Following our exes...................

[Mofra]

We have no friends in the media.

Michael Rowland....ABC morning news

[Mofra]

Not sure if anyone caught this, but Ex-Footscray and genuine Eker Darcy Fort is lining up in the GF for the injured McInerney.

He might end up an Eker bronze medalist behind BTC and Sam Reid.
Gorringe and Preuss mount good cases too

[soupman]

Gorringe can't be contender surely.

7 years with a game in all but 1 year must be better than expected for first round rucks.

Roarke Smith is one of many that ranks higher than him imo

[ledge]

Let’s give a huge hooray and hand to our one and only Tom Campbell . The most loved guy at the bulldogs who has continued to shine with a contract coming at Melbourne , amazing fete.
Just when you thought he was riding off into and sunset he pops up again like Clint Eastwood in a western.

[EasternWest]

Let’s give a huge hooray and hand to our one and only Tom Campbell . The most loved guy at the bulldogs who has continued to shine with a contract coming at Melbourne , amazing fete.
Just when you thought he was riding off into and sunset he pops up again like Clint Eastwood in a western.

Impossible not to admire

[bornadog]

Melbourne’s head of leadership Jim Plunkett has departed the club after eight years with the Demons.

[The Adelaide Connection]

Melbourne’s head of leadership Jim Plunkett has departed the club after eight years with the Demons.

Is this an old story? Did he actually leave four years ago and they are just realising now?

Or was he just terrible at his job?

[bornadog]

Is this an old story? Did he actually leave four years ago and they are just realising now?

Or was he just terrible at his job?

Sounds like a fail, doesn't it

[jazzadogs]

Is this an old story? Did he actually leave four years ago and they are just realising now?

Or was he just terrible at his job?

Hey hey hey Jim Plunkett created the best culture Gary Pert has ever seen! Give the man some credit!

[josie]

Melbourne’s head of leadership Jim Plunkett has departed the club after eight years with the Demons.

Avagoodweegend, Mr. Plunkett.

[jeemak]

Good enough to get them to a flag, bad enough (and innocuous enough) to take the fall.

Just another bit of cannon fodder to sacrifice to keep the real pieces of shit safe. You know, the players, the coaches, the executives.......let's just blame Jimmy Plunkett.

[ledge]

Good enough to get them to a flag, bad enough (and innocuous enough) to take the fall.

Just another bit of cannon fodder to sacrifice to keep the real pieces of shit safe. You know, the players, the coaches, the executives.......let's just blame Jimmy Plunkett.

Was he sacked or left on his own accord? 8 years is a long time at a club doing the same thing?
I would think 8 years is a sign he was good at his job.

[jeemak]

Was he sacked or left on his own accord? 8 years is a long time at a club doing the same thing?
I would think 8 years is a sign he was good at his job.

Probably a bit of both based on them reviewing the machinations at the club, and him being the one with the title. Apparently he's going off to do his own thing.

[Axe Man]

EFNL 2024: Ex-AFL forward Josh Schache signs at Doncaster East

Defenders in the Eastern league?s Premier Division are set to have their hands full with Doncaster East?s latest addition.

Former AFL forward Josh Schache has signed at the Lions for next season after his 76-game career in the big-time came to a close.

The 199cm talent was taken by the Brisbane Lions with pick No. 2 in the 2015 national draft before stops at the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne, kicking 79 goals.

He was delisted from the Demons at the end of this season after just four matches.

Now 27, the ex-Murray Bushranger links with former Bulldogs teammate Tim O?Brien at Zerbes Reserve.

?They?re good mates and he?s also got a connection through one of our other players,? Doncaster East president Peter Sowersby said.

?It?s probably been a five-week process since he got delisted.

?He was pretty keen to get on the front foot and speak to us about playing.?

Sowersby said Schache would fill a key post in attack ? freeing up O?Brien who played as a focal point this season, kicking 37 goals in 14 matches.

?It will give (senior coach) Ryan (James) more flexibility with him (O?Brien), obviously,? he said.

?He?s a man-mountain, Josh, he?s 199cm so that?s going to help ? last year with injury, Tim had two to three on him, so it?s definitely going to help us in that sense.?

Doncaster East missed the finals this season with a 5-13 record amid a horror run with injury, with the president hopeful his club?s prized recruit can help it climb the ladder.

The Lions, who also have ex-AFL men Josh Deluca and Taylin Duman on their books, have re-signed more than 45 of their current list for next season.

?He?s (Schache) just turned 27 so he?s the perfect age for local footy,? Sowersby said.

?Hopefully Josh gets us back into the finals ? you look at someone like South Croydon last year, they almost got relegated and (this year) won a final.?

[ledge]

76 games in 9 years and three clubs . Thats a pretty low return for a pick 2 .
I wonder how the recruiters got it so wrong ? Including ours.
My summation is his personality wasn’t hard enough, no doubt he had ability and trained well but just didn’t have it.
You would think recruiters would pick that up.