All Australian squad of 40

[Grantysghost]

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I thought GG might appreciate this given there is a reference to pressure acts

Operation get Karl Amon starts... now.

[Bulldog Joe]

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The half backs really feel like they get their one AA season and then are never considered again.

Anyway Saad blows and there isn’t a team in the AFL that would take him ahead of Dale.

I suspect that is true even of Carlton.

[Grantysghost]

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It's just a crappy award voted on by hacks like Gerard Healey.

I can't work out why I get so sucked in by it still.

It's like the Brownlow. I really don't care what the umpires think. I like the umpires, but I don't care about how they view player performance.

B and F and to a lesser extent coaches award I find interesting.

[Bornadog]

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It's just a crappy award voted on by hacks like Gerard Healey.

I can't work out why I get so sucked in by it still.

It's like the Brownlow. I really don't care what the umpires think. I like the umpires, but I don't care about how they view player performance.

B and F and to a lesser extent coaches award I find interesting.

The only thing with the Brownlow is it is a long tradition and can't be touched by ex players from the 80s and 90s

[Bulldog4life]

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Yep, they backed their system and Stengle repaid them wonderfully well.

Appointing Eddie Betts to their coaching ranks and having Stengle live with Eddie and his family was a great move.

[GVGjr]

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Appointing Eddie Betts to their coaching ranks and having Stengle live with Eddie and his family was a great move.

They're smart about it.

[mjp]

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Appointing Eddie Betts to their coaching ranks and having Stengle live with Eddie and his family was a great move.

I don't want to dismiss what Geelong have done but is it perhaps the fact that he had been 'let go' by 2x previous clubs due to issues with discipline and poor off-field behaviour? And through that process he has gotten older, started looking in the mirror occasionally and made some personal changes?

Adelaide (camp aside) are a pretty good club and I think they did everything possible to help him...but when you are getting arrested for DUI's and all of that sort of stuff, what were they supposed to do? They knew he could play, that was never the problem.

I don't know - it's a time and place thing right. When the pupil is ready the master appears and all of that mumbo jumbo and I just thing Stengle finally reached a point in his own life where he realised 'all of this' was about to be taken away from him.

[boydogs]

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I thought GG might appreciate this given there is a reference to pressure acts

LOL this was actually pretty credible until Bailey Banfield was pictured for being the sub the most

[GVGjr]

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LOL this was actually pretty credible until Bailey Banfield was pictured for being the sub the most

He got there in the end because he was the sub the most this year.
There was some speculation that Ben McKay had averaged the most intercept marks this year.

[boydogs]

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He got there in the end because he was the sub the most this year.

Yeah I get that. I mean the side doesn’t look half bad, and there is some objectivity to it, so I don’t hate the concept - until they gave a team’s 23rd best player an AA guernsey