Phil Zammit's Contributions

I reckon they stuffed up a couple of years ago when they could have traded Daniel Kerr and received excellent compensation, ie top ten picks. Further they also kept players like Hansen, Lynch, Embley, Nicoski etc who all could have been worth something - but now don't seem to add much to the team. The Eagles do have a number of youth on their list, but Worsfold has taken too long to play significant number of games into them. The youth is there with the likes of Masten, Naitanui, Ebert, Swift, Scott Selwood etc. The problem is they and other youngsters I haven’t mentioned as a overall group have underperformed, not coming along as fast as expected. If they had traded Kerr perhaps the higher picks would have seen a kid or two who would have come on a lot quicker on their list. The question is how much compensation can they get for Cox? His value would have been worth a lot more last year, will the potential compensation drop too much now? If they were able to snare a top ten pick then yes, I would jump at the trade. On the other hand if they only get say a pick 25 or later then I would pass.

West Coast should man up and trade Dean Cox

5 Aug 2010

Another factor to consider if you watch a lot of old footage is that the generally there was only one or two games being telecast; which one would assume would tend to be the match of the round. Unlike today where all games are telecast, thus there are some shocking games in past eras that would never see the light of day again. I would love to see what games from the late 1890's and early 1900's would have been like...and how much the game has truly changed...

Good old days of footy just weren’t that good

30 Jul 2010

If Caroline Wilson is correct in her article, of the four longstanding Victorian powerhouses in Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon and Richmond the Pies and Bombers would pay more of this Levy, Carlton would remain the same, and Richmond would decrease. Considering these four Clubs have all had large supporter bases over the years how can this possibly be fair? It definitely seems the wrong way to go about it in my opinion.

With Robin Hood tax comes greater AFL responsibility

28 Jul 2010