Opinion Non-Crows AFL 7

[Geoffa32]

Of course it would have nothing to do with hubby who just happens to be JHF's manager...

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And now that she has highlighted it affects him and his family, he will cop it more.




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[MatthewB]

i like his thinking

 

[rabidcrow]

Is he accusing Port of draft tampering?

I have posted this thought several times since he announced he wanted to come back.

I think there is every chance JHF talked up being happy to go to Melbourne and play for North to ensure they did not trade the number 1 pick to us. I think his unsettled attitude over there was to open the door for a trade back home. However I don’t think it was planned for last year - they missed out on Dunkley and then they (quite rightly) took advantage of the issues North and Clarkson were having to push his way out a year early. Hence it came out of the blue mid way through trade week and Port dropped their interest in Graham like a sack of spuds


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[Bearded Clam]

massive… and I mean MASSIVE warning bells shoildve have been going off in the North drafting “war room” discussions when, just months before the draft, Jason Horne changed his name to Jason Horne-Francis..

He clearly saw himself as Fabian’s son and that he went to the lengths to take on that name change at that point in time just reeked of a kid who was putting it out there that he shouldve been considered a “Father Son” type prospect..

Just my opinion.

I also have an opinion that Fabian is an extremely manipilative and controlling type person.. what do we know about wife bashers and these type of behaviour traits…

He wouldve been in that kids ear from day dot to manipulate the entire situation and port wouldve been encouraging it.. wasnt there rumours of a new MG even involved somewhere along the line..

Call me a cynic but the whole think stinks IMO.. i reckon the lad never had any intention of staying anywhere longer than a year before returning to port.

 

[rocket18]

He left after one year of a two year contract, there were reports at the time that questioned his commitment.

Norf used pick one to secure him, IMO they have every right to be pissed at him.

JHF has been framed as the "villain", some people love booing the villain.

Throw in the Karen Cornes carry on and you have a lot of neutrals who have bought into JHF as the villain, it's almost a way to boo Karen Cornes.

I can't believe the "won't someone think of the children" crap that's going on, AFL is in the entertainment business, some people cheer, some people boo, some people do both.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

massive… and I mean MASSIVE warning bells shoildve have been going off in the North drafting “war room” discussions when, just months before the draft, Jason Horne changed his name to Jason Horne-Francis..

He clearly saw himself as Fabian’s son and that he went to the lengths to take on that name change at that point in time just reeked of a kid who was putting it out there that he shouldve been considered a “Father Son” type prospect..

Just my opinion.

I also have an opinion that Fabian is an extremely manipilative and controlling type person.. what do we know about wife bashers and these type of behaviour traits…

He wouldve been in that kids ear from day dot to manipulate the entire situation and port wouldve been encouraging it.. wasnt there rumours of a new MG even involved somewhere along the line..

Call me a cynic but the whole think stinks IMO.. i reckon the lad never had any intention of staying anywhere longer than a year before returning to port.

That was the moment I wanted nothing to do with him and thank god North turned us down.

 

[Bearded Clam]

massive… and I mean MASSIVE warning bells shoildve have been going off in the North drafting “war room” discussions when, just months before the draft, Jason Horne changed his name to Jason Horne-Francis..

He clearly saw himself as Fabian’s son and that he went to the lengths to take on that name change at that point in time just reeked of a kid who was putting it out there that he shouldve been considered a “Father Son” type prospect..

Just my opinion.

I also have an opinion that Fabian is an extremely manipilative and controlling type person.. what do we know about wife bashers and these type of behaviour traits…

He wouldve been in that kids ear from day dot to manipulate the entire situation and port wouldve been encouraging it.. wasnt there rumours of a new MG even involved somewhere along the line..

Call me a cynic but the whole think stinks IMO.. i reckon the lad never had any intention of staying anywhere longer than a year before returning to port.

That all being said.. if this was nearing the truth..

Well done Port and suck shit to Victoria..

The more this happens with talented SA kids the better.

Crows and port already have to pretty much exclude themselves from picking Vic Metro lads due to the “go home factor” risks..

Hopefully the more SA talent that shuns Victoria the more reluctant Vic based teams will be to pick them..

 

[Bearded Clam]

I hope so

Would be unbelievably difficult to prove.. pretty much impossible unless someone in the “inner circle” rolled on the rest..

 

[Crow till I die]

I have posted this thought several times since he announced he wanted to come back.

