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i've always been an advocate to reduce the competition to 14 teams (goodbye northern franchises, saints, north) or 12 and everyone plays each other home and away in a 26- or 22-round season it won't happen tho the fact that ed is promoting a 20 team competition is in keeping with the whispers out of docklands for the last five or six years that the afl is more focussed on expansion than contraction as others have said, his entire statement is high on popular statements and low on realistic outcomes - all about 'rehabilitation of ed' than anything else

as they should be - playing fast, exciting, high-scoring football and are regularly one of the most-watched sides over the last two decades on free-to-air due to being in the most populous city and incredibly successful

the most hilarious thing about dimma's suggestion is that he didn't even know the name of the player - that's how low on the totem pole he is plus i believe he was originally a queensland academy zone player in the first place? gc17 wouldn't want to 'loan' some unproven kid as a stand-in ruckman anyway - they'd be more likely to target mabior chol as a player who CAN play ruck at afl level as already proven

he sticks with gw$ he's earning $8m over the next 8 - i would expect gw$ are competitive again before north are

it's the colin sylvia special! jack watts was also a master at it

yep be interesting to see where they fall

be great if we could have a highly rated academy kid - or two! - in a year in which we don't have a first round pick

they invested in these kids since they were under 12s and gave up points at the draft table in order to claim them - braeden campbell cost the points equivalent of pick 5 and and errol gulden cost them pick 32...before discounts what they should not have been able to do is have any 'discount' applied to them same goes for the dogs claiming jamarra ugle-hagan with pick 1 in 2020 and (probably) the filth with nick daicos with pick 1 later this year

fwiw, the sanfl kicked off last weekend

and buddy...and judd...and prestia...

Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they win all 12 games they play at home The shape of the new ground also sets them up beautifully to replicate their game style to the G too

i thought the way he handled the tag was pretty smart - he took de boer forward as much as he could; just a shame he couldn't kick the goals when in the centre square, he also positioned himself way out wide on the wing which completely threw gw$ for a loop - all of a sudden it was only two mids each at the fall of the ball rather than three as is the norm at centre square rotations i've never seen a hard-tagged inside mid do that before

i would expect he would be in significant demand from teams that want to be successful - he's a smart footballer who makes good decisions with the ball in hand but also works hard defensively i'm more worried about him leaving than clayton or petracca, for instance, as a successful team - like, say, richmond or sydney - could offer him a significant contract that blows us out of the water in terms of offer

oliver >>> zerrett for mine

fwiw shaw backtracked at a million miles an hour re trac going to the filth on 3aw became much more of a 'every club would be looking at him!' vague statement rather than a determinative 'pies are gonna get petracca woot woot!' statement

Kosi as well

he returned today

i think it's fair to say that clayton is gonna have the o'connor tag next sunday he's been terrific on neale and titchell in consecutive weeks

talented young ruckman coming thru the pipeline? how on earth does he qualify for us?

Just two mid to lower tier teams; Cats are missing their cream and Hawks are just bog ordinary

Both teams playing pretty messy footy

24,551 9,563 in the national capital last night

tracking well for all oztrayan honours in just his second year one less goal than other small forwards in fantasia, walla, and equal with shane mcadam from adelaide, but equal for tackles i50 along with jamie cripps and 10th for pressure acts (sparrow and anb also in the top 10 at #5 and #8 respectively) kid is a gun

greene is fairly well lauded as it is - only the one all australian honour but that's more been due to injury and suspension than anything else

ed langdon 903m gained wowee - 300+ more than the next best player lever with 100% tog, tomlinson, gawn, fritsch, may, jackson, salem all 90+