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True, but do you think he could have laid a tackle on Newman say? Maybe he was on Saad, there wasn't too much "woof" and Saad was kicking out after behinds so that inflated his stats. I'm not watching the replay to find out.

With the likely midfield exodus of JJ, Harmes and Dunstan we need to invest there. I think it would be a good idea and wouldn't be surprised if we were after Xavier Duursma at Port. He's been injured, hasn't been playing well and is behind Rozee, Butters, JHF, Wines and Drew, they also have Sinn who has hardly played. I believe we rated him in his draft year and he showed early on that he can play. He's stalled. Port have to acquire Ratugolea, Zerk-Thatcher and Sweet and are reported to be chasing Soldo - all with limited draft assets. They need some list turnover with their disappointing result yet again. Duursma is 23y2mo and is out of contract at the end of next year. Might be a classic buy-low play I think.

Their under 22yos are pretty ordinary or untried except for Ryan.

Maybe Yze can do us one last favour on the way to Richmond and tell them he wants to invest in youth and Lynch doesn't feature 😉 Seriously though Richmond would be heavily relying on Samson Ryan forward without Lynch. They probably need to keep him for transition.

That would make sense in a way because the AFL wouldn't have to break the Academy rules to do it and Sanders would be left in the pool which is already heavily diluted by Northern Academy and F/S. North might even be able pick Sanders with 11 or trade up with it to get him. It kind of has the same effect without breaking their rules.

Harry Petty = problem solved. He's got JVR in support who was incredible for a 2nd year player and Joel Smith who kicked 3 goals in the SF and should have had 4. Fritsch is an aerial threat and so is McAdam who's coming. Jefferson is developing at VFL level. Priorities are everywhere else.

60% game time, 10 possessions and 1 tackle. Zero impact as Gus's replacement. I think it was an opportunity to make a statement and he did.

I think a fit Tom Lynch would be great but 've seen two separate reports that he's still getting around in a moonboot ...

Joel Smith?

I'll make sure to look in future, thanks. 16.28 is not mainly about ball delivery.

I've seen the recent "analysis" that says we need to "improve our ball use" - that really mean reworking our contest and territory game style. Simon Goodwin is not going to change his fundamental philosophy so that really means replacing the coach. Apparently Max, Clarrie and Jack are among the "worst kicks in the AFL", are we confident that the new coach and game style are going to fix this or do we need to trade them too for "better ball users"? How many seasons is it going to take to find this out? I'm not in favour of either of these major changes. I don't think we need to "improve our ball use" because it has the above implications, what we need to do, as I have posted elsewhere, is improve our forward personnel so that they can convert the chances we generate. That's a much simpler and less disruptive change and we are in a very good position to make it given the players already on our list who didn't play finals, our strong draft hand and free salary cap to come (I'll make a separate post on this). We were missing a considerable number of our best converters at the end of this year: Petty, Melksham and Van Rooyen (in the SF); and unfortunately two of our best converters are now over the AFL hill: Ben Brown and Tom McDonald. That's the problem. Petty, Van Rooyen and TMac are our best 3 in goal scoring accuracy according to WheeloRatings. We've recognised this by targeting Shane McAdam who has a very good Accuracy Rating too, he's fourth behind the 3 above when you combine both Melbourne and Adelaide's lists - yes all four ahead of Tex! We've got an excellent draft hand. I know the Draft mantra is "best available" and I wholeheartedly agree that is the best strategy when you're building a list, but I don't think it applies when you've already built the list like we have. IMHO we now need to target "needs" to fill the holes - we did that with Kossie and we need to do it again this year. We need to draft the best forward converter we can get (and the best key defender to fill the Petty/May retirement hole). We can throw out the baby and the bath with the bathwater or we can get some cleaner bathwater and some bubbles. I know which one I prefer.

@WheeloRatings are the player stats for handball receives available?

Good start.

It's like how we got Oscar Allen for Jayden Hunt last year ...

Which key forward were you thinking of?

Saw on Instagram Deakyn Smith delisted

Everything seems to point to him staying, including Cal Twomey's tweet and he is usually right.

No, I don't think we screw around with players' psyche like that. If he's been told he's required then that's what it is.

Lever is missing as discussed and so is Langdon. Yes he had a below par year and needs to get back to his best but he's still in the best 22. You've got too many forwards - 9 if you're playing Petracca forward and counting Chol as fwd-ruck.

Looking at our combined finals score of 16.28 to 20.13, it's interesting to look at the overall season defensive accuracy, goals minus behinds, results. Only Collingwood (a stand-out -14), St.Kilda (-2) and GWS (-2) were able to force opponents into the red. Carlton was next best with (+4) https://finalsiren.com/AFLLadder.asp Our two opponents were in the top 4 for this measure. St.Kilda wasn't able to replicate this in their final where GWS kicked 15.11. But GWS were able to do it holding St.Kilda to 11.11 and then Port to 9.16 while kicking 13.15. Carlton held Sydney to 9.14 while kicking 11.8. In the other final so far both teams were in the black Brisbane 18.9 vs Port 11.9. There looks to be a trend for teams able to create inaccuracy. But it seemed like we had enough gettable chances in both matches so maybe it's a coincidence. The other data point that indicates it's meaningful is that 18th West Coast (+77) and 16th Hawthorn (+76) lead the way by a long margin in giving up goals instead of behinds. However North 17th (+48) bucks the trend by coming in somewhere midtable and better than Brisbane at (+49). But hell if it was universally the effective indicator I'd be a genius and we can close the thread ... but alas! BTW, we're on the good side of the mean at (+20).

Has he asked for a trade to Adelaide?

How about some elite decision makers in F50? 16.28 in the two finals is not a midfield problem.

Okey-dokey then

AFAIK his "complaining" came about because he was instructed to run through hamstring awareness and tore it. I can see how that would be annoying.

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