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this is absolute crap. as far as we know this could've happened ten rounds ago. every other coach who doesn't know when his time is up and is sacked by the board goes through the humiliation. i'd bet most crows supporters doubt very much that williams resigned without having been told he'd be...

not just the young players. could you blame stiffy, thommo or truck wanting to finish their careers elsewhere. even going to gold coast would give them a better chance of acheiving a flag before their careers end.

` i remember julia gillard saying she'd be full forward at the bull-dogs before deposing krudd. there's talking and there's walking jenny. you must be pretty new to this game if you believe everything people say. í'd say most supporters aren't blaming the players on this. they showed of...

the only thing that was remotely racist is the implication that any form of negative comment directed at an aboriginal person is automatically at risk of being racism. eddie is an effwit on this and so are the magpie supporters who refuse to see the big picture. no one is denying eddie's...

Re: St Kilda need to trade Riewoldt he's earned the right to stay a one club player if he chooses. however, if he's happy to go to a club with a chance at a flag then it could be win-win. can't see him leaving the saints though.

yep. when you start getting smashed in that area, you wouldn't possibly consider putting an extra player behind the contested posession position. how many times did we see the ball finally spurt out to a couple of pies players who are clear going forward. this is bad coaching or bad on-ground...

i'm starting to wonder whether when we get 5 goals up craig goes out for a quick bite to eat. just for 20 or so minutes, i mean what could go wrong. as he's walking out through the coaches box door he turns around and says "alright fella's, we're humming here. don't make a change until i get...

Re: I would also trade Kurt Tippett clap, clap, my friend.

normally don't agree with vader. but he is 100% spot on on this one. to sacrifice competetive animals like tippett and smack for a lazy slug like walker would be stupidity at it's highest. walker may end up being a great afl player, but anyone who has bothered to take an interest will...

seriously, i have no idea. have always had doubts about craig's game day skills. but, i have always been along for the ride with the playing group that has been building over the last couple of years. i honestly thought it would be turned around this year. i understand we have had some...

i'd never give up salter for maric and i've barely seen salter play. but if you guys were in the 5th-10th mix, maric would be a handy depth ruckman if he was salary cap cheap enough and selected with a late draft/psd or mature rookie selection. brogan is still much better, but you guys fall...

hopefully history repeating.

i disagree, i don't think we can afford to have a pure tall on the bench. we need 3 rotating runners on the bench or 2 runners and medium tall type who can play a variety of roles. our kpp/ruck tall's need to be able to play a fair bit of game time so that our mid's can rotate heavily. i...

nothing wrong with the balance on the field Vader. problem is that the bench is short of a running rotation. i wasn't at the game, but i doubt there were too many occasions where a couple of mid's ran off to be replaced by a mid and maric.

superfluous is being very kind. his inclusion cost us a rotation until he was subbed out and gave us jack in the ruck. he certainly wasn't superfluous to the power.

doesn't matter how you swing it. tippett effectively played first ruck with smack as his back-up and maric on the bench. this leaves us with 2 effective rotation players against port's 3 for the entire game. it's not much different to the bombers losing 2 players to game ending injuries in...

i only get to see on tv, so unless a commentator mentions it, it's very hard to see structural moves made by the coaching group. unless they're very obvious. one of the criticisms of craig's coaching is his lack of match day tactical nouse. my understanding is that it's not that he makes bad...

longmire's first crack it, having a ruckman as a sub was a howler and surely won't be repeated. the next act of stupidity from an afl coach would be to start the game with 2 ruckmen on the ground and a ruckman on the bench. this leaves the team with 2 effective mid-field rotations against 3...

sadly it's true.

regardless of the result, i would still describe their performance as absolutely terrible this evening. the only group on footy park that was worse was us. but just because we were crap, doesn't mean that their performance is not assessed.

i think we'll be the first and only team to ever go into a game with our 3rd best ruckman being a ruckman only.

problem we have is that we appear to have a pretty good young list. hopefully taylor re-signs, but a month after he has there'll be another name in lights that none of us want to lease and we'll be at it again. unlike gc, i don't think many clubs are going to miss losing a player to gws...

not ideal, but also not the end of the world. i'd rather give those dudes a go, if fit, than risk radar and dogga spending more time on the sidelines by playing them too early. not too sure about wright, but the other 4 definately offer something.

you'd feel sorry for them if it wasn't for the fact that they knocked back a future guaranteed at the gold coast. tasmania awaits. it will be their only hope of survival.

understand what you are saying and agree. but it is a little rough to be including chad with motlop, even though you correctly differentiate the reasons why they weren't selected. maybe motlop could park chad's car for the next month and carry his sportsbag into the changerooms.

read somewhere, probably bf, that davis refused to speak to doctor and therefore, couldn't test as concussion affected.

sheer stupidity imo. i think it's pretty clear already that the sub is simply an injury replacement, rather than a potential tactical tool to gain an advantage. as someone has said earlier (or other thread), the earliest you would sub off a fit player for tactical reasons, would surely be at...

i agree with what jenny is saying. but the above is absolutely spot on. i would include stevens in the same category. he may be in our best 22 at the moment but the reality is that while he is, we won't be getting too close to playing in the last week of september. when you have guys of the...

gee, i wonder how many other fervent 'anti-sub rule' advocates have absolutely no idea how it works.

only one thing to add. GOOD - the new sub rule. lost porps very early but it didn't result in us being a player down in rotations.