Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 31

[Willsy10]

There main problem is not drafting enough strong mids.
Forward and back they are pretty well set but the midfield is as good as a bottom half of the table team.
You could get away with that in the old days but now it’s such a midfielders game if you’re not up to scratch it’s going to show up when it counts.

What surprises me is as a club they have never really addressed it.
If they would have they could have easily won a couple of extra flags by now.

For the majority of the 2000’s they had Ricciuto, McLeod, Goodwin, Edwards and Thompson running through the midfield. Their midfield was about as stacked as you can get and they really should’ve got them a flag in the 2000’s.

Close a few times, especially 05 and 06 but Perrie, McGregor and Welsh whilst serviceable weren’t enough to get it done in the forward line.

I can see why they went hard at Carey but that didn’t work for them, and it was too late by the time Tex and Tippet arrived.

 

[240volt]

For the majority of the 2000’s they had Ricciuto, McLeod, Goodwin, Edwards and Thompson running through the midfield. Their midfield was about as stacked as you can get and they really should’ve got them a flag in the 2000’s.

Close a few times, especially 05 and 06 but Perrie, McGregor and Welsh whilst serviceable weren’t enough to get it done in the forward line.

I can see why they went hard at Carey but that didn’t work for them, and it was too late by the time Tex and Tippet arrived.

I was talking mainly recently when they had a run at the bottom end of the table.
Had plenty of good picks but avoided mids of quality.
It really showed up in the finals last year.
Forwards and defenders they are top 4, midfield they are bottom 6.
Your not winning nothing with that equation.

 

[spike101]

If I’m reading correctly, it’s not him, it’s his brother.

Given the coaches reprehensible behaviour at a former club, (why is he coaching again) I don’t expect any impact. 1966 repeat win maybe in 2066 the way things are going by which time many of us will be dead.

 

[Relativity]

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Old mate Dillon must be cracking open the most expensive bottle of French Vintage champagne he can lay his hands on tonight. Because the AFL getting Tasmania into the AFL in a new covered stadium that will end up costing over a billion dollars with only $15m of it coming from the AFL itself (=1.5% of the cost) is the bargain of the century for a corporation that is desperate to lay claim on being the premier fully national sporting competition.

Once they are in the system and the ALF are banking the extra broadcasting bucks they will be bankrolling the Tassie team into viability for years. The $15m lowball up front offer was just to bleed the State Gov. (read tax payers federal and state) for everything they could squeeze. Good business for the AFL trough snouts. Not so much the tax payers.