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Rowdy
Rowdy
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July 21st 2022 @ 9:53pm
I love Lucy Zelic. I don’t care for what she said but l love the way she says it.

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Bangkokpussy
Bangkokpussy
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:21pm
Clarko would be better with a club thats almost there rather than North. Otherwise he may as well wait for tassie or a more successful club whose coach retires.

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NickoM
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:59pm
Maybe he’s just in it for the money

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:06pm
Pete your club rejected Clarko or did he reject Blues 😛

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PeteB
Kemp
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:09pm
He cost too much even for the Blues ! Vossy is hungrier for success and is now a better coach than Clarko would be.

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Kemp
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:15pm
Based on what ?

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Birdman
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Simoc
Simoc
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:27pm
Wishful thinking! Voss has finally arrived at the starting gate.

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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:32pm
Dogs should go after Clarko!

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Chanon
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:01pm
He’s last few years were pretty ordinary. Totally misjudged where the Hawks list was at.

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:09pm
Coached pretty well last 12 odd games before exit but my memory is cr.p could be wrong.
Either way with a fresh start & no politics (Kennett’s Ladder) he would coach with a certain freedom. I’m backing Nth with Clarko will reach finals year after next & will be successful like Nth Pagan 90’s era

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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:11pm
Pagans paddock ? Who’s their Wayne Carey ?
Edited after posting

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Chanon
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:17pm
Maybe they haven’t unearthed them yet like monkey magic born from a egg on a mountain top 😁

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Kemp
PeteB
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Kemp
Kemp
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:23pm
No wiser words have ever been spoken 👍 if only piggsy and sandy were assistant coaches…

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Kemp
Kemp
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:25pm
Why can’t I Like this Monkey Magic comment twice? Or more 😢

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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:12pm
Players were excited that he was leaving 😛

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Alchemist
Alchemist
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July 21st 2022 @ 11:40pm
I think Hodgy’s take on it was pretty good. He basically said that yes he was a brilliant coach but he was surrounded by strong personalities who weren’t yes men.

If he’s surrounded by yes men then Hodgy said it wouldn’t work at all.

May be where it all went south for hawthorn post 2016 too when the likes of Ratten, Fagan and Co started leaving giving Clarko full reign.

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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:04pm
Already seven years since last premiership and the Hawks are only just bottoming out

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:11pm
Can’t be up forever & he won 4 cups. Pete l think your being over critical just a tad.

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Mr Right
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:13pm
Don’t get me wrong he is the coach of the century but they all lose their magic eventually

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Kemp
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:19pm
Pete we will see what happens touch wood Voss the Boss can continue the hype 👍

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Kemp
PeteB
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:31pm
Well if North doesn’t work out for Clarko at least he will have his millions to console himself with 😁

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Chanon
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:40pm
Deep down Pete all l really care about is the crappy dogs but just sometimes l have sympathy for my neighbours 😁

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Kemp
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Kemp
Kemp
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:58pm
Everybody needs good Neighbour’s.

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PeteB
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 11:15pm
That’s why we have fences so they don’t pi.S on our lawn 😁

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Kemp
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:47pm
Pete, Star Lord Lobb the bleached lighthouse coming to the dogs 👍

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Mr Right
Mr Right
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:42pm
Like Chris Scott?

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Gyfox
Gyfox
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:26pm
Soccer’s anti-AFL tantrum came out the same day that AFL club memberships have passed 1 million again. Soccer’s latest tantrum comes from jealousy or insecurity. It will always be #4 in the football codes. Yet they are still claiming to be the only
code that is called football. The only real Australian football is called AFL at the top professional level.

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Angela
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Nick
Nick
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:26pm
I think as equally as people tend to ignore soccer insecurity, they will also ignore your beacon like insecurities too.

Hypocrisy, thy name is gyfox.

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Gyfox
Gyfox
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July 21st 2022 @ 8:18pm
Love your sense of humour, Nick

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MG
MG
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:34pm
I just did some googling that suggests Paul Roos was paid $1.5m to coach Melbourne 2014 to 2016. That conflicts with my memory of it being $1m? $1.6m for Clarkson in 2023 is not that ridiculous if the $1.5m for Roos is true. If I was Clarkson, I’d be
asking for a five year contract.

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Mr Right
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:57pm
Not sure Clarko has the best interests of the Roos in mind there. That salary will require cuts to other areas at the club. Should be a big “NO “ from the Kangas.

