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Interesting to see that the MFC listed players appear with their MFC list jumper numbers - I think if that actually happens on the field it's a good change.

Indeed - boringly familiar contribution from you.

"Well the season is already two rounds gone and we weren’t ready to go. " That's a quote from renowned wrist-slasher ADC and not Goodwin.

Jones is 5th in the starting midfield pecking order behind Oliver, Viney, Brayshaw and Harmes. Those top 4 can all play 75% gametime and that gives us 3x100% coverage in the square. That means unless there's injuries to that top 4 he's not going to spend major minutes in there and like at the end of last year will have to make his mark in another role. But it's easy to forget that along with Oliver, Jones carried our midfield for a considerable period at the start of 2018 when Viney was injured and Brayshaw and Harmes yet to emerge - it only takes one injury and he's back in the main frame. There's not exactly a stampede of proven alternatives.

would struggle to make the current 22

Like Carlton's?

ITK - "influencer"

He is General Manager - List and Strategy. If I worked there I would expect him to lead on draft night.

Don't agree with that at all. He looks like a pro who is on top of the deals to me. They picked McLennan because he wants to go there! Loves surfing, dad from Brisbane.

Casey needs to recruit a ruckman IMO. If plan A is to play Gawn and Preuss in the 1s, who is going to ruck at Casey? For the record I am not an advocate of another ruckman on the MFC list.

This is the gold I am looking for, thanks!

Still shell shocked by the election results?

Final outcome: In: May, KK, Tom Sparrow Out: Hogan, Brett Bewley

The Jake Lever trade has washed through the system now and can be viewed in (close to) completion. The 2 1st rounders we traded both ended up with Carlton and they chose O'Brien and Stocker. We took Petty with the 2nd rounder we got back. It's harder to track the late future 3rd and 4th round pick swap because we combined our 3rd with another 3rd and swapped that to the Saints for a 2nd so we didn't end up with the player at that pick and it would be a bit of exaggeration to say we got Jordon with it because we added something but it's as close as I can get. The future 4th round pick we traded ended up at St. Kilda and they took Robbie Young. So ... In: Lever Petty Jordon* Out: O'Brien (Carl) Stocker (Carl) Young (St.K) Clearly "bent over" : )

2 Brownlow Medallists, 1 Norm Smith Medallist, 5 Premiership players and a dud.

https://www.nietschke.com/

Aaron Nietschke - Friedrich Nietzsche

I used to feel like that until this episode has put me right off.

Hemingway: "all thinking men are atheists"

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Number please

Now THAT is dedication!

I'm not sure where you were at the end of this season maybe in a coma? Sam Weideman came in when Hogan went out and kicked 8 goals in 5 games, and goals in every game - all against high quality opposition, 3 of them finals matches. That translates to 35 goals across 22 games. There's a reasonable expectation that with another pre-season Weed will be even better next year.

Missing the finals is a failure now but even then there could be injury reasons for that. So making finals is a pass. Winning finals is a reasonable expectation, top 4 a good result - last year was really ahead of expectations. Flag is definitely possible and that's a great position to be in.