Very debatable.
Neither have done anything to indicate they'll be on a list in 4 years so far.
List Mgmt. How did Port Adelaide overtake the Crows?
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Neither have done anything to indicate they'll be on a list in 4 years so far.
I think it's pretty damn obvious why we are failing
Our list simply isn't good enough
To suggest any other reason is ludicrous
Do you back the current list managers or sack them and go head hunt the better ones in the business
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Our list simply isn't good enough
To suggest any other reason is ludicrous
Do you back the current list managers or sack them and go head hunt the better ones in the business
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Yep, born and raised.
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I don’t see why they won’t be. Probably not going to be what they expected though.
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For some reason I though PP was way older. Plays like a veteran, has 5 attempts at the same contest.
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They were very smart about drafting a lot of young players over the past two seasons. This accelerated their quality, complemented by drafting well as they seem to have a few great kids in the side.
Port could have stood still and gone past the crows
Gibbs was more a local pr exercise than looking for best fit for their list.
sometimes these arrangements don’t work out.
Even had Paul Conners questioning why you’d go to Port despite having then captain Cassisi on his list…
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Gibbs deal was ludicrous. Highlights everything wrong with the club & was part of the reason for the mass exodus.
2015-2017 I thought the crows were doing well, good recruiting, good coaches, but an ageing list plagued with stars departing. 2018 was the year they needed to start rebuilding & looking to the future, in comes birdbrain and now everything is a mess. Did crows change their recruiters that year? Prior they did well with ordinary picks.
Meanwhile port have nailed the last 3-4 drafts, accelerated the rate of development of juniors and focussed upon bringing in experienced mid aged players to fill that void in our list.
Yeh right, rebuild the year after you dominate the league, finish top and lose a grand final.
Things turn very quickly in AFL.
Not saying Ports list isnt good, but let's say Boak, Dixon, Westhoff, Gray and Rockliff all retire (likely in the next 2 -3 years) and Wines leaves for a Melbourne team, I would say that Port becomes a middle of the table team.
The key is to win a premiership the year you get a chance. Everyone always says, we have next year.
Look at the Crows and Collingwood, you unfortunately get plagued by injuries and down on confidence after getting so close.
My contribution to this thread can be safely ignored because I am hopelessly biased. My belief is that whoever is most successful at any given moment is transitory and irrelevant. What matters to me that I support a real club with a proud and long history and not a franchise whose very existence is the result of Port's ambition and innovation.
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The Victorians clubs have turned plucking the best talent from interstate into an art form.
Did it to Gold Coast for years, same with GWS, same with Adelaide.
If Adelaide still had Dangerfield, Lever, Cameron, Gunston and McGovern this thread wouldn't exist but at this stage the Adelaide list comprises of players too old to be poached, not good enough to poach or too young to poach.
Can't see it changing until they fix the off-field issues.
Did it to Gold Coast for years, same with GWS, same with Adelaide.
If Adelaide still had Dangerfield, Lever, Cameron, Gunston and McGovern this thread wouldn't exist but at this stage the Adelaide list comprises of players too old to be poached, not good enough to poach or too young to poach.
Can't see it changing until they fix the off-field issues.
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simba_
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we have something to play for, a reason to exist, a reason to celebrate, a reason to fight. they have used up their energy trying to close us down, the only reason they existed in the first place
....if they still had them they wouldn't be the adelaide crows. they wanted to LEAVE the adelaide crows, there is no world where they still have them.
....if they still had them they wouldn't be the adelaide crows. they wanted to LEAVE the adelaide crows, there is no world where they still have them.
Finally someone talking sense, spot on. We just didn't use the picks correctly from these trades.
It won't stop until the Crows get off the bottom of the ladder, the lure of playing finals and moving to Melbourne will still cause issues.
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You wont get off the bottom of the ladder until it stops.
You were not bottom when those players left.
We will never stop the issue (now) of players leaving until we get off the bottom of the ladder.
We are going to be like GC now for 3-4 years minimum, pick the talent and the talent will leave.
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If my horrible football club ever makes it out of their decade of destruction I will be hoping they still hit the draft every year rather than throw the kitchen sink at meh footballers. I feel like post 2017 adelaide needed to have a better more balanced list management strategy.
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West Coast are the bizarro version of Adelaide if they were run by a competent leadership rather than by an incompetent boys clubs which finds new and creative ways to fail at every turn.
The Crows have all the natural advantages they should need to be another West Coast. Instead they're barely another Fremantle.
Still bitter...lol
Port believe they can win, play a great brand of footy and have a really good even spread of players to cover all positions, unfortunately for the Crows they have non of the above but they'll definitely be back up in a few years just need to get all the crap thats gone on out of their system.
And please get rid of Roo, he's doing absolutely no favours for them whatsoever at the moment.
And please get rid of Roo, he's doing absolutely no favours for them whatsoever at the moment.
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Still unable to comprehend sarcasm...lol
Yes I guess you can to all 17 clubs that are now above the Crows lol
