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I think Petracca always showed signs that he had the talent. He took some time to become consistent but his best was always very exciting. This is what Trac was doing in his first two games for example: I think right now my expectation for him is much closer to Sparrow than the other two you mentioned.

Rayner's ceiling has always been very high that's why he went as a number 1 pick. He's never really lived up to his potential. nearly 8 years in the system without an AA to his name. Outside of that I'm a little confused by the comparison as I don't think the two play similarly at all.

Xerri's ban will be upheld. He didn't mean it but when you swing an arm out like that at incoming traffic you're done.

Genuine question to the believers. What kind of player do you see Tholstrup as? What do you think his ceiling is and what's his best position? If you were to compare him to another player (past or present) who do you think he plays like? From a purely footballing perspective, what have you seen so far that excites you about him?

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This seems like massive conjecture.

So we're bang average against top 8 sides and even worse against other bottom sides. At best we are a bog average side. Cool.

Considering what we know about head injuries he probably will.

North are the worst backline in the comp. I still saw plenty of poor delivery inside 50. People were saying we'd fixed our issues after we smashed Sydney then we lost our next 5 games. Might be worth keeping your powder dry.

I don't really get the ANB comparisons. He was never a bad player, just a whipping boy. Also picked about 20 picks later so expectations were far lower, but still a better player than Tholstrup at the same stage of his career. If Tholstrup is to get on ANB's trajectory next year he needs to have cemented his spot in the team, average 18 disposals, 4 tackles and just under a goal a game.

Don't think his attitude is the issue at all. He tries hard but he's slow and lacks composure, kind of floats around contests not really knowing how to involve himself.

I think people are delusional if they think this is going to lead us to getting Jackson. McVee is a good player but I doubt he'd fetch more than an early second rounder.

If he's put off contract talks a couple months before the seasons over he's 100% gone.

Offered? The Hawks put it up for sale. Think the AFL bought it for $10m Caufields gonna cost 10x that btw.

We've been messing around with the gameplan for two years now. Most teams get it right after a single off-season. We still don't look like we know what we're doing.

Good recruiters are bloody hard to find, once you have a decent one you don't want to let them go. I don't think JT is the best recruiter in the comp by any means but I'd back him in over the unknown. That being said it wouldn't hurt to support him by investing in more talent scouts.

Remember at the time he'd had a few articles attacking his character a few weeks before. Felt like the admin just wanted to back him in and show strong support. Think they jumped at shadows. He still had a year to go on his contract.

So I expect even the board have accepted that a finals berth this year is looking like a near impossible task. Which means that the club has failed to meet its own expectations two years running. Time for a rethink. Club needs to take a long-term assessment of where we are at. Both the footy department and the List need to be looked at and we need to come up with a plan on how we are going to win our next flag.

I really don't know what specific traits the recruiters saw in him in the draft.

Trac really wouldn't make a very good captain at all. Serious derth of leadership at the club after Gawn and Viney.

Reckon you could find supporters of every single club who thinks the media are biased against them.

McVee and JVR wouldn't get anywhere close to LJ, come on.

Having debt is very different from being broke.

There are other places pressure could come from to remove Pokies. The government for example, since clubs are pretty keen to ask for funding could easily have made it a condition. You've laid the blame at the feet of the AFL to call them hypocrites based on the fact that most clubs got rid of their pokies within a few years of one another. It's a pretty [censored] argument.

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