A problem we have is the lack of elite skills and the few games in our youth. Neale could help the team now and help the transition, to Swadling for example. My first reaction to Neale was no. I also took the p155 and suggested Zorko was better. If it doesn’t happen, okay. But it could be really really really good.
I missed fireball. The station I was on had flogball.
David King has always been positive towards us. Even this morning he was trying give credit to Collingwood and Corn was having nothing of it.
Nick and Neale would be amazing.
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Kingy made an awful lot of sense with what he was saying! For those that didn’t listen in his thought process was that our strong conversion meant we had less repeat I50’s, more centre clearances and more opportunities for them to impose themselves in areas they had an edge which then inflated their statistical dominance. I couldn’t go all the way with him and I think a bit of it was to stir Corn over his Pendles stuff, but he made some decent observations, IMO.
You've got to look at and recruit for multiple time frames. Why keep Crisp and Elliott if we're not trying to be good in the next few years. The answer is simply that we want to be good in the next few years and Neale would help with that. He's still a star and inside mid is probably the least team dependent role, so he'd slot straight in like Titch did. Make it happen Leppa.
We should have delisted Pendlebury 5 years ago when he was 33.
I agree with King. We didn't get to see a pattern of play from them intercepting in D50 or from their kick ins. It happened so little. Would we have locked it in? It's a different situation to those half back intercepts where they have someone positioned directly opposite the play for an immediate switch when they do win it - the ground is too narrow for that when they win it deep in defence.
He looks like he's got at least 2 or 3 years of quality football ahead of him. He would improve us
He played a GF after having been declared dead the week before. Imagine what he could do with the resters overseeing him!
I don’t think we will trade for a FA
It sounds really unlikely but he'd be fantastic for us; we'd be in it up to our eyeballs with him.
I think this would be a option for us, will enable us to hit the draft, hopefully a mid that can learn from Neale. I'm just not sure why he would come to Vic for?!?!?!
His family lives in Robe which is half way between Adelaide and Melbourne
Rest on GF day?
OK, i didn't know that, i've just heard he wanted to go back to WA and assumed his family was from there. Well, he's wife and children are.
I’m not sure being close to his wife is much of a draw for him
Cricket gear recommended, like the full kit. He still might have them hit out of the park.
All 4 share in common ripping small forward groups when they’re on which for me has become the defining area of the ground for premiership success. Unfortunately the loss of Hill took too big a residual toll on us by year end and it’s why I’d like us to find another in the MSD (if possible).
The reason I went most of the way and wasn’t fully on board is that it draws down our score. It would have levelled I50’s and contested ball to a degree, but maybe forcing them to go the length of the field opens up better looks because they’re going in to less congestion? They then convert better and again we see more centre clearance which they dominate. We’ve still got to find say another 3-4 goals from those scrounged I50’s as well.
