Recent content by RobbieMuir

How about the AFL changing the points value for each pick? Currently several ‘junk’ picks in the 30s, 40s and 50s add up to a future champion. Perhaps they could make any pick over 40 worth zero points, any pick between 30 and 40 worth not much. That way the hoarding of junk picks becomes a...

If the grand final was played in a phone booth, Clark would win the Norm Smith medal!

This week is probably the only week in the past two years that we have sat below Hawthorn on the ladder. If we beat WCE on the weekend we will probably jump back above the Hawks again. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had been all set to select Hall in this draft, only for us to drop below them...

Wilson got the RS nom this week, reward for a consistent year so far!

Very interesting. We must have rated Garcia highly to have changed tactics at that late point. And having Schoenmaker fall into our lap like that made them again change tact. Our crew showed great flexibility, scrapping the decision to only take three picks, and it looks to have paid off big...

Going by Hastie’s interview, he kept slipping at take-off in his 20m sprint at the combine, causing him to be disqualified. Looking at his explosive highlights, he may well have recorded the fastest 20m time of the combine had he run a ‘legal’ 20m. If that had happened, he probably would have...

Billings’ last four seasons have been ruined by injury. The last time he was fully match-fit and injury-free was the early rounds of 2019. He then copped a foot injury in round six and limped through the rest of the year getting a jab in his foot before each game. (NB: He was leading the...

Interesting stat: Max King is ranked number one for goals per game with 3.7 - well ahead if the next best in Cameron and Walker on 3.2 per game. And Max has done well against Richmond in the past so he should keep the lead or even extend it.

5. Sinclair 4. Crouch 3. NWM 1. Owens 1. Marshall 1. Wilkie

In round 12, 2021, we played Sydney at the SCG and lost by just 9 points. That was the game Higgins kicked 1.6 and one out on the full. (He had 23 disposals and 12 marks that day so he had no trouble finding the ball!) He seems to have re-captured that ball-winning ability this year, and only...

I met a “Dominant” Blues player from the 1970s and 1980s recently. He proudly said he played in Carlton’s last premiership side in 1987. He said he didn’t count the 1995 flag as it was won with the help of paper bags full of cash to their star players. (He also said he came runner-up in the...

I thought Sharman’s game today was impressive, and significantly better than any of Cordy’s 7 games, Caminiti’s 5 games or Membrey’s 3 games this year. I really hope he holds his spot.

Don’t forget Cordy went “all the way” with the Dogs, playing predominantly as a negating key defender. That is why we recruited him: to be our next-in-line back-up tall defender. Due to injuries to all three of our tall forwards, Lyon has fashioned him into a short-term (team oriented) decoy...

If my mathematics is correct, Walsh averaged 6 metres and 55cm per disposal. He was great at getting his hands on the ball but he really had very little influence on the game.

My Aunty saw the incident. She said Greening kept grabbing O’Dea’s jumper so O’Dea swung his elbow around at Greening and unfortunately hit Greening in the temple region and knocked him out cold. I watched heaps of games with O’Dea playing and he was never a dirty player - tough but fair. My...