said he has been studying the game on youtube.

hmm.. hope the first thing we do is buy him a fox footy subscription and make him watch the replays of every game this season over the summer.

time to fast-track mate.

Great work by the swans. Take my hat of to them. Great for the game up here in sydney as well.

Hawthorn fans should think twice before they have a crack. Few blokes on their list they poached from other clubs.

Cramped up in third quarter apparently.

I'm surprised people don't really rate Hayes' game. I thought he was best afield for us. Again. Gotta say I'm bordering on disgusted at Dal Santo's effort though. He should be by far and away our best mid, and a genuine matchwinner, but at no stage in the precedings tonight did he even slightly imp...

We knew what was coming but couldn't do anything to stop it. All off-season we heard from the coach and players: "our focus is round one", "Don't want a repeat of last year", "They will come out confident", "we are not taking them lightly". Despite all of the ...

gwilts run down the boundry line having a few bounces and then fumbles the last one under no pressure pretty much summed it up. Don't think it was gwilt, but i remember the play. Milne needed to either lead to space away from the man or lay a block. Did neither and then the mistake happened. Perfec...

Went to the game today. Was pretty hot out there. Key thing for me was that GWS were going hard in the last quarter. Due to the heat, the Giants had their huddle in the shade right in front of us and Sheedy was challenging them pretty hard - got the impression that the win was imortant for them toda...

Pretty sure that they were going to delist him anyway. We wanted the spot so we could pick up a rookie or mature-ager.

Seems a bit silly that he would turn up unfit after a few disappointing seasons though. Doesn't exactly scream "you should keep taking a chance on me"...

I'll be booing for sure. I'm a bit of an NBA fan in the summer and was listening to a podcast where they talked about a similar situation with Ray Allen going to Miami Heat. The ex-player on the podcast said words to the effect of "I hope they boo him, and I hope there is animosity, they can fo...

This is the key problem with free agency as it is currently constructed. We have bad to sit on our hands because we lost a big fish early on.

This trade period has been a disaster. When players pick the dogs over us there are serious issues.

IF it is true that we don't get another pick if Clarke moves the club then has flexibility of picking up another free agent though right? Any one left worth going after?

If Raph goes to GWS as an uncontracted Free Agent do we then get a pick under the expansion team scheme? Im pretty sure that is still relevant this year right?

It should be early in the year... AFL wouldn't want to risk Goddard missing the game due to an essendon soft tissue injury (or suspension)...

Trade week doesn't start til next week. Won't see any trades get 'done' until monday at earliest.

Do hope we end up with him though!

Honestly I think it came down to a combination of money + our ability to get compensation. We have been middle of the road with BJ for last 2 years. If he plays out career with saints and then retires we get nothing for him. We let him go now and we get a pick for him. As a medium size team in the f...

McEvoy's greatest value for us this year was his ability to drop back and take marks in the backline. Getting him some help in the ruck makes sense. If it is someone that can drift forward and put pressure on Kosi for a place on the side we will be a better team.

could be wrong on this one, but 'our turn' on the mature age recruits has happened a few times right? CJ was a WA mature ager and although some people don't rate his skills, his shut-down abilities almost won us a couple of flags.... Also saad and milera count as well. Lets see how they turn out bef...

Well done to him on a great career. Regardless of what people on this forum say about him, I feel he was one of the journalists that were good at doing what they were supposed to do - getting to the bottom of stories and cutting through spin. He wasn't right all the time, but I feel he was on the mo...

we have an obvious need for kpp's of the future. we all know it, our list management would also know it. however, they obviously looked our needs and looked at what was available and made the call that the investment in mids this year outweighed the investment in kpp's. even if we win the flag in 20...

I remember a semi final against Sydney a few years back where he shut down goodes. Was crucial to us winning that night. Valuable role player. Hope he gets to 200.

i don't know whether we want anything to do with sydney rejects...they seem to have a pretty good eye for talent up here.

All signs are pointing to us getting absolutely gutted when free agency rolls around.... Hope I am wrong, but seems like guys are happy to walk these days...

Why did he come back to the club in the first place if he is going to leave after one year?

Strange decision.

why don't you just lock in our number 25 selection?