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St Kilda's best case 2023 season, IMO, is getting into the bottom half of the 8 and impress current/future Free Agent (or general out of contract) players sufficiently enough to get them to come across over the next couple seasons.

Why not just make the three emergencies available for an injury sub at any time? Protect integrity by enforcing a minimum 1 week unavailability for selection for any player subbed off unless the club can sufficiently justify their decision (to sub said player) to an independent medical...

One of Richmond’s greatest strengths during their premierships, a very deep list, ended up becoming their weakness as it meant players like Butler and Higgins sought opportunity elsewhere. I liken their small forward/midfield depth at the time to Hawthorn’s inside midfielder depth when they lost...

Way to out yourself as speaking on a topic of which you know nothing.

ACLs and concussions are different. If someone sustains an injury to their knee, clinical tests are performed to assess structural damage. If the clinical tests indicate sufficient suspicion of structural damage, then the player is subbed off due to risk of further damage (which is the reason...

Except the problem is that if they’re admitting to subbing off Weightman due to concussion concerns, then he immediately enters the 12 day protocol. The AFL has removed this from the club’s powers. Firstly, all of the emerging evidence is that concussions take roughly 10+ days to recover on...

The troubles of lowly clubs over the past decade has been exacerbated by the addition of GC and GWS who sponged up almost all of the talent which would have otherwise gone into these rebuilding sides, prolonging the period of dominance for those at the top, like Hawthorn. But free agency is...

I don’t see any way that Weightman could play next week without serious questions being raised. The AFL has an in-game concussion protocol (to which others have alluded) which requires at least 20 minutes of time out of the game to be performed. Clubs will use the standardised ImPACT test +/-...

Much prefer Kayo, personally. The ability to easily play it on a full TV with decent resolution far outweighs the benefit of unmetered football. If I’m out and using mobile data, I’m usually busy so have no capacity to watch the footy and, besides, when my team is playing I’m either not watching...

Don’t see the problem with this. If anything, paying him so much this year is a rather astute decision from Sydney’s management. They understood they were entering a down period a few years after his signing, so decided to pay off a bulk of his deal when, 1) there aren’t a number of top players...

Stack had a very rough upbringing, and seems to not be smart enough to break the poor habits he formed as a result of being shipped around from home to home during his adolescence. No true supports in broken homes whilst being surrounded by bad influences tends to put kids down a bad path. Many...

For Free Agency to be fair, they need to remove the minimum spend of the salary cap. Clubs must spend 95% of their salary cap, minimum. This means that a premiership side or contending club may be able to offer the same amount of money as a club with a terrible list on 0 wins. If you’re...

The only thing better than Dodoro's limp-wristed fist pump, after the farcical Mosquito pick, was that they could have selected Jack Bytel; the exact type of player Essendon needed. Throw in turning down 2x 1st round picks for Daniher last year, only to lose him for less, this year, and this is...

They were far too hot on HTB decisions, this weekend. I saw a number of HTB calls paid with zero prior opportunity. There was one particular call, in front of goal, where a player was decked the moment they had possession, with a great 1-arm-pinned tackle. As the player hit the ground, the ball...

If the reason Geelong isn’t already allowed to play in Geelong is crowd numbers, then I don’t see why not. Marvel stadium tenants are usually forced to play at the MCG for a home final, even against an MCG-home club, for crowd reasons. You’d assume they wouldn’t be made to play at the G this...

Ffs Carlton; you couldn’t have waited until the end of the year to do this? St Kilda did well to get Ratten across from Hawthorn, most likely with the plan to take over from Richardson at the end of the year, only for this to happen. Watch Ratten get poached much like Beveridge was poached by...

A common occurrence of what’s being called “The Good Ol’ Days” bias. There’s been a couple studies on ex-NFL players who claim to be suffering permanent effects from head impacts, whereby they run them through a series of cognitive tasks. Whilst every athlete predicted they’d score below average...

There is no imaging that can currently confirm a concussion. And even if there were, it certainly wouldn’t be an x-ray; terrible for almost everything other than skeletal issues. Don’t throw about some line, fuelling this vitriol. Paddy is likely suffering from Second Impact Syndrome, which...

The idea of the draft is to promote fairness by ensuring the worst teams have the best access to talented kids. By keeping the system as it is, sure, it incentivises tanking in order to push towards the bottom. But no team who truly doesn’t need the high draft pick will tank. That is to say...

Being at the footy, and watching the ball get swooped-on by a bald headed bloke in a Geelong jumper was a borderline-scarring image, back when Geelong was at its peak. The fact that it was a relief to see it was Chapman, and not GAJ, is saying a lot, given how talented Chapman was.

Unfortunately, McCartin and Roberton have both likely played their last games, so wouldn’t be highlighting them as “to come back in”. Thankfully, King takes McCartin’s place as the young KPF (and supposedly should be better) whilst Wilkie has slotted in nicely to Roberton’s role. Barring their...

Its a common point of discussion, amongst my mates, that there’s a very strong correlation between his free kick count and his performance. He’s almost entirely reliant on free kicks to get a game of more than a 1-2 goals. He’s not a terrible player without the free kick assistance, but he’s...

This is the unpopular opinion thread, not the ramblings of a madman thread :think:

It’s not for commercial reasons; it’s to protect the travelling players. In the case of Melbourne teams, the flight is a shade over 3 hours (then factor in all additional processes of course) with a time difference of 2 hours. So when a Perth team is flying home, their flight is effectively...

Jokes on you; old Bill lives at the bar.

https://squiggle.com.au/how-the-fixture-screwed-st-kilda/ From 2014-2018, St Kilda’s draw has been rated as this: 18th, 18th, 9th, 18th, 18th Where 1st is the easiest draw, and 18th is the most difficult. Our “soft draw” in 2016 was 9th easiest - middle of the road; can’t say the same for a...

St Kilda getting expectedly reamed from a commercial point of view; not much can be done about that. But, for the first time in 5+ years, they haven't been shafted from the football perspective.

That Hickey and 25 rumour has only ever been thrown around amongst the Essendon board, so I have no idea from which orifice it was pulled. But even if we want to put some weight to that rumour, Occam's razor will leave you with the same result to the question of which club was more likely to be...