Should Hawthorn consider moving on Brownlow Medallist Tom Mitchell?
Mitchell has had no troubles finding the football this year, picking up 44 disposals against Carlton on the weekend and averaging 35 across the season.
He remains contracted until the end of 2023, but Matthew Lloyd believes a move could be a “win-win”.
“We’re watching his stats at the moment and it’s a lot of handball. I just think you wonder what Tom wants,” Lloyd told
Footy Classified.
“Does Tom want to be at a side that can potentially win a premiership? He left Sydney thinking, ‘Hawthorn, I’m a chance to win a premiership’, and now he’s thinking it’s a long road back.
Your club s underrated performer: Round 10 A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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It’s hard to believe it’s almost halfway through the year.
Too many very good performances went too unnoticed over the weekend, so let’s right those wrongs.
Adelaide: Luke Brown
The Crows own perhaps the two biggest upsets of the season and once again, the back half stood up well, not giving away much to the forwards, with the midfield getting beaten. Share
Brown was instrumental down back for the Crows, with a fantastic 480 metres gained. He took six grabs, had a handful of intercept touches and half a dozen rebound 50s. Big tick.
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I’m struggling to reconcile the leeway Nathan Buckley has enjoyed in the media.
In each of his first six years as coach, the club declined. In the latter four of those six, Collingwood missed the finals. In Buckley’s seventh year (2018), he coached Collingwood to a grand final loss, but since has gone backwards again.
Defending Buckley, Kane Cornes said that the AFL system got rid of coaches too quickly. Ten years is too quickly? Really? Others urged Collingwood to re-sign Buckley because he is the “best available”. Well, that’s true if you limit the pool exclusively to current coaches with long-term experience who are uncontracted.