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dargerovitch
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:26pm
Underlings will work for free to work under Clarko no different to working under a celebrity Chef 😛

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PeteB
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Don Freo
Don Freo
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:44pm
Brendon the 1st?

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Chanon
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Brendon the 1st
Brendon the 1st
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July 21st 2022 @ 6:00pm
Not sure I could work under Clarko 😂

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PeteB
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 6:45pm
Your the celebrity chef, silly!

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PeteB
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Willie
Willie
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July 21st 2022 @ 4:04pm
OK, I’ll bite. How can a long time cellar dwelling club with a small supporter base, drawing small crowds, and having only modest sponsorship, afford a guy like Clarko? As good as Clarkson is, every coach needs at least a good sprinkling of talent to
succeed in this competition. How many years do they think this project would take? Because the costs multiply each year. At some point, unless Clarkson performs a miracle, they will be so deep in debt that the AFL will have to bail them out (at the
expense of the other clubs), or merge them (which they could do now), or delist them. I guess fairy tales do come true in professional sport (think Leicester City, but they at least they had a billionaire sponsor). What am I missing?

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Pope Paul VII
Pope Paul VII
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:36pm
North are only a short time cellar dweller in the last 50 yrs. The membership is 48,000. Small crowds often take two tangoists. With 2 AFL premierships to go with 2 VFL premierships they are not too shabby.

North are not in debt.

Years it takes to premiership it

SM/SYD 72
St K 69 & 56+
Footers/WB 62
Melb 57
NM 50 (1925 – 1975)
Geel 44
Rich 37
Coll 32
Freo 28 to date

A host of clubs are around or past the 20 years mark since the last.

It could take a long time, it could take 5 yrs.

What it definitely takes is some time.

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Chanon
Micko
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Micko
Micko
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July 21st 2022 @ 6:54pm
You forgot Carlton. 😁

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Pope Paul VII
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Pope Paul VII
Pope Paul VII
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July 21st 2022 @ 9:25pm
I cannot spake their name (just kidding Macca);

Carl 27 years

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Micko
Alchemist
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Mr Right
Mr Right
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:52pm
Roos turned the Demons around. A good experienced coach can have a good affect on a club without winning a premiership. E.g. working with the recruitment team, liaising with talented players that just need that little bit a extra guidance. If a young
player gets berated by Clarkson, he is more likely to listen & take it onboard than a young first year coach.

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Naughty's Headband
Naughty's Headband
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July 21st 2022 @ 4:13pm
Les Murray = iconic football presenter. Lucy Zelic = not iconic football presenter.

Bring back the headcount and resetting the score to zero for having 19 men on ground I say.


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The controversial photo with Manchester United star Marcus Rashford holding a Sherrin that sparked a social media uproar last week has prompted a severe response by Football Australia.

According to a report by the Sydney Morning Herald, FA plans to ban touring football clubs from doing anything to promote rival codes, meaning the days of international sports stars continuing the tradition of being photographed with the Aussie Rules
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While FA is not involved in staging ‘friendlies’ such as the matches currently being played between overseas clubs such as Manchester United, Aston Villa and Leeds United currently being undertaken across Australia, it does have to officially give
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According to the report, FA will not approve games unless foreign clubs and local promoters agree to not use their status to give publicity to rival codes such as the AFL, instead pushing them to use their promotional power to amplify grassroots football
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In addition to the Rashford Sherrin photo, a promotional opportunity at AAMI Park last week featuring the 24-year old with players from other sports – including the two Melbourne-based BBL clubs and the Melbourne Storm – was slammed for not featuring
any of the three Victorian A-League teams.

While Melbourne Victory captain Josh Brillante was present, he was not included in the most widely publicised photo of the event.

Iconic SBS football presenter Lucy Zelic was one of many to blast the AFL’s use of Rashford, describing the promotion as ‘f—ing embarrassing’ on Twitter.

“As a code, the AFL and its representatives have done nothing but s–t on football time and time again,” Zelic wrote.

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According to the SMH, Rashford was set upon by two AFL representatives after the event had concluded, with the photo of him and the Sherrin snapped quickly in the tunnels underneath AAMI Park.

The AFL has regularly used international sports stars to promote itself, with Indian cricket icon Virat Kohli and Aussie turned NBA gun Ben Simmons among those to feature in recent years.

