u/Conscious_Walrus2054

Note: This doesn’t change anything for the immediate future or the past.

After the Frampton decision last night, as a club we need to make our position clear to the AFL and do it publicly as well. They set a precedent with PC and then literally the next 2 incidents of it happening have let the players off. I can actually live with the crisp one, but the Frampton one is a joke. Either they’re both free to play or they’re both a suspension.

The purpose of this is more towards future MRO/tribunal decisions. Make our utter confusion and disappointment with the inconsistent ruling known. The big clubs make their feelings and positions well known and can posture the AFL, we have a rare chance to do so here as the majority of the fans and media would back our stance. Time to pounce on it and take some control.

An added bonus is players seeing the club back them and potential recruits seeing the club back its own.

Blamires - great story, not up to it.
Kostanty - doesn’t impact defensively to be such a liability in attack
Spargo - enough games now and no impact outside 1 game
Logue - not up to it
Trembath - needs a rest I think, but not helped by our despicable entry.

Hardeman in for blamires
Not sure who is the answer for our small forward problem

Established players need to be better
LDU - only works one way. 2nd efforts are poor.
Larkey - if he’s actually injured rest him.
Comben - if we had any key defenders on our list drop him, but we don’t.
Sheezel - can’t complain too much, but well held after the first 10 minutes
Zurhaar needs a run in the vfl
Darling - again, can’t really do much as a fwd (2nd quarter especially)

F50 entries are genuine Div 4 local footy standard. The stark contrast between ours and Adelaide’s are telling.

EDIT: Although it literally says I’ve seen enough, I’m very keen to see how they respond. That will show how much growth we’ve made. Can we adjust and get back into the game (not necessarily on the scoreboard, but around the ground).

We’re playing well this year and they can’t criticize effort or the direction right now, especially after the weekend and conceding we were hard done by with multiple decisions/non decisions, rather than

A) concede maybe they were wrong and the club was right

Or

B) talk about about our actual issues at key back or small forward (can’t criticize sheez there, so don’t bother with that)

They’ve chosen to dig up a 10 year old story and drag that. I’m as far in the should never have forced boomer out camp as possible, but this shits a joke. Any chance to dig the boots into a smaller club and they take it.