an interim coach for 17 games or whatever.

And we simply don't have the pull of bigger clubs. Jade Gresham was interviewed after the win vs. Adelaide and asked about Anzac Day. Was quite open about the appeal for playing like clubs like Essendon to play in those matches. Bobby Hill, a Norm Smith medallist, left GWS after two trade...

I do find it funny whenever recruiters say "we rated him higher". By definition that's basically true for every player! Say Joe Bloggs is a surprise pick 1. Literally every other pick thereafter will be higher on their club's draft board, ie, pick 2 will be that team's pick 1 on their draft...

All of these points may entirely be valid but surely can only change the expected margin by a couple of goals at best. And a ten goal win is still a ten goal win - what would the response be if it was "merely" a six goal win but they had all those players in? If it was so self-evidently an...

Without wanting to say too much until he actually plays at AFL level, Freijah in this form seems like an absolute bonus a pick 45. Given he was our first pick after we matched Croft, I wonder how high we had him on our draft board, if we felt he was going to be this good, or if he was just a bonus.

Yet he was still sub for their Grand Final team

There were probably two big moments that changed the club. One was the $20 million we got from the Howard government in 2004 to upgrade funding. That was a gift. The other was when Jason Akermanis, however his time ended and how he's a persona non grata since, was convinced to come to us. He...

We can debate about whether we should have given him more games for tactical reasons (and given that we were playing well in 2021 broadly you can argue we made the right choices), but in terms of contract, we offered Lipinski as good a deal as he was getting anywhere else. He wanted security of...

The "expected wins" and "expected losses" are a load of rubbish though. I'm a big fan of expected score as a general guide to see how good both teams are at generating quality shots, and it's arguably a better guide about how the result of one game represents how well the team actually played...

I think Sanders needs a gig in the VFL. Don't have to overthink it, it's merely on form and flexibility. Garcia can play forward, Sanders can't. Richards can play back, Sanders can't. Harms can play forward/flank/wing, Sanders can't. Even Macrae, who wasn't picked because he couldn't spend time...

Jamarra's back home in Warrnambool for whatever the personal reasons are. If there are accusations, it's from idiots.

And it would be a bit of a dick move for the players to give the cold shoulder for a bloke who is literally rehabbing an ACL injury. Rehab can be a tough, lonely place.

There's pretty much never going to be a Melbourne vs. interstate team game on a Thursday night, especially outside school holidays, ever again. It's a death knell for crowds.

Naughton won't be on a million a year unless he hits triggers/bonuses that would mean he's in the form that we're happy for a million a year

Apart from the one game that he came on as a sub though Daniel has not actually played that well this season. He had 11 touches in 52% TOG before being subbed out, and just 16 touches despite the big win in 89% TOG against West Coast. He then played a decent but not amogn the bests game in the...

5. Dale 4. Naughton 3. Treloar 2. Macrae 1. Bont

There's been a clear bias - and I'm not sure whether it's Bevo or the list management team - to avoid developing genuinely young players, (if they're not clearly so talented that they're top 20 draft picks), even if it takes some time and investment. He'd rather a plug-in-and-play mature mind...

The AFL has an interest in having as many local players play for the local clubs in expansion markets, not because it's a 'first world problem' or it necessarily feels like it needs to 'defeat' the other sports (though that is an inherent by-product), but simply because the success and...

This isn't true at all. The NHL draft is probably the most similar to the AFL in terms of young players getting drafted as 18 year olds and them, while being tied to a team, spending several years being developed in "reserves"-style football in their 2nd tier leagues or through the college...

They should be handing out free tickets to Thursday games in Melbourne en masse to uni students. Give them a Thursday night out, get international students interested in the game, Thursday is the typical uni night out, and it's not as if the seats are going to use anyway.

I've slowly come to accept that to have a certain amount of legspeed in our team (especially with the repeat efforts and covering the ground that modern footy demands) that we will have to retain players like Bramble and Vandermeer in their team even if there are many valid frustrations about...

Why "should we" have been 5-1 or 4-2? Why is being highly successful, a tough thing in a league where 17 other teams are also trying to win, the minimum acceptable standard? Beating up on average teams is a good thing.

What makes the Essendon loss standard and the St Kilda win the outlier? Over the past 7 seasons we've more or less won as many games as we've lost. What you're saying simply doesn't compute.