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VFL side docked points – but not the win – after extra man fiasco Brisbane’s VFL side have avoided being stripped of their win against GWS on the weekend, despite being found to have had 19 players on the field for more than four minutes during the last quarter.

After an interchange error, the Lions were found by an AFL investigation to have had an extra player on the field between the 5:54 and 10:13 minute marks of the final term – a period of 4 minutes and 19 seconds.

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behinds.

However, had the umpires or opposition noticed during the match, the Lions would have been hit with an additional 50m penalty for the breach.

The loss of points wasn’t enough to cost the Lions victory, having originally won by 18 points; however, the final score has been amended to read:

Brisbane Lions 9.13 (67)

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The goalscorer and three points-scorers from the period annulled by the AFL’s decision will have their records amended in official VFL statistics.

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North Melbourne are the new favourites to secure Alastair Clarkson as coach for the 2023 season – but reports suggest it could come at a heavy cost.

According to Seven News, Clarkson’s asking price will be $1.6 million per year, which would blow a major hole in the Roos’ soft cap and make him comfortably the AFL’s highest-earning coach.

While the cap is set to be increased to $6.95 million for next season, nearly a quarter of that would be devoted to the four-time Hawthorn premiership coach.

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However, the Roos seem prepared to do whatever it takes to lure Clarkson, who played 93 games for the club between 1987 and 1995, with Seven’s Tom Browne suggesting the club is in the ‘box seat’ to have him replaced the recently resigned David
Noble at the helm.

The Roos and GWS remain the only clubs on the hunt for a new coach, with the Giants having parted ways with Leon Cameron earlier in the season while.

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Col from Brissie
Col from Brissie
Roar Guru
July 21st 2022 @ 2:28pm
Strange that in the VFL match between Brisbane & GWS, Brisbane only lost the 1 goal 3 behinds they scored whilst having 19 players on the ground. Having an extra player could have prevented GWS scoring. Perhaps they should add what Brisbane scored during
that period to GWS as well deducting it from Brisbane.

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RichieTiger
Bangkokpussy
Nick
Brendon the 1st
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Brian
Brian
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July 21st 2022 @ 4:33pm
Is very light touch. If your up by 10+ goals at 3QT you can just play 19 players for the last quarter

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Pope Paul VII
Micko
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Doctor Rotcod
Doctor Rotcod
Roar Rookie
July 21st 2022 @ 6:20pm
There was an Eagles game earlier this season where they briefly,<2 minutes, had 17 players on the field. Does nobody care?

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Brendon the 1st
Brendon the 1st
Roar Rookie
July 21st 2022 @ 2:37pm
1.6m

No thanks, the Roos would be better off with someone like Pike for that sort of money.

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PeteB
Peter the Scribe
dargerovitch
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Nick
Nick
Roar Guru
July 21st 2022 @ 3:39pm
$1.6 is the opening bid.

It would come down to $1.1m.

Pitch for the moon, the worst they will say is no.

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NickoM
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Brendon the 1st
Brendon the 1st
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July 21st 2022 @ 4:04pm
Was thinking that after I posted, reckon 1.2m will be the number

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NickoM
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dargerovitch
dargerovitch
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:54pm
Can’t help wondering how much Clarkson (and Buddy for that matter) actually need.
Surely they are both already totally loaded after all their respective well-paid years in football. Meanwhile frontline workers like nurses and ambos get $100K a year or less. I love football and as an elderly Hawk fan been alive for all their Flag wins
starting in 1961 and appreciate Clarko’s four and Buddy’s two for Hawthorn , but as they are both already very financially comfortable they could drop their pay to the Australian average of $88K without feeling any pain at all.

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Brendon the 1st
Brendon the 1st
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:58pm
Money has to go somewhere I suppose, this is why the soft cap is there

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Birdman
Birdman
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July 21st 2022 @ 7:30pm
Pike probably heading to the Giants if Clarko stands them up.

Essendon are mad if they don’t seriously think to change horses while the GOAT is available. Port just might trump them all.

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Brendon the 1st
Brendon the 1st
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July 21st 2022 @ 7:41pm
Maybe not at that price

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Birdman
Birdman
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July 21st 2022 @ 8:15pm
Haha. Tom Browne’s hardly the most trustworthy source for Clarko’s price tag.

It’s well known he has sacrificed salary in the past to get the resources he thinks he needs. I’m sure Clarko’s going to do everything possible to make his second senior stint a success.

