Soldo's a better option than Campbell, isn't he? So that's a list improvement.

So you don't want Macrae who you believe is too old and has dropped off the pace, yet your plan is to aim to contend in 3-4 years, when our current best players - Sinclair, Marshall, Steele, Wilkie will be older than Macrae is now, and more likely than not past their best? Doesn't make sense. Or ar...

Losing like North and WC and Rich this season Is how you become irrelevant Winning 11 games is nor irrelevant Can’t just play kids, they get flogged when that happens Do you think 31yo Brad Hill should’ve got a 3 year deal? - he was underwhelming this season re Hill. No! 3 years is not prudent imo....

Statistics can be used to make any point you want them to. If you take out the 4 games he was the sub, then his total disposals become 316 in 15 games which is an average of 21per game. If you do a similar thing for Brad Hill and Hunter Clark they end up with averages of 19.9 and 19.5 respectively....

Good stuff Ken. Good to see a bit of human emotion boil over in an over-regulated, increasingly robotic game. He certainly got the players to play for him. "Unprofessional", yes, but I love it. In a way, aspects of Mitchell's press conference were "unprofessional" - they lost, tr...

What's Choco doing now? Must be about the worst asst coach in the AFL. I think you’re ignoring the history prior to Choco arriving. They were underperforming. Choco gave them the spark in 2021 and he was also more influential than he is now. You don’t see him as animated these days. That’s what hap...

Melbourne... with their star studded midfield and their All Australian key position backs have failed yet again under Goodwin Yes...I know they've been missing for large parts of the year, but other squads have had the same problems. If we beat Carlton we'll be above them on the ladder As you said ...

Who would you take out of these 2 players? They've both been tried in other positions, but they are both essentially KP forwards Career games player A: 48 Career games player B: 115 Career averages. A....................B. 6.1 Kicks 12.0 3.0 Handballs 2.7 9.1 Disposals 14.7 3.6 Marks 5.5 1.0 Goals ...

I’m sure Goodwin wants his best players like Billings to be in tip top form in the run up to September. I’m sure Billings will get good numbers at Casey. Looking forward to the VFL this week and I’ll be a keen watcher …NOT NOT watching? Pity. As the forum numbers man, I was hoping you'd post a bit ...

How do you judge a coach?! Win/loss? Style of play? Inconsistent performances? Premiership success?? Interested to know?! And how would we actually know?! We wouldn't know. Pointless thread. Pointless post from you. Why do you bother joining in on discussions if you can't come up with an original i...

B.M wrote: ↑Sun 04 Aug 2024 4:01pm How do you judge a coach?!

Win/loss?

Style of play?

Inconsistent performances?

Premiership success??

Interested to know?!

And how would we actually know?!

We wouldn't know. Pointless thread.

I’m sure Goodwin wants his best players like Billings to be in tip top form in the run up to September. I’m sure Billings will get good numbers at Casey. Looking forward to the VFL this week and I’ll be a keen watcher …NOT NOT watching? Pity. As the forum numbers man, I was hoping you'd post a bit ...

Could somebody please do one of those statistical analyses of our performances over the last month that show how well we've been doing. I've seen it said that we were the the leading contested possession winners over the last 4 games, and various other impressive ratings. I'd like to be able to bas...

I’m sure Goodwin wants his best players like Billings to be in tip top form in the run up to September. I’m sure Billings will get good numbers at Casey. Looking forward to the VFL this week and I’ll be a keen watcher …NOT NOT watching? Pity. As the forum numbers man, I was hoping you'd post a bit ...

I’m sure Goodwin wants his best players like Billings to be in tip top form in the run up to September. I’m sure Billings will get good numbers at Casey. Looking forward to the VFL this week and I’ll be a keen watcher …NOT NOT watching? Pity. As the forum numbers man, I was hoping you'd post a bit ...

Then you get forwards who can mark and kick straight on the day that matters. Then you need to get a lot of luck - like scoring goals when the ball hits the post. But we always had those mobile marking forwards and mutiple targets in Membrey, Owens, Sharman and Caminiti. RTB preferred that we focus...

I can understand what Curly is getting at.
Stats are over rated, overdone and unclear, and often give a false impression.
I reckon there would be many occasions where you could pick certain stats to make a point and then cherry pick others to reverse the argument.

"...and we couldn't do a deal because we'd already committed to Brad Crouch" Rubbish. Crouch didn't cost any draft picks, and came at a discount because of his issues in Adelaide. Good list management. Nothing to do with preventing any Treloar trade. Treloar has had a good year, as Crouch...

So now the knock on Crouch Who on the St Kilda List is not knocked on this site Simply, you must have watched different games of football than me Crouch was among our most valuable and we trust he returns to that status in the interests of St Kilda improving Also supporting the younger brigade Don'...

I’d say Billings has had a much better career and is a better player - his body is cooked, once your back goes - you never really get back to your best. Very generalised statement. Sam Walsh for instance seems to have come back okay this year. BM, you have been defending Billings now for three or f...

We’re talking about what they provide right now to their teams. Not what happened 5 years ago Ben Long vs Jack Billings for current season. Billings gets more touches but Ben’s goals and goal assists are elite. https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?playerStatus1=A&tid1=12&pl...

skeptic wrote: ↑Mon 15 Jul 2024 9:07pmAll of them

All of what?
I know Long has smoked quite a few players with impact in his time, and consequently served suspensions, but what's that got to do with JB?

skeptic wrote: ↑Mon 15 Jul 2024 8:38pm Long has smoked him with impact

Which game?

If you're playing at this level you are expected to cop bruises and hits and hold the footy or try and break tackles instead of releasing the footy to green grass whenever there's heat. He was allowed to get away with it for too long from his biggest backer in Alan Richardson. Who knows...if Cho wa...

On the topic of courage… Someone posted a story of here of a play where they alleged that in a big moment of a big game: Billings was leading a team mate + opponent to the loose ball and slowed down to let them both over take him so that he could get an easy handball from his team mate who would ha...