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2010 AFL premiership season preview with Leigh Colbert:

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Have a read and tell me your thoughts...

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For one, he has Fremantle pegged in the top 8...

Your link wasn't working. Fixed. I think Colbert's views hold true. He is right about our forward line troubles, even though they are obvious, and this year being a development year. He is spot on about the importance of Davey too.

He knows where the Melbourne players are at in my opinion. He has tipped the Dees for 15th, I can't argue with that at present.

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Your link wasn't working. Fixed. I think Colbert's views hold true. He is right about our forward line troubles, even though they are obvious, and this year being a development year. He is spot on about the importance of Davey too.

He knows where the Melbourne players are at in my opinion. He has tipped the Dees for 15th, I can't argue with that at present.

Thanks for that. I'm really not sure. While I don't think Carlton or Essendon will make finals, I can't see Fremantle and North Melbourne finishing where he predicted. Very hard to tell just from pre-season results, but I also think he's pretty accurate in his assumptions. Forward line is a serious worry, however I can also see us winning 8 games or so towards the latter half of the year, which should bump us up to 11th or 13th on the ladder.

Hmmm I hate admitting Melbourne is that 'average'.

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I think it's probably the best and most honest and on the mark season preview I've read thus far.

Excluding Fremantle making the top 8, it's pretty solid.

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I think it's probably the best and most honest and on the mark season preview I've read thus far.

Must say, I agree.

Excluding Fremantle making the top 8, it's pretty solid.

I don't think it's beyond their reach at all. It may be a bold prediction, however Freo will be hard to beat at home, their list is way more advanced than people give them credit for.

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I don't think it's beyond their reach at all. It may be a bold prediction, however Freo will be hard to beat at home, their list is way more advanced than people give them credit for.

"way more advanced"...?! you do realise where fremantle finished last year, don't you ?

if you're banking on their form in the NAB cup, you're misreading their form ! so too colbert.

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"way more advanced"...?! you do realise where fremantle finished last year, don't you ?

if you're banking on their form in the NAB cup, you're misreading their form ! so too colbert.

Yes, I realise where Freo finished. Eighth spot is what, about 5 more wins than they achieved last year ? I think they can achieve that with a few more wins at their home than they had last season, easy.

To me they are more advanced. They have some big names as well as an elite player in Pavlich.

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Yes, I realise where Freo finished. Eighth spot is what, about 5 more wins than they achieved last year ? I think they can achieve that with a few more wins at their home than they had last season, easy.

To me they are more advanced. They have some big names as well as an elite player in Pavlich.

No Chance. Crap team with a crap coach. So many passengers and so one-paced.

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No Chance. Crap team with a crap coach. So many passengers and so one-paced.

Hill? Morabito? Ibbotson? Palmer? Pavlich?

With a dominant ruckman to force feed them the ball?

As bad as Harvey may be, he could still get this team to scrape in the 8.

One of the reasons I wasn't so concerned when we were soundly beaten in NAB1.

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No Chance. Crap team with a crap coach. So many passengers and so one-paced.

Opposition supporters would find this quote quite amusing.

Yet, they spanked us and followed up their form away from home.

As Enforcer pointed out they have some quality players in their list to more than compete. With the addition of Morabito to the likes of Hill, Palmer, and household names in Hasleby, McPhee, Ibbotson, Mundy, Broughton, Schammer & Co. They have the makings of a pretty good midfield with key forwards in Pavlich, McPharlin, etc...I just think they'll be much improved this season.

As is always the case with Interstate sides that have competitive line-ups, they will win their fair share of home games.

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