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rowell and anderson look like incredible talents i'm friends with fish mcasey's dad, who played one game for the aints back in the 80s (his claim to fame is that when he went on the ground plugger was sent to full-back!) and fish looks hella brave as their chb

pickett has blistering pace but his ball use is atrocious edit: although better than anb's d50 exit kick...my god that was ugly

he's not a small forward; he's a wingman / rebounding flanker handy player who breaks lines and tackles well, but has a tendency to spray it of the boot given that we gave up second rounders for melksham and hibberd, i'd put him BELOW their value, so maybe something like straight third rounder OR our second for langdon and freo's third / fourth rounder could work?

he works hard to get from contest to contest. but he is: not slow but not quick doesn't break the lines can't hit targets by foot doesn't put on enough defensive pressure is limited to being able to play one role, purely as a midfielder he's unfortunately proved to be entirely vanilla as a footballer at this point - he's like jkh in that regard

sure, i mean...why not? it's all a bit of fun on a messageboard.... i prefer to think of it in terms of list - who'll still be on it in 2023, at the start of the next tv rights deal? likely still on the list: may (turns 31 in 2023) salem (28) harmes (28) petracca (27) viney (29) lever (27) spargo (24) brayshaw (27) gawn (31 on dec 31, 2022) oliver (26) hannan (29) preuss (28) hunt (27) fritsch (27) uncertain (let's say half of them are still on the list at the start of 2023; i've highlighted a guess of a dozen still with us): bedford (23) hibberd (33) stretch (27) kolodjashnij (28) frost (30) melksham (32) vandenberg (31) jordon (23) kennedy harris (28) nietschke (23) o mac (27) neal-bullen (27) sparrow (23) baker (25) hore (27) petty (24) jetta (33) j wagner (29) j smith (27) chandler (23) c wagner (26) lockhart (23) walker (28) keilty (28) bradtke (23) unlikely: jones (35) lewis (37) maynard (32) garlett (34) t smith (32) so, here's round 1, 2023 (give or take end of trade / draft period of the next four years, natch, player fitness, etc., etc.)... B: Jetta - May - Lever HB: Salem - Petty - Fritsch ? Harmes - Brayshaw - Hannan HF: Petracca - T Mac - Hunt F: Preuss - Weideman - Melksham Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Viney I/c: Spargo - Sparrow - Lockhart - J Smith Emerg: Frost - Hore - C Wagner - Bradtke tbh, it's not wildly different from now - the 14 or so who should, hopefully, still be with us are core players of our team now, with virtually four full seasons ahead of them of course, some of them may choose to retire after winning four premierships in a row from 2019-2022 inclusive.........

nah, pies have been long past us for a long, long time - we used to be the two biggest clubs in the competition by a big, big stretch same number of flags since 58 (three apiece) but umpteen dozen gf appearances for them and continued strength as a club over an extended period of time whilst we have floundered on and off the field but if yr talking recent times, they only went past us on-field on prelim final day last year - they won, we didn't they are currently playing a great brand of footy tho, whereas we need to improve significantly to match last year's results

exactly average afl wage was $370k last year, and will go up again in 2019 as the cba increases every year leading up to end of 2022 and the next rights agreement you gotta pay someone, after all...

he kicks 80 goals a year he'll be on riewoldt, cameron, and franklin level! with the way we're playing and bringing the ball i50, two goals a game average would be very solid, but most importantly is that weed is continuing to impact play on a regular and consistent basis charlie curnow is on over $800k a year; ben brown is on somewhere similar after originally being mooted as possibly earning up to $1m a season, signed up to the end of 2020 - when i believe he'll be one year short of a free agent but pre-agency may become a possibility for brown at the end of this season if the the kangaroos are still average to poor-ish

this hawks are already setting up to throw everything at him, unfortunately, and his best mate plays there and has just signed a backloaded four year deal to help...

and about half of his current salary which is over $1.2m a year key forwards are the big earners in the competition weid has the hallmarks of being a ripper player - he competes in the air and at ground level, tackles, and is a fantastic kick in the grand scheme of salary cap management, $650k a year is not huge money these days tbh

