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C'mon mate, he's completely shut down Harris Andrews that quarter.

Umps doing their best to keep lions in it

This is why Benny Brown is best 22.

It was a joke mate. Of course they'll never do that I the first quarter.

Sub Melksham off..

Well done Benny Brown!!!

He's got a girlfriend.

Any whisper on the sub?

Yeah look, I had this exact same feeling around trade time as well. We're spending 650k on a ruckman to learn forward craft at VFL. Even if we couldn't get a forward at the time I too would have preferred to get a young back up ruckman and save the 650k for extra cap space to go hard for a Ben King or even Aaron Naughton. Anyway, it is what it is.

Dees by 15

You're not going to develope forward craft all of a sudden at 29 years of age at VFL level. I was always against the move from the start and was worried we'd get to this point where it simply hasn't worked and we have to leave one out to get team balance right. I must admit, I have felt Brodie's ruck work and follow up at ground level was much better then Gawns. I know they can't drop a captain but I had to pick between the two on form then I'm picking Grundy. Intrigued to see how we'll go tonight. Only takes Gawn to go down and then we're left with JVR as our main ruckman.

Jeff desperately wants Kalani drafted doesn't he.

Grundy dropped. Puts to bed on some whom were saying he was rested lol.

I agree, I think he's been in far better form then Gawn in ruck, so for me, it's a bit of loss to the team. With that in mind, it means more minutes for Gawn in the ruck and could make us more mobile as you stated.

How so

Mitch Cleary saying Grundy in doubt.

Probably 5 years ago. Watched him recently and he's completely cooked as a footballer. Feel like he's never been the same player since the Brayshaw incident.

This is really interesting and good take. I've always seen him as someone that will potentially step into the midfield. To me he's very similar to Zak Butters from Port Adelaide in terms of speed, size and toughness. I mean, we genuinely underestimate how hard he is for such a little fella. I remember Jason Taylor's comment in the 2020 draft video where he stated that Bowey could be a Sam Mitchell type midfielder. So the potential to move up the ground is there.

I think its silly to rule it out as 'Ever'. He was drafted as a 1st rounder playing as a pure half forward/wing. So he's got the talent in that area that Goodwin will experiment with imo. @Demon Dynasty Even spoke to Jake at Training and Bowey mentioned that this is an option that the club may look into over the next year or two.

Yep agree, tagging two mids at once just takes away our midfield strength as well. Why have two starting mids play a negating role whilst the other is left to then fight and scrap from an offensive point of view.. Back our system in. Sparrow imo, is edging close to a break out game in the midfield. He's been building the last couple of weeks. Potential 30 plus on Friday night hopefully.

Now we're talking...

Then how does he get back in? To be honest I haven't seen any signs of McVee looking tired. I'm all for resting blokes if need but only if it's there. Can't see why he can't play every game from here on. Remember Rivers, Jackson and Pickett all played every game of the year in their 2nd season back in 2021.

I'd be incredibly shocked. No one has still answered my question in who he's replacing in our back 6? If Bowey had to come through the 2's off the back off a one week concussion then Hibberd is doing the exact same off a 3 week injury.