Christian Petracca and Jack Viney named in All Australian squad

[At the break of Gawn 3,693]

Tom Stewart making the team is an absolute joke. Has had an average season and Geelong’s defence has been ****house this year. I genuinely hate Harris Andrews and I’m no Weitering fan, but to have Stewart before them is ridiculous and the AA selectors are just playing favourites.

[loges 6,252]

On 8/29/2023 at 5:05 PM, picket fence said:

I have Tracc and Vines being equal 1ST . Stand by for a shock... Lachie Hunter to finish 4th or 5th in Bluey IMV

Those that want Hunter dropped every second week NFI.

[GM11 702]

AA is as big a joke as the Brownlow these days.

It's all media driven, boring and cringeworthy.

[Demon17 4,658]

9 hours ago, Bates Mate said:

So could not give a flying F about these awards anymore. Just popularity contests based on the so called experts in the media.

Good on those who are recognised but it's just not what playing footy is about. 

 

 

Spot on.

Curnow kicked 3 goals in two games against a quality full back in Steven May..  

Defensive selections dubious in the extreme with Sicily, Stewart and Moore (who is off the boil for a while) .

Andrews deserved better. But Viney missing out the worst.

Just win the flag team.

[jnrmac 19,328]

Jackson LOL. First 6 weeks the supporters wanted their money back

 

He had 7 games with 10 hitouts or less. Never took more than 7 marks and had limited disposals in 9 games

 

If that's an AA then I'm a monkeys uncle

[BDA 20,647]

I’m not fussed one way or the other about the AA team. Bigger fish to fry.

I do question the Jackson selection though. Watched him a lot during the death ride and he put in a lot of mediocre performances. Some standout performances for sure but if that is all that’s required I reckon Gawn more worthy of the jacket

[Dee Zephyr 18,045]

10 hours ago, Binmans PA said:

Congrats Trac, but someone like Zach Merrett ahead of Viney? Are you [censored] kidding me?

Yep AF, a massive Congratulations to Trac. His 4th blazer got lost in the wash a bit.

Trac became the third most capped Demon ever behind Gawn (6) and Paxy (5).

[layzie 29,783]

Serong I can deal with. Zach Merrett? Had some ripper games but had some total honkers as well.

Daicos rover is interesting but you do need him in. From my armchair view I'd have Daicos HBF and Viney Rover but that's my fairyland opinion. 

[layzie 29,783]

6 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Tom Stewart making the team is an absolute joke. Has had an average season and Geelong’s defence has been ****house this year. I genuinely hate Harris Andrews and I’m no Weitering fan, but to have Stewart before them is ridiculous and the AA selectors are just playing favourites.

Couldn't agree more. I'm a fan of Tom Stewart but he seems to have reached this 'gold card' AA membership status. Would have picked one of those other two for sure. 

Edited August 30, 2023 by layzie

[jnrmac 19,328]

Kyle Langford, Essendon 

23 matches this season, 51 goals, 23 behinds 
Averages 13.7 disposals, 66.9% disposal efficiency, 5.7 marks, 1.6 inside 50s, 1.3 score assists, 0.8 contested marks, 1.6 tackles and 0.9 goal assists

 

This was a joke surely?

[layzie 29,783]

Decent case for an AA second team.

 

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by layzie

[george_on_the_outer 7,067]

Why does the team need 3 FF's and 3 FB's while they name only 1 ruck ( English)? 

Curnow, Walker and Larkey. FF's

Wilkie(wtf!), Stewart, Moore.  even Sicily? FB's

It just means very good players in other positions get denied.  e.g Rowan Marshall is a far superior player to Callum WIlkie.

 

 

[Garbo 1,364]

Feel like they now want every team to have a player how very equitable of them. Where was that in our dark days, Nathan Jones would be a 4x AA by today’s standards 

[Macca 16,174]

On 8/30/2023 at 10:59 PM, fr_ap said:

It just means people don't notice how good we are anymore because they expect it, and because our contributions are very even across the side. 

And no better example of your evaluation is our defence.  The best in the league on a year to year basis and collectively, chock full of talent

Yet not one of our defence gets an AA guernsey?

So May, Lever, Rivers, Salem, McVee, Bowie & Turner (with Brayshaw helping out) go about their business with a minimum of fuss and they're not noticed? 

I'm damn sure the opposition & opposition coaches notice them

Defence wins Championships