dazzledavey36

W..T..F..

https://mobile.twitter.com/Stevo7AFL/status/699864022414266369 Get excited.

Your reading way too much into a very small issue..

Yeah i thought the whole Coffee thing was bit bizzare personally.. Do Perth not sell Coffee at all or..?

Cook is playing VFL

Jesse no doubt still loves being back at home. You only have to look at his instagram account during his time off that he does enjoy the company of his mates socializing. I still thinl one day eventually he will return home. Perth is really much better place then Melbourne personally. Great surfing beaches which is Hogan's number 1 hobby.

If Hogan left (personally think he will leave eventually) i expect the club to make an all mighty mother of all trade deals.

Mate Hogan leaving wont be the end of this footy club. Hawthorn and Geelong have proved this that you can still have success without their number 1 star player.

Good article on Oliver in the local Echuca paper. Clayton a Demon for punishment

This makes me think we possibly have a VFL/SANFL/WAFL player in our sights but who knows.

Just on Oliver the couple of games o saw the bushies play obviously he dominated. He definitely was alot pudgy compared to what he is now and even back then he had a good burst of speed when he could win a stoppage and just burst out of the contest. For a kid that was carrying weight i was quite surprised and impressed he actually had decent pace. Now that he is trimmed right down and toned up i expect his pace to really go up a notch now to the point where who knows maybe it might be Dangerfield like.. A 187cm 86kg Beast of a midfielder bursting out of packs is something i have seriously craved for a long time.

I know its an absolute joke.

Trent Cotchin is the most overated playerin the AFL. His leadership is putrid and hasn't even gotten a kick in last 2 years finals. It was an absolute joke that he got air time in last months superstar segment on Fox Footy. Please.. Give me the lion hearted Nathan Jones every day. EDIT: Why is that everytime i open up to comment the last reply i quoted is still there and it won't go away. Happens all the time. Friggen frustrating.

He didn't say that all Saty.. i dont speak for him but i agree that at the moment we are still all too reliant on Nathan Jones as our go to man and someone who is just going to win us games. We are NOT going to be playing finals if that is still the case. For us to become a good finals team we need the likes of Viney Brayshaw Tyson and Salem over the next few 'years' to really step up to the point where they are getting hard tags instead of Jones. Remember Shane Crawford? For some many years he was always their number 1 midfielder during those first couple of years of Clarkson era. He was the inspirational skipper that was always getting the number 1 tag and Towards the end of his career in fact 2008, Hawthorn had a good spread of up and coming A graders in Mitchell Hodge Lewis that they were able to take more control of the midfield leaving Crawford to play more on a half forward and rotating off the bench and still able to make a contribution. This is the dream scenario for me in 3 years time when we are playing finals that Tyson Viney Brayshaw Oliver Salem and Petracca will be all borderline A graders and starting on ball line up that they are able to push Jones out to playing more up forward rotating off the bench and still having an influence exactly like Crawford did.

If training form gets you a spot in our round 1 side then Terlich, Matt Jones and Jack Grimes will be playing.. I do not want that.

Don't want to turn this into a [censored] sling contest but if Paul Roos can continue to play Nathan Jones with a busted neck all year then I'm pretty sure he will be in his round 1 side regardless of he is 80% fit.. Look at our round 1 side last year. We had a very healthy list and we still played Kent Vanden Brayshaw who all had interrupted pre season's and had to play couple of games at Casey first.

Anyways lets get back to Clayton Oliver who i am genuinely excited to see play this year. Will be very interesting to see if Roosy does a 'Brayshaw' with him see how he goes at VFL level first. Going by the training reports seem to be really impressing so far!

Jones has always been a strong runner right from his Triathlon days back when he was playing TAC cup. I think they want to improve his running to really push him to the next level which is great. Even if he hadn't Jones would still get a game regardless. He is an absolute inspirational and courageous captainthat there is no way Paul Roos wouldn't select him based that he couldn't improve his already strong running endurance.

Good article on Oliver who is now living with the Brayshaw's http://www.aflplayers.com.au/article/new-demon-oliver-at-home-with-the-brayshaws/

What i got out of that article was how Toumpas failed some of those 'character test' yet Wines fitted into them beautifully...

Theres your first mistake.. taking Matthew Lloyd too serious. The guy is an absolute [censored] who can't take his bias essendon jumper off. I take more pleasure listening to Caro then this idiot.

I can see a padlock on this thread soon..

I'm not one for conspiracies but I wonder if the reason for putting Michie on the rookie list was based on that if Melksham did (has now) got rubbed out he would be the back up rookie elevation. It makes more sense now then putting someone like a Jayden Hunt who many wanted rookied instead of Michie. He can now come in as the big bodied mature age player to fill in for Melksham and can still come into the side and play a role. While I think White and Wagner would be other good options they are still unknown in terms of experience and ability (I do rate white highly though)

And i'm not sure your the best person to discuss in terms of what really happens in the culture of footy club TBH.

After what Paul Roos thought on our treatment of Watts then i highly doubt this. The Schwab Connolly days of trying to fairy tale every young player debut is over.