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What a great round of footy! Did anyone really predict North Melbourne beating Fremantle in Perth? Because I seriously didn't. What about Port Adelaide…

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2014

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What do we know so far in the 2014 AFL season?

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How is your AFL club looking for the 2014 season?

As the AFL season draws ever closer once again I felt I should examine each team and attempt to predict just what's going to…

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2014

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How is your AFL club looking for the 2014 season?

AFL

2014

The Dogs will be fine, I liked their tackle pressure and apart from Libba they were using mainly Sanders and Harmes, this weekend we’ll see a bit more of how the midfielders defend. Their best is as good as any they just need to find it consistently which they struggled to do last season. Love Norths attacking mindset. It’ll come undone against the better teams but it’ll be fun to watch. Good to see Freo have a semi competent forward line, if Tabs can stay fit, Treacy and Amiss will cause some headaches to some defenders this year. Great to see Fyfe back in the midfield. Open season really, there are probably 12 teams that have a decent shot and really we can only completely write off Hawthorn, West Coast and North (maybe Richmond as well).

Month off for SPP, another Superdraft loading? Seven things we learned from AFL trial matches

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Feb

Deleting comments and blocking accounts is the cherry on top of a really poor P.R exercise from Collingwood. Just dumb.

'Brazen shamelessness': Pies savaged as video showing new facilities exposes inconvenient truth

Jan

Mate there are probably 6 or 7 bandwagons I would jump on before Port if I were so inclined but the Dogs will be fine, midfield depth is our speciality.

Dogs superstar's season all but over before it starts after heartbreaking training mishap

Dec

I imagine suiters would cool, it hurts the Dogs if they had to trade him as well, they can’t ask for as much. It won’t hurt our chances that much though, we were playing him out of position and he wasn’t great. Sanders should slot in.

That’s unfortunate. Hopefully recovers we’ll.

A good signing from Freo, one of the best rucks in the game. He’ll be key for the Dockers playing finals again

Freo tie down Darcy to long term extension, Membrey returns to Saints 'four kilos lighter'

Most of Sydneys best players are still very young, Chad Warner who is one of the best young mids in the game is 22, Gulden is 21, Rowbottom 23, Mcdonald who is one of the best forward prospects going around is also only 21, McCartin under 24, there are more but those are the cream of the crop who won’t hit their peak until 25-26 and then Sydney will be really contending again. they got to last years granny a little early and got shown up for it but Horse and the Sydney board would know that they are still a little ways away.

Does John Longmire's 'all-in' strategy shift suggest it may be his last two years of AFL coaching?

Nov

Mate this was a really good article. I have always felt like Jack Billings is the face of what has gone wrong with the Saints since the 2010 grand final. they were almost side by side with the Western Bulldogs then with the Dogs losing to them in the prelim then both sliding out of contention although one a little ahead of the other. 2013 was Billings for the Saints and BOnt for the Dogs. 2014 the Saints got Mccartin, Hugh Goddard, Mckenzie, and Jack Lonie of which only one is still on a list and a half decent player. The Dogs traded their first pick for Boyd and still picked up: Toby Mclean (recently delisted due to injuries but a flag hero), Daniel and Dale as well as a few others. Daniel and Dale are both All Australians. I could go on. The point is the Saints have missed almost every draft since falling out of contention right up til 2018 and it has hurt them badly, other teams like the Dogs have nailed it (I would put Freo, Melbourne and even Brisbane in the same camp of nailing the same drafts St Kilda missed). I am happy Billings gets a shot in a team as one player in the 23 and not the be all and end all the saints needed him to be.

After a decade trying to build a house with the wrong tools, Jack Billings is freed from St Kilda

Oct

In fairness most clubs would take him I can only think of: The Dogs, Freo, Melbourne, Brisbane and Gold coast who have their own dominant ruck so don’t really have a need for him, and maybe Saints but I think they could make the Marshall/Grundy work. he’ll add alot to Sydney that they didn’t have before.

Pies' salary twist in Grundy deal as ruckman reunites with Adams at Sydney

What makes you think the Bulldogs need to rebuild?

