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52-0 now

judging by his role at the under 18s as a player playing 'up' and the word out of gold coast since, he's being modelled more on mac andrew and playing as a tall, athletic defender it will be interesting to see what role he has in his draft year in 2025

important to get the margin down; should still go thru now

big boomers comeback

gc17's season is as disappointing as ours personally i hope they never make finals

yes, it's the midfield but no, rivers can 100% play that role going forward we're currently missing one of the best midfielders in the competition, and it really, really shows, plus of course gus, who was one of our best midfield rotations, missing all year if houston comes then he and rivers will, ultimately, wax and wane like hodge and lewis from half-back to mid you'd think i'd kill for an ldu or equivalent like that style of midfielder to come into our first rotation, but there's really no one of that ilk available this season

waterman's attack on the oppo and his goalkicking are a delight i hope it's true we are chasing him as well as edwards from meth coke, houston from the pear, angwin and cumming from gw$, and plenty of others besides we need to inject some class into the side

crom's fitness is a real issue too perhaps that style that worked so well in the past has gone by the wayside it wouldn't necessarily be a surprise, as the style of football that is successful has definitely changed

9.10 (64) scores against us off turnover 6.6 (42) of that from 27 forward half turnovers ugly numbers

i believe he nominates february or so next year

be interesting to see how highly rated tairon ah-mu and kalani white are in 2025 and how much it 'costs' us to get them

them gc17? kangas puddy tatts filth? pear? gw$? flagmantle bears the pear vs bloods should be a cracker

yeah, not remotely confident

top four interstate sides - bloods, bears, flagmantle, and gw$ - all look the most likely to me

According to Mark Duffield we have ‘significant interest’ in him From their website, they describe him as a tall defender Towering young tall Harry Edwards has been asked to tackle some big assignments since debuting in 2020, and the former rookie-listed defender gained valuable experience from his 17 senior level appearances in the 2022 season. Edwards did well to use that experience to his advantage when given the opportunity, further developing the 200cm backman at an accelerated rate. Edwards encountered injury concerns in 2023, including a fractured wrist, which saw him feature just twice in the senior squad last year. The Swan Districts product was named West Coast’s Emerging Talent winner in 2021.

so for this off-season we're looking at a father-son and nga as probably late / rookie picks: noah yze: tall half-back / inside mid, regularly getting in the bests for oakleigh ricky mentha: small forward, now being re-tooled as a fast half-back rebounder at the end of 2025 we're likely looking at early / early-ish upgrades: kalani white: tall defender, already playing up an age level at under 18s champs, selected under 16s all oztrayan tairon ah-mu: forward / ruck, dominating for haileybury as a 'junior' and playing under 18 football if white and ah-mu are seriously talented - and, judging by write-ups etc, it would seem they are - i wonder how much we'll know about what we'll need to have in the kitty to get them before we make decisions regarding trading 'out' of the 2025 draft

or his manager is using his peak performance season as the perfect time to renegotiate his contract in a pre-free agency year

be interesting to see what happens here

polec was never all oztrayan, but wingard was in ripping form for the pear before he crossed to dingley, twice earning all oztrayan honours, winning the john cahill medal, and twice leading their goalkicking as a half-forward / mid houston was all oztrayan last year and has barely missed a game since debuting if we can get him, he'll be the perfect addition to our side's make-up it'll be very interesting to see how hard we go at getting him

lovely bit of fearmongering here from fox footy low grade syndesmosis which doesn't require surgical intervention and could see him return to the side sooner rather than later according to the mfc injury update

yes, which is why i presume we'll be taking a first round pick to the draft in 2024

at 28 years of age? unlikely, you'd think

wow we have come a long way...

personally my ideal off-season sees us revelling in winning a premiership after winning the next 8 games in a row... i think it'll be houston OR a top 10 draft pick @Binmans PA can't see us achieving both this 2024 post-season the other names we've been linked to are cumming and angwin from gw$, both of whom have struggled with injury throughout their careers thus far, but both of who could help fill out our depth as half-back / wing types in reality tho neither are in the seem class as dan houston - i tend to be 'all in' for him as he and rivers would perfectly completely each other as half-back / midfielders in our side in 2025 we're likely to have two picks we're taking outside of the draft - an nga and a father-son pick - which will give us the forward / ruck that we want (Tairon Ah-Mu) and a tall defender (Kalani White) to add to our tall depth the fact that they'll be coming onto the list at the end of 2025 increases my keenness for tom mcdonald to play on and help bridge the gap, given that the likes of adam tomlinson and ben brown are likely to off the list at the end of this season

this draft was a ripper for us, particularly if one of more of howes, woewodin or moniz-wakefield goes on to be a regular senior player, given that the expectation of both van rooyen and mcvee is that they'll be 200+ game players unrelated to this time period, heard on the weekend that chol signed a 4 year $2-2.5m deal with dingley which is heavily front-loaded and has a trigger for a 5th year - we were never in the market for him