It depends on context. In a lot of cases, though not always, using archaic (or more generally uncommon) words tends to give whatever you're writing either an air of levity or pretentiousness. So if you're not after the former, you have to be aware that you might be creating an impression of the...
In the 3rd round of a compromised draft, I think you could do worse.
Fwiw, Wellingham also has limited creativity and dodgy disposal but because Collingwood needs pace through the middle he's cemented a place. McCarthy doesn't quite have Wellingham's pace or hands, but he could play a...
Obviously not, I just believe that the "defenders look better in a good team" line is shite, which is why I brought up those players off the top of my head.
For the record, I think his value is something around late 20's to early 30's or (preferably) a player equivalent. I'd certainly take...
Will be moved on. He's a tough, inside player with pace who can find the ball but has limited creativity and disposal under pressure is dodgy. Has also struggled with injury.
Would be a good pick-up for a team like Brisbane I think as he'd add pace and contested ball ability and would come...
I mean, I agree that to joe public it looks worse, but to people who actually watch football? Did you think any less of Dale Morris this year c.f. previous years when the Bulldogs were top 4?
For more evidence, see when Ben Hart and James Clement won their B&F's.
Sure, but many people...
Not that I disagree with Toovey being a solid, average player, but you'd need to convince me that a shutdown defender looks worse in a worse team.
Surjan looked pretty damn good in '09, for example.
We can afford to keep Toovey if Toovey was asking for Toovey money. He's asking for Shaw money.
If you overpay 1 player, others begin to resent him and feel more underpaid themselves. If he had just stayed quiet and kept his demands more reasonable, I'm sure we would have cleared out Buckley...
Clarke would be at or near the minimum, so that's hardly the problem.
I don't want to lose Toovey any more than you do, but he and his manager's cowboy tactics are the ones causing this, not the club.
As a point of comparison, I know for a fact what Brent Guerra has made for the last...
On exposed form he is, but it's not a huge gap. Redden is in the best 3-4 21&U mids in the AFL, Beams is probably in the best 5-6.
And I don't really believe that you'd be saying something around pick 10 was fair if Redden was actually on the table. If you were, you'd be joining the Essendon...
I disagree re: Heppell, but anyways, how about Rhys Palmer, David Myers or Lachie Henderson? How about Mitch Thorpe? Or maybe Beau Dowler and Oakley-Nicholls take your fancy?
Point being, the choice isn't Zaha vs. someone like Heppell, it's Zaha vs. a chance at someone like Heppell. If your...
In a compromised draft, I'd be falling over myself to trade pick 6-9 for Zaharakis. You're getting a guaranteed 200 games of a goal-kicking midfielder. It's a no-brainer.
OA, although I understand where you're coming from, surely there are better causes than a club that's effectively rolling in cash. Obviously if people want to contribute more that's their prerogative, but painting it as an obligation seems a bit much given the current state of our club.
As in offer him to them cheaply to ensure they can't get SP, Reid & co.
Richmond's 2nd rounder isn't going to net us a player that can help us any time soon anyway.
Ugh. Probably wouldn't get much more, but this is exactly the reason why we should keep him.
If he does demand out (which doesn't seem to be the case) I'd offer him to GWS for a 5th rounder as protection basically.
I don't disagree with wanting to get bigger (you can find a thread I started on this a year or two ago, actually) but I do disagree that we need more inside players.
You mentioned Chapman, for example, who's a classically outside player. But he looks like a boulder and in finals, when outside...
None of that is news. It was well known that Clarke had asked to move from the backline and Mick took offense at a young player not simply following orders and blacklisted him from then on.
That Clarke wants to return as soon as MM is out is no coincidence.
I don't know that what Pendles writes in a day-after article in the HS should be taken as gospel. We actually won the clearances, the I50's were fairly even...and this is on a day that 2 of our best 4 mids were poor (i.e. Ball & Swan). The only real difference between the sides was that their...
As I've said to you and others (including many Collingwood supporters), O'Brien's "s**t year" was highly exaggerated this year. He wiped the floor with LeCras, Milne and Betts for starters.
Blair ahead of Tarrant is more surprising, but I imagine Blair's getting rewarded for being the only...
Biggest gap between 1st and 2nd since Buckley in '03, as expected.
Thought Ball was a bit unlucky as well, only got 1 more vote this year than last, but was significantly better.
Fair enough. But I'd suggest the chains he initiates more often lead to goals than those of someone like Shaw, say.
It's the same criticism some had of Pendlebury; he doesn't kick it long, he doesn't carry the ball etc. Ultimately, if you can get a guy 30m upfield an uncontested possession...
You've got to be joking. Care to name a more creative user on the HBF? Like Scarlett, he rarely thumps it long, but always holds it until he can find a guy in good position to start a scoring chain. Is also the best in the league at disguising where his kick is going - he was the first player in...
Re: Dane Beams
Polkinghorne is solid, but is not the sort of player we need at all, and we'd be looking for players rather than picks I imagine.
The only two players on the Lions list other than the untouchables (RRR + Brown/Merrett/Luey) who could make a serious impact next year are...
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