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  1. Icanwalk

    Coach Welcome to West Coast: Andrew McQualter

    Quoted from the media thread. Our best (statistical) improvement according to champion data is Ginbey, up 18 spots to #222. A damning stat for a rebuilding side coming off the lowest of bases. Melbourne is the nearest side with Chandler improving 44 spots to #69. This has been one of my main...
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    Autopsy Round 3, 2025: Positives and Negatives vs Fremantle

    Oscar seems like a decent guy and capable of those inspiring on-field acts that lift the team. But I've had the impression he sees himself entitled to leadership despite lacking actual leadership skills. Jump through the right hoops, say the right things in the right way (his press conferences...
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    List Mgmt. Contracts/Trade/Draft Thread - 2025 Edition

    Pick 1 downgraded to a late teens pick + Cam Zurhaar? Has a crack. Can't hit the side of a barn. Would not put it past our management.
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    Game Day Round 3, 2025: West Coast vs Fremantle - The Owen Derby

    Disagree. Was always on the fringes. Skills were very poor plus rash decision making. There was a period where he was taking intercept marks to compliment his "headless chook" rebound, but have not seen this at the Eagles where he has played further up the ground.
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    Game Day Round 3, 2025: West Coast vs Fremantle - The Owen Derby

    *Slow, non-athletic players that can't kick. Of the players you listed, maybe only Brockman is an above average kick of the ball. We sacrificed pick 3 (where you'd usually have access to elite skill) for a player who would be lucky to hit the side of the barn. In this rebuild, we have avoided...
  6. Icanwalk

    Game Day The 2024 Draft Day Thread

    Who? Maric is our best field kick of the next gen, and he's a KP-sized player picked in the MSD. Johnston? No class or skills across any line in the side as far as I can see
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    List Mgmt. The 2024 Draft (Nov 20/21)

    This club is in "time to take the keys off grandpa" territory.
  8. Icanwalk

    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Post Season

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    Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion

    Add one more season like our last 3 and we'll give them a run for their money
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    Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion

    Look tough to me.
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    Game Day Round 21, 2024: West Coast vs Gold Coast

    "Witherden, a football Sisyphus. He kicks it out and it comes straight back." - Dwayne Bertrand Russell
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    Game Day Round 18, 2024: West Coast v Brisbane (Farewell Simmo)

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    News Media Thread, 2024: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent

    Great article. Journalism and analysis an order of magnitude better than The West with a fraction of the budget. So much for corporate efficiency. Our efficiency going i50 in the 2018 premiership era was always a ticking time bomb. Could never sustain that long term. When that returned to the...
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    Coach Adam Simpson Megathread est. 2017 - Skip to 2024: Simpson coaching tenure officially ends

    Easy to say, but unfortunately it's not that simple. The West is a media monopoly. And not only does Stokes own the only major newspaper in the state, he incredulously owns the only printing press, the technology required to produce newspapers. Even Pravda didn't have so much power. There is no...
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    Coach Adam Simpson Megathread est. 2017 - Skip to 2024: Simpson coaching tenure officially ends

    News.com.au is a tabloid. Like most of the footy media, pushing sensationalist drivel is its business model. Citing it does not help your argument. Regardless, the article hardly portrays the press conference as a "debacle or car crash". Confirmation bias at play.
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    Coach Adam Simpson Megathread est. 2017 - Skip to 2024: Simpson coaching tenure officially ends

    It's usually best not to engage with idiots (lest they drag you down to their level), but boy does this board make it hard.
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    List Mgmt. Should The Eagles Request A Priority Assistance Package at The End of This Year?

    That is a dire list. Yes to Allen and Hough (I can see why people would include Waterman as well), but the jury is still out on the rest. B.Williams? You jest.
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    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

    I know this board is engaging in a collective Simmo pile-on, but this is a long bow. Ginbey has never shown any proficiency in this facet of the game, not even as a junior. Moreover, it has always been a weakness in his game, and his performances in the AFL have done nothing to dispel this...
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    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

    Would you say the same applies for kicking? Sure, you can get "pretty good at it", but players are not operating in a vaccuum, they are competing against elite players (in this case, midfielders who typically already have elite hands dating back to junior days, and also practice it every day)...
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    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

    We can't carry both Flynn and Bailey in the same side. I assumed it was just a stopgap measure until Flynn increased his TOG, but seeing this odd obsession with talls, maybe they seriously intend to play both long-term given their different "complimentary" ruck attributes (Bailey for impact...
  25. Icanwalk

    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

    I agree. I meant they could be packaged with later picks to snatch a first. Although it is not inconceivable that Waterman could be worth a first rounder to a team like Collingwood or Melbourne
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    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

    I obviously haven't been clear enough. My fault for drawing in tangential threads. I simply threw in Travaglia as a hypothetical, in the instance there's a player we rate between our first and second pick. I'm not universally against splitting an early pick. It depends on the distribution of...
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    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

    I agree. A sustained period of success combined with some bad fortune/timing and a few original sins of our list transition has meant we are desperately lacking in both quality and quantity. The pertinent question is how to generate more first round picks (beyond priority picks). I don't think...
  28. Icanwalk

    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

    I like Hewett as a midfield prospect. For a first-year player, he made great impact in short midfield bursts. He positions himself well at the contest, reads the ball off the ruck tap well, hits the ball at pace, collects with clean hands and can exit the stoppage with explosiveness and pace...
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    List Mgmt. Contract, Trade and Draft Discussions - 2024 Edition

    The only people who would say that are West Coast supporters wearing rose-tinted glasses. Much like the Kelly trade, all other neutral observers with good sense would take the contrary view. Wardlaw is a complete inside-outside midfielder with no major flaws in his game (durability?). Ginbey is...
  30. Icanwalk

    Game Day Round 16, 2024: West Coast vs Hawthorn

    Nah mate we need his height up forward

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