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(06-27-2020, 12:48 PM)PaulP link Wrote:He might be back next year. Teague likes older, reliable players, and he could be going cheap, so you never know..............
that's the story of the night for me, clearly something in the tweet...
i wouldn't blame him for preferring to be at the blues right now. he clearly wasn't all that keen on going back home in the first place, but i can't see how the family situation could have changed that much.
would he want to come back? would we want him? would he get a game?
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(06-27-2020, 01:51 PM)Tragic link Wrote:I watch a few games of footy, and not many crows games tbh, but whenever I do i hardly notice the crouch boys. maybe that's just the type of players they are, unobtrusive. if one fell in our laps for not much then sure, but i'd never chase them as big trade targets and give up much for them. I dunno, they just don't impress me much.
Yep, you're not alone there. Lots of soft possessions and little impact.
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(06-27-2020, 01:55 PM)Tragic link Wrote:that's the story of the night for me, clearly something in the tweet...
i wouldn't blame him for preferring to be at the blues right now. he clearly wasn't all that keen on going back home in the first place, but i can't see how the family situation could have changed that much.
would he want to come back? would we want him? would he get a game?
Not sure on answers to those last 3 questions, but reading the top 50 or so comments on his twitter feed, the verdict from Blues fans is almost unanimous - almost all want him back.
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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/blue...556st.html
According to this article, Betts' 50m penalty for encroaching on the mark. lol.
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(06-28-2020, 12:44 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Not sure on answers to those last 3 questions, but reading the top 50 or so comments on his twitter feed, the verdict from Blues fans is almost unanimous - almost all want him back.
I suspect that Gibbs is struggling with the toxic atmosphere at the Crows but you wouldn’t want to give up much for a player in such poor form. Who would he displace from last night’s team?
At worst he would add to our growing depth 
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(06-28-2020, 01:02 AM)PaulP link Wrote:https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/blue...556st.html
According to this article, Betts' 50m penalty for encroaching on the mark. lol.
Yes, that seems to be the official line. In that case, the 50m penalty is taken from the mark so 70m up the ground, not 90m.
It looked to me that Betts was the correct distance from the goal square, and the umpire should have called him back if he was too close. It also seemed that he didn’t leave the mark until after Saad had played on but perhaps he moved before the umpire called ‘play on’. Either way it’s still an umpiring error compounded by an over generous 50m > 
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(06-28-2020, 01:04 AM)DJC link Wrote:I suspect that Gibbs is struggling with the toxic atmosphere at the Crows but you wouldn’t want to give up much for a player in such poor form. Who would he displace from last night’s team?
At worst he would add to our growing depth
I can't see Gibbs costing much in trade or monetary value, assuming he did return. I'm not sure what's going on at the Crows, but from the outside it seems like a boy's club practicing the politics of exclusion, and those in charge, like Sloane and Walker, make scapegoats of those on the outer.
Gibbs is a versatile player - he could play wing, mid, HB. He would be an upgrade on Plowman for starters.
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(06-28-2020, 01:02 AM)PaulP link Wrote:https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/blue...556st.html
According to this article, Betts' 50m penalty for encroaching on the mark. lol. They need to do the right thing and come out and say they made a mistake, not conjure up rubbish reasoning and junk excuses for something that is as obvious as the noses on their faces.
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(06-28-2020, 01:24 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:They need to do the right thing and come out and say they made a mistake, not conjure up rubbish reasoning and junk excuses for something that is as obvious as the noses on their faces.
Yes, and to their credit the umpires and AFL are getting better at admitting when they stuffed up. We'll see what happens this time.
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(06-28-2020, 12:44 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Not sure on answers to those last 3 questions, but reading the top 50 or so comments on his twitter feed, the verdict from Blues fans is almost unanimous - almost all want him back.
Think about that logically for a second.
If anyone is following Gibbs' tweets, they obviously still take an interest in him. Thus, positive.
If anyone (think spanner lol) is happy to see the back of him, they will not have anything to do with Gibbs or his twitter account. So no negative responses.
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