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TBH, when I saw that ‘Thickett’ post - I thought that it was unfair and mean and brought unnecessary attention onto his physique especially considering skin folds are an important metric for the start of pre -season.

Off those two highlight packages 🙄

Yes, good attack on the footy in the air. Bigger [censored] than MJ - I reckon he is more ready than Jefferson to help out in AFL.

I think this is a fine investment in the Dees circa 2027 and beyond. We have our new forward structure to work through with Gawn down there now. I hope we can turn the picks next year into immediate help though.

What a brutal game. The conditions made it the 4 goal contest that just gives ‘the haters’ their Nonsense Ammunition but whatever the game is getting better so quickly and we are leading that charge. Footy comes first at this club and it shows. Well done to Daisy and Paxman and the others who fought to be where we are right now - champions of the game and of our club. Those Demons that chafe at that last statement will be soothed in time.

I wouldn’t do this deal if I was Dodoro. 3 picks in the teens for ND4… but let’s hope incompetence and a desire to death rise us and Freo wins out. Kind of looking forward to The Great Fremantle Death Ride 2023 tho…

Do you want kids to be compared to retired players only? These kids don’t make it, not because they have undue pressure, but because they are not good enough, or not ready to be a professional or due to injury. Personally, I would have a minimum age of 20 to bring kids onto a list but that will impact the quality of our league to do that. Recruiters require comparison as a tool to select - even our lord and saviour Jason Taylor recently mentioned that in a pod with Cal Twomey. Therefore, those around the game covering it and developing it need to support that if we are to provide opportunities to those kids that will excel.

What do you want him to compare players to? Some of those players will reach, or surpass, those comparisons. It’s fine, as long as the comparison is enlightening an aspect of their skill set and not just “They will be as good as star player X”

Well done to the women! The overriding feeling of the senior players will be one of relief and that the season starts here. I am sure they want to test themselves to start the GF better than they did last season. Doing it for Daisy is emotionally fraught. Just go into each contest like Daisy has her career and that is enough for her - win or lose. If they do that, they will win.

Red is in the eye of the beholder once again… Just let me know if we are going to spend any time debating it and I will go out to the garage and get my mallet out and destroy my phone and laptop in preparation.

Oooookkkkaaaayyyy, so the women are playing in Carlton on a Saturday arvo. Surely we can sell out that place against another team from the city. Would be disappointing if this great team had less supporters than NM. Get there and be a part of something!

Kevin Smith has a great saying that people think he is too positive but he just says that he doesn’t feel the need to talk about the things that he doesn’t like. ‘Why waste time [censored] on the things that other people like?’ would be a suitable paraphrase. But, in saying that, watch the Dees play. Even watch some of the highlights on YouTube. They are much better than all the other teams bar Brisbane.

Same here dc. Chaplin, McNamara, Zanker, Hanks, Purcell, Heath, Gillard, Mackin, and BANNAN all 23 or younger. And Harris, Hore, Birch, West, Sherriff, Lampard and Mithen all in the 24-25 age range. If they keep playing together for 5 years - they will be a force throughout.

Yeah, I think it’s doing fine. They need to now begin to build up the season and aim for ‘clear air’ in October and November for the last part of the season.

About to have my second kid up here in Canberra, so no. Everyone has their reasons/excuses, but 2300 for a home QF in the city is not great.

Too bad they can’t get more than 2,500 to rock up for a final hey

Jeez Max needs to talk less

After the flag, the footy world endured speech after speech from Roffey and Gawn about how good our culture is and blah, blah, blah. It’s no better than the best clubs. That’s what you aim for. It can deteriorate quickly when you seperate yourself from others as ‘special’. The women are great because they are a good team, they have great leaders who are respectful to the (very) different personalities they have below them, and their game plan is based around contested footy as a prerequisite for playing - which is the genesis for respect in footy. The boys can get back to that in 2023 if the leaders focus on it.

What would you prefer? ND53? They’ll be helpful next year. Delisted FA? They are keeping out speculative kids that we would have to spend time and energy in when we should focus on our great team and fitting in Grundy, Hunter, and JVR.

Good to see! Great additions and we got the better end of those deals. Both will play 100+ games for us and set standards in how to play to those that drove our flag win

No doubt. Just getting in first before the likely suspects put out the “the cap being up means Oliver’s deal gets better and better for us over time!” Its not like that, he will be underpaid anyway he is that good.

Waste of money having both Salem and Brayshaw back so I hope they allow him to move to the midfield fully.

Reportedly, he is getting a million a year with the cap at $14m but he has signed a deal that assures him a percentage of the cap so when it rises after the new TV deal is sorted - he will shoot up immediately. I either read that in one of these articles or on the radio.

Yeah I don’t see the problem. The playing of ‘official’ practice games is a waste of time and opportunity for players to get injured. The idea of putting it one state is odd because we aren’t the NRL - more than two states care about our game. But it can certainly get the attention of an area all weekend.

That’s very funny. Even funnier is when Ted Lasso did a version: