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Bairstow had 23 in the 92 GF and played quite well.

unfortunately Peter Matera went ballistic and had a worldy
 
I was just having a look at the Perth Demons WAFL list. I blanked out the surname.

Can anyone guess the surname. He's the son of an AFL premiership team captain.

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I was just having a look at the Perth Demons WAFL list. I blanked out the surname.

Can anyone guess the surname. He's the son of an AFL premiership team captain.

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Keep looking at the Perth list also added our train on ruckman and a Collingwood backman. Should be a very good team.
 
Another WAFL recruit. Ex-Geelong rookie, and son of a former AFL player; Osca Riccardi is coming over to try and get a game for Peel Thunder this season. Maybe Sonny will get down there and pester him about his old man.

 
Regarding Bobby Hill:

Hill has now de-conditioned to such an extent that he will require months of training to get back to a level capable of playing football, and would then need a period in the VFL before any senior return. Even if he returned to the club in the next week, it would be mid-season at the earliest before he would be ready to play, and there are no short-term plans for him to return.

Pies not factoring him in their plans for this season
 
How's Fagan's form.

Complaining about Saints paying players too much, making it difficult to compete.

Meanwhile, got possibly the best player in 3 of the last 4 drafts through F/S and academy (Ashcrofts and Annabelle) despite winning the last 2 premierships and playing in the last three GFs.
 
Regarding Bobby Hill:

Hill has now de-conditioned to such an extent that he will require months of training to get back to a level capable of playing football, and would then need a period in the VFL before any senior return. Even if he returned to the club in the next week, it would be mid-season at the earliest before he would be ready to play, and there are no short-term plans for him to return.

Pies not factoring him in their plans for this season
Blobby Hill.

I'll see myself out.
 

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How's Fagan's form.

Complaining about Saints paying players too much, making it difficult to compete.

Meanwhile, got possibly the best player in 3 of the last 4 drafts through F/S and academy (Ashcrofts and Annabelle) despite winning the last 2 premierships and playing in the last three GFs.
Is he f***ing serious?!? The Saints literally only had one string to play and it was a rather desperate one with a large scope of backfire based on little more than an educated guess and wishful thinking at that and he still whinges despite the aforementioned advantages they have?

F*** me this is like a drowning man complaining about the guy dying of thirst!
 
How's Fagan's form.

Complaining about Saints paying players too much, making it difficult to compete.

Meanwhile, got possibly the best player in 3 of the last 4 drafts through F/S and academy (Ashcrofts and Annabelle) despite winning the last 2 premierships and playing in the last three GFs.

I am not sure what the last paragraph has got to do with the preceding one?

What he's saying is market is crazy if top dollar is being used on average players like TDK. He's right but wrong at the same time, the problem isn't the saints it is how FA is actually advantaging big teams that don't have to pay that price. The saints are just competing as best they can by overpaying.

If you want to have a go at Brisbane in all this, them being able to get Allen on the cheap is a bigger stick to beat them with than getting Annable. Allen isn't going to the saints is he
 
I am not sure what the last paragraph has got to do with the preceding one?

What he's saying is market is crazy if top dollar is being used on average players like TDK. He's right but wrong at the same time, the problem isn't the saints it is how FA is actually advantaging big teams that don't have to pay that price. The saints are just competing as best they can by overpaying.

If you want to have a go at Brisbane in all this, them being able to get Allen on the cheap is a bigger stick to beat them with than getting Annable. Allen isn't going to the saints is he
It's 100% related.

Old man is happy to reap the recruitment benefits offered to Brisbane, but wants to blame others for 'manipulating the market' when he can't afford to keep them all.
 
It's 100% related.

Old man is happy to reap the recruitment benefits offered to Brisbane, but wants to blame others for 'manipulating the market' when he can't afford to keep them all.

Whilst I get you want to just have a general whinge about how Brisbane and others get leg ups, they are different issues.

Perhaps he said other things I don't know, but from what I am reading on the afl website he's saying something pretty unremarkable, St Kilda overpaid on contracts

It has nothing to do with draft concessions, that's a seperate issue
 
He wasn’t talking about draft concessions. That would hardly make sense. No.

He had a go at the Saints for overheating player payments. Was a tad indelicate in doing so also. Just by the bye.

Saints responded by effectively saying they have to pay top dollar because they dont have access to the draft concessions Brisbane have.

And that’s the point being made here.

From a privileged position, it’s a bit rich for Fages to have a crack at clubs doing the only thing they can do to get an edge.
 
Saints saying that paying fair value for players was a "novel concept for some people" LOL

Probably applies to the Saints as much as the Lions
 
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Dees' May is in the shit again (more drunk punch ons while out, not a teammate this time...) Prestia from Tiges involved, too.

over on Dees board some speculating May should just cut his losses and go. integrity commish asking to 'ploise explain'. hectic.

soz if this is old news to some.
 

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