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Whilst the drawn circles wouldn't fit outside the track, the old glenhuntly football ground next to Glen Eira college is oval and something that shape would fit outside the track, although wider than the purchased land. Our admin buildings would not fit in the 2024 map on the website though. The northwest and Southwest corners would come into play. As you say lots of negotiations.

The MFC website has a whole section including maps of the proposed facilites, Frequently asked Q&A, What the facilites will contain, letters to members etc. But all of it hasn't been updated since September 2024. They don't have to give us everything, but since that time there have been various possible adjustments given out including Waverley, the car park area and special events area at Caulfield. Surely they could have put an update every 4 months or so.

I agree on speed. It might take a while but Rivers, Windsor, Kossie would be our quickest and Langford Culley Viney and Steele for strength when needed depending on opposition. Lindsay and Latrelle would also go through. Lots of options and more than most other teams. It could mean we could run over sides towards the end of games.

On the website under Club there is a drop down menu called 'creating our home' which gives a picture of the set up from what appears as it was in 2024, but we know the admin is not going in the location shown on the map and is set for the eastern event space. if you open the image in another window you can enlarge it to read easier. Hopefully at the AGM there is an updated version of the map. There is also a lot of Q&A about various concerns there. Probably good to read it before the AGM.

From the reports It seems the players going through the midfield so far excluding Viney number 10. Apart from interchange it seems the possibilities for resting (for want of a better word) them are Half Backs - Rivers, Windsor Lindsay Wings - Lindsay, Culley, Langford, Langdon Forwards - Culley, Langford, Steele, Latrelle, Kozzie, Sparrow, Not a limited list but likely. A huge improvement on flexibility from last year. Laurie, Tholstrup and Sharp could add to that list.

Can any trackwathaers say whether X Lindsay is playing a midfield role in match sims or elsewhere.

Agree. They are going to pick sides that will transition to a top side in 2-3 years. Having 2 defenders on a 5 man bench a long way out. More like 1 Ruck/forward, 1 defender, 3 midfield.

A couple of injuries and some coming back from long term injuries and it practically picks itself. Heath is the only other probable.

Also you can't rest all your midfielders on the bench. Some to wing and half forward. Some have to spend time at half back

I think the reason no-one took him in the draft was that because he was still growing he would be a 2 -3 year prospect and there were many other ready to go prospects in the early picks. By the time the later picks came, other clubs were looking at keeping rookie spots open in the same way we were to help their salary cap. In any event, Melbourne could simply match the bid as a father son.

If Onley is 197 then White is well over 200.

So on the P/L we are $1.5 in profit over the 2 years?

2nd round

Great work It's got everything

It's pretty amazing. We were one of the smaller clubs and now are one of the tall clubs now. Lost 11 off our list - 8 of them 175 to 187 and 3 taller than that. Put on 9 - 2 small forwards, 6 talls 192 -205 and Steele who is 188

As an aside I hope they put a few on as train on players - we always unfortuately have long term injured that need to be covered.

Clean hands, takes the game on, uses his reach, comfortable going on both sides kicking and handball. I like it. Hope they don't rush him.

yeah needs that don't think -do mentality

Great replacement for Spargo. The difference being that he can kick the ball some distance and actually kicks goals.

Yeah. I guess it depends if we like someone such as Ollie Greaves or 2 -3 others. It's much better to look at train on players and go to the SSP but you also have the chance that other clubs take the player you are after in the rookie draft.

you can still do father son in the rookie draft. We've done it recently. Sinemma might not make it though as there are many highly rated players from the draft not taken yet and I think we have pick 5.

Rookie draft tomorrow afternoon

if you want a player whose going to give you something to build a midfireld around, play 200+ games and maybe captain the club you would look to taking Sharp. If you want to add a bit of mongrel and offensive defensive role you take Taylor. If you want a guy who is going to run rings around defences and drive opposition coaching crazy you pick Latrelle. We look like having a very tall forward line with both Gawn and Heath resting there for 40% of the time. Mihocheck, Petty and a new look JVR are also very mobile so it's perfect for Latrelle

Thanks for the training reports. They seem to reinforce the idea of quick transition and changed my way of thinking about positional football. Apart from the centre bounce with 6x6x6 the emphasis is on speed between the arcs (unless you want to control the tempo). We went from half forward to high half forward to both half forwards being high and generally playing as extra wingmen. This in turn mean your half backs were going with them, also like wingmen. Certainly our centre bounce 3 will be much quicker with a combination of pickett, windsor and Rivers at least some of the time. Excluding the ruckman, we've gone from 3 midfielders on the ground and 2 on the bench to 9 on the ground and 4 on the bench. With JVR so much less weight and more mobile it seems that we will play the extra ruckman with Heath 40% ruck, 20% forward and 40% bench. Max 60% ruck, 20% forward and 20% bench. With so much marking targets up forward, its hard to see how other sides will intercept mark against us. Love to know if this fits in with match Sims at training or going too far.

agree totally. We had a father son last year kick 7 for Casey, and on that basis he would be picked