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I am 100% confident he trained pre match sim with the whole group. I thought he was involved in match sim. I thought playing key defender for the B team. I could be wrong though.

Yep ANB played played in the blue team. Played well to.

Vanders was there. He trained but I think may have missed match sim.

Had a look down at Casey today for training. I’m not the best training observer and the view wasn’t the best as you have to stand on the outside fence. So can’t go up to the boundary. Trac hasn’t missed a beat. Dominated the match practice. Played through the midfield. Ben Brown presented well and kicked a couple if not more. A big unit and as expected has long run up. Fritsch looked sharp up forward. Tmac played mainly a high half forward role I thought. Turns out wing/forward. Got a bit of it and looked to be moving well. James Jordon played through the midfield in what seemed to be the A team. Got a bit of the footy. Rosman I didn’t notice too much in match practice. But took a nice grab playing forward. He’s a big unit. And moves well. Bowey seemed to injure himself early in the session. Came off and rode a stationary bike. Then came back out later with some skills stuff. Didn’t look like anything serious. Chocco has them doing a fair bit of skills stuff. Starting out with short kicks then longer type drills I thought the skills looked pretty good and there seems to be a focus on moving the ball quickly out of congestion. Jackson didn’t do much but was out there early and then later. Maybe having a light day or has a niggle. Didn’t seem injured. (Read afterwards he has Achilles awareness and will be back training next week) Gus I believe did some skills work Hibberd didn’t seem to do any training. I saw him kitted up but maybe doing work inside as he walked past a couple of times. Petty seems to be in full training. I thought I saw him in match sim. But seems no one else did. Harmes seems to be back in the midfield. Got a bit of the footy. Also I thought Spargo and ANB were lively up forward. I also thought I saw Melksham participating in the skills work pre the match sim. But I think others have reported he missed. However I’m sure it was him.

Yep foot surgery.

I did see a news snippet saying basically Brayshaw the only player in rehab.

I think it may have been Bedford last year. And yep ANB and Tmac have been previous winners I believe. I heard ANB and second and Tmac third this year.

I hear Rosman took out the time trial.

I heard it’s groups of 10 at this stage.

A pass mark for 2021 for Goodwin is top 8. Realistically he won’t be there in 2022 if we don’t make finals. I do think though we need to win a final and show a competitiveness in finals.

So 7 news Adelaide said Burgess was in the mix to go to Crows. They better sort this out soon. Don’t the 1-4 year players start pre season next week?

I was initially not sold on getting Brown. However came around to it reasonably quickly. He will straighten us up and allow Weideman to get the second defender. Hopefully his experience in setting up the forward line will help us. I’ll be annoyed if round one we see three key forwards jumping for the same ball every time. The value we extracted from this trade is amazing. Never thought we’d get him this cheap. Similar if not better value then Bruce and Schache trades.

Lewis Jetta would be worth a chat. Pace and skills on a wing or back flank. But yep. Probably depends how keen he is on a move to vic to carry on his career.

I would like to have kept Hannan. He has speed and some tricks. Can’t see us getting much back in a trade.

I’m with you. I’m not overly sold on Brown but see why the club is going for him. He could pair well with Weideman and leave Weideman with the second defender. And yes Goodwin and Mahoney have jobs on the line so will want to recruit a mature key forward.

If we think he can become a forward hitting the scoreboard and applying pressure he could be a cheap get. Especially if Hannan and maybe one of ANB or Bedford go.

3 years will mean he’ll be 34 heading into his last season. If 3 years is what it takes then perhaps that’s what we do. He has pace so when he does slow down he will still likely be somewhat quick. And I doubt he’ll be asking for huge dollars on a 3 year deal. Will bring experience and a fair amount of knowledge of what it takes.

Apparently on a truck load of money as the contract goes on. Back ended and pies maybe looking to invest in a key forward. Not many win a flag without a key forward.

Surely if Collingwood let’s Treloar go it’s for a key forward. Merrett has better skills but not necessarily an overall upgrade on Treloar.

I have only really heard Barrett say we’re after Brown. Has anyone else linked us to him? Would make sense that we move Tmac on if we get Brown.

If Mahoney can turn Preuss and 23 into pick 9 he is a genius. We’ll be lucky if we get a pick inside 30.

I remember when we drafted him. A few doggies fans were annoyed we got in before them. Haven’t heard any rumours re Hannan to dogs.

It’ll probably land on giants pick 39. But given Preuss is contracted I suspect and hope we’ll ask for more. Supposedly on 400k or so. So we’ll get that off our books.

Not the worst idea as a DFA should we trade Preuss.

Yep my original post suggested flipping a late pick to saints for him. And yeah you could get for nothing as a DFA perhaps.