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The problem for Hawthorn is that they are not going to be bad enough to get access to the pointy end of the draft for a number of years. They are looking like a 7th to 12th team and probably on the slide. A midfield of Mitchell, O'Meara, Wingard, Worpel, Impey, Shiels, Phillips, Howe - serviced by McEvoy, maybe Ceglar if he stays, and the promising Reeves is competitive without being at the top echelon. The problem here is that the core of talent is closer to the end than the start of their careers. This area is going to ultimately get worse before it gets better. The backline looks solid and has a lot of potential provided Grainger-Barras delivers on his draft position. Sicily, Day and Scrimshaw are all good players. Jiath is exciting. Frost, Hartigan and Hardwick are all capable. Bramble showed some good signs at the end of last year. This area will only improve. The forward line is more uncertain. Gunston and Breust are very good players and providing their bodies hold up will deliver the goods over the next year or two. Talls have shown some promise but are unproven - it could go either way with Koschitzke and Lewis. Moore had a very promising 2021. This area is going to get worse before it gets better. But I'd much rather be following Hawthorn than Geelong.

Which number? has it been discussed? Luke had #7 - we have #22 and #27 available. I'm not sure whether #2 will be immediately available.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/679302/indicative-draft-order-your-club-s-picks-as-they-stand After all the movement so far, we've got very close to the picks the Premier would have at end of each of the first 3 rounds, plus an extra 3rd rounder in 49. I realise we have given up our 2022 1st rounder to be in this position.

West Coast possibly making a move up the ranks: Sam Powell-Pepper, Sam Petrevski-Seton Sam Powell-Pepper, the contracted midfielder is unlikely to land at West Coast but could still be on the move if interest from other rivals progresses. The Eagles' acquisition of priority target Sam Petrevski-Seton made it hard for them to also pursue Powell-Pepper, who is contracted for two more seasons but in search of more midfield opportunities

Unlike you to pull the wrong rein WJ, but I really don't think two weeks after the club's greatest ever triumph in a Covid affected, 18 team national competition, where we finished top and smashed the finals, away from our rightful home, is the time to start headlining our greatest ignominies. Yeah we've come a long way baby - we all know that. Now's the time for countin' coz the dealins done.

With Mitchell out shopping his only decent experienced players and getting donuts, the only good thing about Hawthorn is they are not Geelong.

Ironic ...

I'm guessing he's sticking strictly to the nightclub and alcohol treatment in Perth.

I heard he cycled to Esperance, swam the Bight to Adelaide and then ran back into Melbourne for a post season triathlon - there's your 9 days.

Dwayne - Geelong and Port Adelaide both embarrassed at the pointy end and MFC won the flag!

One highlight of so many for me was TMac hitting pause on the celebrations and driving home the goal after the siren - clinical, take no prisoners!

I think Brendan McCartney laid the foundations for the Dogs 2016 win and our 2021 win by setting the standard required in the contest. Then it took, in the words of Tommy Hafey, "some finessin' " by others to polish the final product. Macca is part of the legend for me!

Yes cheers, closing on 20 years I think. There was a time in the Neeld years where we fell off the rope ladder into the river and got washed all the way back to the Bangladesh delta. Then Peter Jackson and Paul Roos arrived and we headed back towards Kathmandu. Still can hardly believe we made it!

Draft and Trading board, Kossie pick swap thread. Boisterous Norf supporter took it well too ...

Cheers thanks, have deployed it usefully on Big Footy.

@roy - where did you find this one? I'd like a link to the original please

There's some truth in there ...

Biggest joke ever: https://www.afl.com.au/news/682327/star-dog-clinches-gary-ayres-award-coaches-votes-for-gf-revealed

Unlike you to misread the play Nasher ... Old mate will soon be taking the credit for the "turnaround" - if only we'd listened to him earlier it would already be the 3-peat.

Stefan Martin left MFC at the end of 2012 - I don't think it's the same Max Gawn as then.

"Bazzalenka" meet Jack Viney ...

@Demonland - it would be nice to pin this thread. I'm a jumper numerophile

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Schache playing in the GF and Marshall played last week in the PF, but no interest in Weid - world has gone crazy ....

You were wrong. Just saying