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Because it doesn't matter if we play our experienced guys or our kids. Our midfield is putrid and our skills are below average even IF we play our most experienced players. Playing the likes of butler instead of collard and membrey ahead of hammer isn't shifting the dial anywhere away from...

I reckon we learned our lesson with letting goddard go- we'll pony up market value for battle- whether he wants it from us is another story. You mean by playing our current kids ahead of older guys for instance? Prioritising the development of what you already have and 'finishing as low as...

Yeah we can't do much about that. But I trust the club far more than any random 'itk' internet types. We wouldn't lose him because of a decision by us to drive a hard bargain and not offer him at least 800k+ longterm. It's a totally different situation to where we were with gresh- we did the...

He's not just a third tall- he's wilkies replacement in a few years time. Plus 1mill is the equivalent of 800k with the cap increase. Id pay battle 800k a year to keep him if the cap wasn't going up. Therefore- id pay him a mill a year under the new inflated cap- because it's basically the...

Yep. All it takes is one weak link in an attacking chain of disposals- and it all unravels. It is incredibly rare for us to NOT need to use at least one weak link (ie somebody likely to really scrub a kick or handball- even if they are not under pressure) every time we try and attack. These...

The AFL have this week in the middle of the season announced a direction to the umpires to drastically change their subjective interpretation of what is/isn't holding the ball. Gee I'd hate to be playing in front of a crowd that can sway umpir......

I count 4: 1 v dogs 1 v giants 2 v tigers Which one do you say I'm missing? This is complete nonsense to suggest his 12/13 centre square clearances were ineffective bar one. Yes there are a few toepokes and whacks forward in there- like all centre square mids like cripps rowell etc would...

Because halfbacks dont win you games- midfielders do. And sincs is the only bloke in our entire team that can regularly win a centre clearance. Steele has attended literally triple the amount of centre bounces as sincs has this year- and has 5 more centre clearances to show for it (22 vs 17)...

How good would steele look in a better team? He started this year looking fit and was playing exceptionally (looking like his former top 5 brownlow best). Looks annoyed and potentially hobbled by injury again though. I reckon he'd be up for a move (if we really are doing another rebuild...

I stand corrected- he's obviously not currently in the top 25% of our players in terms of current wage- so he's a UFA.

WIth the salary cap going up ~25% it's not as crazy money as it sounds

It's irrelevant if ~pick 19 becomes pick 28 due to f/s and academy picks sliding picks back. It's still effectively pick ~19. We still had the same players available to us to pick from at 28.

He's a restricted free agent. We can match and keep him if we want. https://www.afl.com.au/news/1094814/afl-releases-full-list-of-restricted-and-unrestricted-free-agents-for-the-2024-season

I wasn't suggesting seb would or should be in the centre square. I just raised that in response to littlecreatures who compared sebs centre clearances to steeles.

Pretty hard for seb to get a centre clearance when he wasn't in there even once. Meanwhile steeles 23 centre bounce attendences for 2 clearances is gross. As was marshalls 23 for 0; and Dow 17 cbas for 1 clearance. Yet again, jack sinclair showed he's basically the only bloke on our entire...

I don't think anyone currently at the club is considering doing what you are proposing and going scorched earth- ditching the likes of marshall and battle for whatever we can get for them in a firesale for anyone/everyone over 26. But if our best shot at a flag is not until the likes of owens...

All you need to do is change how you see it. Father/sons, academy players etc aren't in reality in the draft. They just get to the club they were always going to be funnelled to by having their name read out on draft night. That's the reality. You can't bemoan missing out on something you...

I hear what you're saying- but you are oversimplifying I believe by saying us looking for new major additions to the current list (via top draft picks) is tantamount to us outsourcing responsibility for our destiny. We can (like many flag winning teams have done) do both- take responsibility...

Yeah I'm no massive rtb fan. But blind freddy can see that he's setting them up to play a style that requires at bare minimum, league-average skills by hand and foot. Our best 22 are WAY below league average when in poor form and low confidence (like now)... Even in good form and high...

What does 'succeed' look like with our current list (Ie present stkilda)? I'd argue our current list succeeded to their maximum ability last year- scraping into the 8 and losing a first final. You call that success? I want to set the bar for what constitutes 'success' far higher than scraping...

Battle is much younger than all of sincs, wilkie, marshall, steele. Battle will be the new wilkie (still in his prime) in 3-4 years when wilkie is probably close to retirement. We need to keep battle unless we get an amazing return for him like in a deal for brayshaw or something

Last night was the first time in a while I've seen a bit of the bombers. Was that a typical 2024 game from gresh? If so- we made out like bandits getting a first rounder for him. He looked utterly cooked- no zip, power or agility like he used to have. It's a shame for him personally if his...

How many dominant/flag contending clubs have heaps of spare cap space? None. It wasn't spare cap space that allows the likes of the tigers, cats to sign tom lynch, jeremy cameron etc while they were up contending for a flag. Their caps were maxed out. They were able to do it by offering very...

Yes it's brand new- like yesterday new. In fact it's so new- it doesn't even exist (yet). The AFL have (yesterday) strongly flagged they want to bring it in after this season. https://www.afl.com.au/news/1135576

Dear Ross, Play him there. Leave him there all day. for at least a handful of games... in a row Hell- even go crazy and tell him to train as a full time midfielder for ~6 weeks. What's the worst that could happen? The best part of hitting rock bottom is that there is nowhere left to fall...

It's not about gaining the right to do pick swaps with other clubs for handing over unused salary cap. Im pretty sure it would be as simple as- if a team wanted to forfeit $x of their salary cap, then the AFL would in return give them "x" draft pick. "the League is open to introducing pick...