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Absolutely correct. Someone gets it

Seriously man that is not comparing apples with apples. Or prestige with real prestige. The US with 12x the population for a relatively similar land mass (exc Alaska) has a massive amount of mid sized cities commutable to the “name” cities. Having lived and travelled extensively (well over...

Gday old mate Firstly, up front I acknowledge and am genuinely sorry for being somewhat ill-tempered recently man - certainly my issues on this occasion. Hamish absolutely has a CRAP load of misses. We should all know and acknowledge that (it’s impossible to argue otherwise), especially some...

Haha. Mate, seriously try reading the above again. It’s utter crap including your feeble backtracking. Yep, I admit I picked up on your hypocrisy. The rest is drivel unless you are arguing that Hamish was ONLY consulted on the dud (Fagan-insisted) Gibbs trade but not on the highly valuable...

ok fair enough. But it’s fair to say with no first or second rounders in 2012 and 2013 I am not thinking it likely you would have found anything there. In 2012 we got Sam Siggins (62) and Atkins at pick 90 ish which was an excellent value pick overall. I could live with posters saying Hamish...

Well he clearly wanted English in 2016 and was overruled and still found 3 other AA in his first 4 years - taking out Laird who you correctly identified was 2011. Not sure how you name one only being Lever? What happened to CC and Crouch? Edit - Anyway even if his 3 AA (ignoring English...

Haha, love it. A few posts earlier you infer he has nothing to do with trading and can’t take credit for Dawson and Rankine but on the flip side the Fagan directed to Reid “don’t come home until you’ve signed Gibbs” you attribute Hamish having input into. At least try and be consistent as it’s...

He secured 4 x AA players (several multiple AA’s inc exceptional unheard of rookie picks CC and Laird) in his first four years (and MM who he turned pick 43 into a first rounder and McAdam) despite not having first or second round draft picks after severe sanctions. That’s not free Power...

Ok we are getting somewhere. His first 4 years were good. You admit it. Then he undoubtedly wanted English in 2016 instead of The Gooch. Good choice? Fog has let him down from 2017 and 2018 was the biggest miss. And then a good last 4 years or so. Hardly disastrous in my view. Best in league...

So you are further restricting in your mind the forum on Hamishs ability to now only covering mids haha. And then putting ridiculous parameters re top 20 (which isn’t the first round by the way - it’s a subjective number you are running with) whilst ignoring our talented starting mids of Dawson...

For someone who likes holding others to account I am actually disappointed you ain’t man enough to answer the questions. And frankly if you aren’t man enough I can’t be stuffed arguing further with you here. Will await your response on the other topic of Hamishs first 4 years

Erm, not sure of your reading and comprehension skills here. Take out the “2016 squad” title then if that pleases you. Perhaps try using some facts in your rebuttal and comment on the following re Hamishs drafting in his first 4 years (2012-2015) when we had no first OR second rounders in half...

Ps your thoughts on the 7 crows players in the best “22 and under” squad in 2016 which was clearly number one in the league. Do you give any credit to Hamish for this DESPiTE having no first or second rounders in the critical years for this batch (2012/2013)? Or he just got lucky drafting...

Why are you placing artificial (ridiculous) limitations of top 20 players DRAFTED? So Edwards turns into a gun mid but as a pick 21 he doesn’t count? Yeah ok that seems a little ridiculous to me. Why are you ignoring traded in players playing midfield (and who have been our 2 best players the...

Quite a few simplistic, non balanced opinions here. I get the negative vibes towards everything currently and I agree with much of it. With Hamish however I am not saying he is a top quartile drafter but believe the excessive hate/negativity is overdone. Drafting AND development are both...

Mc Henry and Sholl should never play again. But we are suddenly short of immediate replacements. Pedlar has stunk it up in his games. Curtin fitness I imagine is the reason he has been held back but agree Dowling deserves a go. That said, other youngsters like Cook have been extremely...

Agree it’s unlikely he will leave MLB, esp with teen boys turning 16 and 18 this year. And I am not aware he has indicated he wants to return to coaching. BUT he has rated our clubs youth over the last year whilst excited by our future prospects, going thru a divorce and probably paying out...

Can’t imagine any club paying 1.3m AND having to hand over multiple first round draft picks https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-trade-news-st-kilda-geelong-adelaide-and-essendon-among-clubs-chasing-hugh-mccluggage/news-story/1fa6cb701ed8ffd05635c0ab5315e502 AFL trade news: St Kilda...

nice work mate

Forward line still looks good long term with a number of elite smalls and TT seemingly primed for a big year this year before injury. And Welsh to come as a likely first rounder third tall. But the real worry… Is Fog ever going to step up to be half the player we expected him to be? 7 years in...

Yeah no sane person could be wishing we offered Dude 5 years at 550-650k after his 3 ACL. We dodged a massive bullet, got over compensated (end of first) with Worrell likely to exceed into the future

Agree would be stupidity to give up our first - loooking like a top 6 pick where elite mids are in abundance - on a reasonable swing man who is a FA 12 mths down the track. And considering we got Curtin unexpectedly after the Petty attempt. Zero chance we go for Petty this year IMO

Christ we have some bitter twisted views on this board

If we had traded up in 2018 Rankine was the rumoured target - not Rozee. And we would have all been thrilled. And then we got him for less 4 years on anyway. Curtin was an amazing trade up last year (player acquired and only giving up a second rounder). We have also done better pick swaps -...

I havent seen this and dont believe it. Link?

Gday George Man, glad you havent forgotten your little mate :) To be transparent, without reading your thoughts, or the vast majority of anyone's in recent weeks (thankfully the sharemkt has much more bullish than our current rabble and keeping me busy), cant disagree its an absolute s**t...

Big bad Billy would be handy right now. Nobody with integrity can ever state EH>Billy

Interesting Butts seemed to be noticeably hobbling at the GC airport arrivals as per my “exclusive scoop” on Friday when he boys arrived. Wonder if he has been carrying something

Tend to agree. Hayward seems a better option mainly to help free up Rankine, Rachele and I am hoping Pedlar into the midfield and/or replace Murphy

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-trade-2024-max-holmes-future-at-geelong-wa-clubs-continue-to-watch-liam-baker/news-story/5300e40ef8da060a40fff25d39f06548 South Australian midfielder Jack Graham is also a free agent this year and could attract interest from Adelaide. Graham toured...