Why can’t we just play with only 2 big forwards? Why weaken our Defence so we have this magical 3rd big up forward, especially one who doesn’t usually play that role?
Can say the same in every state about basketball, cricket, soccer, etc.
Meanwhile Brisbane build a dynasty around a dual Brownlow medalist from SA recruited from a WA club and just recently, recruit as free agents a South Australian from a Vic club and a Victorian from a WA club.
It hurts ports “only bad teams rebuild” mantra, because they were relying on it being “good teams don’t need to rebuild when they have 3 guns coming to the club for peanuts in the next 2 years”
The compo pick is stupid and applying to an arbitrary top 5 makes no sense. So if you finish 13th, you are still shit but your pick 6 gets bumped back to 7 and then your pick 24 gets bumped to 29. And you didn’t even get to play in the wild card round? 11th - 13th the new worst spots to finish...
Crows offered pick 4 plus 2 future firsts to North for pick 1 which became Horne Francis. That was knocked back. That’s your starting point for a consensus pick 1.
This is why I have no sympathy for Port in this situation. They shouldn’t have any rights to Cochrane in the first place now crying that they’ll have to pay up to get him.
I can’t see us winning either. Good teams win these games to make a statement. We don’t do statement wins. The closest we did was beating Collingwood last year, which we treated like the final boss and we’ve been sleeping through the end credits since.