drdrake

I respect the right for people not to be vaccinated everyone has that choice, however you have a clear mandate from the League that has been in place for a while, if his position is not to be vaccinated then should have informed the club sooner so they can replace him on the list. It is like he hedged his bets hoping that the mandate will change, now it hasn't he will decide either get the jab or quit AFL. Liam Jones was coming to the end of his AFL career, Darling still has 5+ years to go, big call again hedge bets sit out of AFL for a year and hope policy changes, get the Jab keep playing or walk away from the game at the top level.

At some stage the residents of WA will start to crack it, you basically have lost your summer National/international sport and events. Now unless he back flips again your really are ruling out 6 months more of this. The Ashes WA fans can cop but losing home Football for a season going to be massive backlash. You would think that a Queensland relocation for the two WA clubs might be on the cards, it will really depend which state chips in some money to soften the blow for the AFL. Going to be some very upset players and fans in WA this morning. There is no question that the WA hospital system in no where ready for a large covid out break, he knows if this gets into his state he will go from hero to zero very quickly.

Great to be having this discussion for this position. It was seen as a key area of need after the 2020 season. Salem is a lock in, fit his name goes on the board first Rivers is the second player that if maintains form stays in, added a real defensive side to his game in 2021 Bowey will continue his upward trend and will improve, his foot skills have him ahead of Hunt With those three taking the small defender roles we really need some one who can lock down small forwards as these three best value for the team is ball in hand especially Salem and Bowey. I don't see Hunt as a lock down defender, they tried Smith and Cameron got hold of him in the finals and the Hibberd got the nod when Smith was injured. Add in D Smith with another pre-season. Tell you one thing, Casey is going to be a very strong side.

Competition for spots is what makes you a strong list. You will have injuries and players out of form, he needs to make the most of any opportunities he does get.

You would pay $15 for a test if it meant not lining up for a couple of hours. Just need government to change the rules for casual contacts to use Antigen tests. The bottom line is we have made the decision to live with the virus, we have done everything we can to protect ourselves(well 92% of the population has) we just need to get our yearly boosters like the flu shot and try to minimise the deaths and hospitalisation. The only number we need to watch it people in Hospital and ICU, as long as that can be manged we live life as normal. The QLD and WA premiers have never been more popular, they will keep saying stupid stuff as they believe this is what their population wants to here. You watch the WA bloke change his tune if he doesn't open up in Feb, all of the sudden WCE and Freo will be forced to relocate to the east coast no footy is WA, he is already copping it losing the ashes not sure if Basketball and Soccer teams have relocated, I know the Scorchers have.

Nearly ever kid that gets drafted are good at any sport they play and usually need to make a call between sports around 15 years old. Kids heights are off the charts, I was at a U15 netball event a couple of weeks back, Association level, I'm 180cms and the girls in the shooter, keeper roles all stood over me most would have been around 185-190cms at 14/15 years old. Be interesting to see how this guy develops playing in QLD the junior leagues are a lot weaker than Vic/SA/WA comps.

To me 2022 is looking like one of the most even years of the competition, if you are off your game even a little you will get beaten. Something about Port, I just see them as sliding down the ladder next season. The 2 teams in the West will be interesting Fremantle are building a pretty good list and WCE have 1-2 years left before really falling off the cliff, similar to Geelong. I think top 4 will be Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Dogs not sure the order Then Port, Geelong, Essendon, Carlton, WCE, Freo, GWS, Richmond, St Kilda fighting it out for the last 4 spots in the final 8. Hawthorn will get the wooden spoon

It was a throw away comment, Claremont is the top end of town club in WA silver spoon club nothing against the kid a lot of good players come from Claremont. Good players at MFC come from South of the River(again tongue in cheek) Jackson, Rivers, Farmer, Woey, Jakovich, Alan Johnson, Spalding, Darren Bennett all from the South.

The only thing I don't like about this player is he is from Claremont, front running soft private school boys. Give me a south of the river player any day but the north of the river boy always questionable.

From memory both these players came onto our list as Cat B rookies, basketballers that we got because they hadn't played Footy for a few years. I love the Father Son rule, nothing better than seeing a former players kid pull on the same jumper

Yep, almost came off his shin. Outside Fritsch first goal the others all went straight through the middle of the goals, even Petracca's dribble kick right through the middle.

It looks like they have banned trades from Lunch time today.

It really depends on what the clubs position is, do we take a tall be it a ruck or KPF knowing that we can allow them to develop at Casey for the next 3+ years. I think we need to add that young developing tall that we can spend time to get them right. One thing the club might not do is draft an interstate player with an early pick, our list is young if you aren't getting a game the go home factor becomes massive.

That is the issue with Pre-season Draft, bottom teams can hold you to ransom, you either take that pick or get nothing for him

This is why I think Toby Conway is a real possibility for Pick 17.

I think he has always been borderline late pick or rookie pick, I don't think that will change.

There is a pretty long list but to be fair at the time the players had to improve and step up. My main criticism has always been based around poor kicking skills and selfish football. To the teams credit our foot skills improved and we became all about team footy. I do though apologise to James Harmes, after his second turn over in a couple of minutes at the start of the third quarter I had him done, credit to him his kick to Fritsch that started our run was amazing.

You can't see GWS paying the entire amount if the trade happens

Makes a bit of sense why Freo is entertaining trading Lobb to GWS. He is taking up a could chunk of Salary cap room, off load him and add O'Meara. They will get Clark deal done with pick 22, Pick 8 would get the O'Meara deal done maybe with a Hawthorn Pick.

I doubt Hore will be offered a contract, we have J Smith/Turner/Tomlinson as tall defenders, plus M Brown/Daw can both go back as well. I can't see Declase being retained which is a bit of a shame, I think with more VFL games he may have kept his spot. Still think we should offer pick 49 for Brander, leave 57 for Woey Jnr. Out: Jones, Jetta, AVB, Lockhart, Hore, Declase plus Bradtke Cat B In: Dunstan, Brander, Pick 17, Pick 37, Woey I'm assuming that leaves 1 more player we can pick up either in Rookie draft or pre-season/mid-season draft. Pick 17 for Conway(Developing Ruck) Pick 37 Best available Gives us 2 mids, Tall Forward, Ruck and another players from Trade/Draft period

You would have thought that if Hore and Declase were to be offered contracts they would have been announced along with the others today.

I think you are over stating the amount of effort MFC put into Andrew or any club has put into their NGA. It started off 3-4 years ago with all clubs going hard but the soon realised that reward V Effort and Cost it was just not worth it. Most clubs now hold try outs sign up players and maybe host a handful of sessions if that. Sydney/GWS/Brisbane/GCS are different they get priority access to any player in the academies, they actually spend a lot of time developing kids. Have a look at the back ground of players these clubs have picked up from their academies not to many with would meet the criteria for the other clubs.

Yep, they are basically trading Brodie and P19 for Future picks that will be 25-30 and 60+.

You would expect 19 to go to Geelong for Clark and a pick maybe 41.

OK he might be a depth player but we are in a massive premiership window that we need to plan to extend for as long as we can, adding a 22yo Tall Forward that can swing into the backline or even into the midfield. Think Tomlinson but younger and moves better.