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fullarton was much better as a ruckman today definitely assisted by playing there continuously due to verrall's concussion sestan impressive second half, bill laurie consistently mid, while pup brown and howes are starting to get that 'too good for vfl' look about them - not quite there but getting there

EL JEFE mark floating in front of the pack from the long bomb from adams - dude reads the play beautifully goal

if sestan can get his fitness base where it needs to be he can 100% make it in the afl - great by foot

he has a lot of tackles as he's second man in at contests chandler's frontal pressure is much better

couldn't agree with this less

classique bloods in 24 - slow to start, grind it in q2 and q3, run away with it in the last

he doesn't provide the defensive pressure laurie will either make it as a mid at afl level or he'll have a long vfl career a la mitch white

that's two good games in a row as a chf in my view did he do his hamstring late, or was that wrong?

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this sort of comment does such a disservice to the ol' #8 yr username was inspired by petty was huge in the last two minutes last week - pack mark following pup's big tackle, then great workrate to be last man back defensively as they pressed again in final minutes i'd say yr the useless one, not the 24 year old premiership player

he's one of a handful of 16 year olds who has played 'up' for a pretty strong allies u/18 side so he's already somewhat regarded

tipping: them dogs bloods? gc17? peptides? gw$? aints? baggers dorks best result for mfc: us kangas bloods draw? draw? crom aints tigs meth coke

clicks, clicks, and more clicks

woey 2.0's lack of game time in the second half of the vfl may be explained that the plan was always to bring him in as a bigger body than pup brown vs the bears i don't particularly like the lack of reward for result, but i can understand it amw for salem makes sense given the latter's injury and the desire to leave rivers as a midfielder

that backline will be super slow and unco with those four talls

is he rfa? ufa? otherwise, crom will want a second rounder for him you'd think

is he better than jvr now? comparative #s for 2024:

we're placed as a side two games from 2nd on the ladder so i would say yr in it to win it until yr not oliver is far, far more valuable as such in the senior side - they call it 'value over replacement player' in baseball, which measures "how much a hitter or pitcher contributes to their team in comparison to a replacement-level player who is an average fielder at that position and a below average hitter" i don't know how you'd measure it in the afl, but oliver's vorp would, i suspect, be significantly higher than any other midfielder we currently have running around for us at vfl level and probably over anyone else bar max and possibly lever in the afl side this round for me the notable change - again, since the hamstring tendon injury - is in clayton's ability to power out of contests he's not using his legs anymore and his defensive workrate has definitely got progressively worse since the premiership so he can't make up for it by doing the little things that he used to do the notion of him playing vfl just doesn't make sense to me

would happily give battle a six year deal versatile talls who impact in the air and at ground level don't grow on trees he's only 25, will only be 31 when he next comes out of contract

should never have put ourselves in that position in the first place football is a game of momentum these days, and north got all theirs going in the last quarter and, to be honest, the second quarter - they should never have let the margin balloon out as it did and could well have been in front at half time as they were as dominant in 2 and 4 as we were in 1 and 3 our defensive structure held them up in the last few minutes and petty's clunking mark after pup's big tackle was a huge part of us holding on imo

melksham was amongst the fittest players on our list - every chance to play on in 2025 if he and the club can come to an agreement yr a long time retired after all... anyway, unfortunately i agree with @middleagedemon - i think we're on a hiding to nothing this week; the line of 29.5 looks pretty generous...to them mind you, i tipped north last week, so what would i know...other than that my mfcss is STRONG

it will be interesting to see how we handle his return

i agree with a lot of this except for the last paragraph he is fit and hot to go as evidenced by his best games, albeit not to his normal lofty standard, a standard which i would say he hasn't approached since his hamstring tendon injury against the pear last year he's had one shocking game against a super hard tag he's experienced that before; he'll experience that again the truth is he's still more valuable to the side being out there and copping a hard tag and 'losing' the battle' than not being out there at all

like most good teams, bears don't bring their best players back thru the vfl

concussion would be more of an issue acl is, relatively speaking, something than be recovered from with time and training but a 'medical retirement' forced upon a player due to abnormal brainwaves cannot be reversed