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Roast Motlop Meltdown. Was this an all time best?
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If you are in the window, as both clubs are, who would you prefer Gibson and Gibbs OR Motlop, Watts and Rockliff?
Unfortunately though, it's the OUTS that continue to hurt the AFC NOW.
Unfortunately though, it's the OUTS that continue to hurt the AFC NOW.
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Hahaha, well played. I admit, i stay off those now. Sometimes we need to shield ourselves from ourselves!
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Strange post. The wash up is effectively Milera and Gore vs Ebert - I know who I would choose.Best unnecessary meltdown (in hindsight) was Danger over Ebert for mineWhat a day that was!
Considering that I can't recall a Motlop meltdown I vote "No it wasn't"
No it's not ... It's:
- 154 games of Dangerfield + 24 games of Milera vs 213 games of Ebert (assuming if we drafted him he would play his whole career at AFC)
- Ebert is almost 28 at the start of the 2018 season vs Milera is 20 at the start of the 2018 season
A thread is only s**t if no one bothers to respond.
Half time in the Collingwood game day thread was Chernobyl-like
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No one knows what the future holds my friend, I never alluded to what he may do going forward. But what we can always do is look backwards. And when you look backwards at that guy, you see one of the AFL's most berated and inconsistent players that at 26 year old (turning 27 before the season) and 135 games still seems to barely know what position he plays.
And if you look backwards in here, there were people furious we didn't pay that guy better then probably 80-90% of the players on our roster. That to me is a pretty accurate way to measure how unnecessary this meltdown was.
You may have a different opinion and that's ok, i'm not forcing mine on you, this was just a avenue for us all to have a laugh and take the piss out of each other anyway...
You seem very angry lately EC, smashing people for starting what you consider crap threads. Please feel free to start some good ones.
I really can't understand why we had no interest in Rockliff. No cost outside of salary cap, seems absurd to not be interested. Watts I rate, but not really fussed, the last thing we need is to go even taller.
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Good call, Quarter time against the Roos was pretty ******* toxic as well
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Think there is a lot of work going into some pretty substantial in house contracts going on behind doors at the AFC. I heard Rocky was on around $800K or something crazy like that. Our list those $$ will be vital in retaining MCrouch, Sloane, and Laird next year.
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I respectively disagree. Given Dangerfield never won us a premiership and in the end netted us Milera and Gore it's a mute point. I don't see any benefit to the AFC in having Dangerfield on the books for 154 games who ultimately abandoned us in our hour of need.
We are on our premiership window NOW so you have the choice between Ebert (finished equal 13th in the brownlow) OR Milera and Gore? Who do you choose? I reckon 9 out of 10 supporters from opposition clubs would choose Ebert.
I've spent enough time reading the Geelong board to know they've spent years complaining about him. He'd be worth picking up if you could get him cheap but on a big contract? Hell no.
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Tell me which thread isn't "quality" to the standard you're hoping for? Maybe you can do a tutorial thread on "what makes a thread quality, so I won't bash it".
I specifically said no, I would not want Motlop at the Crows and would rather spend our trade currency elsewhere.
We got Gibbs. Win.
We got Gibbs. Win.
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Not even in the same league as Danger or Tippett.
Motlop was a category 1 meltdown.
Motlop was a category 1 meltdown.
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You're probably right but to be fair Danger was a gun, and Tippett looked every bit the part back then, those meltdowns were granted to me. Motlop on the other hand....
For future reference it's moot not mute, easy mistake lots of people make
Also Gore is gone isn't he?
But back to the point ...
What if Ebert defected to Power at the same stage he left West Coast? If you want to compare apples and apples. Maybe that's where he was always going to end up (could you imagine that thread - Ebert leaving to Power - holy toledo!!!)
Maybe taking Geelong's first round pick that year helped the club this year? Lots of variables.
I do agree that the ultimate weighing of trades / drafts is if they delivered a premiership ... but when you are comparing two players that have not done that in their careers, surely you need to include all of their games in any comparison?
Maybe don’t start a thread every time a thought enters your head.
As for bash, I was referring to your post in this thread that I quoted “usual suspects”.
I was more or less ambivalent about it. In the back of my mind, I did wonder if we missed out to a certain extent.
And then somebody posted this:
And I felt relieved.
He'd be pretty easy to tackle with those handles on him.
