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Talia's bigger issue going forward is injury management and dealing with a body that seems to be breaking down pretty quick. He's always been one that's been super diligent on the recovery part of his game, but he's getting to the point where he struggles to work a full load through the week and...

That's the slightly relaxed Kelly too who admitted he had to take a step back for his own mental well-being after the 2019 season. He lives footy 24/7.

Like most I found Cameron and Coniglio uninspiring, hard to judge Coniglio as being completely bad because he doesn't seem like a naturally charismatic type and seemed a bit of a "deer in the headlights" when having to address the group. There was one bit where they put a "respected v liked" on...

They made sure the review didn't touch them.

His body is pretty shot, he can't hardly kick 40 metres anymore, but that doesn't mean you couldn't park him near the goals and tell him to sit off McGovern and McKay for a year and not get something out of him.

I think it could be a good move as a "post-Walsh" reset. Not to say you abandon the principles that Walsh preached, but my outsiders perspective on Tex as captain is not that he's doing a bad job, but he at times perhaps struggles with being the captain he thinks Walsh would want him to be, but...

Not really. He didn't like living in Adelaide and got offered to have his contract doubled to move.

He's on the board and the chairman of the list committee. We have a CEO in Andrew Fagan who relies heavily upon Roo when it comes to football decisions because he has no real AFL experience. Roo has used that power to generally recommend the hiring of friends and former teammates in various...

Will be like a lot of the media losing their s**t for everything Travis Cloke did in a Bulldogs guernsey, despite it being very similar to everything he did in a Collingwood guernsey, which they all seemed to hate.

You should have seen Willie before he joined Glenelg, he was like 20kgs heavier when he was playing up in NT.

He's earned his spot in the side and therefore earned the chance to win a Grand Final. What he does next year and into the future is totally irrelevant.

There's where they're caught between a rock and a hard place I think. They spent 2015 and 2016 out of the finals, I think the recruitment of Ryder and Dixon pushed them on a path of competing now and it's hard to move away from that, unless you're potentially going scorched earth on the list. I...

I think it's partly a mental thing. When he gets the ball and just plays off instincts his goal kicking is worlds better than when he's lining up for a set shot.

I dunno, I wouldn't be massively bothered if Roo never commentated a footy game again on TV.

Not particularly, but i'll always respect the heck out of the fans after how they treated the players in their first match back after Phil Walsh died.

I guess North need to ask themselves is Brad Scott a coach who can lead the team through a rebuild? If the answer is yes, they keep him, if the answer is no, then they need to look for someone else. I'd be more confused over them keeping someone like Jarrad Waite over Brent Harvey to be honest...

I'd give it to Parish or Mills though I think Caleb Daniel will win.

I haven't watched Port every week, but their forward line structure is probably the area I thought has been one of the worst. Seemed way to Dixon centric, like they've just been told to bomb it to Dixon and let him try and take a contested grab. But it's so obvious and done so much that it's not...

It's not even that he stays in the goal square all the time. Many of his "Joe the goose" goals are from where he's been up in the defensive half of the ground and burned off his opponent in a 50-100 metre sprint to get free in the forward line. You don't often see it on TV, just the end result...

Academies in Sydney seem to produce much better talent than the clubs in QLD too.

It was probably just as moronic to say we'd instantly slip down without him like most of the media did. We'd absolutely be a better side with him, the pundits who wrote us off just assumed we'd continue to employ the sledgehammer, contested style we used with Danger and Thommo, and suffer...

I don't sense a single bit of hyperbole in the thread title. There was a fair bit of sarcasm in mine though.

That kind of thinking could exactly be what the problem is with Port over the last 18 months.

He loves Dangerfield, probably even moreso now that he's left the Crows. Anyway, I wasn't surprised by any of it. It's his first game for the team, of course they're gonna hype it up. Sure they went overboard, but that's the media for you. And it'll continue well on into the season if Geelong...

West Coast were the first team to really figure out how to beat Craig's tactics, and then once the secret was out, we were done. The biggest issue Craig had was his stubborn refusal to play any other way, or come up with a new gameplan. Maybe he just simply wasn't capable of doing it. After '05...

You'd fear for your career, because you realize that the little "joke" you made is gonna cause a shitstorm. Beveridge has no reason to actually believe Cheney was joking, even if he told him straight up. It got purple monkey dishwashed from Cheney to Stratton to Gibson to Beveridge, which...

I'd take a guess and say Beveridge felt the need to escalate it up the chain due to it being about Michael Talia, who wasn't exactly the most happy camper at the time, and it being linked to his brother in a close finals game. It's one of those situations where there's a few dots that connect...

Easy enough to interpret that comment in multiple ways. "I made a joke that is going to cause players to be investigated and I'm worried I'll get delisted because of it."

I suppose they could come up with some sort of system like with the academy picks or whatever. Dangerfield is worth a certain amount of points, you need to come within 75% of that to grab him as a "restricted free agent" (if Adelaide matches that is), so that'll cost you picks X, Y and Z. That...

True, we were ahead for most of the game, but that sort of effort where we'd piss away a lead and just lose it in the last 5-10 minutes was fairly common in 13-14 under Sanderson, so I think it was a good effort that they wrestled the lead back again.