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Yes, but why bring in a 19 year old... He will be on the list - barring unacceptable behaviour/standards - in 2022.

That’s an argument against bringing anyone in. This is circumspective depth in the event of a disaster or a miracle. I wouldn’t let it furrow your brow.

Good on the Admin and the board for letting us fill all spots - it’s great to be able to do that and have the depth to replace a Petty or a Hibberd.

I think that it is likely that they shouldn’t be encouraged to publicly announce who we intend to take ahead of time lest a team pip us with their selection...

Ummmmm, I have one pretty good excuse... Cough. Literally *cough*

Yeah, but how tall is his height??

The highlights package of him doing a ‘defensive job’ was probably quite boring...

Do it in Adelaide and get some coin and keep the sponsors in mind and Neale’s initiative up in lights. They can do a split of people getting dunked in ice across the two states and make it unique. The crowd will go along on a public holiday over there.

Wingers Club as described by Gus is Langdon, Brayshaw, Baker, Nietschke, Rosman, and in the recent past Jordon. Per Gus&Gawny pod. So if they don’t shoehorn it with a non-winger will be Baker straight in or Sparrow in and Jordon to the wing. I think they will stick to the roles - it reinforces the edicts around playing your role, and knowing what you have to do.

If you’re a homebody I can understand it but to travel around and live your life as you may cause the delay of others is, I’m sorry to say, selfish and ignorant. Im sure their excuses flowed freely - the height of hubris in humans is when we are rightly accused of something terrible.

It’s also a financial decision of at least $80k a pick and that is just base salary and state league compensation. I would spend it to get an extra half back and whatever talent we would like to bring in - but the finances are not nothing.

We have a history of selling home games to Brisbane. We literally used to do that.

Dill taking the ultimatum: credit @Superunknown

I thought I would bring everyone’s attention to the situation at Lygon St. In this episode of Whately - the newscaster discusses with renowned expert Chris Fagan the troubling news of one of his compares being held against his will in some sort of sponsored dungeon: We all hope he’s returned safely.

Matthew Collins?

That’s some rose coloured bath water you’re drinking...

He’s a point of difference with his skills and forward IQ and is benefitting from being the 3rd or 4th tall and from our high pressure game providing turnovers around our forward 50. As a ‘hater’ - he has to buy in to that game and play his role on the defensive and offensive side. Yes he gets the weakest defender from time to time but on the flip side he gets targeted and his opponent drives off half back as they can get away with having a smaller player on him. Love how we have a system defence that is getting us to where we are but anyone criticising deviation from that system is labelled by some as ‘deluded’ or a ‘hater’. When Fritsch and others don’t do the things that are within that system - it gets noticed and the integrity of selection is what keeps players bought in. If you are not following - you don’t play.

Same thing happened to Jeremy Renner in the Mission: Impossible movies post Ghost Protocol. Cruise did a massive TMac. Replay is on Stan or Prime or something.

Riewoldt gave Brayshaw a big pump up tonight and basically said that if a player of his calibre is playing a role like that - it is indicative of a team that is at its zenith. I agree, he wants to get on the footy but he can’t do that in a contending team - he is not quick enough and his close in skills are sketchy (that’s my opinion) but he is smart and selfless and courageous and that takes you a long way on a defensive wing. So impressive.

More likely that we don’t play in Melbourne than Alice. Lions would have to be kept away to keep the integrity of the schedule. Surreal times. Hope NT lets us in.

Can I just say that Harmes ‘played on’ Libba and was great getting him out of the slot at stoppages but that was not a hard tag. He had 23 touches. You can’t carry a tagger these days. Harmes was fantastic and showed why he came back into the side quickly.

I would not change The Trio. Baker can have a run out there.