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How about a change for Brisbane game this week? In comes McVeigh and delisted or retired is Kurt Tippett? I have a feeling it would improve our performances for the rest of the year.
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I seriously want us to try and get that useless lump off our playing list at the end of the year. I don't expect to get any draft picks but if we are in rebuild phase for next year, which we will be, there is absolutely nothing to be gained by having him on the list. Pay $300,00 of his $900,000 deal next year and ship him off to the Gold Coast who I think would take him for two years at $400,000 a season. We get $600,000 in salary cap, Tippett gets a final chance and the Suns get some experience. It's win - win and I am sure delusional by me.
I like Aliir but I just think he is too loose for a KPD. I would love to see him playing wing, HFF and pinch hitting in the ruck in the forward line. We could then just have our ruckman playing the back half and a kick behind the play. If we ant this to happen then Maubain has to play this week and I hear he went well last week against the NEAFL's best Full Forward.Comment
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For me personally he is an exciting player who I'm sure you'll agree took us all by surprise last year to have a real impact on the team, even made the AFL "team of the week" a couple of times if I recall. My hope is he'll get back to his best soon. He is coming off a limited pre season so as expected he's had a few sub par games to start.
Although not playing his best at the moment, I think we need him in our side to run the ball out of defence (particularly when missing Rampe as well). More often than not he'll find a target rather than blazing away.
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Horse says no Tippett or Rohan this week.Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.Comment
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Thats exactly what I am saying and people will now do cart wheels trying to say otherwise.
AFL fans go all gushy when an exotic player comes in to the AFL, now we have our own, we have to treat him special.
Those dashing runs come at a cost, goals. Longmuire and the coaching staff saw this and made him go back to fix that. But noooooo the fans know a lot more than the coaching staff and demand AA back, he is the guy to turn our season around.
The player we miss the most in our back 6 is Rampe.
Yeah AA is exciting when he does those runs complete with marsh mellow passes, but thats all he can do. Cant spoilt, @@@@ on 1 on 1 and well thats about it.Comment
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Well why didn't you just say it. Yes I agree a few sjw who would be the minority would think that but the majority on here in my opinion wouldn't.
Massively miss Rampe, I fully agree. ATM Aliir is your poor mans Gibson when he was in his prime but even Gibbo in his prime was never great 1:1. You bring Aliir in as a 3rd man up n it does what I posted. The biggest plus is the release of Mills or Jones. Our midfield desperately needs help. No defensive pressure which in turn destroys our back half. But like I said Aliir on his own is not the answer it's a combination of things. Virtually no ruckman which then robes us of Reid in the forward half. Need an extra midfielder to help out Kennedy. The Back half is a shadow of what it was. The biggest issue for me though is the midfield. No defensive pressure n looks devoid of confidence.Comment
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I was very critical of our drafting of Aliir at pick 44 in 2013. That year AFLtv, which I subscribe to, broadcast all the under 18 championship games and Aliir was constantly beaten one on one, and he was very frustrated by it too. If we wanted him, I thought we could have easily taken him as a rookie. In his 1st year in the NEAFL he didn't impress as a defender and was a poor judge of the flight of the ball. It was looking like a real dumb move drafting him ahead of Ben Brown.
So much credit must be given to our recruiters and development team for having the vision to see his potential and also having the ability to develop his talent.
Aliir is 22 and has played 16 AFL games. So we need to put this into perspective when comparing him to established star players. There will always be parts of his game that can improve. He's and instinctive player who needs to find the right balance of with the requirements of team structure. I will side with the coaches if they think it's better for him to spend time in the NEAFL to work on certain aspects of his game. But that doesn't change my opinion that despite my skepticism at first, he seems an enormous talent and destined to be one of the most exciting players in the AFL. I love watching him play.Comment
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If we missed a chance to draft Ben Brown , that's a clanger .
I love watching him play .Comment
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At the time I wanted us to take Blake Acres with our first pick in the 2013 draft, but am very pleased that we took Zak Jones instead. Acres went at pick 19 and seems to be doing okay now at the Saints.
I was thrilled that we got Hewett at pick 32, but was not happy with our next 2 picks with Nankervis at 35 and Aliir at 44. But it's turned out to be okay, or even better than okay. I didn't think a ruckman was priority (which is par for the course for me) and we really needed a KPD. So I was keen on taking either Cameron Giles or Jake Kalodjashnij. Giles has since retired without playing a game due to serious injuries and JK looks to be a part of the Geelong backline once their old defenders retire. Ben Brown went at pick 47 and would have been the better choice for a ruck-forward than Nanka IMO, although Nanka is doing well enough at Richmond.
In the end, it was a great draft for us. Aliir will be a star and we traded Nankervis and got Cameron, which is fine with me. Hitting 4 out of 4 in the ND is a fantastic performance by our recruiters, especially when our 1st pick was #16.Comment
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One bit of good news for the Swans: Dayne Beams won't be playing!Comment
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