I think there is every chance JHF talked up being happy to go to Melbourne and play for North to ensure they did not trade the number 1 pick to us. I think his unsettled attitude over there was to open the door for a trade back home. However I don’t think it was planned for last year - they missed out on Dunkley and then they (quite rightly) took advantage of the issues North and Clarkson were having to push his way out a year early. Hence it came out of the blue mid way through trade week and Port dropped their interest in Graham like a sack of spuds


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As much as we would all love port to be done for draft tampering..what happened here is far less bad than Archie Perkins essentially telling recruiters interstate not to draft him or Bailey Smith using a sick note to ward off interstate clubs from drafting him - THEY are absolute examples of draft tampering that the AFL ere only too happy to ignore

IF port have tapped up JHF prior to the draft, he still had to go interstate for a year and North could still have kept him to his contract so it was playing the long game if it as draft tampering perse

 

[jackster83]

West Coast with 17 players unavailable this week, including Yeo injured yet again.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

West Coast with 17 players unavailable this week, including Yeo injured yet again.

Yeo has played 29 games since the start of 2020, surely it's time for him to call it or for the Eagles to make the call to move him on? Same with Shuey, Nic Nat and McGovern, their bodies are all cooked.

 

[jackster83]

Yeo has played 29 games since the start of 2020, surely it's time for him to call it or for the Eagles to make the call to move him on? Same with Shuey, Nic Nat and McGovern, their bodies are all cooked.

Those guys all stopped caring once they got their flag.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Those guys all stopped caring once they got their flag.

Yep and I reckon Melbourne are heading down the same path.

 

[TheRankineFile]

From the article it looks like only the proceeds from the match-worn guernseys will be donated. Same goes for the Gold Coast's one.

Hawthorn are donating some of the proceeds of each sale of theirs.

Pretty sad but not surprising that ANZAC Round is being used as a cash grab.

ANZAC Day is my birthday and my dad is a veteran. Sad to say its just another commercial holiday now.

 

[Mutineer]

 

[radiojake]

West Coast with 17 players unavailable this week, including Yeo injured yet again.

and doesn't look like they have anything in the reserves to replace them with


WEST PERTH 34.13 (217) defeated WEST COAST EAGLES 7.6 (48)

 

[GROTTO]

I was watching Footy Classified from last night and saw this tweet that they showed from Sportsbet that was trolling Carlton and its supporters with cheap flights out of Adelaide on Thursday night.

Credit to Sportsbet, they managed to accidentally (maybe deliberately lol) troll two Clubs, Port as well.

 

[arrowman]

Would be unbelievably difficult to prove.. pretty much impossible unless someone in the “inner circle” rolled on the rest..

Perhaps if Port sack Ken mid season he'll want to burn them

 

[rocket18]

Yeo has played 29 games since the start of 2020, surely it's time for him to call it or for the Eagles to make the call to move him on? Same with Shuey, Nic Nat and McGovern, their bodies are all cooked.

Just goes to show the effects of constant travel, it has to impact your recovery process after each away game.

Hurn is WC only 300 game player, probably due to WC playing so many finals (more games over a shorter period) compared to Freo who have two - Mundy and Pavlich.

We have four 300 gamers, mind you we won't have another one for at least 10 years.

 

[GreyCrow]

Just goes to show the effects of constant travel, it has to impact your recovery process after each away game.

Hurn is WC only 300 game player, probably due to WC playing so many finals (more games over a shorter period) compared to Freo who have two - Mundy and Pavlich.

We have four 300 gamers, mind you we won't have another one for at least 10 years.

Rory Laird might might get there

At 207 he is the most realistic

Walker 243 and Sloane 238 would need some NRG pills to get past 275

Smith at 230 is also unlikely.

Laird may have to drop out of the midfield to get there though.

 

[rocket18]

Rory Laird might might get there

At 207 he is the most realistic

Walker 243 and Sloane 238 would need some NRG pills to get past 275

Smith at 230 is also unlikely.

Laird may have to drop out of the midfield to get there though.

Yeh, I dismissed Laird but he's a few years younger than Sloane and Tex.

Would need him to play for another 4 seasons, he would be an outside chance.

 

[spenze]

Would be unbelievably difficult to prove.. pretty much impossible unless someone in the “inner circle” rolled on the rest..

We wouldn't have deleted the emails

 

[kirky]

I’m going to go with yes!

 

[WetCrow1991]

It is amazing how lucky Port are so often to catch opponents with significant injury issues.

 

[Peter Doherty]

That Adelaide/North/Hawthorn thread on the main board is pretty funny. Looking forward to this week's game against the Hawks.

Is there a bigger flog on Bigfooty than the Hawks' Strap On mod?