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Simliar situation for him as JVR early this year. Probably should have got a game for the finals, dropped after a good game against Sydney, so should be in the frame for round one. and its Sydney up there again. He looks ready to go.

Agreed. He has not shown enough as yet. Im hoping he and Adams can push for selection this year.

The 2022 draft class have yet to debut. What are the expectations on them coming into their second season next year ? Reminder its Jefferson, Adams. Verrall, Sestan

I think Sestan is one of the most talented players we have. he also gets the ball the least unfortunately. hopefully his second year is the year for him.

Weitering wasnt even the best at his club that year. Walsh isnt clearly the best player either.

bloke says nothing for 2 years then does a drive by based on no evidence whatsoever. We've whined have we ? Love how people are experts only after the siren is blown for the second final. didnt say anything last week in case he had egg on his face. well done.

This. I feel the same. Lost the will to watch the finals. Have to take a break. its just orchestrated results at the tribunal and no care for the player beyond some words. Disgraceful.

well said. I'm very glad Goodwin made those comments. Your Pickett example is a perfect comparision, chose to bump and got him in the head. and Smith played on. We copped 2 weeks and we moved on. And that changed Kozzie, he was flying but came back not quite as instictive. He had to change his game. And so should everyone else. I do fear however they will take this outside the tribunal like the Cripps one and manufacture an absolute rubbish response. i.e Cripps was a 'bump' so all was forgiven. pffft.

im actually stunned at the 'nothing in it' comments after so many get suspended for far less. Do we want ot protect the head or not ? I'm lost for words. He braced himself for front on contact and knocked him out.

yes we arent hunting like 2021. We have to smash into Carlton at 100 miles an hour on Friday night. nothing to lose type attitude and put them on the back foot for a change. Carlton smashed us early last time. time to enact revenge.

disagree. Brayshaw was exactly what we needed when they were coming in the first quarter and a half. We lost by 7 points. It made a difference. our sub wasnt nearly as effective.

well what can you do when Brown goes down, then Petty, then Tmac, then Melksham comes good then hes injured. There are only so many options.

But thats part of their problem. They are fanatical. The night of the bread rolls got rid of Matthew Knights, they demand to press boundaries all the time, and love their own like Dodoro despite all the evidence they aren't progressing. Very much like Carlton but the difference is Carlton have had patience and finally moved past the old brown paper bag era. Essendon havent got their game together for the modern game. The bombers have had many high picks and they are still a long way off. And I rate Scott as a coach. thats one good appointment but he was about their 4th choice, as the other fell down.

I love the apathy on here for this bloke. Are people insane? All Australian and 5th in the brownlow, inside outside runner who racks them up. Not a great kick ? so you dont rate Clarry, Brayshaw and Petracca then. Has averaged over 30 possies last 3 years in his prime at only 26 years old. The only argument is around balance. He is absolutely a quality midfielder.

I thought Turner and Laurie as the sub both had good game. Turner whilst beaten on the lead early seemed to get better as the game went on. His aggressive kicking was executed well and he is tough as nails and with a lot of great contested work in what was a brutally hard game. I think we have a beauty !! he just needs more time at AFL level. Laurie is finding that condifence Bowey had first year and showing his tricks. His passing and movement through traffic was terrific.

I'm a fan. He was dynamic, very hard at it, took on some very aggressive kicks and executed. I think he could be a beauty. Only thing is (and the same problem for Thomlinson) is taking a ruck one on one. But he brings the pace we need. The future looks bright if he can hold down a key back spot, and be attacking with Petty up forward. I trust Goodwin to make the right choice.

hes a perfect examplre of a role model top football clubs need. Nobody would have him first 222 at this stage. How did he keep the fire in the belly playing at Casey for long periods ?

I don't see it for Hawthorn. I see a lot of enthusiasm, but I think they have the worst (perhaps equal with Weagles) midfield in the league. I don't see the talent. Newcombe having a purple patch but he'd hardly make the bench in our team. Lewis is a decent but not great key forward in his 6th year. Sicily is A grade and easily their best player, they have no other big blokes to speak of and no great runners coming through. They are not on the rise.

i liked it. i have never heard him pot someonbe like that. McGuinness had no objective to get the ball and hes pointing that out. hardly good for the game. Micky Gayfer was policed out of the game aginst McAdam one day for just playing the man and they couldnt play him after that. This bloke needs to be highlighted.

Question - why do we start so poorly lately? In the first quarter they switched the ball defensively with little bother from us to stand theirplayers. We were just spectating and they came to play. didnt the North game show us anything? We fixed this up mainly in the second half but why arent we covering the crosses earlier. Kozze was meandering around and they just played chines checkers with our forwards with ease and ran the ball up the ground. fely like under 12s stuff.. Thank god for ANB as he always is alert for this.

exactly what i thought at the time. [censored] kicking put him in that situation. Petty did everything right.

its extraordinary. its was all the umpires. !! talk about excuses. I thought Richmond melted under pressure in the last, their backline became very shaky, Dusty nowhere to be seen as we just closed them down perfectly.

the thing with recruiting collingwood players, is even when they make the squad of 25 its headline news. its just ridiculous week after week how many non-stories are posted about Grundy. The stories this week are he may or may not be back, riverting news. Geez I hope he plays in a finals against them and we win.

a real mixed bag but in no way did the crows deserve to win that. We made them kick from long range and angles so its not like they were missing sitters. 2 50 metres (the Melksham one wasnt even a free) in the last quarter and the Lever bump as he kicked it is downfield was a freebie goal. please. Then inexpilcably we made some horrible turnovers to gift them goals, so we almost lost it, but in no way could the crows really think they deserved to win. I did love how they whinged re holding e.g Woewoedin mark and goal, with all their off the ball holds on Gawn, Petracca Viney all day. Apart from short periods of wonderful footy it was a wokmanlike perofrmance. Job done, so now please start rotating and resting some players as we play the weaker teams.

I think ifif Harley Reid has told Weagles he doesn't want to play there, they would be open to trading pick 1 to get as full value as possible. i.e effectively trading for Reid. If we had pick 4 its not out of the question we could get him. If Reid is head and shoulders above the rest that is.