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[DogDaySonny]

Whew! Lucky for Melbourne that they have a great culture and Smith was the only user! Either that or lucky that everyone else was having their cocaine usage managed by the AFL and they managed to avoid the testing regime.

 

[cryptor]

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Whew! Lucky for Melbourne that they have a great culture and Smith was the only user! Either that or lucky that everyone else was having their cocaine usage managed by the AFL and they managed to avoid the testing regime.

It’s hard to feel much sympathy given he has done the crime, but it’s also very clear he’s a scapegoat here and wouldn’t be facing these consequences if he was a better, more marketable player like Oliver.

 

[DogDaySonny]

It’s hard to feel much sympathy given he has done the crime, but it’s also very clear he’s a scapegoat here and wouldn’t be facing these consequences if he was a better, more marketable player like Oliver.

Nah, he's facing these consequences because he tested positive on game-day, cocaine being a game-day restricted stimulant. The AFL was unable to manage the situation once the WADA testers got him. He probably got lazy or stupid and didn't tell the AFL he was using during the week so they couldn't pre-test and let him declare soreness or whatever.

I do wonder how many Melbourne players are in the AFL's pre-testing regime in order to avoid the WADA testers. Culture!

 

[Paul Kersey]

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Whew! Lucky for Melbourne that they have a great culture and Smith was the only user! Either that or lucky that everyone else was having their cocaine usage managed by the AFL and they managed to avoid the testing regime.

He's a legit dumbarse.

 

[wahawk]

The AFL may be tipping a little into the North/WA deal too.

The interstate clubs (mainly Qld & WA) are pushing hard for a rolling 3 yr rotation of Vic clubs playing a ‘home’ game interstate to reduce their travel.

So north signing that deal takes a bit of pressure off the AFL

 

[HoldingThe Ball]

Tim Membrey

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Tim Membrey

Age

30

Ht

188cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.2

3star

K

8.1

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

5.8

5star

T

1.5

3star

G

1.8

5star

D

9.4

2star

K

6.5

3star

HB

2.9

2star

M

4.5

4star

T

1.3

2star

G

1.5

5star

D

9.6

3star

K

4.8

2star

HB

4.8

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.6

3star

was an odd one.

Long time at St Kilda with a pretty decent record.

I think it's 300 odd goals in nearly 200 games?

Still looked super fit when I saw him play, and always cracked in.

I know he had a lot of mental health issues, but he was very open about it, and obviously getting the support he needed, which is great for him and his young family.

Gone to Collingwood as a DFA which seems yet another blunder by St Kilda.

Membrey, Crouch, Battle and a few others will leave a hole (although Crouch may be rookied?) - so it seemed odd that they just let Membrey walk to a better club without any sort of attempt to keep him (in public anyway)

Always thought Membrey was a decent solid B+ grade forward - may well have filled a hole with us for a season or two if I'm being honest - but hopefully a move to the Pies works out well for his career and his mental health.

Gee, they've sold the farm the Pies - all in for a Flag in 2025 / 2026. The following 10 yrs will be hell for them. Only a couple of decent young players, no huge amount of high draft picks and a huge gap in the playing list of guys between 23 - 30 yrs of age.

How glorious to see Collingwood be in the bottom 4 for a decade!

 

[peetoo]

Goodwin..

Joel smiths dad is Shaun smith? The same Shaun smith who will become an MFC director?

 

[Ashman23]

Do we get the points and the win for 2023 for the game that Smith played us in?

 

[Buzz Hawk]

Dockers great makes 'difficult decision' to leave club

The Dockers have announced that Peter Bell is leaving the club

www.afl.com.au

Little big man exits Fremantle.
He was a pest to us. Job in a mining company in W.A coming up no doubt.

 

[bigmaxi]

Dockers great makes 'difficult decision' to leave club

The Dockers have announced that Peter Bell is leaving the club

www.afl.com.au

Little big man exits Fremantle.
He was a pest to us. Job in a mining company in W.A coming up no doubt.

Hard to deal with was Bell. Can’t imagine the grief faced by the other kids trading footy cards with him in the playground back in the day.

 

[Nugett]

Hard to deal with was Bell. Can’t imagine the grief faced by the other kids trading footy cards with him in the playground back in the day.

Reckon he got his trading degree by reading the Freo big footy trading boards…

 

[Clarkos_Soldier]

One of the best responses I've seen on these forums. People don't realise that what you learn has very little to do with actual jobs in the real world. All university degrees do is to try to teach you to think critically and communicate. Some degrees do it with numbers and others with words and some might have both. Those skills are essential for any job. Sure, some degrees today are also prerequisite to certain fields but no degree is enough to actually prepare you for any particular role. Imagine doing a sports science degree and thinking you can then be the next AFL Premiership coach.

Your capabilities, and what you do practically on the job, is what teaches you how to do a job. Michael Burry is a medical doctor and one of the most successful fund managers. Warren Buffet read a Bachelor of Science. Bill Gates is a drop out and so was Steve Jobs. Could go on and on...

