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Weideman and McDonald are absolutely pox. Sooner Brown is in the better.

Not sure. But he's more forward then midfielder.

Is currently with the under 16's Oakleigh Chargers team and played alongside another father son prospect in Kynan Brown last week against Sandy Dragons. One to watch.

Ryan Koo is a former NGA prospect for the Dees. Though, I'm pretty sure he's still eligible even though he finished up at Dandenong Stingrays last year.

Based on...?

Great to have another premiership defender back in the team and a fantastic player too. And please, no more small forwards as subs.

I was in the boat of just playing Petracca forward for majority of the game but now I think he needs to be rested. This is the same knee that he did the ACL and I think we just need to give him a rest and back out depth and also the likes of Oliver, Viney etc to solider on. I want a fit Petracca for the reminder of the year and if it means taking a week or 2 off then so be it. We brought in Dunstan for this exact reason so let's see what he has to offer.

Not it's not just you. I tried to watch it the other night and it had no sound as well.

Alternated between mid, forward and back. Jason Taylor seems to think his best position was on a wing. Someone of his versatility could become a real handful once he is able to get some size and experience into him. Cameron Bruce is who I think of in regards to Howes with his versatility.

Yep, that's all there is to this. Get better with each game, gain some experience and then who knows in the 2nd half of the year what senior opportunities may present for him.

He's listed at 194cm tall so you would think he's similar to like a Joel Smith/Marty Hore type?

I didn't watch GWS game but is it true Whitfield buckled his knee during the game and is in some doubt?

The mighty Hoppers.

I agree also. I am in no way trying to shame Ben and I hope it doesn't come across as such If you see my above post I think from all reports Brown was targeted to off the ball tactics and in that case it's meant he retaliated. Exact what Williamstown wanted. Umpires have a duty of care on the night in making sure this off the ball stuff doesn't happen. It's a complete disgrace that they failed in their duty of care for Ben.

Does it really matter? Both deserves suspensions. Imo they were far too kind to Preuss

And in fairness to Brown it sounds he was targeted off the ball all night. If that's the case then it's the umpires duty of care in looking after Ben and they failed miserably once again.

Because you can't elbow a bloke to the head area. Regardless of what people think he deserves the 2 weeks. The AFL are trying to stamp out this behind the play stuff. If he's had a delay concussion out of this then it justifies a suspension. Braydon Pruess copped the same suspension for his exact same act. The head area is sacred. Pretty simple.

Yes, hence why the system is a rort..

With GWS going in with the respected tagger in Matt De boer I think it's fair to say he'll go straight to Petracca without doubt. I do wonder whether Luke Dunstan will come under consideration to come in to play some decent midfield time while Petracca may spend a little bit more time up forward and expose De boer and break the tag in a more meaningful way. We know the impact Petracca can have up forward and one on one he can beat just about anyone in the comp. Tom Sparrow as much as I like him as a player hasn't exactly set the world on fire even though I know he's playing a support role.

Jesse Hogan from watching him Round 1 of the VFL

@binman who was there in the night said he played 4 quarters.

I heard the comment too and get why May would be relieved. In all honesty Smith lack of footy awareness and smarts shows out pretty evidently on game days.

A fair few were saying the exact same thing with the like of Jayden Hunt and James Jordon as well after their first year. What they proved was that sometimes players just need a little bit of extra time more then others. Just to point out a little perspective on Laurie, he has basically missed 2 years of competive footy. His under 18's year was completely wiped out with covid, and then his first year in the AFL system last year he only managed 3 VFL games due to a severe injury and then covid as well wiping out the VFL competition. Right now the way I look at it is that this will be a development year for him and people expecting him to play AFL games need to temper those expectations. He needs to just have a year of getting use to playing against the bigger bodies and the pace of the game as well and then hopefully with another full pre season under his belt we'll see him come in and start to make an impact in the way that James Jordon did last year after spending his first 2 years just toiling away in the VFL.

Forget the fine I'd suspend Smith for 2 weeks.

In what way?