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Not entirely sure. Pur fitness program would have played a bigger role. I was more talking about the off season when he was in Perth. Jacko took his fitness levels pretty serious and I think that set himself up well for the season.

I'm not entirely sure the reason why they went for Jaeger O' Meara in the off season. 29 year old who's banged up with knee issues and he looked pretty underwhelming on the weekend with only the 19 touches. Just on Jackson regarding fitness. Jackson use to source out a pretty popular PT guru in Perth by the name of Bodymajic. The guy that runs that works with several other AFL Perth based players and was the key catalyst for setting up Jacko's fitness levels heading into the 2021 season. Since he's moved back to perth I didn't see much footage of Jacko on the instagram page which probably means he stopped going. Could be the reason why he looked sluggish on the weekend.

Just an update on Kynan Brown and a little bit of Noah Yze. A contact within Murray bushrangers attended the Oakleigh Chargers practice match on the weekend against Sandringham. He's an opposition club scout. His opinion was he thought Kynan was close to BOG for the chargers playing as a midfielder. Was quite impressive around the stoppages and showed a high level of grunt and speed as well. He reckons he'll push himself into top 20 draft calculations if he keeps this form consistent all year. Noah Yze also played as a bottom ager and he reckons he showed some really exciting traits and little bit of X factor at times throughout the game. Played forward majority of the game and he reckons he's a genuine watch for 2024.

I remember seeing vision of McDonald and Goodwin in what looked like a serious discussion after the match to which McDonald and Goody both looked down towards his foot.

He's not spending the full two weeks in Adelaide...

To then meet with Freo ...

I thought about this also. As long as Pickett feels supported and it was him that made then call then I'm happy. It's these little things that will come into consideration whether he stays or goes.

Not contesting it.

I noticed Jed Adams played on the weekend? Any idea how he went?

Kozzie..?

The Perth fish bowl can eat you up and spit you out pretty quick.. just ask Hogan. Not entirely sure Jackson and his family really took that into consideration when they were pressuring him to come back.

They could play Rivers on him?

Okay. Not entirely sure I'd put that purely on Harmes considering they both still ended up with 32 apiece. We obviously saw the game completely different to each other. I just personally thought he was disappointing and had little influence alongside Sparrow. Coming up against Brisbane though I'd still have these two playing and if Viney is fit then he'll come in for kozzie/Laurie.

Exactly how it played out when I watched the replay. We barely do any tagging throughout games because Goody backs our midfield to get the job done. Especially now that we're doing a full blown midfield rotation then it's highly unlikely you're going to get someone in there tagging for a significant period. The Viney comment I meant that Harmes got more significant midfield minutes purely because Viney wasn't there considering he even started the game in the centre circle.

Libba had 18 disposals and a goal in the 2nd half with 11 coming in the 3rd quarter. That's not quiet by any standard... Treloar had 16 disposals and a goal in the 2nd half with 11 also coming in the 3rd. Bont was definitely the quite of the two but that had nothing to do with Harmes as there wasn't a hard tag on him. Not sure entirely sure what exactly is 'quiet' in your books, but Treloar and Libba were still going fairly hard in the 2nd half.

Lol he barely had a hard tag on him mate. I watched the full replay this afternoon and followed Bonts movement around stoppages. There were times Harmes stood near bont and that was it. Not even a hard arm across him or anything. If anything Harmes probably spent more time on Libba and Treloar then he actually did on Bont. There was a CLEAR focus that we weren't doing a hard tag on him and it was us simply backing our midfield system over theirs which proved success. Hatmes role was purely to fill in for Viney and provide extra grunt around stoppages. Watch the actual game again.

Watched Liam Henry today. He was certainly very impressive.

Uh oh..It's started. "Jackson sucks, Fyfe is too old, we don't have a forward line, Treacy can't play football and Ethan Hughes is on an AFL list" • "Melbourne must be celebrating today, genuine shot at a top 10 pick all of a sudden" • "Jackson can't mark to save his life." • "Hope Melbourne enjoy our 1st rounder" • "0 marks to Jackson is a bad stat line by itself, but he was out bodied and out read every time the ball went near him in a marking contest. And he added very little more at ground level." • "I don't remember being terrified and lacking confidence being in his draft profile." • "Bullied at clearances despite HO advantage, we looked outsized in there without Mundy. Jackson looked out matched as well." • "I thought Jackson overall was poor. And yet he started so brightly with that neat handball to Freddy for our first goal. But it was summarized by his lazy boneheaded kick around the body shot for goal that missed the lot. And that basically characterized the afternoon.....sigh!"

And it begins...

Fantastic win by the Saints considering the outs they have.

You know what's even more disappointing? The fact that Nathan Jones hasn't even been offered a lap of honour since retirement.

Was going to say, Dee fans were a lot placid compared to what Essendon supporters will dish up if he doesn't perform. On par with Essendon and Carlton fans as the worst in the competition. Hopefully he does for his own sake.