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sydney swans fans are mental and they regularly pack out the scg

mckay, larkey, zuhaar, goldstein, ldu is a decent experienced five, and i really rate simpkin they have little quality depth

i think the gap week robbed us of momentum heading into finals and then we were clearly walking wounded in the semi it was a shocking end to the season, but we achieved the main goal of being top four - indeed, top two - at the end of the home and away everything that could go wrong in the two finals did go wrong

ideally, yes altho as seen the week off btw home & away and finals changes things and home ground advantage means little

top four at the end of the home and away for mine anything can happen in finals

there is no way anb will not be in our best 22 add jj to the 'best 23' as it is now and i reckon you've got it more or less spot on expecting jvr to challenge sideshow bob for starting key forward role

nice work as always gents

Good move to make it vs one of the franchises Crom, pear, and meth coke all have far too much support there

The Power’s Robbie Gray changed from 17 to 9 in his 7th season after his knee reconstruction

carlton look set to have 10 night games?!??

personally, would be surprised if he's in their starting 23 if they can teach him to kick - something that not even choc could fix - he'll be a more than handy player cos his workrate and running is excellent

questions for jason: how has covid affected the talent pool coming through, particularly in victoria, with two years of lack of exposed form across 2020 and 2021 in particular? every year the media narrative seems to be 'next year is a bumper draft for talls / mids / talent' etc. - do you actually see a difference in draft classes over the course of your time as a recruiter? how far out from draft years do you start assessing junior careers? i.e. under-13s or earlier? how do you assess our future father-sons (and father-daughters, mother-sons, and mother-daughters) that will be emerging over the next period of time? with the expansion of aflw, do you have any visibility of future recruiting pathways for aflw as well as aflm, or do you solely focus on the men's game?

technically, it was scheduled to be released 'exclusively' by the sunday herald-sun - they'd been promoting that earlier in the week before oztraya vs argentina was even a possibility i'll also run the counterview - i think it's smart cross-marketing to release just as kick off was happening with so many sports afficionados up and watching the soccer this morning; makes sense to capture captive eyeballs

dogs fans won't turn up and we have a dedicated 30-35k who are regular attendees 42,000 would be a a titch disappointing turn-out but would be a likely total imo

they should be a top four side so should we time will tell

you need to start making it five on the pine these days @WERRIDEE

personally i think carlton should've been a regular finalist for the last five or so years they've massively underperformed methinks that's about to change

reminded me a lot of our choke to miss finals in 2017 their top tier players - cripps, walsh, curnow, weitering, mckay - are superb their depth is questionable, at best

from my understanding, we looked at it very seriously but it was too small and then it was completely surrounded by new housing development

based on the minimal highlights, i'd say he most reminds me of tim membrey

Full quote: Though Adams said it would be “pretty exciting” to go to the Magpies which from the outside it looks like a “good fun club”, he has no qualms to moving interstate. However the West Australian said his mother might take some convincing to get on board. “Open to the opportunity, mum might be a bit disappointed losing another one of her children because my sister’s over in America at the moment,” Adams said. “She might be upset, but I won’t be too mad, I might get mum getting off me about cleaning dishes.”

jed adams - tall defender from wa

hoping we pick tom scully for the giggles

i'm a mod of a facebook group that 'remembers' the 90s oztrayan music scene - it went out and about across there in the lead-up to the shows, and people in the know found out pretty quick it's nick cave, warren ellis, colin greenwood from radiohead on bass, larry mullins from swans / iggy pop's band on drums, and three besides on beevee's - apparently the shows have been crazy good

listened to the roffey interview and didn't infer any 'back to square one' from it either next year is, according to our five year plan, when we need to see some movement on the 'home base near the g' come to fruition as well as hit 70k members and average mcg attendance of 50k i think the latter two are more a stretch goal than a home precinct