Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

[Rod Stroker]

does anyone really give a shit about this? I don't

 

[My Left Foote]

does anyone really give a shit about this? I don't

Just the online gambling company that’s sponsoring it.

 

[tommy_uman]

Lloydy loves the Banch mark and thinks Caleb Daniel

5

Caleb Daniel

Age

29

Ht

171cm

Wt

72kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

9.8

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

2.9

4star

CL

1.4

4star

D

19.5

4star

K

11.1

4star

HB

8.4

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

2.0

3star

CL

1.0

3star

D

16.4

4star

K

7.2

3star

HB

9.2

5star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.2

2star

needs more support - I have to agree

 

[King Hansen]

Lloydy loves the Banch mark and thinks Caleb Daniel needs more support - I have to agree

Aahhhh so Caleb Daniel only sucks because the REST OF THE TEAM SUCKS. Go figure.

Soo what do you all Caleb Daniel haters gonna say now????

 

[koshari]

Aahhhh so Caleb Daniel only sucks because the REST OF THE TEAM SUCKS. Go figure.

Soo what do you all Caleb Daniel haters gonna say now????

Speaking for those that don't hate him but think he is unsuitable as a defender I agree with David king.

 

[zoomba23]

Aahhhh so Caleb Daniel only sucks because the REST OF THE TEAM SUCKS. Go figure.

Soo what do you all Caleb Daniel haters gonna say now????

Time to take a time-out, Mrs Daniel

 

[King Hansen]

Time to take a time-out, Mrs Daniel

Maybe I should. I'm getting tired of being right all the time.

 

[zoomba23]

Maybe I should. I'm getting tired of being right all the time.

Time to take a time-out, Nostrils

 

[Midas]

The solution is to go hard at having equity in the competition at the forefront of every strategy.

Some teams shouldn't have free NGA picks that others don't.
Some teams shouldn't have gift fixtures that others don't.
All teams should be able to pay well below the salary cap when not performing to enable serious money to lure the best players.
All teams should have more flexibility to have larger lists and spend less per player when trying to build.
The draft should not consist of 20 different forms of discounts and free players for random teams.
The best teams in the league shouldn't have access to the best kids due to FS / NGA nonsense.

And in addition, be aware of the sustainable competitive advantage some teams possess and the ones that small Melb clubs cannot manufacture.

Geelong gets every country kid to be able to move home because they can buy their properties for a drop of what it costs Melb based players.

Post career employment opportunities are significantly greater as well as investment opportunities at certain clubs.

Free Agency should not be able to be used as a tool when you have a sustained run of success, say 3 years of top 6 finishes.

There’s so much inequity that they turn a blind eye to, and they are the real reasons clubs continue to be successful.

For Brisbane to have Father Son and an Academy is ridiculous compared to GC, so what did they do, gave GC ridiculous concessions that have set their list up for sustained success.

Sydney is the same when compared to GWS who did an amazing job of building their list.

The footballing states have the go home factor in their favour along with Father Sons, plus the financial benefits of being two team states.

But the same sympathies are not given to smaller Melb clubs when they make mistakes and it is not treated with the same urgency.

There’s too few levers to for sustainable competitive advantage for North, St Kilda, Bulldogs (who by luck Father Sons have taken them to another level, that’s the critical factor for them).

And it leaves them swimming upstream without a paddle, but nooone gives a crap.

We were innovative, but sadly in areas that were too mainstream (first team playing interstate, Fri night footy) to be exclusive.

That counts for nought 40 years on and what the **** else is left … we tried the clean cut woke approach but in a cut throat industry like football that doesn’t cut it either.

I’m generally an optimist but I feel extremely pessimistic about the fact there are not enough opportunities for us to get better comparatively speaking to the others.

So it’s just a cycle where us playing finals will be an outlier and normal order will be resumed in a short space of time because of the weight of economic and football factors that play against us.

