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the only confident tips i'd be prepared to make is flagmantle over the tigs and the pear over meth coke every other one is - due to both form and injuries to key players - a bit of a toss-up

may cost the pick that became gc17's king, hibberd and melksham were both traded for great high second round picks mcadam was the only player with significant 'cost' of that latter group, and that was for a second round pick; the others were freebies, more or less we didn't have capacity to bring in highly ranked players as had the likes of gawn, viney, brayshaw, oliver, petracca, salem, etc. on high money deals at the time, in 2021-23, none of them was going out the significant player we lost was dogga at the end of 2022; we got peak value for him other than that, we had little to trade jj is the one that hurts, a bit, but that's because the afl and their stupid rules-on-the-run approach to allow delisted / relisted players to accomodate their stupid you-must-draft-3-players-every-year-but-you-can-prelist-a-delisted-player rule approach and, at the time, he had been very middling for us as a mid

it's funny, isn't it - we've gone from a super strong midfield full of big bodies to very little depth i was surprised that laurie was preferred as a half forward; i just can't see him getting a go at that role in the afl - he's a centre clearance type who needs to play a sam mitchell-type role if only he had sitchell's skills and smarts...

not even gaj was a superstar from day dot - it was his 6th year in 2007 when he absolutely exploded into the rare air that he then had for another 13 or so seasons after that oliver is probably our closest 'immediate star' player under the jason taylor era - in his second season he was a best and fairest winner in a side that missed finals by the smallest % ever the likes of naicos who are stars from debut on are so, so rare by year 4 i would expect first round picks to really be showing their wares

they specifically changed the rules and adjudications post-maynard tho i suspect bailey humphries might get the northern franchises discount

second week in a row we've had a pressure rate of 165 need to increase that significantly

was the tiggas fella concussed? if not, i think it's more likely than not to be downgraded

that's a serious 'string ping ya hate to see it happening to good players, but...

no he looks like a plodder who is a poor user by foot

that mcgrath is their skipper says volumes about where the peptides are at i'm sure he's a good fella, but he has little impact on field

Yes but also no Our 2026 best players are our veterans - Gawn, Salem, Langdon standing out Our kids are promising, but a lot of work to do

no, as if kolt doesn't play as a tagger then he should be back at casey; can't have both he and sparrow having zero impact as half-forwards - at least if he's curtailing a mid for the oppo he has some positive effect on the play the 'travel' that cj did was absolutely hilarious - just jogging BACKWARDS into the middle of the d50 to give away a simple shot at goal, when not bouncing it under zero pressure he has no game awareness

i don't think kolt is big enough to take on cripps - we'll probably just let steele go head to head with him - so i would really like to see him go to walsh they're both hard gut runners

i would assume that amw surely needs another run around after a year out, but of course there's no vfl game for casey next week at some point they're going to need to see if the max^2 can work or not otherwise it's probably just... OUT: turner IN: plugger mac ...as there's nothing in reserve to call up at casey adams looked a mile off it for casey today; admittedly i only saw a quarter, but he was regularly out-positioned and looked unaware of how to defend

6: gawn 5: salem 4: langdon 3: tholstrup 2: steele 1: lever

yeah but nah he would have pointed, and stropped, and blamed inexperienced teammates for his own ineptitude, and given away free kicks, and shown little leadership when it mattered - as per every poor loss for the last couple of years

there is nothing to come in from casey they have no midfield from the dees at all, with laurie moving to a permanent - and worthless - half forward role

fought it out that's the sort of 8 goal win that should have been 16 that will cost flagmantle when it gets to the end of the season

cj is just AWFUL

he's a half back flanker not a midfielder

ouch, from the champion data feed

no he's not; he's not injured

so kolt is a good tagger, it would seem sad that he can't do anything with the ball in hand

unfortunately this is going pretty much as i think everyone expected we're not very good, and they're a much better side our midfield is awful fwiw - flagmantle up over 20 contested possessions now

Bit harsh they’ve only got two