Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 31

[Steve Dore]

Erin Phillips is off to GCS

Good luck to her.

Suns coup as Hall of Famer takes key role at Gold Coast

Erin Phillips has accepted a key role at Gold Coast

www.afl.com.au

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Freo couldn't get 2 ruckmen to work, so let's try 3 ruckmen!

 

[Doctor Feel]

Freo couldn't get 2 ruckmen to work, so let's try 3 ruckmen!

Bit weird

 

[Grave Danger]

Erin Phillips is off to GCS

Phew!

 

[Schulzenfest]

Signing as depth, fine, but why the **** did they give him a two year deal lol.

 

[jdeezy]

Freo couldn't get 2 ruckmen to work, so let's try 3 ruckmen!

I guess it kind of makes sense of they are locked into playing 2 rucks each game, since Darcy gets injured so much you plug and play Cox in his place.

Problem is that Jackson is definitely a better first ruck than Darcy and Darcy can't play forward either. And then Cox can't play either position particularly well. So it's just doubling down on the issue

 

[jackag24]

Ah it all makes sense now!

 

[VineValerian]

Erin Phillips is off to GCS

Give her three years there to hone her craft, then get her back to Port in a similar role.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Freo couldn't get 2 ruckmen to work, so let's try 3 ruckmen!

Given he got his engineering degree, was all ready to start work at ExxonMobil, then did the AFL try outs in LA, I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up spending a big chunk of time at Woodside over the next 2 years.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Good luck to her.

Suns coup as Hall of Famer takes key role at Gold Coast

Erin Phillips has accepted a key role at Gold Coast

www.afl.com.au

Footy admin job. Wonder what it is a stepping stone for? She would know Dimma - a bit - as she was playing for Adelaide Lightning, when he played for Port 20 odd years ago.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Adelaide really have a hard-on for the sons of former Collingwood players. Now they've invited Tom McGuane to train with them.

 

[Visenfest]

Adelaide really have a hard-on for the sons of former Collingwood players. Now they've invited Tom McGuane to train with them.

Surprised they didn’t invite another KPF. May as well pick them all up now.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

West Coast has strengthened its midfield stocks with the addition of three experienced players - Deven Robertson

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Deven Robertson

Age

24

Ht

185cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

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Last 5

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7.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

4.0

3star

M

0.0

1star

T

3.0

5star

CL

0.0

1star

D

7.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

4.0

3star

M

0.0

1star

T

3.0

4star

CL

0.0

1star

D

7.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

4.0

3star

M

0.0

1star

T

3.0

5star

CL

0.0

1star

, Finlay Macrae and Harry Schoenberg.

 

[240volt]

West Coast has strengthened its midfield stocks with the addition of three experienced players - Deven Robertson, Finlay Macrae and Harry Schoenberg.

Remember Robertson was rated pretty good on our board and was a bit of a surprise he dropped to as low as he did.
From memory I think Brisbane picked him up with the first pick on the second night, 20 something from memory.
Never really got going.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Remember Robertson was rated pretty good on our board and was a bit of a surprise he dropped to as low as he did.
From memory I think Brisbane picked him up with the first pick on the second night, 20 something from memory.
Never really got going.

Which we traded to them, because Port had no interest in him.

 

[240volt]

Which we traded to them, because Port had no interest in him.

Obviously it was a good decision, I know at one stage he was rated top 10 but slipped for good reasons in hindsight.

 

[Freak Dodgeball Accident]

Ah it all makes sense now!

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SlumDog

 

[TazD]

"Secured" makes it sound like they had stiff competition to land them.

 

[jackag24]

"Secured" makes it sound like they had stiff competition to land them.
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"Experienced trio" but when we secure fringe players cheaply they're called spuds

 

[Ford Fairlane]

A lot of clubs have State league 'second-chancers' training with them. Nobody wanted to fill their list from this year's draft class.

 

[TazD]

"Experienced trio" but when we secure fringe players cheaply they're called spuds

Spud is just an arseholes way of saying fringe. If Kane cared enough to talk about these West Coast recruits, he would 100% call them spuds.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

You guys talking about star ex-Lion Deven Robertson

2

Deven Robertson

Age

24

Ht

185cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

7.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

4.0

3star

M

0.0

1star

T

3.0

5star

CL

0.0

1star

D

7.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

4.0

3star

M

0.0

1star

T

3.0

4star

CL

0.0

1star

D

7.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

4.0

3star

M

0.0

1star

T

3.0

5star

CL

0.0

1star

?

 

[240volt]

Spud is just an arseholes way of saying fringe. If Kane cared enough to talk about these West Coast recruits, he would 100% call them spuds.

Fringe player
Someone who gets the occasional opportunity to play in the first team, and earn more minutes if they impress enough, but largely accepts their place at the bottom end of the squad.

Spud to me is someone who is pretty well useless and shouldn’t be on a list in the first place.

 

[Grave Danger]

SlumDog

Back before it became official Bazball policy, when Kevin Pietersen was finding more and more stupid ways to get himself out, he was dubbed the Dumb Slog Millionaire.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

The owner of Foxtel, the AFL’s major broadcast partner, believes it is paying too much for the rights following its decision to pull the plug on a second domestic soccer deal in Europe over financial concerns. Two senior media industry sources, who requested anonymity to discuss contractual matters, said Foxtel’s British owner, sports streaming giant DAZN, felt it was over-paying for a domestic product with limited scope for subscription growth, and could seek to claw back money from the agreement.
DAZN, which bought Foxtel for an enterprise value of $3.4 billion last December, inherited the AFL rights for which Seven and Foxtel paid a combined $4.5 billion over seven years, to 2031. Previous reports put Foxtel’s contribution at about $418 million a year, or almost $3 billion in total.
Five senior sports industry sources said it was widely accepted that Foxtel had been pushed to its upper limits after a massive offer from Paramount that would have yielded $6 billion over 10 years.
AFL lawyer and media executive Jeff Browne, also the ex-Collingwood president, has been briefed on DAZN’s position, according to two other media sources.
But Browne said he had not been approached to represent DAZN’s interests in potential talks with the league.

AFL’s biggest broadcast partner isn’t happy with its deal – and it’s pulled the plug before

The British sports streaming giant has recently terminated domestic soccer deals in France and Belgium.

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