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Ellie would have had all sorts of offers to go elsewhere over the journey. She's a club legend for sticking with the us, particularly when the womens team has been at such a low ebb recently.

Unfortunately, if you give the AFL media leeches a sniff of blood they will go all in. Sanders will learn from it and I'm sure he won't give them any ammunition in the future.

The thing about the 'versatility' mantra is that it rarely gets used in the course of a game. Sure, a player like Bailey Williams might play games on a wing, rather than as a defender but Beveridge rarely responds to how a game is playing out tactically by making posisitional changes and using...

It's a medical issue. It has absolutely nothing to do with the result, how Bevo coached last night or across the last few seasons.

It's so 'bizarre' that the AFL has now seen fit to involve it's chief medico in to investigate the situation. When was the last time you can recall that happening?

Liam Picken, who suffered multiple concussions throughout his career, is currently suing the club, Dr Gary Zimmerman, Dr Jake Landsburger and the AFL for negligence and breach of duty of care. No one wants a situation where Libba's long term health is compromised because the club didn't meet...

There's an underlying reason as to why Libba collapsed like that and you don't have to be medico to know that an ankle tweak is highly unlikely to be the reason. It's responsible risk management to take him off and not let him resume playing until the cause has been determined. It might be...

It shouldn't have come to this. Our medical response after he collapsed was poor. At a minimum, Libba should have been immediately taken from the field and had an assessment. You don't just collapse and you don't collapse like that from a tweaked ankle.

We will end up with a first rounder through a reluctant trade.

Good to hear Luke Darcy really take it to Kane Cornes about his media persona on the Triple M pre game last night. Cornes' assertion that he genuinely believes all the things he says was just laughable. Made even better by the simping suppprt Cornes recieced from Damien Barrett.

The problem has always been that too much emphasis is placed on the outcome and not enough on the act. Pickett should have got a severve penalty for what he tried to do to Bailey Smith but becuase Smith picked himself up, he merely got a slap on the wrist. There's little incentive for him to...

For mine, it hasn't been a mistake to recruit Lobb. As you say, he's ready made back up if English and/or Darcy are injured. What I think is a mistake though and it's still early days, was the drafting of Lachlan Smith. Whatever his attributes in the ruck, he just doesn't look to be tall...

Gotta say, some good questions from the assembled media at that presser. They displayed plenty of knowledge of the players on our list and the topical issues around the club. Given that fairly junior reporters typically attend the press conferences, it offers a start contrast to the...

No VFL this week so I imagine additional players will travel to Adelaide.

Sometimes I pinch myself that Liam Jones is back at the club.