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StatsInsider's AFL futures. Dogs 27.5% to play finals.

Dalrymple is a gun - I'm really slow to praise recruiters because there are so many variables each year they have to deal with. It's also hard because you need a lot of drafts and a lot of data points before you get picture of how good a recruiter is. For me, I was so comfortable knowing that...

Shocked at some of the criticism to be honest. It's a fairly unique role, it's difficult to hire someone with previous experience and if you are doing that you're either poaching someone at the high end or picking off someone elses dud. You can't buy the experience that Sam had in the AFL and...

Watched it Christmas night. I actually called my old man a month before X-Mas and asked him which one of us was buying it for the other for a present so we didn't have 2 copies haha. So we sorted that out and we got together and sat down together on Chrissy and watched it and fought back tears...

lol This is what I wrote 10 years ago and I stand by it: This is what i hate the most. Thread Title - 'Franklin is the best KPP!!!!' 'Butane Team: Western Bulldogs I reckon that Franklin is a little over-rated at the moment. Yes he's going to be a star for 10 years, but he's just not there...

Schache ahead of Redpath. Righto.

I'll never boo Stringer as a premiership player and always have a special place in my heart for him for his 4th quarter tackle in defence the pre-lim, his cross the face kick to Dickson, his goal out of the pack in granny and his over the top kick to Picken to seal it. But, just maybe, he isn't...

Perfect. We take 2 top end talent guys in a shallow draft and upgrade Smith with that pick the 80's. Also keep 1 of Crameri and Honey too I guess or do we have enough list space?

So what picks do we have this year now? I lost all my bearings as the trades started coming in.

So even still, if we traded Stringer for pick 25 + 30 we'd be upgrading Smith with pick 30

2 questions: Is Rourke Smith being upgraded? And How many draft picks will we even need? Boyd, Murphy, Stringer and Hamilton gone from main list. Crozier and Trengove added. If they have to use a pick to upgrade Smith than that means we only have 1 pick in the draft which isn't allowed so...

I posted that 9 years ago. It never dies. Once every couple of years I get a DM from somebody asking me the story ahah. Truth is, I can't even remember it properly anymore!

When Stringer gets traded he gets a new contract - he isn't going to be on the 1 year deal remaining he was on at the Dogs. Was meant to go to meetings to sort of out what sort of offer they can put him down for sponsorship dollars so Stringer's management can start comparing prospective deals...

This is a good point but it assumes that Essendon are willing to part with a pick that high. Stringer was a no show to sponsorship meetings with Cotton On and Morris finance in Geelong. He also refused to answer calls from Geelong as to why he missed these meetings making them filthy with him...

We're not getting anything more than pick 11. I just hope that's our first and last offer.

Won't be getting anything more than pick 11 and even that is going to be very hard work.

Premiership hero returns you mean. You will never take that away from him as much as you would like.

Smith and Redpath in. Webb has also been banging the door down all season. Would be reluctant to drop Honey after just 1 game, he's done some hard yards in the VFL to get that shot and deserves a second, and possibly the last opportunity.

I don't have anything to add I just wanted to say: Shane Biggs never forget. Shane Biggs never forget. Shane Biggs never forget. ChookNorris

Hard to criticise anybody's attempt at their round 1 team. I'd have a shot myself but I'd feel guilty about leaving a few guys out. Beveridge has shown in the past he's ok with not playing traditional ruckman. Wouldn't surprise me if leaves Campbell out and tries to engineer something else...

That's a real weight off my shoulders :D

hahahahaha yes. We live in a post-Bulldog premiership world these days(at least in my time on Earth). Time for a change to move with the times. Updating now.

I've had the same avatar since 2006! The longer i keep it the more pixels it grows. Maybe I should change it to my avatar holding up the cup.

The real lie is that Tippett played that day. Whatever his salary is, Tom Boyd's should be double.

Sydney had only 7 shots in the second half and the Bulldogs had 16. Even if Sydney converted every shot they still wouldn't have won. The score line was flattering in the end.

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I can relate to a lot of that but couldn't have put it in writing that well! I think for me there will be a pre-flag era and a post flag-flag era. This was probably summed up with watching Tony Liberatore when I was young and then his nerves/celebrations in the prelim. Also watching Scott West...

Anyone else lost their love of AFL after that amazing month of football? Don't get me wrong, I've watched all the finals multiple times and still get chills thinking about it at odd times but when people start talking about 2017 I really couldn't care! I know with the age of our squad that we...

hahahah yes.