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    Quote Originally Posted by ratsmac View Post
    The NGA is getting real messy. Rules for some and different rules for others. No real incentive for Vic clubs to pursue any kids and put time into them for other clubs to snap them up.
    I think it’s better. It’ll mean kids that would have been drafted anyway will continue through the standard junior program and clubs will be forced to invest time in kids that wouldn’t have likely made it anyway which is surely the purpose of the NGA program.

    Agree this will hugely disincentivise clubs to invest at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AshMac View Post
    Sam Edmund just reported on SEN - rival clubs circling Jamarra. Reporting discontent between him and club. Reports JUH willing to entertain talks
    Have a guess who lost even more cred today? Chasing clicks at the expense of your credibility Sam. Tom Browne hoping to get off the bottom of the pretend journo ladder. Great result for Tom today. Until he makes up another something stupid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Have a guess who lost even more cred today? Chasing clicks at the expense of your credibility Sam. Tom Browne hoping to get off the bottom of the pretend journo ladder. Great result for Tom today. Until he makes up another something stupid.
    Marra's pretend uncle from Bomberblitz is the only one with less credibility.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Have a guess who lost even more cred today? Chasing clicks at the expense of your credibility Sam. Tom Browne hoping to get off the bottom of the pretend journo ladder. Great result for Tom today. Until he makes up another something stupid.
    I guess it’s all in the context, no doubt there is click baiting to fantastisize it. Factually though…

    Would there be other clubs circling Jamarra? Absolutely - 24/7, 365

    Was there frustration he wasn’t getting a game earlier? Yes - he said so himself recently

    Was he ever thinking of leaving? No

    Get your point though - these idiots say and publish whatever they like - it affects fans, it affects players, and there is zero accountability when they get it wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AshMac View Post
    I guess it’s all in the context, no doubt there is click baiting to fantastisize it. Factually though…

    Would there be other clubs circling Jamarra? Absolutely - 24/7, 365

    Was there frustration he wasn’t getting a game earlier? Yes - he said so himself recently

    Was he ever thinking of leaving? No

    Get your point though - these idiots say and publish whatever they like - it affects fans, it affects players, and there is zero accountability when they get it wrong.
    The last part is it. Being right isn’t part of many journos JD anymore. When Marra called it bullshit on a club video, he nailed it.
    Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023

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    Announcing Jamarra's extension the week we play Essendon is just...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    The last part is it. Being right isn’t part of many journos JD anymore. When Marra called it bullshit on a club video, he nailed it.
    The rules on predictions
    1. Make enough predictions and you will eventually get one right.

    2. Highlight the one you get right to prove how good you are.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog Joe View Post
    The rules on predictions
    1. Make enough predictions and you will eventually get one right.

    2. Highlight the one you get right to prove how good you are.
    Yep, hard to see the difference between the modern day footy journo and psychic hucksters.

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    Next up in Bevo's whack of the week:

    Beveridge SLAMS Roos over Jamarra comments

    WESTERN Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has hit out at Paul Roos for the Sydney premiership mentor's previous criticism of No.1 pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan.

    A day after Ugle-Hagan signed a two-year contract extension, keeping him at the Bulldogs until the end of 2024, Beveridge strongly defended the emerging key forward.

    Ugle-Hagan has been carefully managed during his first season and only made his AFL debut in July, despite criticism from outside the club as to why the Bulldogs were not playing the talented teenager.

    But there is a sense of vindication for the premiership fancies about letting him develop in the VFL before he finally entered the AFL in solid fashion with six goals in four games.

    But Beveridge has not forgotten comments Roos, who is now a consultant at North Melbourne, made ahead of Ugle-Hagan's debut in round 17.

    Roos questioned the Bulldogs' decision to pick Ugle-Hagan, saying he heard the 19-year-old had played "terrible" in a VFL game.

    "It's a really, really, really surprising decision to make, to throw him in out of form," Roos told Back to the Bench last month.

    Beveridge backed his club about Ugle-Hagan's development and were confident in their process the whole way.

    "(Ugle-Hagan) had some interruptions and because he didn't have the match fitness then, we just couldn't pick him," Beveridge said.

    "We never set out to hold our players back, we want to give them opportunities and it got to the point where we thought it was time.

    "Even when we played him, there was some really disappointing comments made by a former senior coach, who's contracted at another club in a consultancy role as to what some of players and coaches had said to him about Marra's performance in a scratch match.

    "I think we know what's best for our players and the people who work in our program do an outstanding job."

    Beveridge was also disappointed in a report earlier in the year which stated rival clubs were optimistic about luring Ugle-Hagan away from Whitten Oval during this year's trade period.

    "It was a little bit sad, all that stuff that happened a while ago," Beveridge said.

    "It was a storm in a teacup, created by someone who shouldn't have gone there.

    "It's stuff that happens that we'd rather not deal with that's just made up."

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    Paul Roos is going to pick up the phone to Bevo, and tell him Paul Roos.
    Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

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    Paul Roos' transition from premiership coach to professional grifter has been sad to see.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Happy Days View Post
    Paul Roos' transition from premiership coach to professional grifter has been sad to see.
    Isn’t that the right of passage now for once relevant footy people who drop out of the game?

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    I'm quite liking Angry Bevo...

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    I have never liked Roos, from his playing days to coaching and now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Happy Days View Post
    Paul Roos' transition from premiership coach to professional grifter has been sad to see.
    Less a transition and more a public realisation of what has been all along.

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