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add duursma too emerging as a player, albeit less as a mid and more a tall forward flanker

cripps can't run he played in the state of origin, yeah? more and more it's looking like it's had a significant impact upon players

oh, and dylan stephens from sydney too if you can't win the midfield battle with that many top picks who are all mids then it's got to be an issue of coaching and / or development

doesn't look like there's a huge amount of pressure thus far in this game that north midfield should be elite - ldu, sheezel, wardlaw, mckercher, powell, o'sullivan are all top five picks, i think? far better quality than the baggers' cripps, walsh, smith or bust

The beauty of having had him on ignore for several years cannot be underestimated

Appalling Action must be taken

windsor, langford, and lindsay all have the capacity to be a-graders - and so they should given where they were selected in their draft years i personally think howes, jvr, and culley already are role players - whether they can go beyond that remains to be seen; jvr has the potential to do so, but unsure if the others will kolt, kuz pickett are fast on the path to being serviceable role players too - whether they can go beyond that will come down to their own development and i think the latter has more potential than the former, but i've been super impressed by tholstrup's ability to play his role so far in 2026 taylor should have significant upside, and i think matthews might too, despite his diminitive status kalani and kentfield are wait and sees imo - both need a decent run of football before you can make a solid judgement, and a lot of gym work in white's case...pedigree is good tho i think el jefe is a bust and won't be on an afl list beyond this season; he just doesn't get involved in the play enough and has had a poor run with injury

naicos makes the filth a 5 goal a game better side they'd still have lost last night by a solid 7 or so goals the bears are looking very, very good early in the season - something that they've not actually done in their last two premiership campaigns still reckon flagmantle is their most likely challenger

Right that makes sense I was wondering who was behind it

Filth’s slingshot footy is still top tier They are really missing Naicos and Pendlebury around the contest

i thought the whole point of this was making outlandish predictions, i.e. things that you didn't expect to happen? as such, this is looking good: as she got shifted sideways yesterday

not having this for 2 hours as a wednesday morning listen is gonna make for a poorer hump day experience

this we're red and blue, not red, blue, and silver

very true!

get o mac back - he'll be a free agent at the end of this season, i think

teaching him defensive running patterns i'd imagine, as well as discipline to perform a role on ongoing basis from memory, the bont started out primarily as an outside mid who became an inside mid once he'd built a tank if langford can become a left-footed version of bontempelli, we'll be ecstatic

king on the pre-game on one of the radio stations said rivers was having a 'grumble' in his knee, and that part of him going out of the side was to enable him to 'reset' as he he would be playing behind the ball upon his return to the side he strikes as a player who will be a half-back for the foreseeable future, not part of the regular midfield rotation

second this he's been farewelled move on

pickett's ability to play inside / outside is extraordinary he's going to be an incredible player for a long time can't wait to see how much more he can develop

he was a great player and vital to the premiership but he's not a player for us anymore who cares what he does or doesn't do for gw$

it's 50-50 we either will...or we won't... my mfcss tingles are telling me that of course he's going to be a superstar and as such we are of course not going to be eligible to select him

i honestly don't know who would want cripps in the modern football environment very few teams at the pointy end need a player of his type - perhaps the crom is the one exception, who really lack a big bulky contested clearance beast (which assuredly is why they have expressed interest in oliver and petracca in past off-seasons) cripps will finish his career as a carlton great, but it's hard to see him having much success in his career - their side is just not set up for finals footy in the way the modern game is played their best bet to have success was the year they knocked us off due to our inaccuracy; easy to forget their were 5 goals up on the bears in the prelim in 2023 before going down by about 3 goals since 2024, the game has been markedly different, which is why our old system and style of play fizzled from that year on

cj going down meant kolt went to the back flank role, where he was pretty calm, and careful with ball usage removing him from his tag on cripps opened up our midfield in the third term