george_on_the_outer

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.

Absolutely cringeworthy is it.? If that is the standard of the voters then we are in for a lot of pain in the future, and probably explains why we are where we are as a club.

One oval, and cannot use lights to train under in winter…..what a rubbish idea. No improvement over Gosch’s and AAMI..

...have to be careful about the output of forwards in todays match sim, when Lever and May were not there.

Almost all at this stage would be automatic renewals, including MCC. The critical number occurs in early March. You can see from previous years if it is up or down by (x)number thousand, that will invariably not change over the course of the year.

Essendon already have 4 first round draft picks to offer, including their 2 future 1sts. Gold Coast have 5! Don’t think clubs will not come offering for players who have indicated they wanted out previously.

I have kept a record over the past 10 years or so, and drew heavily on @Lucifers Hero who was also keeping records. What you see is a combination of both. To update it, we take the numbers from the club website ( when they choose to publish), or information from posters who have been in recent contact with the membership department, and just ask the question "how many members do we have at the moment".

No more discussion on private schools…..that is not what this thread is about. Any further posts will be deleted.