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Firstly, I appreciate you quoting JFK, '"Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”. However, it's the club that is dangling the carrot of the wonderous and amazing 'digital honour board' not me. I'm simply pointing out that as an enticement it is incredibly...

Channel 7 is hopeless at reading the room. What non-Geelong people see as a diving sniping thug and cheat, Channel 7 sees as 'brave' and 'courageous' and an ornament to the game. So as a consequence one of the most unpopular figures in football (and clearly least talented media performer...

Years ago I was wandering through Southland and I came across a pop up sales display marketing what would eventually become this. I didn't especially want it and I certainly didn't want to pay that much (it was like around the 150 dollar mark) but went ahead and pre-ordered it anyhow. Why...

10 and 20 with something coming back maybe?

Of course, he'd have to desperately want to go and it would depend how Richmond rates the draft. But if it's a good as some are claiming, and they want to stockpile first round talent before Tasmania comes in, all those picks plus Erasmus, it just might. Although I shudder to think of the...

Has anyone made an animated gif of that last lead of his that resulted in a goal? It was like everyone else was in slow motion. It’s exactly the kind of thing you want from a third forward, especially one that is 195 cm tall. Koschitske looks like a draft horse in comparison.

Firstly it's not a snap judgement. He has been in the AFL system for five years. He has been crap or at best mediocre for the vast percentage of it. What we are seeing is nothing new, it's just Koschitzke being Koschitzke. However, you are 100 percent right, he would be a better player if he...

One good match is your opinion. All I’m saying is they seem far happier with him than we are with Koschitzke. A win up until last Saturday for what they paid. Pity we can’t say the same…

Yes it was excessive. But check out Hawthorn board, up until Saturday he had exceeded their expectations and in their opinion had played some extremely good football. Although in fairness Koschitzke has also exceeded the expectations of many here as well. He is even more crap than they thought...

One year from memory. As lowly as they are they couldn't see a future for him at the club beyond a single season. We on the other hand offered him three. Hawks don't have much to laugh about at the moment but I guess they've at least got this...

Don't know if it would have been better or worse, but I was hoping it was the other knee...:(

'Clearly' a better AFL forward? Is he obviously a greater goal scorer? (for example last VFL match Ryan scored 4, Koschitzke scored nothing). Is he a more accurate kick? A better pack mark as opposed to a leading forward? Is he a better ruckman, since no one seems to be claiming that Koschitzke...

Koschitzke's ruck work was no revelation. It was commonly held by Hawthorn people and they have expressed it here that his 'best' work has been rucking and then going forward. That it allows him to be more engaged in the game, as opposed to a pure tall forward or defender where he is complete...

Doesn't play for a year, breaks down after 3 games and could well be out for the rest of the season. Will be 32 turning 33 next year, a late 2nd if we give something back maybe if we were lucky. I like Lynch as much as the next guy but nobody would give a first for Lynch.

You'd only trade Lynch if he expressed an interest and wanted to go. With his age and injury history he'd get us a third rounder at best. It's like Dustin Martin, not violently against it, wouldn't stand in his way and would take the token pick and bank it. But what's the point? Unless he wanted...

You say there is no reason but there is. Hawkins is the rare exception rather than the rule, if he was the rule then every player would play until his age. That's your reason why it's highly unlikely that Lynch will well into his 30s. Plus if Hawkins had suffered the injury toll that Lynch has...

It's a defeatist policy, basically saying unlike other clubs that we can't draft and develop key forwards with early draft pick. Basically contracting it out and paying overs in the process. Also counterintuitive when you are rebuilding, as you want as many high end picks as possible to address...

To be honest I am not entirely sure. However, I have a very strong suspicion after the Swans match that our best team on paper is not necessarily out best team on the field. Would our best team on paper have bought the speed and pressure that we did against the swans? I severely doubt it. That...

Ryan kicked 3 goals against the swans, Koschitzke didn't even trouble the scoreboard. Now unless he was playing back, there is no way that he should get selected before Ryan. Let him earn it. Plus with finals shot it's in the clubs interest to pump as many games into Ryan as possible.

Koschitzke has been rubbish for the most of his career since he was drafted by Hawthorn in 2018 (that's why we got him for a slab of beer). That's five years in the AFL system. It's entirely valid to believe that's what he continues to be until he proves otherwise. Up to this point he hasn't...

Would it be unreasonable to conclude that the match committee has decided that we have zero chance against the swans and that the last two outs could be as much about resting players for matches that we do have a chance in as they are about injury?

Agree the Carlton song is a great song, it's tempo makes it unique and unmistakable. It also has a feel of arrogance to it that other club supporters might hate but I suspect that Carlton supporters love. Plus as you rightly implied no other club song sounds as good sung drunk!

So we could have had pick three in last years draft (as opposed to the overpriced injury prone 27 year old we have now) and Collingwood wouldn't have won the premiership? Don't know how I could have gone on living if that had happened? Thank God we dodged that bullet :rolleyes:

With our senior midfielders dropping like flies, I hope Yze resists the temptation of giving him too many extra minutes in the midfield. Irrespective of how we are performing against Port, it would be the surest way of sending a 32 year old to the medical room.

Yep all it took was one decent half of football to send him back to the medical room :(

We'd still have a not insignificant core of very experienced players even if all the proposed or suggested trades or retirements happened. Plus we recently sold the farm and traded in some serious experience in Hooper and Taranto. We would not be Norf. But that said Norfs story is far from...

The worst injury that could happen to the player that we could least afford for it to happen to. Looking through our youth he is the only one that you would bet serious money on that would make it as either as an A-grader or elite. All the others kids have some serious question marks against...

How many have had three knee reconstructions and have played 167 games? Even if he decides to retire, he is no footballing footnote, considering the circumstances he's had a great career.

Exactly, they are laughing all the way to the bank. And frankly if they had stayed, with GWS's talent and game style, I personally can't see how they'd both be first 22 anyhow. They cashed in at the perfect time, but unfortunately it was disastrous for Richmond.