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As pure a footballer as you'll see. A lot of Dusty and he's a long way ahead of where Dusty was at the same age.

I wouldn't...

Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't see it with Lindsay. Salem actually far harder at the contest too, for what it's worth

JFC can we quit it with the Lindsay stuff Dude is nowhere near the level

Amazing analysis - every player is a chance to be taken by any number of clubs with picks around their projected draft range. Dees linked to every player on the list as we sit right in the middle of the range of jets getting through, and next tier pushing up.

Agree - if we can't get Lalor, Smith is probably both the best performed player of the rest and the one most suited to our needs.

Not different - right & wrong 😄. Happy to call it here - Toumpas level bust if we draft Lindsay.

Lindsay has red flags all over the place imo. Highly unnatural in the contest, panics under physical pressure and makes poor decisions, and for a highly touted kicker, misses a lot of targets. I swear people see a left footer with a nice action and they start crafting a story that he's a slingshot half back who can open up the game. Watch more closely

Unreal

My thought too

Feels like the inverse Jordon

Lalor clearly the best player in the draft. Clearly.

We could have convinced Meek. He looks up to Gawn...and guess what happened to his form this year when Gawn started mentoring him on the side? Lamb is just incompetent - has no idea what the squad genuinely needs, is a poor judge of footy talent, character and chemistry

To be honest, I think the AFL has totally missed a trick and doesn't quite understand the secret sauce they had their hands on. They've opened up the game, it's never been quicker or more skilful, but it's far less engaging to watch. Teams just march the ball down the field and the structures lead to so many over the back goals you may as well be watching a training run. What made the sport so unmissable was the toughness, the tension, the unpredictability and haphazard-ness (if that's a word). Where it came down to crucial contests, high pressure, scrap and the will to win. Yes it's messy, but viewers respond to visible/visceral effort and commitment far more than kicking skills. The combo of that toughness/contest in a 360 degree game was very unique to our game. There are still games and moments that fit this mould, but far less as the rules have encouraged teams towards the opposite style which is being set up to succeed.

The criticism isn't always about shortened quarters...it's also about doing it away from the cauldron of the MCG and without the distraction and pressure that the normal week brings. Even though we absolutely [censored] it in, I do wonder whether we would have got it done at the G. We'll never know but there's enough fragility about this group to suggest to me the forced relocation and togetherness was actually an advantage rather than a hurdle.

I agree mate. It was both one of the best and saddest days I've had. Obviously very thankful and grateful it happened and I was well and healthy to see it (on the box...in lockdown), but not being able to have the week - the special, quintessential Melbourne week - that I've seen others have just sucked. I just want that week - that the pies had, the tigers x2, the dogs, so many cats fans, so many older Hawks fans - and to attend the game with my brother in the flesh.

Might just be me but I don't see it with Langford

Hawks playing very well and are the flavour of the month...doesn't necessarily mean it ends in a flag. Although it is a particularly weak year. Reminds me a lot of us 2018 - we were fun to watch, young, having fun, stormed through the first two finals. That year certainly put us on the path to a flag though we had a few more bumps to navigate first. Hawks may be similar.

What possibly makes you think pick 5 is not a gamble? It has a chance of landing a 'plug and play midfielder' - it also has a chance of landing Jimmy Toumpas. Don't get me wrong - I like the draft pick - but this is a classic case of opting for the mystery box over the known quantity In relative terms - pick 5 is at least as much of a gamble as Dan Houston

Pretty effing bizarre if you ask me. Did they honestly expect it not to get out? Or that clubs would find a way to make it work? Super weird thing to do to your employer who you supposedly respect

Mate he had a horror year and couldn't get the money he was offered last year. He's taken the $ and security and will back himself to get back to that value...and then request

Yeah it was a long time ago - I'd need to scour the net for every interview McVee has ever done. Might have been a pod actually from memory, early on in his career. Said he'd like to return to WA one day. Could have meant post footy and he was very early, but pricked my ears at the time.

McVee already flagged he wants to return to Perth. It was a very early interview before he'd found any success. But I expect it to happen one day once he has adequately increased his worth to be able to make the request

Didn't WCW tell us she spoke to his partner and they were beyond happily settled in Melb?

He's a ball hunting mid imo. Not sure why the FD haven't seen it