Carltank traded Marchbank and Pickett plus a second rounder for a second and third rounder in 2016, plus a 2017 first round pick - it’s not that great a deal in isolation Plowman is a below average defender - was part of the deal that saw pick No.28 together with No.77, 95 and Geelong's 2016 first-round pick (acquired in the Lachie Henderson trade) to Greater Western Sydney for Lachie Plowman, Jed Lamb, Andrew Phillips and Liam Sumner and pick No.8 Neither deal is equivalent to $cully for pick 68 or whatever it was, which remains daylight robbery

god i hope not love the idea of an in-form and switched-on garlett being in the side, and i really like what lockhart offered in his first two games at afl level, so... IN: lockhart, garlett, jetta OUT: spargo, c wagner, j wagner B: Jetta - Frost - Hore HB: Salem - O Mac - Hibberd ? Harmes - Jones - Brayshaw HF: Petracca - T Mac - Hunt F: Preuss - Weideman - Melksham Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Viney I/c: Stretch - Fritsch - Garlett - Lockhart Emerg: Spargo - Petty - C Wagner - J Wagner ostensible best squad currently injured: may, lewis, lever, kolodjashnij, hannan, vandenberg, j smith (also jkh, who is probably in that 28-32nd player on the list)

saints are quick, and are playing winning football; given our below average form you'd be a fool NOT to be worried one thing that they're definitely not doing is scoring - high of 86, low of 66, two other scores in the 70s they're obviously not getting it inside 50 as much as us (average of 52.8 to our 59.8), but they are going at nearly 50% efficiency once they do get it in (we're at a paltry 38.9% by comparison) their defensive 50 work has been fairly mid-level (avg 9.3 to our 13.8 tackles i50) they rebound from 50 better than us by a fairly big margin, but their desire to play on and run with it will really test us (9.5 bounces per game compared to our 3) their game plan is not entirely dissimilar to the peptides in that it's all about fast ball movement and getting players out the back to help facilitate that if they pull it off it looks terrific, but if they don't hit the targets under increased pressure that you'd hope we'll bring, then there's a good chance they will themselves be susceptible to turnover themselves as they'll be out of the position and they don't track back that well we can win, but honestly...who knows in this nutzoid season

aflua seems to have the 2018 laws of the game, but not the 2019 version: https://aflua.com.au/laws/

Scoring has to be at a low for the afl era, surely? GC17-Carltank another low scoring snoozer

yes, he played against henry walsh (sam walsh from carlton's little - but much taller - brother) in the draw walsh had 20 hitouts to bradtke's 15, 3 disposals to bradtke's 11, a mark apiece, and no goals for walsh i believe there's a replay available on the nab league app but i have not watched

sounds like a fair response from last week then!

he's so balanced i'm never expecting him to have a 'breakout' game tbh; i want consistency from him if he can be consistent at having these 16-25 possession @ 70-80% efficiency, 1-3 goals, 3-6 tackles, 3-6 mark, 3-6 i50 games that i'd rather he manage that sort of output on a week-to-week basis than have one 30 disposal, 5 goal bog performance and a whole lot of 10 disposal, no effect on the game games most important thing for me is that he reduces his turnovers - going at 4 a game thus far this year

my general vibe is that most on the board think we should have been playing him, but unfortunately copping an injury in the vfl praccy game that coincided with jlt2 and then average form as a ruckman in the vfl saw him have to wait to debut i never quite understood why he didn't play alongside gawn in jlt2, given that the aim has always been, presumably, to play gawn in the ruck with preuss as a relief ruck who is a massive unit as a forward target i stick by the roos' maxim that you recruit blokes to play them in the 1s, not the 2s very happy to see him make an impact and fingers crossed the shoulder is all good

best bit was the end when gawn said 'if we don't do it again in ten days it means absolutely nothing'

footscray to surprise the filth gw$ to lose to the puddy tatts at the taxpayer's stadium bears to continue their run against the peptides pear to knock off the tiggas the future tasmania to beat the cows meth coke to belt the jokers gc17 to knock off carltank aints to knock off poos&wees and continue their surprise season gotta say, it's VERY nice to have all eight remaining games ahead of us after a win

it's always hard to tell when the camerawork and the commentary are bad in unison

be interesting to see what happens with preuss and o mac, the latter of who copped concussion brayshaw copped a knock to his knee, i think it was? would be great to see some vfl form from garlett and anb will lockhart's back by right for him to play in the vfl in a couple of days? sounds like jetta might be touch-and-go for in ten days, but anything can happen in ten days IN: jetta, lockhart OUT: spargo, j wagner B: Jetta - Frost - Fritsch HB: Salem - O Mac - Hibberd ? Brayshaw - Jones - Harmes HF: Petracca - T Mac - Hunt F: Preuss - Weideman - Melksham Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Viney I/c: Stretch - Hore - C Wagner - Lockhart Emerg: Spargo - Kolodjashnij - ANB - Garlett

blessed relief incredible defensive effort in the second two and a half quarters leaders stepped up

6: gawn 5: petracca 4: jones 3: salem 2: preuss 1: oliver