Distribution is the least of the most important factors but that’s the one the big clubs love to throw at us … but it’s bigger all in the scheme of things required to make this an even competition.

 

[rickety]

Lloydy loves the Banch mark and thinks Caleb Daniel needs more support - I have to agree

The movement is the bloke running by on his left, the fella in the #10 ... who just happens to have a decent left peg. CD mucked this one up all by himself.

 

[DuckYeah]

At the beginning, I thought Daniel would outweigh bis defensive inability with good ball use. Unfortunately our team is shit and the system is absolute dog shit for this to work. Daniel does not work in a defensive position. So saying. He cant play in this team until the system improves significantly

 

[ferball]

The movement is the bloke running by on his left, the fella in the #10 ... who just happens to have a decent left peg. CD mucked this one up all by himself.

There are six St Kilda players to three covering that side of the ground and when he changes direction three of them take off and run hard to cover the middle of the ground. McKercher was just running into trouble there.

Daniel covers more ground there than any of the players who are sposed to give him an option.

 

[shintemaster]

Distribution is the least of the most important factors but that’s the one the big clubs love to throw at us … but it’s bigger all in the scheme of things required to make this an even competition.

These clubs throw it around because it benefits them more than any other. Mustn't kid ourselves, it would be gone tomorrow if it was in the biggest clubs / fat cats bonus interests to do so.

 

[rickety]

There are six St Kilda players to three covering that side of the ground and when he changes direction three of them take off and run hard to cover the middle of the ground. McKercher was just running into trouble there.

Daniel covers more ground there than any of the players who are sposed to give him an option.

Yep it was jam packed, but a CM ball is a longer ball than the CD one … and tha CD ultimately went back to that side … 1st option and the ball is on the wing

 

[Roo202]

And in addition, be aware of the sustainable competitive advantage some teams possess and the ones that small Melb clubs cannot manufacture.

Geelong gets every country kid to be able to move home because they can buy their properties for a drop of what it costs Melb based players.

Post career employment opportunities are significantly greater as well as investment opportunities at certain clubs.

Free Agency should not be able to be used as a tool when you have a sustained run of success, say 3 years of top 6 finishes.

There’s so much inequity that they turn a blind eye to, and they are the real reasons clubs continue to be successful.

For Brisbane to have Father Son and an Academy is ridiculous compared to GC, so what did they do, gave GC ridiculous concessions that have set their list up for sustained success.

Sydney is the same when compared to GWS who did an amazing job of building their list.

The footballing states have the go home factor in their favour along with Father Sons, plus the financial benefits of being two team states.

But the same sympathies are not given to smaller Melb clubs when they make mistakes and it is not treated with the same urgency.

There’s too few levers to for sustainable competitive advantage for North, St Kilda, Bulldogs (who by luck Father Sons have taken them to another level, that’s the critical factor for them).

And it leaves them swimming upstream without a paddle, but nooone gives a crap.

We were innovative, but sadly in areas that were too mainstream (first team playing interstate, Fri night footy) to be exclusive.

That counts for nought 40 years on and what the **** else is left … we tried the clean cut woke approach but in a cut throat industry like football that doesn’t cut it either.

I’m generally an optimist but I feel extremely pessimistic about the fact there are not enough opportunities for us to get better comparatively speaking to the others.

So it’s just a cycle where us playing finals will be an outlier and normal order will be resumed in a short space of time because of the weight of economic and football factors that play against us.

Distribution is the least of the most important factors but that’s the one the big clubs love to throw at us … but it’s bigger all in the scheme of things required to make this an even competition.

Fantastic post, so true how many inconsistencies and inequities there are and how many of them work against small Vic based teams, really puts in to perspective the over the top hysterical reaction to the 'unfair leg up' we got when we received a couple of must trade picks in the 20s and 30s a couple of years ago!

