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Mitch Brown Signs on for 2022

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A bit surprised by this but equally happy with it. He’s solid backup.

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    We’ll see if Melksham gets moved on but otherwise if McDonald or Fritsch got injured wouldn’t we’d prefer Melk or going small with Harmes and Petracca forward more.

    If Jackson or Ben Brown get injured we’d go Weid.

    Down back Tomlinson should be right by mid year. Hore might be a defensive option. Turner looked not a mile off a 3rd tall role.

    And if he stays on the list Declase could pinch hit at half forward or half back.

    Daw as a forward/ruck or in a total emergency could go back too.

    All up it just doesn’t seem to make sense to carry a 5th choice key forward and 5th choice possible key back. One who’s probably too injury prone to last a series of games as well.Β 

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    2 hours ago, DeeZone said:

    We now have what we once lacked, solid depth with Hunt, Weid, Bedford, Baker, Chandler, Laurie, Rosman, Turner, De Classe, Daw & Brown we can cover all area’s on the ground for our next crack at the Granny.

    Just names on a list there. The only proven AFL player on that list is Hunt.Β 

    Laurie has promise and based on VFL form Weid, Chandler and Daw aren’t far off it.

    But there’s a reason we used the same 23 players for most the year.Β 

    We’ll need improvement in some of those guys next year to get to the 30+ it usually takes to get through a season.

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    6 hours ago, roy11 said:

    Weid and Brown signing on, assume we've moved on fromΒ Jack Gunston?

    Hope so. Stuffed back as far as I know.Β 

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    Makes plenty of sense. Cheap and reliable backup that knows our system inside and out. Much prefer this than the Gunston risk.Β 

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    5 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

    We’ll see if Melksham gets moved on but otherwise if McDonald or Fritsch got injured wouldn’t we’d prefer Melk or going small with Harmes and Petracca forward more.

    If Jackson or Ben Brown get injured we’d go Weid.

    Down back Tomlinson should be right by mid year. Hore might be a defensive option. Turner looked not a mile off a 3rd tall role.

    And if he stays on the list Declase could pinch hit at half forward or half back.

    Daw as a forward/ruck or in a total emergency could go back too.

    All up it just doesn’t seem to make sense to carry a 5th choice key forward and 5th choice possible key back. One who’s probably too injury prone to last a series of games as well.Β 

    This was your opinion on this topic at this time last year too. I was looking forward to seeing how you would react this time (quite measured really).

    I'm not going to disagree with you. I thought he would be nearly the first one out the door. With Tmac and Brown being injury prone, it's not the worst option to keep him on. No way would we want to roll the dice on Declease when defending our title.

    If 2 of our key forwards Brown, Tmac or Weid go down then he will be needed. Leave Jacko playing his current role.

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    If one of Petty, May or Lever got injured next year could he play as a defender?

    I cant think of any other back up options outside of Tomlinson.

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    2 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

    If one of Petty, May or Lever got injured next year could he play as a defender?

    I cant think of any other back up options outside of Tomlinson.

    Disco Turner and Declase got picked up for that very reason didn't they? I hear good things about Disco but let's face it... if 2 of those players go down we are going to struggle to replace them.

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    12 minutes ago, BAMF said:

    This was your opinion on this topic at this time last year too. I was looking forward to seeing how you would react this time (quite measured really).

    I'm not going to disagree with you. I thought he would be nearly the first one out the door. With Tmac and Brown being injury prone, it's not the worst option to keep him on. No way would we want to roll the dice on Declease when defending our title.

    If 2 of our key forwards Brown, Tmac or Weid go down then he will be needed. Leave Jacko playing his current role.

    I’m a bit less upset now we’ve won a flag. I wonder if he’s a de facto forward coach or glue guy.

    I just think he played 1 game this year in a year when Brown and Weid started the year broken down, McDonald was a maybe at best and Petty hadn’t proven himself.

    I know we need ready made depth I just think he’s far enough down the list to get the same performance from players with upside. And whilst we won’t be Geelong any time soon it all seems a bit Geelong keeping Josh JenkinsyΒ 

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