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Kemp
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Rowdy
Rowdy
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July 21st 2022 @ 9:51pm
Not Pyke.

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Shinboner 1971
Shinboner 1971
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July 21st 2022 @ 2:42pm
Does anyone really believe the $1.6m price tag for Clarkson? It’s almost a quarter of the soft cap, and there is no way that Clarkson would take up that much of the soft cap if he believes North have a genuine chance of winning a Premiership, and he
wouldn’t come home if he didn’t. This is just a stupid made up figure, I assume, by one of the most unreliable and untrustworthy of AFL Reporters, Tom Browne. I have no doubt that if Clarkson signs up to coach his former club, he will be the highest
paid coach, but I would think $1.0-1.2m is closer to the mark.

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Alchemist
Football First
NickoM
AdamDilligafThompson
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13th Man
13th Man
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:16pm
Kind of embarrassing how FA and soccer fans are reacting to this. It happens all over the world every year.
Cross code opportunities are normal.
Photos between Michael Jordan and Shane Warne for example.
Absolute non issue. I love both sports but Zelic threw the toys out of the cot for absolutely no reason.

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PeteB
Daddy Disnick
Alchemist
dargerovitch
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Nick
Nick
Roar Guru
July 21st 2022 @ 3:42pm
I think it highlights the absurd insecurities some (but not all) have inside football circles.

They might also discover that promoters will find such games will be harder to attract in future.

These cross code photo ops generate money for the sponsors who want this, and thus pay for them. If they don’t get them, they won’t pay to bring the match over.

Zelic will throw more toys out of the cot when next year the best they can get is Brentford v Bournemouth as a result.

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Alchemist
dargerovitch
Gyfox
AJ73
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dargerovitch
dargerovitch
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July 21st 2022 @ 6:03pm
Insecurities is the right word. Are they worried all the kids now playing soccer are suddenly going to switch to Aussie Rules? Or Marcus Rashford going to quit Man. U. to play AFL?
The photos are about as threatening to soccer as the odd published pics. of AFL players at training fooling around with a soccer ball for a bit of variety. I find the derogatory term “snowflake ” often over-used and wrong but it applies here.

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Micko
Gyfox
AdamDilligafThompson
Blake Standfield
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Nick
Nick
Roar Guru
July 21st 2022 @ 9:40pm
It has long been the nightmare scenario of European football giant clubs that their players will walk away from contracts, hop on a plane and take a 97% pay cut to play AFL.

That’s why the clubs rarely come down under, best to prevent any temptations.

Same with virat Kohli. It’s often underreported just how close he was to throwing away $50m a year in endorsements and cricket contracts to pick up $450k a year as a pocket forward for the tigers

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Alchemist
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Daddy Disnick
Daddy Disnick
Roar Guru
July 21st 2022 @ 4:11pm
First I heard of this photo.

The irony is spectacular. It took the whining of the FA for me to read about it.

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Nick
NickoM
dargerovitch
AdamDilligafThompson
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AR
AR
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:04pm
It’s hilarious.

Can you imagine the MLS or the US soccer community hysterically demanding that visiting Man Utd players are ‘not allowed’ to get a photo with the LA Lakers, or NY Yankees, or Pittsburgh Pirates, or whatever the eff?

Amazing stuff.

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dargerovitch
Micko
Gyfox
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Rowdy
Rowdy
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July 21st 2022 @ 9:53pm
I love Lucy Zelic. I don’t care for what she said but l love the way she says it.

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Bangkokpussy
Bangkokpussy
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:21pm
Clarko would be better with a club thats almost there rather than North. Otherwise he may as well wait for tassie or a more successful club whose coach retires.

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NickoM
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:59pm
Maybe he’s just in it for the money

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:06pm
Pete your club rejected Clarko or did he reject Blues 😛

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PeteB
Kemp
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:09pm
He cost too much even for the Blues ! Vossy is hungrier for success and is now a better coach than Clarko would be.

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Kemp
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:15pm
Based on what ?

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Birdman
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Simoc
Simoc
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:27pm
Wishful thinking! Voss has finally arrived at the starting gate.

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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:32pm
Dogs should go after Clarko!

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Chanon
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:01pm
He’s last few years were pretty ordinary. Totally misjudged where the Hawks list was at.

