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Don’t disagree with these comments from Bell. Although Jacko generally didn’t perform as a fwd for us, the whole kick to the boundary game plan with a congested fwd 50 didn’t do him any favours. he was also our 3rd sometimes 4th target. Be interesting how he goes as main or 2nd target. But Jacko has said on many occasions that he prefers ruck or around the ball.

Kozzy, Trac, Oliver starting mids, with Viney on rotation would be magnificent if Kozzy can step up

wtf happened against Euroa? With “Oliver” as your name, I expect better :)

Or “I am a bit flat GC picked me up. But all good, I will see if we can do a deal with the Dees in a couple of years”

Got some mail it’s Humphrey, but not long to wait now, either way.

The culture/environment issue you talk about is relevant for Jack Watts and a few others. But Jimmy T, Cale Morton and the like were just dud picks. if he was a clone of Daicos he would have gone on to play some great footy post Melb, of which he did not.

RCD is a skinny midfielder. Definitely not ruck or key position.

Bassat, a very successful man. And full respect to him. But I would put his voice in the top 5 most annoying voices of all time.

Unless it’s the finer detail of the constitution running through Max’ mind when he is lining up for goal?

I was thinking we should just target for him to be fit after the bye. Back in JVR/Petty for the first 10 or so rounds.

I would argue anyone who consistently posts on a football forum, has huge emotion for football. Just because you may not be aware of that emotion doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

Most of the Dees people I trust most also think Max is best dropping back and helping with intercept marks. Very much like the great Jim Stynes use to do week in week out. He can then at times run forward of the ball and be a key target on the wings. Much depends on whether TMac gets back to his running best though.

Some Salem rotations through the midfield is a great idea. Especially if Rivers, Bowey etc are back to their best and there is depth through his typical hbf position. He played some effective mid minutes in his first couple of seasons while he was still developing

Don’t think it will be an issue. There will be 2 key requirements for Petty to go forward a) injury or form issues for at least 1 of TMac, BB or JVR b) a Turner, Tomlinson, Smith absolutely banging the door down with form that demands them to be picked

“Areas for concern: tall back” Is that a typo? We be best in the league for tall back’s I would have thought - both ability & depth