Recent content by Ciao Giacomo

We had 12 players who went into tonight’s game with less than 50 AFL games. Essendon had 6 sub 50 gamers. We were happy to let Jake the Snake go, they were happy to grab him. A few of our inexperienced players struggled tonight but a bigger problem was the poor form of a few of our experienced...

Like most Crows supporters, I am not convinced that we have turned the corner (or are anywhere near the corner). We were very lucky to get the win last week but hopefully something clicks. Essendon is as flaky as the 2024 Crows so anything could happen, big win, narrow win, narrow loss, big...

Check the SANFL thread from lastyear and the changes thread from last year.

If you had read other peoples posts in this thread, you would have seen I wanted Dowling in as sub and McHenry out. Billy took a while to look comfortable in the SANFL last year and there were more posters saying delist him than those saying he should be playing in the AFL. He improved as the...

Very astute. The same happened with Ugle-Hagan. Selected at Pick One in the 2020 draft but not selected until Round 16 in 2021 and only 5 games in his first season. Naturally he demanded a trade to Collingwood at the end of the season and the rest is history. Similar story with Sam Darcy who...

The “Shape Keeper” is the modern day version of the “Kenny McGregor”. Towards the end of Kenny’s career he was barely touching the ball. I heard an interview on 5aa when they asked if Ken’s spot in the team was under question. “Certainly not” said Phil Harper, “Ken is playing his role very...

What a selection dilemma, so many to drop and so few to bring in. Call me a pessimist but I thought we were a tad lucky to beat Carlton. Whilst we changed the midfield mix, the game plan etc, etc the key difference was our goal kicking. If 80% of our scoring shots were goals in our other...

1) Pedlar wasn’t in the best of nick when he returned for the preseason. 2) Pedlar didn’t look great in the preseason match sim. 3) Pedlar didn’t look great in the preseason matches 4) Pedlar has looked awful in the AFL this year. I have always been a Pedlar fan but this is a wake up call. A...

Prior to the Geelong game, Dowling, Curtin, Ryan and Bond had showed little in the preseason hit outs. Were you at Alberton when most of the KIDS come on after the third period? The standout player was Ned the whipping boy. Curtin struggled in the Ones. I will just go and check what your team...

6 I am confident that if we debut a KID interstate, and we were smashed, and the KID lost confidence then all the posters on the changes board would say “Not your fault Nicksy, at least you gave it a crack”

I can’t see a bucket load of changes. After watching the Twos play South Adelaide I said, 1) Only Nankervis and Dowling should be promoted. It looks like we need to see at least another good game from Dowling but I would have played him last week. 2) Curtin seems to lack a bit of confidence...

Using the Fxxxot word as a homophobic slur sounds like something my grandfather would have said. Has the word found new popularity with millennials? At least Clarko used a more universal term. I presume Boomers, Gen X, Millenials and Gen Z are all familiar with the sock cutter reference?

I will treat your question with respect. Prior to the season I estimated that we would win 13 games. Based on last year (the only 23 game season in the AFL) I predicted that we would finish 6th. The bookies had us at equal 8th and the AFL “experts” also had us just inside or outside the Eight...

Thank you Bevoman, I am so envious of OneClub. You shouldn’t waste your time posting on our Board, you should be booking your Grand Final accomodation. What a super start to the year, smacking the 18th and 11th team from 2023 at home PLUS a huge away win against the 2023 13th team. You were...

Surely we will be the first team in the history of the AFL/VFL to go 0-23. We should forfeit all of our away games so we are well rested for the home games.