Recent content by manpurple

Any sighting of AB. IMHO he is the key. I know all sorts are creaming themselves over Serong being the next captain. But in 2022 when AB was the voice of the young we performed. He didn’t seem to have the same… authority this year and our midfield went backwards. Yes broady wasn’t the same...

Only thing that make sense is if they threatened to trade the pick elsewhere. Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

Well he's gone and unless we get a round 1 pick it will have been a complete waste drafting him at 9. I was never a fan of the amount we paid to keep Henry out of Carlton's clutches. Always believed we should have let SCOS take him. Juice not worth the squeeze.

The question is really "Is the juice worth the squeeze" At this point in time it looks like we were well and truly rogered by Melbourne. Yes I wanted Jackson but based on current ladder position he cost, picks 6, 13 and 22. Ouch.

And yet we kept Hughes. Sigh

Watching the boys this season in the first few games it seams that someone ripped the heart of them over the pre season. Even in the pre season matches there was none of the bounce and excitement there was in previous years. Game is won in the heart before it is played. We have the talent...

In Choco Williams I’ll just leave this here. On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app

I like most of this. But I never liked the Henry pick. We should have let Carlton take him. It stuffed not only that draft but the one following. Many are happy with Chapman at 14 that year. But is he better than Perkins, Bruhn, Powell or Cox. Any of whom we could have taken if Henry hadn’t...

I’ve been watching the doco on the 80’s Celtics Lakers rivalry. They talk about how the Celtics management bet the farm in 86 to trade up to pick 2. This they used to draft “the next Michael Jordan”, “best pick in the draft” etc. Bias ODed before he played a single game and it took 20 years...

But we didn’t pay for proven performance. We paid for potential. If you redid his draft at the end of last season based on performance alone, he might make top 10. If we were paying for that, last years first round plus change should have been all we paid. The reality is that trading for...

Yes. Banfield is a defensive second or third medium forward. Nobody needs one of those. He has just enough versatility to be a reasonable sub after shuffling half the field. Hughes is quick of foot and slow of everything else. He is a defender pushed out by better players trying to shoehorn...

I hope we Walker away with a win. But given current form they would have to Amiss half their forward line.

I find myself in a weird position. I still believe that there are some significant changes that would improve the team. But given my inability to agree with the match committee I am afraid that they will be given too much license and we will do something bone headed like dropping Amiss for Fyfe...

I take your point whilst noting Collingwood lost this stat comprehensively last year and out performed us. But they play a different game style. I would argue that even fixing this (ie performing as we did last year) will not take us to ultimate success, as others have moved beyond this...

Supposedly Hawks are paying a bunch of JOM's salary. We also seemed to have front loaded Lobb's contract. By all accounts we offered unders for Acres and Logue. So I wonder if we needed cash and couldn't pony up.