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:09pm
Coached pretty well last 12 odd games before exit but my memory is cr.p could be wrong.
Either way with a fresh start & no politics (Kennett’s Ladder) he would coach with a certain freedom. I’m backing Nth with Clarko will reach finals year after next & will be successful like Nth Pagan 90’s era

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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:11pm
Pagans paddock ? Who’s their Wayne Carey ?
Edited after posting

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Chanon
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:17pm
Maybe they haven’t unearthed them yet like monkey magic born from a egg on a mountain top 😁

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Kemp
PeteB
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Kemp
Kemp
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:23pm
No wiser words have ever been spoken 👍 if only piggsy and sandy were assistant coaches…

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Kemp
Kemp
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:25pm
Why can’t I Like this Monkey Magic comment twice? Or more 😢

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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:12pm
Players were excited that he was leaving 😛

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Alchemist
Alchemist
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July 21st 2022 @ 11:40pm
I think Hodgy’s take on it was pretty good. He basically said that yes he was a brilliant coach but he was surrounded by strong personalities who weren’t yes men.

If he’s surrounded by yes men then Hodgy said it wouldn’t work at all.

May be where it all went south for hawthorn post 2016 too when the likes of Ratten, Fagan and Co started leaving giving Clarko full reign.

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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:04pm
Already seven years since last premiership and the Hawks are only just bottoming out

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:11pm
Can’t be up forever & he won 4 cups. Pete l think your being over critical just a tad.

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Mr Right
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:13pm
Don’t get me wrong he is the coach of the century but they all lose their magic eventually

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Kemp
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:19pm
Pete we will see what happens touch wood Voss the Boss can continue the hype 👍

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Kemp
PeteB
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PeteB
PeteB
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:31pm
Well if North doesn’t work out for Clarko at least he will have his millions to console himself with 😁

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Chanon
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:40pm
Deep down Pete all l really care about is the crappy dogs but just sometimes l have sympathy for my neighbours 😁

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Kemp
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Kemp
Kemp
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:58pm
Everybody needs good Neighbour’s.

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PeteB
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 11:15pm
That’s why we have fences so they don’t pi.S on our lawn 😁

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Kemp
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:47pm
Pete, Star Lord Lobb the bleached lighthouse coming to the dogs 👍

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Mr Right
Mr Right
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:42pm
Like Chris Scott?

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Gyfox
Gyfox
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:26pm
Soccer’s anti-AFL tantrum came out the same day that AFL club memberships have passed 1 million again. Soccer’s latest tantrum comes from jealousy or insecurity. It will always be #4 in the football codes. Yet they are still claiming to be the only
code that is called football. The only real Australian football is called AFL at the top professional level.

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Angela
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Nick
Nick
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:26pm
I think as equally as people tend to ignore soccer insecurity, they will also ignore your beacon like insecurities too.

Hypocrisy, thy name is gyfox.

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Gyfox
Gyfox
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July 21st 2022 @ 8:18pm
Love your sense of humour, Nick

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MG
MG
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July 21st 2022 @ 3:34pm
I just did some googling that suggests Paul Roos was paid $1.5m to coach Melbourne 2014 to 2016. That conflicts with my memory of it being $1m? $1.6m for Clarkson in 2023 is not that ridiculous if the $1.5m for Roos is true. If I was Clarkson, I’d be
asking for a five year contract.

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Mr Right
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PeteB
PeteB
Roar Rookie
July 21st 2022 @ 3:57pm
Not sure Clarko has the best interests of the Roos in mind there. That salary will require cuts to other areas at the club. Should be a big “NO “ from the Kangas.

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dargerovitch
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:26pm
Underlings will work for free to work under Clarko no different to working under a celebrity Chef 😛

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PeteB
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Don Freo
Don Freo
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:44pm
Brendon the 1st?

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Chanon
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Brendon the 1st
Brendon the 1st
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July 21st 2022 @ 6:00pm
Not sure I could work under Clarko 😂

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PeteB
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 6:45pm
Your the celebrity chef, silly!

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PeteB
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Willie
Willie
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July 21st 2022 @ 4:04pm
OK, I’ll bite. How can a long time cellar dwelling club with a small supporter base, drawing small crowds, and having only modest sponsorship, afford a guy like Clarko? As good as Clarkson is, every coach needs at least a good sprinkling of talent to
succeed in this competition. How many years do they think this project would take? Because the costs multiply each year. At some point, unless Clarkson performs a miracle, they will be so deep in debt that the AFL will have to bail them out (at the
expense of the other clubs), or merge them (which they could do now), or delist them. I guess fairy tales do come true in professional sport (think Leicester City, but they at least they had a billionaire sponsor). What am I missing?

