MurDoc516

Did some thinking about the Preuss rumors linking him to Sydney and GWS. Based on the draft order as is, both these deals rank Preuss in 'pick terms' as a value of pick 35 which i think is fair. Which would you rather and give us the best platform to bring in what we need. Equation 1, out: Preuss, P47 in: P22 Equation 2, out: Preuss, P47 in: P39, P46, P66 Tools used: draft order and draft guru pick calculator.

I will be [censored] gutted if Viney leaves. How do we turn away people who bleed red and blue? Viney wasn't a problem in our final series 2 years ago, but now he is a problem because Goodwin is playing Brayshaw on a wing. It's all Jacks fault to this mob in here. We should never be in the business of trading our best players.

We ain't getting a big fish. Saad, Smith, Mihocek IN T. Mac, Pruess OUT

Williams and Cedric Cox sound nice. I think we can shed ANB and a Baker for example

Darren Burgess has tipped Langdon for best off-season recruit. Who knew taking your time with your disposal = better disposal. Ta umps, forgive you for last week. Spargo got that foot IQ, loved it. Lockhart loved the game. Harmes is in the side just because he is a good athlete.

Need to lift in the middle, seems like we are allergic to a centre clearance. Otherwise great half

i was but i thought i'd look more biased... I know Trac did get legged and atleast one holding the ball was ignored

North Melb : 13 Melb: 2 1. against Harmes soft punch to thigh of north player 2. against Oliver holding to north no.14 3. against Harmes for chop of arms to Larky 4. against Weideman for high contact on north player who lead with his head 5. against Spargo for not looking at ball and attempting to spoil 6. out on the full by north 7. against Hibberd for high contact (more of a sheperd off the ball than anything) 8. against Tomlinson for holding Larky 9. against VanderBerg for running across the mark 10. against Oliver for a push in the back (literally a hip on shoulder in the contest) on North no. 14 11. against north no. 35 for holding the ball 12. against Pickett for holding the man (the man was actually in possesion of the ball?) to North no. 16 13. out on the full by melbourne 14. against Harmes for high contact on Goldstein who ducked to shrug the tackle. 15. against Salem for high contact on north no. 44 1st qtr free kick count btw. Highlighted our free kicks

We losts the clearences and got decimated in the hitouts... we are getting way too excited here over beating a team that nearly turned it over more than Adelaide did. I really don't see how Gawn or Viney not staying in the midfield makes us better. I think we just need to be smarter with the overall balance in the team. Do we need Vanders, Harmes(clearly way out of form) and Jones in the side? 3 guys who wants to be in the thick off it when Viney is better than all 3 of them and we could do with some more outside run and better ball users being brought in. Now if that comes from within or from trade/draft that's another story.

I see a solution, drop Harmes and keep one of Spargo, Sparrow, Hannan or Rivers consistently in the side and rotate Brayshaw and Viney through the middle with Trac and Oliver. Harmes has been incredibly poor and ill disciplined for basicalyl the entire season. Viney has been brilliant, shouldn't be a question over his spot.

I despise North Melbourne. I just went back and watched the 1st qtr because i knew the free kick count on afl.com was wrong. i counted 3-14 in favour of North if you include the 50 metre penalty. Funnily enough that was their best quarter. Positives: Trac, Lever, Clarry, Weid, Jackson and Rivers all brilliant for me. A lot of people on here loving Spargo's game, maybe i need to rewatch, thought he was good not outstanding. Negatives: Harmes once again with the ill discipline. Goal Kicking was poor.

all 3 played well, would say 1. Jackson 2. McDonald 3. Spargo if you had to rank them

I've not been a big fan of Goodwin for a while now. But i don't blame him for the Port lost. We had more of the ball, more inside 50's and took control of the corridor in that 1st quarter and players didn't lay a glove on Port. Then they capitulated in the 2nd when called to stand up. Enough talking from the players, time for them to just play football and lets see which ones want to have successful careers.

