george_on_the_outer

Where can I get tickets? Probably already sold out to people who want to go to watch football!!!

...except when they are worth four 1st round draft picks e.g 2 this year and 2 future. Or is pick 16, 17 and 18 something that would be acceptable as first round picks? As a seller you don't tell the buyer what price you will accept until negotiations are near complete. Certainly not before any bidding has started.

Too late:

Does Green realise nearly every club has 3 first round picks to trade this year?

...Brute Bernard?

More trouble for Port with the collapse of their major sponsor GFG: https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/affiliates/kayo/millionaire-sanjeev-gupta-pulls-rug-out-under-david-koch-as-port-order-new-guernseys-to-ditch-gfg-logo/news-story/1f0b3e956f759de1c9c7b19e037bc990

Only with good Grace…

For me, he has to learn to jump. Haven’t seen it last season, and still no evidence of it so far at training this year. Weid had the same problem. These days as a forward you don’t get the ball straight to your chest too often. So you need to be able to compete aerially, not with the feet on the ground. JVR is the gold standard.

The AFL will be dragged kicking and screaming to update the rules around concussion protocols. And we the fans will have to accept that our favourite players will be missing for more than the paltry 12 days at the moment. Here are the rules around boxing…..yes boxing….with a 30 day minimum for non contact after concussion. If that “sport” is doing it right now, the the AFL will be forced to catch up, through various legal action , no doubt. https://djsir.vic.gov.au/combat-sports/contestant-safety/non-fight-periods-and-return-to-fight-strategy#:~:text=Contestants with a diagnosed or,for at least 30 days.

There will be a lot of trade movement this year with the advent of 2 year forward trading. GC already has 5 first round picks, Essendon 4 to offer other clubs already. There weren’t too many players who didn’t get to where they wanted last year, contracted or not. Those like Petracca couldn’t because others didn’t have the trade capital, especially late in the trade period. Every list manager at every club will be clearing salary space and working how to accumulate picks for this trade period. There will be a lot of big names mentioned in the lead up, ones people think would never be an option.

He has only started back in the main group. Yes, he looks likely, but then so do the vast majority at training. It looks like he can kick and can read the play, but he is very slight, especially as a newbie. Woewodin as contrast after 1 season looks like the Hulk next to him. I wouldn't expect to see him play this year as there are too many others of his type and position....AMW, Windsor, Sharp, Woey, Lawrie, Chandler, Salem, Tholstrup, Bowey, Spargo, Billings, Sestan, Kynan Brown...

I have been to a number of training sessions during the off season, and the one player who impresses me is Langford. Normally you cannot expect much of a first year player, they don’t have the body, are overwhelmed by where they are, and take a good amount of time to “learn the ropes”. Not with this kid He has the body, and is already mixing it with the mids. He knows what to do to get the ball, and most importantly knows what he is going to do with it, and where it is going, before he gets possession. He has similar vision to Oliver. He may not be given a shot early on, but it won’t be long until he is mixing it with the best.

…plus Viney and Laurie …. Lots of heavy match simulation all session

Disco about a week away from joining main group

Yes

Not just you having doubts. Plenty of opposition in Tassie to the cost, and those cost estimates are blowing out enormously: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104810698

Waverley is one oval. The Hawks cannot use lights there due to the residential buildings right up the the fence. It is still a concrete grandstand and does not have the facilities inside which are needed today. Finally, it has been inhabited by snakes for the past 30 years. So probably not suitable for you, in case there have been some left behind.....

Spelling check....its "drivel" not "dribble". Dribble is what you do with a basketball.

The problem with playing JVR in the ruck is : 1. While he is doing that, it deprives us of our primary forward target. We struggle to score as it is when he is there. 2. It takes away a "big body" from the forward line, thereby making the defenders job easier. It makes the small forwards jobs harder because they don't have a player to "bring the ball to ground" 3. He is more likely to suffer injury in the collisions in a rucking role, which isn't his forte. He is a forward, not a ruck, no matter how good he is at it. 4. Once he finishes his job, he has to go to the bench for a rest, depriving us of him up forward for a further period. 5. The kid was 20 last year. How many other clubs are using a player of that age in the ruck?

I want to hear the Demon Army produce that version at the game.!!!!

…2nd ruck….or we have the same problem as last year….killing JVR.

….straight to the mechanic usually….

The question is less about May, Lever, TMac & Petty because 1 of them will be on the bench….. but rather who misses out from Salem, McVee, Windsor, Bowey, Rivers, Howes, AMW, Woewodin,

Not to mention Trac caught driving without seat belt!

I had asked exactly that at the 2023 AGM...and nobody could tell me, least of all the Board members. MS has multiple types of funds, so why not tell us which one it is in? For $20M the best we could gain access to would be a pooled trust. Most decent managers don't accept anything less than $US100M for an individual mandate.