Long-term mega-contracts like Naughton's is player power at its best - but a disaster waiting to happen for clubs

my first preference would always be keep him. IF we believe in our culture and our ability to support players (which we should) then we try and keep him. But apart of me would understand the benefit for both parties. He had issues last year and a fresh start might help him.

'This will not end well': Cornes savages Bulldogs gun Naughton's monster contract extension

I could see criticism in 8 years but he was always gunna get 6 at least and he’s up there as one of our most important players going forward, and really, smaller clubs need to give big players longer contracts to keep them. That’s just the reality. Hopefully we can keep English and Murra as well.If Smith stays it’s a bonus, if he goes we can replace him.

I can live with the Dogs at 1 but Port have to be number 2. Pretty poor finals showing as well and no grand final in Ken’s run.

TOM MORRIS: A very early AFL pressure gauge for 2024 - which team has 'no excuses' not to lift?

If you look up the word flog in the dictionary you’ll find a picture of Sam Newman next to it, and really he gets what he wants anyway. We are all talking about him.

AFL News: Free agent McKay makes his choice, McLachlan slams Newman's Welcome to Country dig

Sep

For all the pile on of Melbourne they got done by 3 points with basically a non existent forward line (Pickett and Fritch aside they didn’t really have any decent forwards)they got damn close. 28 shots for a return of 9.17 says it all, some easy shots as well. Probably should have played another tall against that Carlton defence.

Finals Fix: How Melbourne killed their season with the butcher job to end all butcher jobs

Why would Hawthorn or the Bulldogs take that deal? Hawthorn aren’t crying out for a Smith type player especially at that price, and the Dogs would want to back themselves into getting him back to his 2021 like best. There are more important things in football clubs than draft picks.

AFL News: Bedford a free man with suspension overturn, Dogs urged to trade star as bombshell Hawks offer looms

I agree with most of what you said but if they do decide to trade Grundy there is no way they’ll be paying any of his contract next year and I would imagine they be asking for a similar return on what they paid for him so a second round pick in any case.

TOM MORRIS: The hidden peril the Dees can't afford to risk in trading Brodie Grundy

Every team always needs something and Freo are no different. Anyway I heard on trade radio (Tom Morris I think) that Freo would start at a late first rounder which seems fair considering he’s only had the one good season, I think North could pull that off. I don’t see them forcing him to walk though even though. They would want return on investment.

AFL News: Docker demands trade, Curnow needs new role, Pies to keep Daicos in cotton wool, Lions tall retires

Aug

Why does he want to go to Victoria? He’s from Perth isn’t he? what do you reckon Freo will ask for him? Hawthorn are keen but won’t want to give up their current first rounder considering the talent in this years draft, future first?

What is going on with our tackling as well? it’s almost like they just want to look like tackling someone without actually tackling properly. It’s a miserable miserable team at the moment.

Footy Fix: Don't be fooled - the Dogs avoided disaster, but they're still an utter shambles in every way

Fair call, the media hype on some players is ridiculous but he did have a solid small forward game as a sub, sorry according to AFL tables he had three but you could be right. I do think a big reason why Carlton are where they are is due to their smalls stepping up similarly to Richmond in 17. love the tackles, and the pressure 21 tackles I50 against Melbourne is awesome.

Six Points: The ARC got Petracca 'touched' call spot on, and the Matildas lesson the AFL must learn

Hes got this weird technique where he runs full pelt at a player twice size as him expecting the player to turn to water, he dislocated his shoulder I think last year doing the same thing against Gawn

Although Owies is killing it and deserves some love I think you’re abit harsh on Ginnivan, he could easily have had 3 goals had he gone for them but passed it to someone in a better position to make it a certainty everytime, his was a selfless role and he did it pretty well.

people keep saying it’s one of the best in the comp, is it? the midfield is good but the defence is incredibly bad, and the forwards are still too young (the oldest being Lobb who probably should be carrying waters and not actually playing football). they’ve had some laughably bad losses this year but I don’t think they’re a top four team, their weaknesses are pretty glaring. also King is a massive tool.

AFL News: Nic Nat, luckless Swan make retirement call, Dogs savaged for 'ridiculous' last-minute howler

AFL is an imperfect game, you’ll always have those 50/50 decisions that seem unclear and can’t be proven beyond doubt even with ARC tech, it bites every team at some stage so there’s no point complaining about it.

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