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Sam McClure's 2026 A-Graders

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I agree with Sam about not having Kozzie in the side.

A player that just got selected in the All Australian and had three x 5 goal/24 possession games isn't A grade worthy.

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    2 minutes ago, poita said:

    Sure Sam, one of these players is A grade and one of them isn't.

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    Stay on 9 Sam. For losers

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    McClure wouldn't know a good footballer from a good haircut. And he's got neither.

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    18 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    I agree with Sam about not having Kozzie in the side.

    A player that just got selected in the All Australian and had three x 5 goal/24 possession games isn't A grade worthy.

    You're kidding if you base ratings off an exhibition game...

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    For everyone complaining that Pickett isn't on the list...read the article. McClure makes clear that to be on his list of A-graders, you need to have performed at an A-grade level for at least two seasons. He notes that Pickett will be on the list next year if his 2026 is as good as his 2025.

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    4 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    For everyone complaining that Pickett isn't on the list...read the article. McClure makes clear that to be on his list of A-graders, you need to have performed at an A-grade level for at least two seasons. He notes that Pickett will be on the list next year if his 2026 is as good as his 2025.

    Now you have just gone and taken all the fun out of Sam’s post.

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    7 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    For everyone complaining that Pickett isn't on the list...read the article. McClure makes clear that to be on his list of A-graders, you need to have performed at an A-grade level for at least two seasons. He notes that Pickett will be on the list next year if his 2026 is as good as his 2025.

    And he claims Gawn may be the best ruck ever and certainly the best ever Melbourne player. (he said it, not me.)

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    The only thing I would argue is that Kozzie is very hit and miss. When he’s on, my god is he on. But sometimes he doesn’t turn on at all in a game or only does for a quarter or two.

    Hopefully this is hit season and he makes his stamp on the game.

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    55 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

    McClure is D grade

    He’s certainly showing signs of D-gradation.

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    1 hour ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

    The only thing I would argue is that Kozzie is very hit and miss. When he’s on, my god is he on. But sometimes he doesn’t turn on at all in a game or only does for a quarter or two.

    Hopefully this is hit season and he makes his stamp on the game.

    Like the 21 finals. Red hot in the PF and MIA in the GF.

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    Toby Greene fascinates me.

    I dislike him intensely. And because I'm not a rational creature, that dislike manifests in accentuating his negatives and ignoring his positives. Even still...

    ...when I watched Kingsley tear him apart in the half-time team meeting I was thinking each point, as blunt to the point of nastiness as each one, was correct.

    I can appreciate Greene is a good footballer, but he has never struck me as a captain and is defensively hugely questionable. I wouldn't have screamed his flaws at him in front of the entire playing group and I certainly wouldn't have released those criticisms publicly, but I can understand how frustrating they would be for a coach...

    ...and why they make him a LONG way from an A-grader.

    But, no, there is is every top 50 list... and has been for years.

    Is my contempt just blinding me or is the "Toby tax" actually the 25% extra credit he gets from Herald Sun and Fox Footy journalists for being a misunderstood tiprat-made-good, the perfect antidote to a world gone woke (where woke means preferring people don't spit on you)?

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    2 hours ago, rjay said:

    You're kidding if you base ratings off an exhibition game...

    They're not.

    You need to read their post again.

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    A bit left field, but I’ve heard commentators say Brandon Starcevich is a genuine superstar, but because he plays a lockdown defender position he largely goes unnoticed. Essentially never gets beaten? (I don’t watch many Brissy games so I’m only going off what I’ve heard).

    No A+ rating possible if you’re a lockdown defender? A REALLY REALLY good lockdown defender?

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    2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    For everyone complaining that Pickett isn't on the list...read the article. McClure makes clear that to be on his list of A-graders, you need to have performed at an A-grade level for at least two seasons. He notes that Pickett will be on the list next year if his 2026 is as good as his 2025.

    That explains Pickett not being there. It doesn’t explain Dangerfield being on the list nor to a lesser extent Sicily Petracca and C Camreron.

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    3 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    For everyone complaining that Pickett isn't on the list...read the article. McClure makes clear that to be on his list of A-graders, you need to have performed at an A-grade level for at least two seasons. He notes that Pickett will be on the list next year if his 2026 is as good as his 2025.

    Kosi, statistically, has out performed Charlie in most key categories over the last two seasons. McClueless is exactly that.

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    Can’t stand this guy. Prefer we don’t even give his article any oxygen at all. All about the “clicks”.

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    I think Will Ashcroft is A Grade, his dozen games in 2024 must’ve cost him a spot.

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    2 hours ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

    Toby Greene fascinates me.

    I dislike him intensely. And because I'm not a rational creature, that dislike manifests in accentuating his negatives and ignoring his positives. Even still...

    ...when I watched Kingsley tear him apart in the half-time team meeting I was thinking each point, as blunt to the point of nastiness as each one, was correct.

    I can appreciate Greene is a good footballer, but he has never struck me as a captain and is defensively hugely questionable. I wouldn't have screamed his flaws at him in front of the entire playing group and I certainly wouldn't have released those criticisms publicly, but I can understand how frustrating they would be for a coach...

    ...and why they make him a LONG way from an A-grader.

    But, no, there is is every top 50 list... and has been for years.

    Is my contempt just blinding me or is the "Toby tax" actually the 25% extra credit he gets from Herald Sun and Fox Footy journalists for being a misunderstood tiprat-made-good, the perfect antidote to a world gone woke (where woke means preferring people don't spit on you)?

    I find this really surprising to be honest, besides Dusty, Toby Greene would have to be up there in this recent era as one of the most consistently damaging forward/mids. Whatever flaws he has as a player or person, he single handed wins games of footy. He’s kicked 233 goals in his last 103 games…

    If Kozzie can kick 2.2 goals a game for the next 103 games, I’d say he’s an A-grader, haha

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