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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

he's also been 'beaten' by a tagger it won't be the first nor the last time it happens

lou gehrig's disease

50m up in the air, 40m downfield

welcome to the internet, yr gonna love it

you would have dropped oliver after the filth game? when he was our ONLY midfielder - other than first year wing caleb windsor and the skipper - to get more than 20 possessions? when he was 3rd for clearances behind gawn and anb? when he was 7th for metres gained? when he was equal 2nd for goal assists? really??

it starts somewhere...

the minute you get a 'vibe' that something bad is going to happen, yr already in

that'd be the mfcss - welcome to the club! as a long time sufferer, i recognise yr affliction and just want you to know that there's no known cure it has only gone away for a month, in october 2021, and quickly came back when all the news about dogga signing a long term extension was dismissed in november 2021

if yr saying a player is going to retire as a result of an injury that's the epitome of mfcss - "when things are glum there's worse to come"

wants to be an inside midfielder wouldn't be in the dogs' best 5 starting inside mid types behind bontempelli, liberatore, richards, macrae, and treloar

this is all very mfcss with the 'he's going to retire' i mean, it's 50/50 really, isn't it? either he will or he won't i'm presuming come rd 1, 2025, he'll be prowling around the square

i thought puddy tatts were red hot favourites to land him from a long way back? be interesting to see what footscray wants for him

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