DistrACTION Jackson

It makes you wonder why the AFL were so keen on having 18 teams, when they had no plans for a proper season.... such an amateur organisation.

Agreed. Have no issues with his courage in the air. He won't be a big bodied key forward, but more in the vein of a Jarrad Waite type player I think.

Our defence looked very vulnerable in the first half, which I put down to having Smith come in with not a great deal of training with the defence group. Lever looked all at sea early and was unable to play his natural role. I would like to see Tommo come back in to focus on a lockdown role to allow Lever to play with more freedom (exact same thing happened early in the year). As for the replacement for Petty, who knows what we will do. Grundy will be a massive upgrade in the ruck but downgrade forward. Smith is a much better sub in my mind than playing a full game. Schache is the most obvious like for like replacement, but not sure he is up to AFL standard.

She is so good to watch. Think she will be a top 5-10 world player in no time.

Not really related to the injury, but given what we have seen with Petty and JVR forward should we be targeting a key defender in the off season? I personally would look at getting a key tall to play alongside May & Lever and leave Petty as a key forward.

I reckon the Bont will win it this year.

Size and scope I think. He doesn't have any specific weapons, he is just a neat, solid player. Probably a good thing though as it will likely cost us a very late pick and he looks like the type of kid who will get every ounce of talent out of himself.

5 weeks until our first final. You doubt we would risk him, but he could be back for a prelim/semi if we make it.

I think we would want a bit more back from WC is we are giving picks 4 & 5. From a draft number perspective those two picks are worth 3,912 points and pick 1 is worth 3,000 (I note that the draft values aren't as relevant in this instance). We would probably want WC second round pick back for that and maybe a swap of other picks.

Cornes is so biased it's embarrassing. Amazed no one else in the media is calling him out for not doing his 'Vol-Kane-o' segment about this. He is an absolute peanut and can't stand the bloke.

Yeah he is. I've always liked him as a player and find it surprising he has one of the lowest DE in the comp. He's always seemed like a neat user to me.

I'm fine with that personally, given we got the same thing for Frawley (though I think he was a better player than McKay). If they give them both I will not be happy and I'd definitely be open to taking Sanders out our first pick if he's available.

The AFL will probably give them an end of 1st round but give them access to Sanders, so essentially they get two top 10 picks anyway.

I'm in the camp that would rather we use our 1st pick, Freo 2nd and our 2nd to try get Gold Coasts first. We can then take two top 10 picks to the draft. As mentioned before I would be surprised if we aren't interested in O'sullivan. 198cm key defender and a great replacement for May in 2-3 years time. Plus if we want to stick with the Petty/JVR forward combo moving forward it would be nice to have another gun key defender to replace petty.

Slightly different to the other ones, with Caddy much higher.

My preference is to try get the GC pick and go with Duursma and O'Sullivan

The thought of the king returning gets me way too excited....

The fact Port tried to list Jones as being out with a "migraine", shows how deceitful they are and the fact they are trying to by-pass the rules. It is clear as day and I don't care how they try to spin it, the facts are damning. I actually think the majority of club Doctors, potentially every one other than the Port Dr, has erred on the side of caution and if they have one shred of doubt they are pulling players out. Not even being a medical professional, there is no way I could look at that footage and say, 'I'm comfortable there is no chance there was a concussion'. I think the AFL will tighten the rules and in events like that, even if a player passes the relevant tests they will still be subbed out given how often concussion symptoms are delayed.

His highlights reel, especially from the first 10 or so years was freakish. I enjoyed jeering him whenever he played us, mainly because I knew how good he was and it is a mark of respect in my mind when you feel the need to get stuck into the opposition! Been a pleasure watching him play.

It's settled, we can go out this offseason to find another key back and Petty is Neita 2.0

My god, Sumich is so full of excrement it's mind blowing how these people have jobs in the media. 18 year old key forward plays in reserves to improve football ability rather than getting thrown to the wolves..... Then imagine we did play him last year, would just say oh the mishandling of van Rooyen for playing him too early....

Connor O'Sullivan looks pretty impressive, if we decide to take two top 10 picks instead. He looks almost a carbon copy of Darcy Moore. Imagine pairing him up with Petty for 10 years.

Totally agree.... but just preparing everyone in the event it does happen.

The issue is I have heard rumours that the AFL plan to give North a band 1 compo for losing McKay and may also give them academy access to Sanders. If this happens, North will likely be taking Watson, McKercher and Sanders.

Yeah I agree with that, there is unfortunately not many key forwards available.