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unfortunately, like eddie mcguire with his disparaging comments of anyone and everyone he deems 'below' him, may is a recidivist when it comes to a) not being fit and b) getting suspended he's too small (height-wise) for modern forwards, many of who are lightning quick 200cm+ athletic freaks may is no better / no worse than chip frawley

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also, who's panicking? i think most are just resigned to us wasting another year of our football-supporting lives

like supercoach, i'm presuming the season begins in round 3

open the draft board! https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-draft-2019-pick-1-top-10-prospects-order-afl-draft-watch-noah-anderson-finn-maginness/news-story/11281d9e0ba91ca6a1a6519e1965116c

when are you opening the draft board?

carnage at adelaide oval yesterday - charlie curnow getting scans on his knee to check how bad it is (acl / pcl / mcl), watts' season done with an ankle / leg break (syndesmosis), and amon a likely mcl as well

the problem with this is if, on a normal occasion, you told me these were our best five players then i'd say we had a pretty good game! alas... 6: oliver 5: harmes 4: brayshaw 3: gawn 2: viney 1: lockhart

could be an ugly friday night btw two 0-2 teams! peptides are quick - can't hit a target to save themselves thus far in 2019, but quick on the outside no idea what to do with team changes, but at the moment we have at least half a dozen ostensible top ten players severely out of form - jones, petracca, anb, hibberd, jetta - who are all, more or less, integral to our side as they bring a experience and mid depth, mid-sized forward target / rotation mid, small pressure forward, half back rebound, defensive stopper can't drop all of em but you'd think trac and anb would be on a knife's edge i still don't understand recruiting a bloke and then not playing him, but i would presume given the casey report that keilty is more likely to come in than preuss at this stage - his recruitment is a bit baffling at the moment peptides have a small, zippy, dynamic forward line so there's no point playing o mac and frost alongside may, presuming he's right to play (was very proppy), so one of them goes - i prefer o mac as a footballer, but we need frost's pace you can't have both frost and hunt in the back half of the ground, as they're absolute liabilities, so either hunt plays forward, replacing anb's role, or he gets dropped forward line was completely dysfunctional tonight so something needs to change sparrow needs a run at a lower level to get his hands on the pill IN: Stretch, C Wagner, Keilty OUT: O Mac, ANB, Sparrow B: Jetta - May - Hibberd HB: Salem - Frost - Fritsch ? Jones - Viney - Brayshaw HF: Petracca - T Mac - Melksham F: Keilty - Weideman - Hunt Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Harmes I/c: Stretch - Kolodjashnij - C Wagner - Lockhart Emerg: Spargo - Preuss - ANB - Sparrow unavailable thru injury: lewis, lever, avb, garlett, j smith, whatever player comes down with a mystery injury of the week

oliver is a freak brayshaw, viney and harmes are honest battlers we have no forward structure and no way of moving the ball forward other than bombing it long petracca, anb and hunt worst on

bit hard to have an impact when yr tethered to the forward 50 and the ball never gets there

may joins the dropped chest marks club

my prediction of 42 blew out to 72 and now might push to 100 we are not competitive

we are going to lose this by 72+ we have no idea how to get the ball forward whatsoever, and the amount of space they're getting is extraordinary in their forward 50 bereft of idea

gonna be a mauling

when selwood is kicking around his body on his left from 40m out to nail the goal, you just know it's not yr day!

why we try and do those dinky little i50 kicks i have no idea

port's kids look seriously classy - just 'natural' footballers - and adding lycett has made a big difference to their side

charlie curnow a possible acl - looked so innocuous...which doesn't seem to be a good thing these days

oh god not another knee - curnow

that interchange changeover, good grief

peptides are awful

lewis will either finish up this year or be on a severely reduced contract in 2020, and he was on very good coin for three years with us we also won't be paying $70k a year for watts to not be on our list any more

cats by 42 i worry about us scoring more than about 60 points a game at the moment

of the players out of contract this year, here's some names that stand out: hugh greenwood (crows) - sort of their equivalent of harmes, i guess riley knight (crows) - he most plays outside mid, has some pace daniel mcstay (bears) - very good tall defender, not sure we need another brayden sier (pies) - tough inside ballwinner, has some defensive liabilities tom phillips (pies) - jet wingman, would love him; no way they're losing him darcy parish (peptides) - a slightly better version of stretch...pass ed langdon (freo) - pace to burn, we've gone after him a couple of times nakia cockatoo (cats) - has skills but his body has let him down peter wright (gc17) - another key forward who doesn't seem to read the play that well adam tomlinson (gw$) - free agent, not sure what role he's play with us given kk and fritsh play def wingmen jacob hopper (gw$) - another inside mid, might be able to get him if he's squeezed out cos... josh kelly (gw$) - ...stays at the franchise, and so too does... steve coniglio (gw$) - ...this bloke brandon ellis (tiggas) - turnover merchant, but has pace jack billings (aints) - so we have someone else other than petracca to complain about harry cunningham (swans) - another rfa, a bit limited as a wingman, occasional rotating inside mid zak jones (swans) - all the brothers! josh dunkley (dogs) - another inside-outside mid-forward combo player, big bodied of that lot my preference in order would be a top five of coniglio, kelly, dunkley, billings, jones and then of the more likely lads langdon, tomlinson, hopper