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whattagun07 said:
SEN (via Andy and Gazey show) are running a count for the best non-mids. If you attend a single Centre bounce, you're intelligible for that match (I think wingers aren't included either).

RT had polled in the first 3 rounds and was leading.
Will surely get the 3 again tonight.
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Surely Thilthorpe has attended several centre bounces?
 
whattagun07 said:
SEN (via Andy and Gazey show) are running a count for the best non-mids. If you attend a single Centre bounce, you're intelligible for that match (I think wingers aren't included either).

RT had polled in the first 3 rounds and was leading.
Will surely get the 3 again tonight.
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That doesn't make any sense. TT has attended center bounces in all 4 of our games.
 
whattagun07 said:
Rucks are allowed sorry. It's more to negate the 'midfielder awards'
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All good.

Although I still disagree with their reasoning.

In round 2 - Rachele kicked 4.2 and spent 95% of his game as a forward. He attended two centre bounces and is therefore disqualified. Gazey should stick to b-ball.
 

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AFC979810 said:
All good.

Although I still disagree with their reasoning.

In round 2 - Rachele kicked 4.2 and spent 95% of his game as a forward. He attended two centre bounces and is therefore disqualified. Gazey should stick to b-ball.
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Sounds more like an Andy Maher idea
 
skittlebrew said:
Because in the real world decisions don't occur in a vacuum.

Moving forward they will potentially be a draft/trading partner or teams have other players available for F/s / Academy that they don't want others to bid on.
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I just don’t buy that this argument is that significant.

It’s an 18 team closed league. There are only so many quality players available each year, and only so many teams that are willing to trade picks each year.

Sure, an oppo’s recruiting manager might be a bit prickly in the future, but if a player requests a trade here, or we have something to offer another club, they will make a deal with us.
 
Us delisting Rowe when we did is still kind of strange to me. We made a point of going after him in the draft, even apparently ensuring the Bulldogs used up their picks on JUH so they couldn't take him first, and then played him most weeks over the next two years. He performed adequately, averaging around 12-13 touches and close to a goal per game, which put him ahead of the likes of Murphy and McHenry. We played him from round 1 in his first season, all the way up until the last round of his second year, and then suddenly delisted him while leaving a whole bunch of deadwood on our list.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like he was a must-keep or anything, but I don't understand why we were so ruthless on him after only two seasons despite being seemingly happy to play him each week. And it's not like he was the finished article yet - he had just turned 22 when we delisted him.
 
cmndstab said:
Us delisting Rowe when we did is still kind of strange to me. We made a point of going after him in the draft, even apparently ensuring the Bulldogs used up their picks on JUH so they couldn't take him first, and then played him most weeks over the next two years. He performed adequately, averaging around 12-13 touches and close to a goal per game, which put him ahead of the likes of Murphy and McHenry.
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we should've kept him... but I think he just couldn't translate his performance to the AFL. And in a way, kicking goals should be one of the easiest things to keep doing in the much tougher comp vs. say, aerobic fitness at the level/body work/actual 1v1'ing like marking/contested footy.

I loved him, and I love a player who has deficiencies to overcome... but he just didn't take enough opportunities.
 
cmndstab said:
Us delisting Rowe when we did is still kind of strange to me. We made a point of going after him in the draft, even apparently ensuring the Bulldogs used up their picks on JUH so they couldn't take him first, and then played him most weeks over the next two years. He performed adequately, averaging around 12-13 touches and close to a goal per game, which put him ahead of the likes of Murphy and McHenry. We played him from round 1 in his first season, all the way up until the last round of his second year, and then suddenly delisted him while leaving a whole bunch of deadwood on our list.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like he was a must-keep or anything, but I don't understand why we were so ruthless on him after only two seasons despite being seemingly happy to play him each week. And it's not like he was the finished article yet - he had just turned 22 when we delisted him.
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We delisted him because we had Murphy and McHenry

When we drafted Rowe, McHenry had played just eight games. Murphy hadn't reached 50 games yet. So after drafting Rowe we had three small forwards all on less than 50 games

We then gave 41 games to McHenry, 32 games to Murphy and 36 games to Rowe over 2 years, trialling them all out. On top of that we just drafted Rachele with pick 6 (at the end of 2021) and were about to trade for Rankine (at the end of 2022)

There is no way the club thought we would be playing all of Rowe, McHenry, Murphy, Rachele and Rankine in the same team. At the end of 2022, McHenry was already signed to the end of 2024 and Murphy to the end of 2023 (both decisions made in 2021)

With all three being similar players, we clearly didn't think it made sense to keep them all and with Rowe being the out of contract player, he was delisted. Had McHenry and Murphy not been on the list and contracted he probably stays.

The mistake was giving games to Rowe in 2022 when list management would have known he was getting delisted.
 
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cmndstab said:
Us delisting Rowe when we did is still kind of strange to me. We made a point of going after him in the draft, even apparently ensuring the Bulldogs used up their picks on JUH so they couldn't take him first, and then played him most weeks over the next two years. He performed adequately, averaging around 12-13 touches and close to a goal per game, which put him ahead of the likes of Murphy and McHenry. We played him from round 1 in his first season, all the way up until the last round of his second year, and then suddenly delisted him while leaving a whole bunch of deadwood on our list.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like he was a must-keep or anything, but I don't understand why we were so ruthless on him after only two seasons despite being seemingly happy to play him each week. And it's not like he was the finished article yet - he had just turned 22 when we delisted him.
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The posters above have some relevant points, but it's clear to me why we got rid of him: he couldn't defend. This was abundantly clear in his last few matches. In addition, his selling point about being a sharpshooter became overblown.
What has he done since? Is he still playing?
 

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BRL121 said:
The posters above have some relevant points, but it's clear to me why we got rid of him: he couldn't defend. This was abundantly clear in his last few matches. In addition, his selling point about being a sharpshooter became overblown.
What has he done since? Is he still playing?
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Played for WWT last year, made the State side.... so yes he's still playing
 
BRL121 said:
The posters above have some relevant points, but it's clear to me why we got rid of him: he couldn't defend. This was abundantly clear in his last few matches. In addition, his selling point about being a sharpshooter became overblown.
What has he done since? Is he still playing?
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Beat me to it, defensive pressure just wasn't at the level required for AFL level small forwards.
 
cmndstab said:
Us delisting Rowe when we did is still kind of strange to me. We made a point of going after him in the draft, even apparently ensuring the Bulldogs used up their picks on JUH so they couldn't take him first, and then played him most weeks over the next two years. He performed adequately, averaging around 12-13 touches and close to a goal per game, which put him ahead of the likes of Murphy and McHenry. We played him from round 1 in his first season, all the way up until the last round of his second year, and then suddenly delisted him while leaving a whole bunch of deadwood on our list.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like he was a must-keep or anything, but I don't understand why we were so ruthless on him after only two seasons despite being seemingly happy to play him each week. And it's not like he was the finished article yet - he had just turned 22 when we delisted him.
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Starts with Izak. Ends with Rankine.

Rowe just had the misfortune of being out of contract when we got him over the line. If it was Murphy or McHenry with Rowe contracted, they would have been delisted.
 

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Danger in Texas said:
From Gerard Healy on Sportsday

“He’s as skilled as any big bloke I’ve seen”

I mean, he’s not wrong. Dude’s a genuine unicorn
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Heard that too, good to see it acknowledged, not sure I’ve seen such a big bloke so deft by hand and foot. He has the possibility of being one of the best talls ever
 

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