Steve Silvagni played school footy in the ruck...

Why, oh why didn't we sack Justin Madden??

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"...that's the thing about opinion - you don't have to know anything to have one..." Andre Agassi commenting on Pat Cash 2004
"...the less you know - the more you believe..." - Bono 2006

my answer would be no - they should be drafted as 21 year olds - unfortunately that's not the system.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

I agree the current drafting age is too low. Too much pressure for immature minds and bodies.

Who would have thought that the Baby Boomers would become a bunch of bitter old sooks?

I thought negative gearing was a good thing.

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STURDYISM!!

Few more corrections: Walker was a HBF who pushed up, and Tiller was a utility, playing HBF, wing as well as up forward. Looked at his best setting up the play.

I'm not following some of the players you've named: are you arguing that we've ruined O'Keffe's development, for example?

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

This thread is top shelf comedy.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Yes, an obvious mistake, and i apologise, made by trying to give as much info as possible to a topic.
After twenty years of this dates and names have a tendency to blur at times!

Still doesn't change the basis of my discussion.
Mind you what's not surprising is the same people that purely focus on the negative and run with it!

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

Do we give our palyers a fair chance? On TC? ah no, not a hope in hell.

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" -Winston Churchill

L.M 35-06

Some people don't, some do. Part of the point of this was try to understand what they all go through.

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

What the majority go through is expectations placed on them by supporters, far above what they are capable of producing as 18-22yr olds in the physically and mentally demanding game that is AFL.

Regards Cazzesman

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Ricky Gervais - “Everyone has the right to hold whatever beliefs they want. And everyone else has the right to find those beliefs f***ing ridiculous.”

You were fabricating a situation to push an agenda. (and not for the first time)



If you want to have a go at the MC, go for your life but lets use a few facts and realities to do so. Just making stuff up to have a potshot doesn't serve any purpose.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

There is evidence that Men are genetically predisposed to be worse at multitasking that women.

So a complex work environment might not necessarily bring the best out of young players.

Some young players may do better by at least starting off with more straightforward and simpler structures to their working environment.

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My Blue Heaven

Like the red thing is the footy, if you get it kick it as far as you can.
If you can mange those two things in your first year we will give $70-$100k.
In your second year we will try and get your head around handballing and we might try a a spot of cooking.

If they're not AFL standard from a young age - technique, positioning, communication, teamwork, anticipation, decisions, bravery, concentration, agility, decisions & aggression is wht I look at aplyer when I am watching footy he shouldnt be recruited. How many players fulfill the above categries? probably not many and there are other attributes I'd like to include composure, kicking, first time pick up, staying on feet and much more.

On a scale of 20 if the don'y reach if they dont reach 10/20 at least 50% of attributes dont recruit them.

Players like Jamo, Betts, Joseph has most boxes ticked.

Brock Mclean - 1/2 a practice match and he is the worst player ever to don the navy blue.

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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject - Winston Churchill

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You may have to fight the AFL over the mandatory 3 in some draft pools

What evidence????

Technically speaking there is no such thing as multi-tasking, it is merely re-directing attention

You're taking the game engine of Football Manager and using it as your basis for player acquisition and development???

By all means take something from that game as part of your philosophy on sport (because it is THE best sports management game on the planet), but don't just come on here, spout off about what you know or think should be done when all you're doing is lifting the intellectual property of a computer game company.

And do not even begin to try and tell me you aren't; that is almost to the letter.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

OK - women are better at redirecting attention than men.

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My Blue Heaven

touche'