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All is forgiven from last Saturday! Great work dees- great work Sam!

Would definitely have a role to play in our best 22, but he is far from a star or match winner. Will be interesting to see what his trade value is...

Yes.

Can’t take any people-management advice from a man who: a) Refers to a player as a ‘poofta’ on air. b) Refuses to alter his version of how a name is pronounced. c) Can’t tell the difference between Sudanese players - even when one isn’t playing. d) Routinely humiliates himself trying to communicate with players in the obscenely self-indulgent ‘Roaming Brian’.

Not sure on the 'AFL traits' argument. He's already played more career games than the majority of AFL draftees. His vision and poise in traffic is first rate when his confidence is up. At the moment, his confidence is rock bottom. He's still a kid.

Wow. Scroll back about two pages and the site was glowing about his potential after a very good first year. The kid has a lot of talent, with great creativity and awareness. What he doesn't have at the moment is confidence; he running on a flat zero in that department. He is a developing player in his second year who is struggling to back it up. Not only is this not unheard of, it's common in league football. Form is temporary, class is permanent; and I'm a believer.

Couple of points from the article: a. Not an AFL decision, so no point criticising them. Richmond Cheersquad decision. b. Still allowed to attend matches, just has to sit somewhere else. c. Was ejected from the Melbourne v Richmond match for homophobic abuse. This is clearly a numpty who has been given a warning by the cheersquad and has beached it. If it was a ‘fan’ being banned by the AFL for only saying ‘green maggot’ then yes, its ‘PC gone mad’, etc. But the cheersqaud members have rules and this person broke them on multiple occasions. Sit somewhere else.

Father was a gun! Loved that mid-90s swans team; was great to see them come from nothing to just short of a flag. Lockett, Roos, Kelly, Creswell, Luff, Maxfield, Kickett, Dunkley, etc.

Sister plays netball for the Vixens too. Some seriously good genes in that family.

I’ve clearly missed something here... where’s it say he’s ‘slow’. Clayton Oliver is an inside mid- certainly not slow. Welcome Kyle! Was shaping to go in the early rounds of the draft this year as a mature-ager. We basically get a player an and extra second/third round pick in the national draft; good outcome. If he’s anything like his brother, who was also overlooked by Sydney as a father/son, then we’re onto a very good player.

Who are GC tipped to take? Dunkley was a shoe-in for number 1 a week ago.

It said later in the article that players who retired last year (Cyril Rioli) could only be in the mid-season draft if they'd also nominated for the 2018 National Draft. https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-02-07/midseason-draft-when-is-it-and-how-will-it-work

Don’t understand the gloom about the mid-season draft- I’m a bit excited by the prospects. Tim Kelly was playing WALF two years ago. Plenty of high quality players plucked from the state leagues in the last few years!

Who can clubs recruit? Clubs will be able to draft any footballers who have already been on an AFL list, or who nominated for the 2018 NAB AFL Draft. Any player delisted at the end of 2018 cannot be re-selected by the club that delisted them, unless they nominated for last year's NAB AFL Draft. There will be a five-day window for players to nominate for the Mid-Season Rookie Draft from Monday April 29 to Friday May 3.

Open to anyone.

Beautiful and deeply moving speech and video. Very keen to see Baker do well.

I'm an optimist and will never go into a match thinking that we can't win, but realistically, finals aren't going to happen this year. With that said, I am very optimistic about next year in a similar vain to Geelong 2006/07 and Richmond 2016/17. Our best football is very good and our best 22 is outstanding; this year has proven that neither of those things are a 'given' and are far easier said than done. Plenty to keep me interested in the next two-thirds of the season though. Liking the look of Lockhart, Hore, Baker and Petty, and am very happy to see Hunt back in the team and playing with confidence. Excited by the hopeful return of Lever, Hannan Kolodjashnij and May. AVB is a favourite of mine and we were a much better team with him in it last year; praying for a miracle for his foot/ankle/leg/lower-body. If we can get a few continuous games into our best 22 before then end of the year, that should be a good springboard into 2020.

Completely unrecognisable from the kid that got towelled-up against stkilda last year. Played with aggression and confidence. A very exciting prospect.

Good debut and showed a lot of the traits that we’ve been wanting to bring into the team. He’ll hopefully pick up the pace and awareness with a bit more experience at senior level; his brain was definitely on VFL pace on a few occasions. I liked his instincts to run, carry and attack- we need more of that.

In his interview he said wing/half forward.

Much harder to mark cleanly too.

Was just looking this up to post here as well. The torp is a thing of beauty when it works... which is maybe 15% of the time.

That’s huge news about Lever! Great if he can have a run around in the VFL.

That may be in reference to fitness to play senior football. By the way Goodwin describes it, sounds like he’ll just be making a cameo at Casey this weekend.

Ankle injuries in his U18 year and some more since.