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Is Jed Adams there?

Agree. The season hasn't even started and I already feel that we're feeling the affects of his departure.

Translation for: "We've really not progressed as well as we would have like and there is currently no option available at this point".

Lol...

I think he did a good enough job. But you're right, the lack of support around him was minimal unfortunately.

The footy club last year posted a 3 minute video on match simulation. We then won 10 games in a row. Opposition clubs would struggle to nitpick anything out of this. They had an interview with James Harmes the other day and the most exciting part about that whole video was seeing a quick 5 second grab on Matthew Jefferson taking a strong contested mark. I loved seeing little glimpse like that on our first year players. No one is asking for a full streamed match simulation. Save that stuff for when we're playing practise games against St Kilda next week.

I like Chandler. But, there are areas of his game where he tries far too many times in either trying to break tackles or tries to do too much and coughs it up. Take that into account his lack of pace as a small forward then he has some serious work to do in breaking into that best 22 on a weekly basis. I do love his defensive pressure and intensity and that'll win Goody's heart if he maintains this consistently.

I've been on the freo website and they've had a couple of 3 minute intra club highlights over the past few weeks. Most clubs have have also done interviews for first year draftees about starting life as an AFL footballer etc as well as injury updates along the way. Max Gawn has tight hammy and it's breaking news all of a sudden out of the blue. Yet no injury reports on the lesser names like Melksham and Joel Smith. Meanwhile we put up cringe videos of mini golf and shooting toy basketballs into hoops. Why they think this is exactly what the fans want is beyond me. Gibbo is a huge loss and it's very evident in this. We're just blessed that we have regular track attendees on here who are able to give up their time and and report on actual football related stuff.

Hi ProDee, Excellent training report. How did Deakyn Smith go? Was Jed Adams playing in the match sim or rehab?

Looks like the hype on McVee is getting real. Some media outlets have him as a smokey round 1 debut.

The media department has been extremely poor this off season.

Who's impressing you the most?

Tom Brown.

It's certainly worth pondering. History has shown that some deals via verbal agreement have occurred 12 months prior to being out of contract. Could that be the case here? Who knows, but it certainly would not surprise me if there is some strong negotiations going on between player management and Tim Lamb. There was some talk a Melbourne based club had strong interest in Liam Henry but was contracted, so the move was highly unlikely. Makes sense if it was us. Also worth noting that I do know we had strong interest in Henry in his draft year alongside Serong, Weightman, Kemp and Miles Bergman. Henry was obviously an interest due to him having shown his outside ability but also play as a small forward.

Yep. The golf was yesterday afternoon.

They're training at Casey today.

Great product and definitely a popular treat in my household!

Don't know what y'all talking about.. I love Hawthorn supporters.

Absolutely.

Part tagger you mean.. Wasn't played as a tagger at all in both finals last year when we had the likes of Luke Parker, Callum Mills and Lachie Neale smash us around the midfield in both games.

47?

Would not be surprised of Harmes isn't playing round 1. Reckon he's on the outer now with the emergence of Sparrow and Jordon and more midfield minutes for Pickett.

You're under selling Petty here. Barely ever wastes the footy.

Good luck to him. Only way I can see him getting a game is if there is serious injury carnage to our tall defensive stocks.