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Hawkins & Selwood both great players, but really get looked after by the umpires, I think part of it is they have played finals for so many years, umpires recognition and respect of them very high. At Cattery, where 95% plus of crowd pro Cats, umpires influenced by crowd and Cats get dream run! Hawkins & Selwood get even better treatment!

Fingers crossed he stays. Oliver is an unbelievable player, rarely plays an ordinary game, let alone bad! Flower was so skilful, moved like a cat, fantastic player in [censored] teams! Kossie is just electric, only needs a few moments in a match to have a major impact. Our current day wizard😃 His pressure and tackling also a joy to watch! Fingers crossed he stays!

A flag at the G would be grand!

We seemed to have plenty of players with leg injuries in 2022 that didn’t help speed. The other thing as premier, was teams smashed into the Demons, North and Eagles were good examples, they were both hopeless the week before playing the Demons, but really lifted and absolutely hit the Demons very hard when tackling. Hopefully Cats cop the same in 2023!

Hopefully a year older, wiser & gets hit with a creativity stick! I would love to see big Max rest at top of the goalsquare with Kossie at his feet , a dynamic duo to get opposing backs twitching! Note: Still appreciate our premiership coach, but just the odd change up in the forward line would be great!

When ball movement is fast and good into a well structured forward line opposition defenders often panic. Slow ball movement gives time for the defence to get in position. Melbournes defence is fantastic when it has time to set up, but doesn’t look anywhere near as good when the ball comes in quickly. Hunter will move the ball a lot quicker than JJ!

2021 felt like a little bit of providing opportunities to players, 2022 felt like pick 2021 premiership team where possible, only badly injured players in Salem, TMac dropped, the odd player dropped on form e.g. Rivers who looked to carry a leg injury all year, then Bowey got bullet and not given a look in thereafter. Zero dare in selections. Hopefully 2023 JVR given a chance and Chandler 4-5 consecutive games. Grundy and Hunter make us stronger!

Also no teeth, definitely Pies supporters!

If game follows pattern of last time we played Lions, will not be pretty. Harris in helps from last time and the team seem better in defence. Will need things to go our way, but certainly in with a better chance than last year against the Crows who monstered our girls.

Absolute gun. While Robbie will always remain number one in my heart! Oliver will be our best of all time!! As previously mentioned, kick a few more sausage rolls and he will win a Brownlow! The AFLCA is a much better indicator of the best player in the comp! If Selwood hadn’t have broken his hand with a kick, he might have won AFLCA stand-alone and the Brownlow!

Yes, reading all the criticism, I also thought back to his role in the 2021GF. Thought he played great at HB and would prefer he stays in backline. Provides flexibility for stints in midfield or on wing as the team requires.

Cats likely have 6-8 players older on their list.

Bucky was a great player, but doesn’t do his homework prior to his ratings exercise- never gets even close on his ratings of the Demons players! Certainly gets away with living on past exploits!!

Some unbelievably lopsided games, messing with %, could upset final ladder positions!

Best team won the flag: - They improved their team adding Stengle - Had a good run with injury - Beneficial draw that enabled them to rest some of their players If Demons had Roos round 13 and West Coast in a later round, perhaps Max gets rested for 5 weeks instead of 3 to get over ankle injury and perhaps a few other players take a couple of weeks off rather than push on. Griffiths has coped a lot of flak, but he managed Lions in 2019/2020 where they had great injury runs re soft tissue, so he is possibly being unfairly judged on DL, when we don’t have all the facts. Yes, I’m well aware our 4th quarters sucked! You need a bit of luck across the AFL season, re injuries both in game and over season, who gets injured, draw, when you play teams (e.g. played Eagles first 2-3 rounds a big advantage when they were decimated by Covid), umpiring, so tough to go back to back!

Yes they are currently seen as guilty before having an opportunity to prove their innocence! Really screws with both Roos & Lions 2023 preparations. If either found guilty you would think that would be it re future senior coaching aspirations for 6-8 years when you look at Hird scenario!

It was more a slightly larger home or the suburb/town off Moggs Creek 😃

JVR @ CHF, a fitter BBB at FF, supposedly he has gone to have knee surgery.

Only proof that miracles can happen!

I love your optimism, always better to be half full than half empty! Ruck improvement - Grundy for next 2 years maybe 3 will be better than Luke Jackson (after that yrs 3-10 or 4-10 Jackson should be great)! Wing improvement - Langdon speed and endurance is very good, but on other wing we either play Brayshaw or bring in a wingman who has elite disposal (think Isaac Smith)! Tall Forward - I'm hopeful JVR can be CHF next year, BBB is fitter and Max is used differently in Forward half than all running to the pocket! If we can find a key forward in draft, that would be fantastic, but they will still be 2-3 seasons away from being effective, not sure if anyone available on trade table. Small forward - Either a Bedford or Chandler significantly steps up or we find a future Stengle type (Credit to Cats as he has been a great pick up for nothing - note: I hate Geelong)! Small back - don't play Salem when he can't move! - Let Hunt run and play aggressively, what he did against Carlton in last 5-10 minutes was great, otherwise let him! I'd also play him on same side of ground as Langdon so they can link up and run together. - Small lockdown defender with good skills required, to counteract other teams fast entries and ball hitting the ground in our defense! We lost to Sydney by 20 points and gave away 2 easy goals through 50/100 meter frees and missed 3-4 opportunities in the last, so while there is a lot of doom and gloom on Demonland, we are not far off it. Demons also got bashed as the Premier during the season and I think as others have stated pushed the boundary on player injured players too far during the season, rather than giving some other players opportunities. While we got this aspect right in 2021 of playing slightly injured players it backfired this year.

How about Mornington Peninsula vs Geelong & Bellarine Peninsula! I'm still thinking you get a slightly larger home maybe even suburb in Moggs Creek (or 30 mins from Geelong) vs what you get in Melbourne for the same money! Cats definitely have a salary cap advantage, and I'm standing behind my convictions!!

Try Mornington

Agree. I watch Jordan get the ball a fair amount, go back look for options, ignore options, then wait and surprise surprise kick it long into forward pocket. if he kicked it to Charlie 3-4 of his possessions, then we’d end up with 3-4 much better possessions going int o our forward 50!

What is average number of possessions in the league for a small/medium HF or small FP?

Cats have huge salary cap advantage for two reasons: 1. Buy an equivalent house in Geelong vs Melb, your paying 50% less. So let’s Cats offer 10-20% less re salary, other than rookie, 1-2 year players. 14.3M cap 2.3M gets used on bottom 15 players leaving $12 million, between 10-20% on that amount gives $1.2M - $2.4M extra salary space for the Cats, allows Cats an extra Dangerfield quality player and 1-3 better than average players. 2. Beach, or country laid back lifestyle is the other draw! Cats should make finals every year, as these are huge advantages!