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Pope Paul VII
Pope Paul VII
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:36pm
North are only a short time cellar dweller in the last 50 yrs. The membership is 48,000. Small crowds often take two tangoists. With 2 AFL premierships to go with 2 VFL premierships they are not too shabby.

North are not in debt.

Years it takes to premiership it

SM/SYD 72
St K 69 & 56+
Footers/WB 62
Melb 57
NM 50 (1925 – 1975)
Geel 44
Rich 37
Coll 32
Freo 28 to date

A host of clubs are around or past the 20 years mark since the last.

It could take a long time, it could take 5 yrs.

What it definitely takes is some time.

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Micko
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Micko
Micko
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July 21st 2022 @ 6:54pm
You forgot Carlton. 😁

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Pope Paul VII
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Pope Paul VII
Pope Paul VII
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July 21st 2022 @ 9:25pm
I cannot spake their name (just kidding Macca);

Carl 27 years

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Micko
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Mr Right
Mr Right
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July 21st 2022 @ 10:52pm
Roos turned the Demons around. A good experienced coach can have a good affect on a club without winning a premiership. E.g. working with the recruitment team, liaising with talented players that just need that little bit a extra guidance. If a young
player gets berated by Clarkson, he is more likely to listen & take it onboard than a young first year coach.

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Naughty's Headband
Naughty's Headband
Roar Rookie
July 21st 2022 @ 4:13pm
Les Murray = iconic football presenter. Lucy Zelic = not iconic football presenter.

Bring back the headcount and resetting the score to zero for having 19 men on ground I say.

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Alchemist
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:05pm
Go get him Shinboners the amount of revenue that will be gained will be all worthwhile, Clarko to Nth equals a huge success & the bleeding diehard supporters will love some positive news 👍

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Pope Paul VII
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Don Freo
Don Freo
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July 21st 2022 @ 5:43pm
…and JHF will want to stay.
…and Josh Kelly might finally want to sign on.
…and Tarryn Thomas might even see some hope for his own career.

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Chanon
Pope Paul VII
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Obsessed Much?
Obsessed Much?
Roar Rookie
July 21st 2022 @ 5:45pm
Lobb missing for Freo. Word from the West is there could be another 1 or 2 surprise outs.

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Chanon
Chanon
Roar Rookie
July 21st 2022 @ 5:54pm
Dogs have supposedly offered Lobb a 4 year deal
Three way deal involving Dogs, Freo & Pies

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Obsessed Much?
Obsessed Much?
Roar Rookie
July 21st 2022 @ 5:59pm
Who are the other players rumoured to be part of the deal?

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 6:01pm
Jackson to Freo, Grundy to Dees 👍

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Obsessed Much?
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Johnno
Johnno
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July 21st 2022 @ 8:20pm
What do Dogs give up?

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 8:23pm
Crozier 😛
Nothing really possibly a late 2nd round remember Freo are getting Jackson on 1.2 over 7 years
Not much left in the kitty
Freo will be glad to accept anything
Edited after posting

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Johnno
Johnno
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July 21st 2022 @ 8:25pm
????????????????

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Chanon
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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 9:06pm
Johno lots of question marks mate either way l’m not fussed but he did request to leave last year but was denied & the drums are beating & the most peculiar thing was Chris Grant openly chatting about him coming to the dogs next year, go figure hey!
Edited after posting

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AdamDilligafThompson
AdamDilligafThompson
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July 21st 2022 @ 8:28pm
Grundy may be to GWS apparently his manager met with them.
Edited after posting

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Chanon
Chanon
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July 21st 2022 @ 9:02pm
Maybe Adam

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AdamDilligafThompson
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AdamDilligafThompson
AdamDilligafThompson
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July 21st 2022 @ 9:16pm
I think either would work. If Melbourne lose Jackson and gws have been screaming for a ruckman for years. If lycett still didn’t have a few years on his I think it is we’d probs have a think about it.

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Chanon
Chanon
Roar Rookie
July 21st 2022 @ 9:22pm
Question remains does Grundy fill the role Hackson leaves by heading to Freo maybe the deal can only work if all agree. Pies need Grundy off the books & Demons are prepared to accommodate which is a blessing in disguise for Pies. Lobb leaves with Freo
blessing cause they have offered huge bucks for him to come home. They can’t accomodate both.

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