Season 2023 - Gold Coast

So if you ignore all of the guys who did leave, stand on one leg and squint, carry the one…

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They pushed Wright, Brodie and Bowes.

It’s the equivalent of saying Essendon can’t retain players because Aaron Francis went to Sydney.

Won just as many finals as us since joining the competition.

I’ve spelled out the 8 highly rated players they’ve lost in his 5 years, we’ve lost 5 over the same period.

It’s a different degree of the same thing.

But if we were leaking players like they do, do you think anyone would be talking up how few players we were losing?

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Since he started we’ve had 3 different coaches, and lost;

  • Joe Daniher
  • Adam Saad
  • Orazio Fantasia
  • Aaron Francis

Much bigger cattle overall. Wouldn’t worry about what they’ve lost when we’re as bad, if not worse given the coaches merry go round.

Not to mention how we handled Hooker, Bellchambers and were a bee’s ■■■■ from losing Merrett.

Not trying to argue, just level your thinking against our own rabble.

The argument was not whether Essendon had players leave when Worsfold was pushed out, 3 years ago.

The argument was that Dew has stopped players leaving recently.

Both are things that happened.

Take out Daniher/Saad/Fanta & McKenna leaving at the end of 2019, and our highest profile player who’s left (since Hird/Saga) has been Francis, who was a long way from the 22. Which is a very good record of player retention.

Take Rankin out and their losses over Dew’s period aren’t that bad.
They’ve traded out most others at their own choice not a walk out, 2MP and Brodie were players they weren’t playing and were happy to loose for cap relief same with Bowes.

Which takes us back to “if you ignore all the players who left, no players have left”

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So Metricon is being renamed to Heritage Bank Stadium

Seriously, what a drain on the competition the two new teams have been. 10-12 years of wasted talented & resources. The league would have been so much better off without them.

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Apart from U18 participation in both areas being well up, and getting the revenue of having a 9th game each weekend.

GWS has also contested a number of finals, including a Grand Final.

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I reckon they are missing Rankine far more than they hoped.

Their small forwards aren’t up to it. Rosas is a cat unfortunately for them. Ainsworth is ok but they need more.

They are a stain on the competition.

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There are plenty of teams I’d get rid of before them.

essendon for starters.

Another season of mediocrity for a club that has been mediocre since their inception.

I do not recall them actually contesting that Grand Final.

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Cotchin even made sure that Shiel doesn’t remember the prelim final GWS made a couple of years earlier.

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They’ve taken 4 National draft picks for a combined total of 15 games in the past 3 drafts (and that includes Charlie Constable as a draft pick).

They need to get rid of that useless twit Cochrane first and foremost, the list manager next, and stop picking up every single plodder who gets delisted from another club. Half their list are guys who failed to make it stick in 5 or 8 years at other clubs. many of them on 3-4 year deals. That’s part of why they ended up needing to dump guys like Wright and Bowes.