DubDee

Is this coz we have so many quality tall forwards? wtf? play the bloke up front in his position. he is by far our best tall fwd. the odd run in the midfield is fine to mix it up but regular midfield time? dont get it

The best Leadership group I can remember us having

Duncan is the 'Ringo' of that group the two Sydney teams have far superior midfields to Geelong imo. Ablett will do well to play 12 games

would you have them higher or lower? seems about fair to me. would have collingwood behind them though

Would like to see him encouraged to take the next step even if not overly comfortable with the title as I think he would flourish further with T Mac up front, we need him to be a more vocal leader, organising the defence. even though Lever is down there and the oldies will help out off half back

Man the commercialisation is horrible. Kicking a zooper?? Wtf. I know it's only aflx but how long until it's hogan with 2 Zoopers and 4 Pepsis. The afl selling out

Any idea what the crowd is like?

wonder why they are not playing this at Aami on the rectangler ground? round-ball football is played at Etihad it would be much better to watch and not many will be there so atmosphere would be better

20 player squad required for that Ex-AFL rubbish on friday so that would disrupt our chances of having an intra-club, you'd think

When Danger and Selwood win it in the middle, they will shank it straight down lever's throat. Very unlikely they will all be fit for round one. Veterans tend to not train much in preseason so our youth will get the jump on them

ive seen this come in a little in the AFL last year. Players eg Daniher rustling an opponents hair or jumping on their back after scoring a goal on them. you would think it is common decency to show a bit of respect but apparently not. if things like this continue, it should be looked at but you'd hope clubs handle it in house. surely we don't need a 'Dont be a [censored]' rule

just over 3 weeks to go until our practice matches start and 7 weeks until Round 1 Can we get excited yet?!?! Im already there With only 2 hit outs before round 1 I would expect the best and fittest ~29 to play.

before the last round of last year we were paying $11 to miss finals and now we are similar odds to win the flag before the seasons starts (I don't have a point, just the first edition of 'DubDee's OddSpot')

oh THAT selwood

Sloane is a very good player, but not a star thats worthy of big bucks IMO. he went missing a fair bit last season when tagged don't get me wrong, a very good player and leader

completely agree. I was having a go at the AFL not the sydney clubs. The AFL should 100% run and pay for these academies it's an unfair advantage imo. Heeney and Mills are both worthy picks 1s and should have gone to struggling teams

Its a disgrace that Sydney get propped out with equivalent no.1 draft picks when in the top 4 through the acadamies The two sydney teams will be hard to beat over the next 5 years

Bizarre experiment. I thought the season was already too long for the players? why risk injury for this mickey mouse comp?

Great to Hear Viney is back running :-)

if he plays the majority of games he'll get to game 300 (maybe in a GF?!) when he is 32 yo he will sht it in and finish on ~340 games with a Matt Boyd-type couple of seasons in the back half

all relevant points but we only have ourselves to blame. we had early picks in 2007 and 2008 too and screwed them up. anyway best to move on! :-)

Hunt and Hogan to be AA. not sure if that is a 'breakout' worthy but thought id chuck it in

yeah I remember in 2010/2011 when we were going to be the next superpower or "they're gonna be something" the thing that is different is that back then, people thought early draft picks equaled success. Dees had the pick of the draft before GC and GWS came in so everyone thought we would be a good team. Shows how intelligent the media are! now we are talking about young players that have shown elite potential on the field which gives me real hope. and the club has some stability for once. We haven't sacked a coach since Neeld. certainly our most stable period since Daniher

Player B has arms. He uses them to handball as his arms, it seems, is where his hands are located. Can see Goody will have a post coaching career in the Media with his special comments!

Who's the funny looking dude looking at the camera? baggiest shorts since Eddie