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So why do you quote me to say this?

An obviously impressive showing by Rozee. He and Walsh seriously distorted the spread of votes to the extent if it weren't for Chris Johnson's bloc voting for 3-5 was a waste.

It absolutely doesn't. For a man with his injury history Billy added in far too many suspensions or near suspensions in the SANFL. There's fitness and there's talent but there's also 'the vibe' about a player (good or bad) and it's entirely possible both parties would think a fresh start is...

Now there's a question! I haven't seen such a great topic for a 5,000 word essay since I was at uni. You know as far as playing another AFL reserves team I think we've seen a 'no monkey business' set of decisions. I swear if we or the Crows-lites were playing one of the SANFL teams this week...

Selection: SANFL Qualifying Final So quite a capable team. Decent reward for the top-up players and the AFL-listed players who've had little or no chance to play AFL. Hopefully we perform well enough for long enough to attract/retain decent top-up players in 2020. Good to see my 2019 Port...

Yeah, the first pages here with so many uninformed and bile-filled posts were something to behold. Significantly GremioPower stood out for good info, even though the rug eventually got pulled out from under him with the adjusted list of eligible players.

They're not crazily different in stats if you look them up on Footywire. But Kelly had a few less possessions and a few more goals in a more successful team so just on that I'm sure any neutral judge would give it to him.

Not really. Made the expanded team which is fair. Might have overcome a few down games in a very uneven team but for the drop-off in accuracy kicking for goal from a few years ago. 30+ possessions is great but needed to produce more than 10G 13B.

Surely not expressed that way, or there's no point in having a contract. Perhaps something like will be paid out at 80% (or whatever) if terminated?

One of a whole series of games where we were blown away early. I'd start a thread on it now if I wan't going out soon. It was as significant a trait of our 2019 season as the lose a winnable one /win a difficult one pattern.

So what's 'prototypical'? Each loss was different. Brisbane at the Gabba hit us with an astonishing scoring blitz with about 15 minutes to go. Almost impossible for the coaches to restructure then, if the players can't sort it out it's over. Richmond at AO we had the appearance of a forward...

It takes the thread off-topic but there was some reason for that, not form. Not that I'm claiming to know that reason.

No it's not. Well certainly not the 1st two. Sometimes a behind is a fair crack at a goal that goes awry. And sometimes it is a stronger opposition swatting a few through for an easy kick-out. Or the result of a desperate team having a low percentage shot at goal because it is just not...

The candle is already out. Assuming what I heard a little while back is true even if the Doggies lose narrowly or draw we'd need to win by about 100 points to beat Hawthorn's 5% advantage over us.

Yep, see Contracted Players.

Well known the Cash Cow is the brains on Sunrise. Could we engineer a coup? Plenty of clubs have had cash cows as presidents and it wouldn't be the worst thing for us.

It wouldn't matter if it was $200,000 we really cannot afford it, and that's significantly the issue. If the club does decide after the North Melbourne catastrophe that Hinkley's continued coaching is toxic I'm not sure we can pay our way out of his next year.

I forgot Frampton but yeah that was another development play and/or experiment with the forward line and in general I give credit for that.

Too simplistic. If we had a reliable and consistently productive forward structure we'd play it every week. He experimented with Howard and it worked a bit. He persisted with a mostly terrible Marshall and eventually got some results which might pay off in the future. He brought Dixon back...

The option was the one we used so successfully in the West Coast game after the R4 Richmond loss where we spent the entire final quarter kicking it to the Tigers' defenders. What Hinkley called 'dirty footy' from memory where against West Coast the the ball entries up forward were meant hit the...

He has agreed to appear on 'SACKED', I imagine if shows like that and Open Mike weren't around Choco wouldn't have been actively looking for a pulpit. A huge amount of what he says is already known in some fashion, Choco is mostly just fleshing stuff out. But the stuff about Port haemorrhaging...

Can't really see a better place to put this but fantastic podcast from the Herald Sun via Jon Ralph. SACKED | Mark Williams - The Power to win. All the stuff we heard about with Choco at Port, and a bit more. Some of it still like a punch in the guts but still so worth hearing. Amazing stories...

Sir Cliff's on a summer holiday, don't know about Sir Elton.

Your second sentence largely explains your first. Smith at his best lifts his oppos up so they're often 10-20 runs better when they bat with him than with other partners. The Poms' need to make him their main target is quite real.

When Lycett was dropped and Ladhams announced as an in Hinkley said something about Lycett in his last 2 games not doing what was expected or what he was instructed to or some variant of that. But didn't we all hear that?

I think you've got to allow for the fact there's been genuinely positive stuff with the last 2 wins. Not just stumbling over the line but a whole lot of the things that have driven people mad seeming to have been addressed. Accurate goal kicking. Our KPP forwards contributing. Putting sides...

Well yes but exaggerated by the success of the team as a whole. Merciless whole game* effort. In any event I don't think we've had our doubts about either with skills/fitness, both were dropped for other reasons. * although I arrived late thinking the game was 2:10 :$

Motlop's a never-ending selection trap. He cruised around on seeming auto-pilot yesterday and scored 5 goals, poetry in motion. But so unreliable at bringing form into the top team. If Bonner goes IMO Drew in, structurally Howard isn't the appropriate swap unless he gets reinvented yet again...