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No King?

I wouldn't be surprised if it's already a done deal, and they're just waiting for the perfect time to announce it. I have an image in my brain that I can't shed - Logan, Errol, Chad, Tommy Mac, Jimmy R, possibly Ollie and a few others sitting in a circle on stools, crooning some a cappella Al...

I mostly agree with this. I think there's an element of the media in general (and King in particular) shouting our praises too loudly based off the limited evidence of the first couple of weeks, and now swinging the pendulum too far the other way. Our last two matches haven't been great, but...

I read assertive suggestions that Weddle made his preference to stay in Victoria pretty clear to recruiters. If this is true, dismay over us not selecting him is as pointless as dismay over not picking Cyril Rioli.

If we're poor on defending turnover, that's likely related to our attacking mindset prowess. It's very hard to defend turnover when you do so in the middle of the ground, trying to pinpoint a pass that is then intercepted. The team is in attack mode and so the defence is out of shape, and the...

I agree our team is letting in too many goals but I’m not convinced that is solely (or even mostly) attributable to the back six (or seven).

References to 'rounds' of picks is silly (as I commented in another context, in another thread). I don't have an issue with a slight recalibration of the cost of matching bids, but if they are going to designate a certain pick has to be used as part of the match, it makes sense to make it a...

https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/1105895/risk-v-reward-aflw-clubs-state-league-dilemma This article from Bastiani somewhat addresses the question we've been pondering about the role of the VFLW in preparing (or not) AFLW players.

Only four? Which GF do we lose?

In all likelihood he’ll be shy of 200. Most games he can play in a season is 27 (though that’s a hard way to win or even play in GFs). He’s on 72 games now, with the potential of 22 more for the rest of this season. So (if my arithmetic is correct) the maximum he could be on at the end of this...

It is weird that a Perth based station, intent on luring players “home” wouldn’t bother to get their names correct. Particularly when both players have fairly uncommon names.

And Brandon Jack standing next to Towers. Is that Jake Brown in the bottom left hand corner?

Thanks for posting TW. You may be more clued in than we Swans supporters given your club has been involved in the AFLW and VFLW for much longer. How do most of the AFLW listed players of the big clubs spend the 35 weeks that the AFLW doesn’t run if they don’t, as a rule, play state level...

So I’m finding this VFLW / AFLW thing a bit confusing. With the men it’s clear it serves as a reserves competition for the AFL clubs as the seasons run (nearly) concurrently. But for the women it seems like a second AFLW competition (but without the WA and SA teams. I had kinda a xpected there...

Any discussion about “first round picks” is daft because there’s a huge difference between pick 1 and pick 18 yet both are first round picks. That’s just a general observation, not specific to King and Cornes’s discussion, which I’ve not listened to (yet).

A "work invested" lens was once applied to a Northern Academy product when GWS were denied access to Todd Marshall. I don't recall the exact details, but I think he'd spent some time overseas in his teens, maybe pursuing cricket, and although his parents' residence was in the Giants' zone for...

On which SEN shows did they talk about this? I listened to the first minute or so of Phil Davis (on Whately, I think, though Whately wasn’t on today) because I was alerted by the article quoting Phil saying Errol’s made a mistake by not signing for three. Was it on other shows too?

kinda?

Yeah, Carlton and Melbourne don't make a huge amount of sense to me as suitors from a salary cap shape point of view. Carlton, in particular, have a solid slab of players who earn, or will shortly earn, top dollar. Curnow, McKay, Walsh, Cripps. Plus they reportedly gave Williams a $900k pa...

I think the decision on whether to sign a very long term contract - both by the club and the player - is, in part, about injury risk. Any player is going to get less per year on a long term contract than they would on a shorter contract because the club is taking on most of the risk that injury...

Something I noticed with Chad over the first three games in particular was that, while he was trying to break through tackles, he was also keeping his arms free and actively looking for a constructive handball. It actually looked like something the whole team had worked on over the preseason...

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1105080/port-adelaide-guns-connor-rozee-zak-butters-jason-horne-francis-stake-claim-but-trio-isnt-ranked-no1 I wasn't sure of the best place to put this, but figured I'd start here and it can get moved if there is a better place for it. This article says that...

Close to none. On OTC a very brief mention of Heeney as having started the season quite well. No footage. And plenty of footage of Reid breaking tackles while they gush over him. Certainly on 360 but I think also on OTC.

In last year’s loss to the Cats there was a massive gap in class. We’d lost both McCartins and had no one more suitable than Mills to play on Hawkins (rendering our midfield impotent as well as doing little to our defence). I don’t recall the exact timing of all last year’s early season injuries...

Maybe, though Magor is still not being used in the forward line, at least based on the practice games and first two rounds of the VFL. It is possible they think Parker will see out his final couple of seasons playing as a medium forward, in the same way Jude Bolton did (very successfully)...

I think there is a mismatch between the tone of your response and that of the post to which you were responding to. Bega Barlow went out of his/her way to not make his/her observations personal. He/she actually showed no arrogance at all in the way he/she stated his/her opinion. FWIW, while I...

The article I provided a link to states that we've been the best pressure team, on average, over seasons 21-23. That suggests we are collectively elite pretty often.

Surely better to have a team that is collectively elite than a few individuals? https://www.afl.com.au/news/1021299/pressure-conversion-stoppage-every-finals-teams-strengths-and-weaknesses/

Both of them!

No full replay (for any of the games) but a mini-match has just appeared.