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The Crowd Says (13) | Page 1 of Comments

• Roar Guru

  3:53pm
  tonysalerno said | 3:53pm | Report comment

  A crushing victory for Fremantle

• 3:26pm
  ac said | 3:26pm | Report comment

  Where is the Cattery gone – this is the most interesting thing about the Roar. I miss the Cat so much. He made the whole of the Roar interesting. He was fair, biased in his love for Aussie football. But a nice guy and now he doesnt talk to us anymore,

  • 5:22pm
    Harry said | 5:22pm | Report comment

    I”m not sure if the Cat was black balled by the moderaters or placed in a straight jacket by some fellas in a big yellow taxi !!!! If he behaved himself and stayed on his medication it’d be great too see him back.

    • 11:31am
      Dingo said | 11:31am | Report comment

      It’s childish comments like that which devalue this site.

      There have been other high quality contributors to the Roar who have left, no doubt due to frustration at having to continually respond to the relentless anti AFL jibberish and untruths that seems to pollute many of the AFL threads.
      It is better now than it was in the past so obviously the moderators are trying to control it, because in the past it was beyond belief at how toxic some of the anti AFL folk were in their hatred of our game.

      The Cattery was one of the best contributors and as such seemed to be a magnet for the haters.

  • 5:37pm
    clipper said | 5:37pm | Report comment

    agree, ac – hope he comes back soon, the Roar is a poorer place without his input

• 12:19am
  Nathan of Perth said | 12:19am | Report comment

  I think overall the AFL has gotten a rude shock concerning the efficacy of youth versus maturity.

  • 9:36am
    Brewski said | 9:36am | Report comment

    Will there be a payoff for the AFL though?, if we look at how the AFL have gone about it, there are pros and cons.

    The recent national under 16 comp has been building for several years, this year there is a flying boomerangs team, a world team, a South Pacific team, a North Western Australian as well as the traditional states and territorys, the AFL is intent on opening up a new pool of players, which will in turn increase the quality of players across a 18 team comp. ( you would think)

    But i totally agree with your point about youth V experience, maybe the AFL did underestimate the advantage older AFL teams have over the new ones, and perhaps the new teams could have drafted some more experienced players ….. hindsight !!.

    • 3:04pm
      Nathan of Perth said | 3:04pm | Report comment

      More of a knock on Sheedy than McKenna. It’s one thing to fail to predict a pitfall when breaking new ground. Harder to excuse when you just watched someone else fall in

      • 7:10pm
        GCS said | 7:10pm | Report comment

        Nathan – in my book, Sheedy and GWS have done the right thing. Lot of short term pain, but at least there is hope that these young kids can turn into guns or good solid performers.

        Maybe Sheedy saw that the pit that the Suns fell into, was getting half a dozen experienced players that have shown to be lacking either the desire or the talent.

        Difficult to see which free agency players these these expansion clubs will go after. Doesn’t look like there is much value for money out there, except for 3 or 4 maybe.
  • Roar Guru

    12:23pm
    Redb said | 12:23pm | Report comment

    NOP,

    Yep that appears to be the case. Although the AFL had little control over which uncontracted senior players the clubs could attract. It would have caused a firestorm if the AFL just picked 1 player from each existing team and assigned them to the new franchises topping up the rest from the draft.

    Gold Coast would have liked to attract Nick Reiwoldt and Kurt Tippett at least but failed.

    GWS had even less success in attracting A Graders.

    The simple thing is there are too many kids being blooded at the same time. Most clubs blood 1-2 kids a year, not 10-12.

• 7:29pm
  DamoS said | 7:29pm | Report comment

  I know I’ll get knocked for this. I think oh well it’s the Giants and they’ll improve over time and then on the other hand I think no, this is an AFL team and they shouldn’t get flogged like this week after week. Did the AFL expand too quickly and maybe were better off waiting another 5 years?

  • 7:42pm
    Brewski said | 7:42pm | Report comment

    I agree with parts of your post, i think it cheapens the actual AFL comp , by expecting people to part with their hard earned by attending what seems to be training runs around witches cones, as we have seen by the Suns it takes a couple of years at least to be competitive, so instead of having just one hopeless team we have 2.

    On the other hand, i pretty well watched all of the GWS/Freo game, and GWS are not lacking talent, they lack AFL fitness and hard mature bodies, if a new team was put in today maybe more experienced players would be neede, but as we have seen by new teams such as Brisbane Bears 30 years ago or so, experienced players don’t really work either.

    As an aside i watched Folau today and he has talent, good hands and vision, but lacks either the ability or mental hardness to run, in a good team he would be a servicable player.

    The bigger question in a way would be what the hell has happened at Melbourne, they have the least amount of excuses.

    • 8:24pm
      DamoS said | 8:24pm | Report comment

      I agree with you. I think GWS do appear to be more competitive than the Suns and over time both will improve and hopefully not be a 2010′s version of the Bears. I know a 17 team comp would not have been viable for long however as you said people are shelling out their hard earned dollars, and to me it’s like watching a top side verses a VFL reserve grade side (no disrespect to those teams) and in the longer term would it have been better to wait 5 years before adding team 18?
      Melbourne are disappointing I’ll give you that, however if I were a Dees supporter I’d be concerned with the leg up that the GC and GWS gets over my team especially if both those teams finish higher on the table