Oppo Camp Non Geelong football (AFL) discussion 2020

[Joey JoJo Shabad]

Dunno his name. But if it's the guy from Carinvool etc that's him.

Karnivool & Birds of Tokyo....

 

[Jimmy Willis Jawline]

I turned off the match - wasn't too much fun to watch, but for those who did watch, who won the battle:

NN was getting the chocolates early, but RoB finished strong.
Genuine 50/50 for mine

 

[David the Cat]

I watched the game...NicNAt was supreme in the ruck, but O'Brien great around the ground.

Whatever, NicNat giving O'Brien a new phone at the end was all class. Call it even.

 

[BIGANT]

How did Sloane go ?

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[Down at K Park]

I watched the game...NicNAt was supreme in the ruck, but O'Brien great around the ground.

Whatever, NicNat giving O'Brien a new phone at the end was all class. Call it even.

He was proved right though. Ran him ragged and cleaned up around the ground. Nic Nat is fat and lazy. Outside the ruck contest he’s too out of shape to do much else.

 

[Vdubs]

He was proved right though. Ran him ragged and cleaned up around the ground. Nic Nat is fat and lazy. Outside the ruck contest he’s too out of shape to do much else.

Fat and lazy is a bit extreme

 

[Jimmy Willis Jawline]

Geez Ellis is a great player. Richmond should never have traded him. I think their current form has something to do with him being missing.

 

[Jimmy Willis Jawline]

Wowee. That goal by Rankine. That's exactly the stuff he was doing before he got drafted.
They just cant touch him

 

[you pick one]

The holding the ball rule has changed again.

 

[David the Cat]

Lucosius is a very composed footballer.....looks the goods to me..

 

[Jimmy Willis Jawline]

The holding the ball rule has changed again.

Huge inconsistencies from game to game. It's not an easy game to umpire, and each one has a different flair. Changing the rules all the time just highlights those flairs.

 

[cats_09]

Geez Ellis is a great player. Richmond should never have traded him. I think their current form has something to do with him being missing.

They couldn't afford to keep him - for him to stay at Richmond he would have needed to take a significant pay cut due to the salaries of players such as Lynch, Martin, Riewoldt, Cotchin, Prestia & Rance (yep, still on their list this year)

This is from Sept 2018, so prior to Lynch signing but when it was pretty much confirmed he'd be a Tiger:

RICHMOND faces one of football’s biggest salary cap imbalances next year, with six players taking up as much as $5 million of a $12.76m salary cap...

...Dustin Martin is on around $1.2 million a year.

So he should be on a deal that with his durability will likely get him to 350 games by the age of 33, with fuel potentially left in the tank.

Lynch is likely to ask for less money per season to accept a deal past five seasons, sitting him underneath Martin on around $1 million a year.

Dion Prestia’s deal is around $750,000 a season, and Alex Rance, Jack Riewoldt and Trent Cotchin have all extended deals and renegotiated terms that would still see them earn $700,000 or more.

Makes you appreciate even more the sacrifices our premiership guys made to keep the list together as much as possible, as they could have easily chased bigger money at other clubs during those peak earning years.

https://amp.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/richmond-faces-one-of-the-afls-biggest-salary-cap-imbalances-if-the-tigers-sign-tom-lynch/news-story/754e5473a9b84b6867947240280c9ec1

 

[Jimmy Willis Jawline]

They couldn't afford to keep him - for him to stay at Richmond he would have needed to take a significant pay cut due to the salaries of players such as Lynch, Martin, Riewoldt, Cotchin, Prestia & Rance (yep, still on their list this year)

This is from Sept 2018, so prior to Lynch signing but when it was pretty much confirmed he'd be a Tiger:



Makes you appreciate even more the sacrifices our premiership guys made to keep the list together as much as possible, as they could have easily chased bigger money at other clubs during those peak earning years.

https://amp.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/richmond-faces-one-of-the-afls-biggest-salary-cap-imbalances-if-the-tigers-sign-tom-lynch/news-story/754e5473a9b84b6867947240280c9ec1

That does make sense. Geez that's a lot of money for not many players.
Are they still paying Rance? I'd be a bit filthy on his retirement timing if so.

 

[Baudolino]

What with Adelaide nosediving so badly, it will be interesting to see whether the Crows attempt to offload some of their senior players with currency in the off-season as a way of going all-in on their rebuild.

I'd be curious to see what their senior core would fetch on the open market. At a guess:

Sloane - late 2nd round pick?
MCrouch - mid 1st round pick?
BCrouch - mid 2nd round pick?
Laird - mid 1st round pick?
Walker - fourth round pick?

Btw, not suggesting I want Geelong to pick any of these guys up, just speculating wildly for the sake of the exercise.

 

[frggr]

Greenwood has been a good pickup for the Suns too - he shits me, which is a sign he's probably good

 

[David the Cat]

What with Adelaide nosediving so badly, it will be interesting to see whether the Crows attempt to offload some of their senior players with currency in the off-season as a way of going all-in on their rebuild.

I'd be curious to see what their senior core would fetch on the open market. At a guess:

Sloane - late 2nd round pick?
MCrouch - mid 1st round pick?
BCrouch - mid 2nd round pick?
Laird - mid 1st round pick?
Walker - fourth round pick?

Btw, not suggesting I want Geelong to pick any of these guys up, just speculating wildly for the sake of the exercise.

Bit tough on Sloane....

 

[Baudolino]

Bit tough on Sloane....

He's 30 and I wouldn't describe him as an A grader anyway.

 

[Down at K Park]

Fat and lazy is a bit extreme

He’s clearly well overweight. Has been for a few years now. I’m surprised he doesn’t cop it in the media. I wonder wether he trains much during the week, or are his knees too stuffed to get much work in?

 

[Jimmy Willis Jawline]

What with Adelaide nosediving so badly, it will be interesting to see whether the Crows attempt to offload some of their senior players with currency in the off-season as a way of going all-in on their rebuild.

I'd be curious to see what their senior core would fetch on the open market. At a guess:

Sloane - late 2nd round pick?
MCrouch - mid 1st round pick?
BCrouch - mid 2nd round pick?
Laird - mid 1st round pick?
Walker - fourth round pick?

Btw, not suggesting I want Geelong to pick any of these guys up, just speculating wildly for the sake of the exercise.

I'd take Laird with a late first round. Wouldn't touch the others. Would have loved Sloane a couple years back, not so sure at the moment. We have a lot of similar players?

 

[BIGANT]

Bagging Tex so Sloane should be under the pump as well.

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[frggr]

Good to see Bennell getting a run

 

[BotsMaster]

This hatred between Norf and Ess is fake right?

 

[frggr]

This hatred between Norf and Ess is fake right?

Nope.

It's been going on for decades

 

[Jimmy Willis Jawline]

Gotta admit the Roos have been playing more entertaining footy this year. That being said, they couldn't possibly have been any more boring than last year.

 

[BotsMaster]

Nope.

It's been going on for decades

I mean I can understand Ess and Coll/Carl/Hawf and Norf vs WB.

But not these two