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You can't kick goals when you're unconscious.
Degoey has re-signed apparently.
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Honestly mate, you're not the only one. I've probably been guilty of it in the past too. Think it's one of those really innocuous, passive/casual forms of racism that people don't even realise they're perpetuating - those harmless-seeming suggestions that a delisted (or trade-able) indigenous player just needs a sensible indigenous mentor to whisper in their ear and cultivate a professional attitude.
It's the kind of comment that stems from some actual examples, but then gets casually applied to every vaguely similar scenario thereafter as though it's a panacea for wayward black fellas.
Good opportunity for learning here, and not just you as the unfortunate perpetrator but anyone else who happens by the comments before they disappear into the archive.
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Lincoln McCarthy?
Agree with some luck with the perennially injured and low impact type players, we should do better in 2023 no doubt.
However all teams need to improve, there's no escaping it, the final 8 in 2022 will improve their respective teams during trade and draft periods.
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Roughly 30years removed. Anyone slightly more contemporary?
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Nah, I don't think you meant it in a bad way
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You can't kick goals when you're unconscious.
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talking about shifting the goal posts after the fact...
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You can frame Bowes and the salary as sideshow, but the reality is they're a major component. It's also, in my view, lazy/clickbaity reporting that has created this idea that Gold Coast are giving away Bowes and Pick 7 for peanuts. They're not. They're gonna want a decent pick back, probably in next year's first round or early second...
10 and 12 got us Harry and Charlie. The next year it would have got us Bowes and Simpkin.
6 got us SPS.
3 and 10 got us Dow and LOB.
7 and 10 might get us 2x 200-250 game players, or it might get us a couple of ordinary players who struggle to notch 100 ordinary games before being flipped for a third rounder.
We shouldn't sacrifice our future first rounder unless it's on draft night, and a player we really like slides a bit and is 100% available for us to take.
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Soldo can play full time ruck as the a solo ruck and can also play forward and behind the ball as a resting marking option. Pittonet unfortunately cannot do either to an acceptable and is nothing more than a ruck contest player at this stage.
Soldo allows you to play Silvagni or Dekoning as his tandem and when it's their turn to take their split he can atleast provide a marking outlet around the ground rather than being entirely useless.
Love Pitto but its an issue and for the time being TDK simply cannot take handle solo ruck minutes. Would be a good stop gap.
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Yep. We are just as likely to draft another SPS, Dow, LOB (doing better lately) or Stocker with 7 as we are to draft another Harry or Charlie.
Do we do the trade to get Bowes and 7 for a future 1st (I imagine GC would want a 1st) or do we keep the future 1st and try to draft our own Georgiades or SDK? Bowes is a salary cap killer and 7 has zero actual value right now, the value comes in years of development and the hope that the player is AFL quality.
Hard no for me.
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What part of "Who was the last player to leave Geelong and get better?" says give me a 30 year old example?
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Soldo isn't Max Gawn but he's considerably better in all areas of the ground as an aerial threat than Pitto. Is he worth giving up any real currency? No, but as a cheap option he'd likely replace Pitto and provide depth until TDK is ready.
The locals are restless without any big name rumours.
Now we've stooped to rehashing the same issue that has categorically been dismissed by our current best ITK.
It's hilarious.
Now we've stooped to rehashing the same issue that has categorically been dismissed by our current best ITK.
It's hilarious.
That's my take on it as well. Given where the list is at and a few high picks that haven't come on, a 7 and 10 at this juncture would be huge for us.
Poor Saints. They miss out on another one.
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I've seen this comment made a bit but I don't think it's a coincidence the AFL come out with a new policy that condones 'buying' picks through salary dumps right before the Bowes news emerged.
I don't think the club that takes this deal will need to give up much in return to be honest. Any second round pick will be the best offer imo.
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