Few thoughts - Oscar and Lever were brilliant in 2018 together, let's not forget that. I really hoped Joel Smith would've taken the role as 3rd key defender, but Oscar has now for the second time proved himself as a great defender when has a good mix of bodies around him. - Our defence is looking better because the pressure is sustaining for longer. Any defence will look ordinary if it's getting bomb barded. Mids and Forwards locked the ball in and held up the play well for the zone to set in these last two weeks. - Gawn and Trac dominated from start to finish. - Fit Viney is an elite mid. Gawn, Oliver, Viney and Trac is an elite midfield. They showed it once before, need to do it again. - Brayshaw and Harmes dissapointed today for me. I never question their attitude or desire, but both butcher the ball. Harmes is giving a way a lot of silly free kicks as well. Both need to and can lift. - Weideman looks like he is playing with some real anger. He got clattered 3-4 times and was first back to his feet everytime. Also when your mids kick the ball to your lead you will look good, but Weid has everything to be that dominate forward. If your in the opposition you don't want to let Weid take a mark inside 50, because he will punish you. - Hannan and Vanders both have been big ins for us. They both look like they know what we have been doing wrong and look the most fustrated when someone isn't doing the right thing. - Bennell has only played 3 games, but atleast for two of those he's been better then i thought he would be. Hopefully he stays fit. We can work it out with him in team if we start him deep in our forward 50 and almost let him roam. Against Brizzy or another top team it will be interesting if we can afford to have him cheating as he does. However, he was quite physical today which i liked. - Jackson looked like he had adjusted to the physicality and speed of the game well today. Looked like he could do everything, loved the ruck work today as well. - Kozzy just looks AFL made. Like he is the full package. Speed, Silky, fancy feet, great set shot, unpredicatable and effective with disposal. Also not a bad looking young man, hopefully a dee for a long time to come.

Gawn - Dominated the game Viney - Great with ball Petracca - Remember the name Jetta - Getting better still May - Best game yet McDonald - Great with Lever Salem - Attitude was great Hibberd - Recapturing his form Melksham - Sprinkle of class Fritsch - Very consistent form Jackson - Seemed to belong Pickett - Has it all Bennell - Classy with ball vandenBerg - Tough and smart Brayshaw - Needs to lift Oliver - Good not great Hannan - Made a difference Weideman - Best game yet Harmes - Needs to lift Langdon - Speed is crucial Lockhart - Is getting better Lever - Composure, leadership and smarts

This really shouldn't be about the people at the club or a return on investment. We all tune in every year to watch a new season, i admit my passion for the game isn't as strong as when i was kid. To be fair i think that's more because the game has gone in a direction i find less appealing. However, i won't turn my back on this club til my last day or it's. Purchased myself a shirt because at least it's something material in return for the money. Who knows, i might be wearing it to a grand final one day. Cheers to all who donated and to those who couldn't. Let's hope we all survive.

I think it's easy to get sucked into the hype as new season draws near, ecspecially when your shown positive footage. However, a point Darren raised in the video is that we never ran to any level close last pre season to what we are this pre season. Shows how far back we were and how much futher we got to go.

Future Hibbo if he can develop lock down ability.

Spot on. Also that loss in the prelim was followed by an awful season. Time to get revenge.

Surely we nab him at 3

I'd be happy with anyone from 7-11 if we got them with pick 8. Young with Pick 3 would be my go to pick.

I'm liking the look of Young a lot.

Interesting to see the details from Draft Combine. Some names that kept coming up under all different catergorys are Finn Maginnes, Cooper Stephens, Sam Flanders and Ben Johnson. We drafted two elite endurance runners in the trade period do we look for more in the draft? I'm thinking it's Serong and Weightman in the draft. I like the look of Young and Flanders.

You think SOS is gonna fight Dodoro in the parking lot because he wouldn't give up Daniher and give them the run at Papley?

If Pick 8 got Papley i would 100% do it. Papley, Langdon and Tomlinson in via trades and using Pick 3 to get the best kid we can would = the best trade period we've had.