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how does his role change when viney is back? or does viney play at HF more so than spaz

was exactly what i saw first too, he and TC should be encouraged to do the team thing, theres not many teams with MSD picks at this stage, eagles via dev rob, port x2 dogs via darcy, saints carried over we could have picks 4 and 6/7 which gives us heaps of options,

his kickouts were awful, just banged them long and regularly shinned them straight down the corridor, we were lucky not to be punished the other way mainly due to strong contested marking or guys like kozzy flying in and being clean below knees, wont be the case every week

grew up a north fan and i think is seriously considering heading there

Will McLachlan, liked his work in preseason, definitely a player of interest, does what fritsch does, replaces melky and mcadam nicely, 3yr deal come on down. take from the best, no way in at the lions any time soon for him but he has the minerals

Nope, can do 2027 on rookie list as its 3yr maximum term (if played 10+ games at that point) >10 games can do up to 5yrs as A rookie AFL avg is 8 changes a season, i think we could comfortably make another 10 this year on top of the 11 exits we had last year

pickett langford chandler turner roo culley

OUT: Petty, Laurie, Heath IN: TMac, Lindsay, Jiath don't need the etra ruck against the tigs

think i'd take the dogs list over ours, Darcy, Croft, Naughton, Richards, Sanders, Freijah whilst still lacking the same KPD is a bit more secure for the future than ours which has more untapped talent

whats happened to johnson now? saw he was out of the vfl assumed it was to be a carry-over emergency tbh? i dont think its really a surprise to anyone whos payed any attention, hes been best on every week and beat xerri in PS, its a known fact he is afl ready

KIng is 26, thats at least 6 probably 8 years of senior football, you'd hope we get closer to the top end in that time period, so you absolutely do target him, if we try and draft key forwards again and give them our regular 4+ years to develop and they dont get passed the JVR Jeffo level then we're in exactly the same post weideman short term schache/BBB/fullarton position we've just moved out of

are we just going to complain that a defender defends JVR every week, yeah mate you're a key position forward you're going to get a tall defender and some clubs if not all have a good one, so you have to beat them, we can't just ask everyone to play a kid or 4ft tall guy on him every week to help him perform. at the moment he is not performing to the level required and we have other guys who have displayed tier 2 form and who ultimately we need to make long term decisions on therefore something needs to change so that we can see what we've got and if someone else is able to provide more consistently

Agree that is most likely, im curious if Trelly gets sent for a spell at some point but i dont think Hendo has had enough continuity to come in yet 2qrts in 3 weeks given he was emerg during the week we actually played. its real bottom of the barrell stuff at the moment for us

whats the difference between Snell and Ladbrook for you @Tommy_Wolfe7 Also i was big on a couple of HB types last year that didnt make the grade, Harrison Bridge and Aaron Sharkie, thoughts on where they went wrong or their potential to make the step up in the future, likewise does Jackson Voss have enough to be an AFL level BP/HB?

first of these for the season Prasad so highly ranked and no mention of us

who am i dropping off one bad game? structurally we have an issue with TMac and Petty, its one or the other next to lever and turner not both, personally id be settling petty down there and leaving him there JVR has kicked 1 goal in a month Salo and now Melky injured so its 4 changes TMac, Melky, Salo, JVR Luker, Jeffo, AMW, XT in better balance with the talls as luker can do the second rucking but offers more forward than Petty, and either he or jeffo might get a 30-50% TOG type role bring in some more speed off HB tholstrup plays up the ground more in a defensive mid role, i also think he'll get torched by Charlie/Lohmann/Bailey if we leave him down there could also be the week Heath debuts instead of Kentfield and Jeffo playing given teh lions ruck setup -Lever Turner AMW -Lindsay Petty Howes -Langford Steele Culley -Sharp Jeffo Chandler -LPickett Mihocek Fritsch -Gawn KPickett Sparrow -Windsor XT Kentfield Tholstrup Langdon

Jake Rogers and Humphrey, Butts, Walter,

No spefici NGA thread to use but we won't get a look at Jeffys son who's coming through, Same article mentions Ah-Mu's 30 touches but doesnt reference him as a melbourne NGA prospect

Rivers AMW Kentfield TMac Salo JVR either play petty back or not at all. Tholstrup, Culley, Howes in the gun as just not offering heaps but theres nothing underneath them so we roll on. If Rivers isnt ready then maybe TMac holds (as long as petty plays back too) or XT comes in the big move has to be windsor to the outside langford inside this week, we need a response tho lebba

will depend on other targets/departures but the rule is 3yrs a rookie and only must be upgraded if played 10+ games, so he could do 27 on the rookie list too of it suited us that way, historically we prefer to run 6 A rookies, freeing up draft picks and flexibility that way

Jacob Blight is the one from last season who I'd be monitoring wherever hes ended up, similar to how OMac reentered the league just checked the stats and the east perth FF kicked 5, hopefully they weren't on him haha

IN: Rivers, Kentfield, Fritsch OUT: Howes, TMac, Laurie Rivers plays howes role better than howes, settle him there if fit and he will have far more impact ball in hand

They must be getting nervous about Rivers long term, freo and weagles will be right in his ear, does he just stay as a really good long kicking HB and tkae howes spot when hes right to go again, is there something off field we dont know, or is he adamant to be a midfielder, sparrow has seemingly moved ahead of him in the queue there at the moment

Butts, crows have a logjam when keane is fit again we call this doing a tommo from memory new rules stipulate u can still be NGA nominated until 21yo, to promote those pathways, so feasibly he could take Mentha's spot at EOS as cat b? if he goes undrafted through MSD and ND which seems a reasonable equation

4: Langford 3: Windsor, Lindsay 2: Latrelle (20yo), JVR, XT 1: Culley, Tholstrup, Jefferson, Kentfield 0: AMW (6 games 5 years), Berry, Onley, Matthews, Mentha, Adams, Howes (no impact at afl level 5yrs), White you can't rate them on where they fit in the best 22 now, but rather how they fit into a standard afl team, Howes and AMW whilst yes r best 22 or thereabouts now, our list has zero depth and when we were competing they werent realistically "integral core players" and they given their time on the list dont really have a "talented, but" threshold either because whats the but, but they werent good enough when the side had some decent depth. Kentfield - but has not had a good run at it with injuries MJ - but is yet to show it consistently or make the most of his opportunities Culley - but has a ceiling and has deficiencies kolt - but hasnt reached his potential and looks to be nothing more than a squad player