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Kershaw sort of quiet didn't notice him too much, De La Rue got more involved later in the game.How did Kershaw and De La Rue go?
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Kershaw sort of quiet didn't notice him too much, De La Rue got more involved later in the game.How did Kershaw and De La Rue go?
Why would the AFL care we aren't a big club with a big following to flex too make them want to do anything to appease us.The elephant in the room is going to be Sanders and the new Tassie team.
Surely the AFL won’t screw us like they did with GWS and Ward.
If it happens I just hope we get fairer compo. We did fine in that we got Macrae with the pick we got for Ward, but Melbourne effectively got twice the compo for Scully.The elephant in the room is going to be Sanders and the new Tassie team.
Surely the AFL won’t screw us like they did with GWS and Ward.
Actually it's definitely something to ponder. We do unrest better than most clubs I reckon.It’s weird how there’s never any unrest at other clubs
The big knock on Lipinski was that his defensive efforts were poor and in particular his tackling. I don’t actually think he’s made that much progress on that score but it might just be something Collingwood don’t worry about for him.We can debate about whether we should have given him more games for tactical reasons (and given that we were playing well in 2021 broadly you can argue we made the right choices), but in terms of contract, we offered Lipinski as good a deal as he was getting anywhere else. He wanted security of game time, which is understandable - and while he's played a good game here, it's not as if he's been a lock in the Pies' best 22 in his time there, which shows you that he's not necessarily guaranteed himself more game time than what he had at the last couple of years at the Dogs.
I actually agree. We’ve had a lot of crises (particularly the three times in my lifetime we’ve been close to folding).Actually it's definitely something to ponder. We do unrest better than most clubs I reckon.
Am I just imagining that?
The big knock on Lipinski was that his defensive efforts were poor and in particular his tackling. I don’t actually think he’s made that much progress on that score but it might just be something Collingwood don’t worry about for him.
I do recall some pretty bad efforts (including a shocker late in the 2020 final against St Kilda). If it had been me I would have played him more but I do understand why he wasn’t played every week.
The "small club" thing is a bit of a furphy these days, IMO.Why would the AFL care we aren't a big club with a big following to flex too make them want to do anything to appease us.
Can absolutely see another Ward type shafting happening again.
We will squeal about it but AFL will just do us over yet again. Only have to take a look at our AFLW team has been decimated to see where we sit in the scheme of the league
There were probably two big moments that changed the club.Interestingly enough back around the Eade era some of my Essendon supporter mates said they thought we had a good culture.
Yet he was still sub for their Grand Final teamHow has he not been in Collingwood's best 22? he has played pretty much every week since he arrived there
I rather be the sub than not playingYet he was still sub for their Grand Final team
So he has played every game when not injured in 2 and a bit years, plays one as sub and that is your argument that he is not in best 22 and would have had same opportunity? That has got to be the weakest argument and use of fact gymnastics I've seen in a long time. Maybe we can get Crisp as he played 1 game as sub this year so clearly isn't in their 22 eitherYet he was still sub for their Grand Final team
CD is a defensive liability - it's a big risk that teams will rebound from half back through CD and his opponent. He is the easiest player to push off the ball and is slow and short. Great when he has the ball but a problem when he doesn't.I don't think Macrae will go. CD is an interesting one. I cannot understand why bevo doesn't play him in the high hf role as he has that coming to the stoppage. It's an out number at the source and CDs footskills somewhat eliminates the spare defender that doesn't roll up with him. It's the perfect role for him
Didn't we offer Ward a dodgy contact?Why would the AFL care we aren't a big club with a big following to flex too make them want to do anything to appease us.
Can absolutely see another Ward type shafting happening again.
We will squeal about it but AFL will just do us over yet again. Only have to take a look at our AFLW team has been decimated to see where we sit in the scheme of the league
You can actually watch a movie regarding how well we sooked up the Joyce era.Actually it's definitely something to ponder. We do unrest better than most clubs I reckon.
Am I just imagining that?
Not sure there’s much chance of that hahaAlso offer Harley Reid anything he wants that should be on the whiteboard in Powers office
My memory's a bit hazy on the Ward era (60 games at the Dogs) but IIRC it was as much that we didn't anticipate the way the expansion clubs would operate and failed to lock him in to a contract over that period. If we'd offered a tad more (like maybe $50k pa) at the right time he probably would have signed before the Giants rolled into town laden with large bags of money. (Some will say "but then we might not have got Macrae" but Ward was at least as good as Macrae so we were still every chance to win the 2016 flag.)Didn't we offer Ward a dodgy contact?
And if Sanders leaves, shouldn't we point fingers at "Beast Mode" Power, rather than cry AFL conspiracy?
The "small club" thing is a bit of a furphy these days, IMO.
We're actually pretty well run off-field.
We seem to make a profit each year, we have assets and strong cashflow.
As a supporter base, we revert to the poor-old-Dogs attitude when things go wrong, when we really should be thinking of ourselves a solid club in all respects.
The more we see ourselves as a strong member of the league, the bigger we will become.
I reckon our attitude, as a collective, is about 15 years behind the reality. So is everyone else's opinion of us. It's a lag that we don't need.
Time that attitude changed.
I'm not overly fussed with Power, but I piss my pants laughing everytime I hear "beast mode".My memory's a bit hazy on the Ward era (60 games at the Dogs) but IIRC it was as much that we didn't anticipate the way the expansion clubs would operate and failed to lock him in to a contract over that period. If we'd offered a tad more (like maybe $50k pa) at the right time he probably would have signed before the Giants rolled into town laden with large bags of money. (Some will say "but then we might not have got Macrae" but Ward was at least as good as Macrae so we were still every chance to win the 2016 flag.)
As for Sam Power, much as we sing his praises there have been a few eyebrow-raising renewals and signings recently. I can probably live with a few dubious signings and maybe even the overly-generous contract years of some of the renewals as long as we lock in our key top 10 players (and you can leave Libba out of that because he's a year by year renewal who is no flight risk at all).
I'm still not entirely happy with the draft assets we had to give up for Sanders either but if he turns out as good as some say he'll be (and we can get him to stay long term) then I'll probably put those scruples aside.
Yes, all those selfies with the Daicos brothers tells me he is fully committed to the Dogs.The feeling was Dunkley was leaving,and their was a certain coolness from the players towards him. Bont who he had been so close with, was suddenly never seen off field with him anymore. I don’t get that feeling so much with Baz. He certainly shows he is more invested in the Bulldogs than Dunkley.
It's amusing when you constantly have a go at others for posting in "absolute certainties" and then you post this drivel with certaintyI'm not overly fussed with Power, but I piss my pants laughing everytime I hear "beast mode".
Macrae is far better than Ward, nothing to do with the "beast mode"
Sanders will probably captain Tassie. He is gone already, that's why he slipped so "beast mode" could draft him where he did
We are in the now, so we recruited a gone kid for the now.