 

[speedy]

At the beginning, I thought Daniel would outweigh bis defensive inability with good ball use. Unfortunately our team is shit and the system is absolute dog shit for this to work. Daniel does not work in a defensive position. So saying. He cant play in this team until the system improves significantly

Do you know what happens to the present day version of Caleb Daniel when he is surrounded by better players and a better “system”?

He becomes redundant to team needs and gets shipped off to a team gullible enough to trade for him.

 

[DuckYeah]

Do you know what happens to the present day version of Caleb Daniel when he is surrounded by better players and a better “system”?

He becomes redundant to team needs and gets shipped off to a team gullible enough to trade for him.

I understand the trade. We are so stagnant and shit in transition, he simply doesn’t work. Another bad trade looming

 

[lockheed]

And in addition, be aware of the sustainable competitive advantage some teams possess and the ones that small Melb clubs cannot manufacture.

Geelong gets every country kid to be able to move home because they can buy their properties for a drop of what it costs Melb based players.

Post career employment opportunities are significantly greater as well as investment opportunities at certain clubs.

Free Agency should not be able to be used as a tool when you have a sustained run of success, say 3 years of top 6 finishes.

There’s so much inequity that they turn a blind eye to, and they are the real reasons clubs continue to be successful.

For Brisbane to have Father Son and an Academy is ridiculous compared to GC, so what did they do, gave GC ridiculous concessions that have set their list up for sustained success.

Sydney is the same when compared to GWS who did an amazing job of building their list.

The footballing states have the go home factor in their favour along with Father Sons, plus the financial benefits of being two team states.

But the same sympathies are not given to smaller Melb clubs when they make mistakes and it is not treated with the same urgency.

There’s too few levers to for sustainable competitive advantage for North, St Kilda, Bulldogs (who by luck Father Sons have taken them to another level, that’s the critical factor for them).

And it leaves them swimming upstream without a paddle, but nooone gives a crap.

We were innovative, but sadly in areas that were too mainstream (first team playing interstate, Fri night footy) to be exclusive.

That counts for nought 40 years on and what the **** else is left … we tried the clean cut woke approach but in a cut throat industry like football that doesn’t cut it either.

I’m generally an optimist but I feel extremely pessimistic about the fact there are not enough opportunities for us to get better comparatively speaking to the others.

So it’s just a cycle where us playing finals will be an outlier and normal order will be resumed in a short space of time because of the weight of economic and football factors that play against us.

Distribution is the least of the most important factors but that’s the one the big clubs love to throw at us … but it’s bigger all in the scheme of things required to make this an even competition.

I would love if this perspective would get an airing within the AFL media, but given that the journalists are all essentially AFL lackeys, I doubt if it will ever happen.

Does anyone hear know any brave podcasters?

 

[DocSholl]

The biggest issues with Daniel are he doesn't have any penetration with his kicking and is slow, and teams know this. So you can talk about a lack of options all you want, but it's a lot easier to close down options closer to the kicker, and he doesn't have the long dump kick in his arsenal like Hardeman or the ability to run himself out of trouble like McKercher.

Players like him have become obsolete with the development of forward pressing. The Dogs recognised this.

 

[giantroo]

 

[King Corey]

The wait was bearable.

 

[My Left Foote]

The wait was bearable.

I don't know about you KC but I was desperate to know when our next 100 point loss was going to be. Getting really excited about who we take with pick 2… oh shit.

 

[King Corey]

I don't know about you KC but I was desperate to know when our next 100 point loss was going to be. Getting really excited about who we take with pick 2… oh shit.

Our year is like going on a 6 month meal replacement diet then finding out those shakes were actually Weight Gain 3000.

All that deprivation and you're more rotund at the end.

 

[shintemaster]

I'll be landing in Dublin that day. Even odds on the team being in holiday mode before me.

 

[Psi-Roos]

I don't know about you KC but I was desperate to know when our next 100 point loss was going to be. Getting really excited about who we take with pick 2… oh shit.

You could have known before this announcement. It's only a couple of days away.