 

[brad sue well]

 

[BIGHAWK23]

North with no contract for Tassie?

Club is cooked if they don’t have that Cash

 

[RustyHawk]

Wow! Zac has done a number on Bolts alright! Bang.

Q - anyone want a biscuit?

 

[KermitJagger]

This rubs me the wrong way. Bolton was a first time coach, Carlton were shit, and he clearly was trying to put it right. Unfortunately - obviously - Tuohy wasn't all in. Imagine your coach wanting to talk footy at a footy club, while you're paid quite well to be a player at that club, then whinging about it in a book. An attitude endemic to Carlton players, a complete explanation of why they're such a basket case.

 

[TylerDurden]

This rubs me the wrong way. Bolton was a first time coach, Carlton were shit, and he clearly was trying to put it right. Unfortunately - obviously - Tuohy wasn't all in. Imagine your coach wanting to talk footy at a footy club, while you're paid quite well to be a player at that club, then whinging about it in a book. An attitude endemic to Carlton players, a complete explanation of why they're such a basket case.

It's the public slagging off that's a bad look now.
At least say it to his face, the coward.

 

[KermitJagger]

It's the public slagging off that's a bad look now.
At least say it to his face, the coward.

Gotta feel for Bolton. Imagine coaching at Carlton, Sword of Damocles above your head at all times and your lazy players just wanna slack off with some chilled conversation instead of taking shit seriously.

 

[peetoo]

This rubs me the wrong way. Bolton was a first time coach, Carlton were shit, and he clearly was trying to put it right. Unfortunately - obviously - Tuohy wasn't all in. Imagine your coach wanting to talk footy at a footy club, while you're paid quite well to be a player at that club, then whinging about it in a book. An attitude endemic to Carlton players, a complete explanation of why they're such a basket case.ir

Irish guy not wanting to chat at length?

 

[Leather Poisoning]

It's the public slagging off that's a bad look now.
At least say it to his face, the coward.

Maybe he did say it to his face? It's a single quote from a 200 page book.

It's not a positive thing to say but it's also not the most cutting thing I've heard a player say about an ex-coach.

Having said that - criticising a coach for being obsessed with football and improvement seems an odd one.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

I’d gladly talk to Bolts about footy all day than talk to Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

about anything for 5 minutes.

 

[phlogiston]

I’d gladly talk to Bolts about footy all day than talk to Chris Scott about anything for 5 minutes.

Oh I dunno. I understand he can talk about self-awareness to the point that people disengage.

 

[kazzooka]

Membrey, Crouch, Battle and a few others will leave a hole (although Crouch may be rookied?) - so it seemed odd that they just let Membrey walk to a better club without any sort of attempt to keep him (in public anyway)

StKilda didn't want Membrey at all. All year he was fighting for a contract extension and didn't get any offer to sign. His manager had been working all year to try and get him a deal somewhere. I don't know why but very few clubs had interest in him, Port were briefly considering it and another interstate club I can't remember. Melbourne had interest at one point and eventually he got to Collingwood.

He's very releived to be staying in Victoria and he's ended up at a better club who will give him a good chance to play a few more years as a 3rd tall/depth player behind McStay and Mihocek.

 

[kazzooka]

Maybe he did say it to his face? It's a single quote from a 200 page book.

It's not a positive thing to say but it's also not the most cutting thing I've heard a player say about an ex-coach.

Having said that - criticising a coach for being obsessed with football and improvement seems an odd one.

There is a part were he talks about Bolton asking him for feedback and he said that he felt like the younger players were intimidated by Bolton and he was too intense.

Bolton was apparently furious at this feedback as he was "just looking for me to tell him how fantastic he was" and then did a whole meeting with the team on the feedback Tuohy gave.

Though it's clearly a bit bias. It's odd that former Carlton players make a big joke about the biscuit as being some ridiculous thing.

Whereas the reigning premiers in Brisbane point back to Fagan and Hodge testing their players with soft drinks in the break room and calling players out for drinking coke instead of water as a real culture shift where the young players and some of the older guys who were just getting by realised what it took to be at that elite level and how those little things like a biscuit or a drink is lowering the professional standards.

 

[Arc1]

I love the club, but we went to Tassie for the revenue plain and simple. Growing the supporter base = more money. It's shrewd business and I support the club for doing it - Dingley is the house that Geoff Harris/Tasmania built and thank you to them both. There are so many other things you can point and laugh at Norf for - continuing to bed down their financial security (they are debt free and running profits at present) isn't one of them.

I think for me there's still a difference between extending your reach into a neighboring state with no AFL presence, vs. selling your home game to a rival club on the other side of the continent.

It's the draw integrity that bothers me more - been a long time since the AFL was a genuine competition, and people seem to have just settled for it. How do we have a major national sport where you don't even play each side twice, let alone this sort of home fixture shenanigans.