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    List Mgmt. 2018 Draft Day Thread

    The "good vfl player who won't make it in the afl" gets bandied about here a lot. Most of this board were saying it about gowers earlier in the year. Sure, hayes might not make it, but give him a chance at AFL level before dubbing him below AFL quality. Honestly, if Hayes was on our list this...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 2 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    We can certainly agree on Melbourne. The same approach clearly worked for them extremely well up until 2015. While they haven't won a final since, I think they would've been much worse without the players they've brought in since 2015. The net cost of Mitchell, JOM, Vickery and Impey was less...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 2 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    It's hard to see the genius when you hide it in two words describing the Mitchell trade, then go on to write multiple sentences about unknowns at this stage (Wingard and Scully). They've traded in a bloke for pick 14, and in two seasons he's played one excellent season and then won a brownlow...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 2 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    It's a shame to not get Wingard or someone of his ilk, but this time last year, it was a shame we missed out on lever for two first round picks and a huge salary. Personally though, I'd now take Naughton, pick 7 and cap space over lever. In fact, I'd take Naughton alone over lever.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 2 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    They're like a putter in an origami factory- a folding club.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 2 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    Yes, it would be. I don't think it was the use of the word failure that got so many of us up in arms- it was the associated bashing of power and the club by some posters, not you.
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    What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 2

    Sorry, only got this far in and got bored. Have you got a summary of your post?
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 2 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    If that's the way you're seeing it, then we really aren't seeing the situation all that differently- it didn't work out so we should have another go. Others who have had a go at power/the club and called them incompetent seem to have taken it too far. If failure is supposed to be a chance to...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 2 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    We probably did try to sell that. I'm sure we would've also mentioned our young group of guns. Then hawthorn probably sold "we've won 4 of the last 11 premierships", finished 3rd on the ladder and have a lot of members. Chad had two good options in front of him and picked one of them. That's not...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 2 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

    What's wrong with him saying that? It didn't make us any more or less likely to get Wingard. The club had a go. Wingard chose a different club, which was always a possiblity when he had multiple offers. The same thing happens to every other club that misses out on a player. If we had never...
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    What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 2

    Dahlhaus has proven ability, and the club offered him a contract, just like they're doing with libba. Libba has only had one bad season. Other than that, he's had two ACLs and several good seasons. It's the several good seasons that are saving him- not the injuries.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    Yep, it would count. If the bid came at 15, he will be pick 15 in the draft.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    Dahl, Adams and a third rounder for pick 12. I know there's more to it in terms of contracts and clubs generally being poorly compensated for losing players, but that's a strange dream. We'd be lucky if the player we take at pick 12 ends up as good as either Dahlhaus or Adams, let alone both and...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    We'll finally have a stringer replacement.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    Thanks for the info, but I'm not really sure how there could be an emergency at this point. There's so much time before any decisions need to be made. Was the trade deadline brought forward to today unexpectedly?
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    What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 2

    Really interesting post, but the likelihood of deliberate out of bounds/rushed behinds are heavily affected by other factors within the game. If the home team is outplaying the away team, the ball is more likely to spend more time at the defensive end for the away team, where you are more likely...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    I'm hoping by Shiels you mean we're getting Dylan Shiel, as well as his father, Declan Shiel as an "assistant coach", rather than just Liam Shiels.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    Possibly, or maybe it's that band 1 compo could end up in the teens if next year goes to plan for them, which is much less than they're likely to get this year.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    Be careful what you wish for. Norf and us would get the axe well before port, freo and perhaps Carlton.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    What's that thing they say about a bird in the hand?
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    Players already naturally corral everyone onto their left. That's why left footers have so much success, but then often eventually get found out once the opposition knows where they're going (see the disappearance of Macrae's baulk after his first couple of years). Caleb has repeatedly found...
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    Griffen retired

    As much as I have refused to admit it since he left, he was an absolute star for us, and he gave a lot to the club. There were weeks during the McCartney years when I'd come to the footy just to see him play. It's a shame things turned out the way they did. I don't think I've ever been as...
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    Nah, he's short, so he must be a defensive liability. And his tendency to use his right foot is a major problem, rather than a result of him having enough composure with the ball to give himself time and space. And why does he wear a helmet? He clearly needs to be traded.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    At least then we can go back to complaining about not having enough talls and targeting every tall in the league. The surplus of talls has been uncomfortable this year, leading this board to having an identity crisis.
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    Dahlhaus appreciation thread

    Thanks Lukey! Loved watching you at the dogs for the last eight years, from the dreadlocked excitement machine in the first couple of years to the desperate pressure that helped us to the flag. You'll be missed.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    I don't think we want to see the results of those tests. They may find that he's actually only 44.4% honey and 55.6% church.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    If we lose Dahlhaus because we aren't willing to pay him a reasonable wage, then pick up a much lesser player as a free agent for a market value wage, I'll spew.
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    Strategy Trade and List management Thread (cont in Part 2)

    M.C. Crae traded out Roberts last year. We can't trade him out this year if he's already at a different club.
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