Recent content by Spanish_Fly

read on that draft night rundown that GWS were offered West Coasts future first for the pick we traded to them for Hopper. :oops:

I think the nett benefit of Handscombe and Turner would have far exceeded Marnus and Inglis, even with Handscombe's shortcoming's as keeper.

I don't know why we didnt play Handscombe, they brought him into the test team at the start of the year because he's one of the better players against spin, they could have brought him in as keeper and played Marnus' role in the middle order and allowed them to play another power hitter like...

Have to say I probably agree, but one of Baker, Short or Rioli is probably going to be moved to the forward line permanently so will be interesting to see which way the new coaching panel goes.

Short was also originally drafted as a small forward and started his career there, would be interesting also to see him given a run there. We obviously have too many hbf options especially with the younger guys coming through so something has to give.

didnt have time or inclination to check so just assumed I was wrong, lol.

Sorry you're right that's the one. BT goes off his nut cause Dusty just turned and ran away from the ball, lol.

Yeah the first was just sheer skill execution brilliance, the second similar to another favourite of mine I think in the GWS GF when he read the bounce and turned back towards goal to away from the ball and bamboozled the defender, can't remember who that was.

Certainly my favourite, he had to take a short step to delay by like .2 of a second so he didn't get into Stanley's peripheral vision to early and to time the steal perfectly. Just a bloke who is on a whole other level, football IQ wise, to everyone around him.

Happy with this appointment, Best wishes and good luck to him. Never had anything against Mini personally or professionally but an interview I heard with Jack this morning discussing the appointment summed up why I always thought Mini was not the right man for the job. Jack said he was...

Any interest in Hunter Clarke? Was happy to go to North last year but in the end the deal fell through last minute. Would be cheaper this year than last you would think.

Can't disagree with anything you've said in totality but I felt it really set us back not drafting for needs in that draft when we had such glaring needs that now need to be filled through trade and salary cap capital.

Maybe I'm silly then I think there needs to be a balance between pure talent and needs based drafting because one has an impact on the other, this draft was the perfect example. We had 2 glaring list needs coming into this draft, inside mid and key forward, we drafted neither really (unless...

Peter Wright couldn't get a game at GC either. Not saying Burgess would or wouldnt be a good option but that metric alone doesnt discount him IMO. They wouldn't play Flanders most of the year either and Id take him in a heartbeat.

Pity a handful of more experienced players just decided to go through the motions or we could have won that game.