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My early top 10 for next year 1. Finn O'Sullivan - 181cm Vic Country 2. Levi Ashcroft - 179cm Vic Metro (Lions F/S) 3. Sid Draper - 180cm South Australia 4. Josh Smillie - 194cm Vic Metro 5. Leonardo Lombard - 178cm Allies (Suns Academy) 6. Tyler Welsh - 191 cm South Australia (Crows F/S) 7. Jagga Smith - 181cm Vic Metro 8. Christian Moraes - 182cm Vic Metro 9. Tom Gross - 182cm Vic Metro 10. Ben Camporeale - 184cm South Australia (Carlton F/S) This suggests that we should be looking forward to more bidding for academy and father/sons but not to the scale extent that we saw in last week’s draft.

Happy with that and now working on my 2024 list.

We listed Kynan Brown as a Category B in the Rookie Draft. Does this mean we still have two rookie places? Assuming it does and we take Marty Hore, how is the club looking to fill the other vacancy?

Injury and Suspension List: Semi Final Angus Brayshaw - Concussion | TBC Ben Brown - Knee | Test James Harmes - Hamstring | Test Jacob van Rooyen Suspended | 1 Week Luke Dunstan - Knee | Season Blake Howes - Hand | Season Jake Melksham - Knee | Season Harrison Petty - Foot | Season Oliver Sestan - Elbow | Season

6. Max Gawn 5. Clayton Oliver 4. Kysaiah Pickett 3. Lachie Hunter 2. Christian Petracca 1. Alex Neal-Bullen

Sounds familiar. 😀

Injury List: Qualifying Final 
Michael Hibberd - Concussion | Available Bayley Fritsch - Foot | Test Ben Brown - Knee | TBC Luke Dunstan - Knee | Season Blake Howes - Hand | Season Jake Melksham - Knee | Season Harrison Petty - Foot | Season Oliver Sestan - Elbow | Season

Seeing as how the game takes place in a little over 24 hours time, I can’t see why they haven’t released the teams.

Trouble with Phantom Drafts at this time of year is that things change over the finals and then again when trading starts.

And if Alonzo Rockland-Nelson makes it, I’m pretty sure that he would be the first Alonzo to make it. What a strange world it is that we live in?

On the AFL site, Ben Brown is shown as a “test” so I suggest that he will be given a further opportunity to prove his fitness and prospects of playing AFL finals further down the track. Michael Hibberd is also being shown as a “test” though he might not have qualified under what are believed to be the rules. Perhaps, a request for exemption might be warranted on the basis of his return from injury?

Club update to come but this has just gone up on the AFL site (no mention of Fritta) https://www.afl.com.au/news/1020359/medical-room-the-full-afl-injury-list-week-one-of-finals

Club update to come but this has just gone up on the AFL site (no mention of Fritta) BBB and Hibbo included as tests! I will also put this up on the Fritta thread.

Where’s Hibbo at the moment? Can he break into the team?

Injury List: Round 24 
Bayley Fritsch - Foot | Test Michael Hibberd - Concussion | 1 - 2 Weeks Ben Brown - Knee | TBC Blake Howes - Hand | Season Harrison Petty - Foot | Season Oliver Sestan - Elbow | Season

Injury List: Round 24 * Ben Brown - Knee | Test Bayley Fritsch - Foot | Test Blake Howes - Hand | Season Harrison Petty - Foot | Season Oliver Sestan - Elbow | Season * from the AFL website and therefore might not be complete

Injury List: Round 23 Ben Brown - Knee | Test Daniel Turner - Hand | Test Bayley Fritsch - Foot | 1 - 2 Weeks Blake Howes - Hand | Season Harrison Petty - Foot | Season Oliver Sestan - Elbow | Season

Injury List: Round 22 Tom McDonald - Ankle | Test Clayton Oliver - Hamstring | Test Kye Turner - Groin | Test Ben Brown - Knee | 1 Week Daniel Turner - Hand | 1 - 2 Weeks Bayley Fritsch - Foot | 2 - 3 Weeks Blake Howes - Hand | Season Harrison Petty - Foot | Season Oliver Sestan - Elbow | Season

Injury List: Round 21 Tom Sparrow - Calf | Test Clayton Oliver - Hamstring | 1 - 2 Weeks Tom McDonald - Ankle | 1 - 2 Weeks Kye Turner - Groin | 1 - 2 Weeks Bayley Fritsch - Foot | 3 - 4 Weeks Daniel Turner - Hand | 3 - 4 Weeks Blake Howes - Hand | Season Oliver Sestan - Elbow | Season

Injury List: Round 20 Harry Petty - Ribs | Test Clayton Oliver - Hamstring | 2 - 3 Weeks Tom McDonald - Ankle | 2 - 3 Weeks Kye Turner - Groin | 3 - 4 Weeks Bayley Fritsch - Foot | 4 - 5 Weeks Daniel Turner - Hand | 4 - 5 Weeks Blake Howes - Hand | Season

Free kicks 17 to 9 in favour of Coburg - what’s new? Happens every week to Casey.

Not when taken in the right context which is that the Swans play the Dockers next up and allowing them an extra player is beneficial to the Freo death riding cause.

Injury List: Round 19 Harry Petty - Ribs | Test Clayton Oliver - Hamstring | 3 - 4 Weeks Tom McDonald - Ankle | 3 - 4 Weeks Bayley Fritsch - Foot | 5 - 6 Weeks Daniel Turner - Hand | 5 - 6 Weeks Kye Turner - Groin | TBC

They clearly stuffed up the graphics so I’ve extrapolated the stats from last week’s reports and come up with this:- Injury List: Round 19 Michael Hibberd - Kidney | Available Harry Petty - Ribs | Test Clayton Oliver - Hamstring | 3 Weeks Tom McDonald - Ankle | 2 - 4 Weeks Bayley Fritsch - Foot | 5 - 6 Weeks Daniel Turner - Wrist | 5 - 6 Weeks Kye Turner - Groin | TBC I have a feeling that in the case of Clarrie they went ultra-conservative with his assessment and it would not surprise me if he came back sooner than this.

Injury List: Round 18 Harry Petty - Ribs | Available Michael Hibberd - Kidney | Test Tom McDonald - Ankle | 3 - 5 Weeks Clayton Oliver - Hamstring | 4 Weeks Bayley Fritsch - Foot | 6 - 7 Weeks Daniel Turner - Hand | 6 - 7 Weeks Kye Turner - Groin | TBC