Bring-Back-Powell

Our best 2 performances came against Brisbane and Sydney (rounds 10 and 11) and Johnson was in the team for both games. Make of that what you will.

He was a good boy this year. More than impressed he didn’t get pinged by the MRO, and touch wood will play his first round 1 game since 2023.

Fair retort to be honest. You can’t judge a book based on a praccy match at Arden Street (although he showed a bit in a few 2024 AFL games) I recall that JFK practice match you’re referring to circa 2014 at Marvel. He looked like our next 15 year premier small forward that night.

I like that jumper too but it set off a really bad chain of events from then until the end of 2025. Fitting (in a bad way) that the man on the left is pictured.

He was essentially the best player at the club in the last month of 2017 as we unsuccessfully tried to break our 10 year finals drought. Had a couple of 25 possession 2 goal Brownlow vote games during that span. A well liked versatile Dee after a slow start with the club in 2013.

AMW looked really promising in the North practice match in Feb after showing a little something in late 2024. The modern day prototypical small defender that has pace, gets effective possessions and can shut down the oppo’s premier small defender. Basically Judd Mcvee when he’s fit. When he did his knee that day my first thought was how do we replace both he and McVee for round 1? I have him in my best 23 in 2025 as the season progresses.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in October and heard the words from Tim Lamb: “it’s Bailey Humphrey or you’re not getting Petracca”

Concerning but unsurprising. The club's got a lot of work to do to get back to 2022-2023 membership levels.

Might explain the large rehab group if training has been harder this December compared to prior years.

And you'd think the team would have taken some key learnings on how to win a close game since the semi final of 2023. Instead we've somehow managed to go 1-9 in games that have resulted in 6 point margins or less. And that even continued after Goodwin was dismissed as we lost 2 close ones to the Dogs and Collingwood. We might jump up the ladder if we can address that fine line of losing close games instead of winning them.

Don't know why he's worried. It's not as if we're contending next year. Every man and his dog has us finishing bottom 4. Anything above is a bonus.

Collingwood were all over us even before Brayshaw got knocked out. I absolutely do not subscribe to the common theory around here that we beat Collingwood had the incident not happened. Collingwood were the better team on the night for three quarters, were mentally more switched on from the get go, took their opportunities as evidenced by only kicking 6 behinds for the game and deserved the win. The semi final result V's Carlton was completely flushed down the toilet and a game the club really let itself and its supporters down.

Not denying he's a good player, but in order to get a ROI on your investment Clarry will need to kick more than his 4 goals a season. Probably one of the reasons he's polled all of 2 votes across 2 years. It's simply not enough for a midfielder, and he's shown that he is a capable goal kicker.

Give it to Gawn for one more year. Then let him enjoy his footy in the sunset of his career. Lever reeks of a captain but his body can't be trusted. Can't see Chandler getting it. All the 2025 AFL captains aside from Alex Pearce have an on field resume of achievements which Chandler does not at this point. If he could replicate his round 2 game V North, he'd be a seriously good footballer.

I think we have a quite a reasonable defence and forward line. Around mid tier compared to other clubs. It's the midfield that will preclude from winning more than 5 or so games this year. To be honest it was BOG ordinary this year even with Trac and Clarry in it.