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football is all about your bottom six - take away four of the 22 and yr reliant upon your squad, and that's 26 fwiw, if you add in kk, that's 9 of what was my ostensible 'best 26' from the start of the year now missing: B: Jetta - May - Lever HB: Lewis - O Mac - Hibberd C: Jones - Brayshaw - Harmes HF: Petracca - T Mac - vandenBerg F: J Smith - Weideman - Melksham Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Viney I/c: Hannan - Hunt - Fritsch - Preuss Emerg: Spargo - Stretch - Kolodjashnij - Frost that's 8 of 26 currently on the injury list, or freshly added to it since the weekend, plus jkh is next cab off the ranks too

Stick a fork in KK...

not to mention the game where jurrah was on fire against the aints then proceeded to spend 20 mins on the pine it was a disgraceful time and they should have done far, far better...like the filth, meth coke, and poos&wees before em, and made it COUNT at the draft table instead we had 10 picks out of top 30 in three drafts and picked morton, grimes, watts, blease, strauss, maric, $cully, trengove, gysberts, and tapscott you couldn't stuff it up both on- and off-field harder if you tried

8 of our best 22-26 on the injury list now ? Tom McDonald (Ankle) — Test Charlie Spargo (Jaw) — Test Jordan Lewis (Hamstring) — 1-3 weeks Steven May (Groin) — 2-3 weeks Joel Smith (Groin) — 2-3 weeks Aaron vandenBerg (Ankle) — 4-6 weeks Mitch Hannan (Knee) — 6-8 weeks Jake Lever (Knee) — 6-8 weeks Jay Kennedy-Harris (Knee) — 10-12 weeks Aaron Nietschke (Knee) — season Guy Walker (Shoulder) — season

bt: "he's a beautiful kick, tyson" lolz (he actually hit the target)

it's all well and good to highlight these four as having great starts for their new sides, but they were never actually 'on the market' - linc mccarthy - was always going to the bears, cos his best mate neale was always going there - lachie neale - was never coming to melbourne; wanted the anonymous lifestyle of brisbane - gary rohan - was always going to geelong as it's where he's from - luke dahlhaus - see rohan, gary jarryd lyons might have been available, but i doubt if we were even looking at him; no one was, other than the bears $cully was obviously never returning to us, and only wanted to go to hawks cos of their excellent injury recovery record beams was only going to the pies and hogan was always going back to freo if the deal could get done, as was lobb shiel was choosing btw big money deals at carlton or essendon the only players on the 'active' market this last off-season were may / kolodjashnij package, wingard, newman, colyer, lloyd, scrimshaw, horlin-smith, setterfield, stengle, and maybe a couple of others around the edges in hindsight players like setterfield or lloyd would be handy, but neither are world-beaters wingard would've been great, but in an ideal world we'd have held our nerve and hold onto hogan

You’d think so I guess you could say Goodwin is backing our senior players in...

This looks like a complete training drill for the Hawks Our easy exits from defensive 50 are an embarrassment at both afl and vfl level - really sub-standard defensive efforts 2 goals 2 for the quarter with the breeze compared to 4 goals 2 into it...not good!

knightmare's early 2019 rankings: http://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/25376887/afl-draft-chris-doerre-top-20-prospects-2019 noah anderson, sam flanders, mitch o'neill, matthew rowell, caleb serong, jeremy sharp, cooper stephens, dylan stephens sound like the likeliest prospects for this role most important thing is to pick a player who can a) be developed properly and b) have a bit of luck on his side if we maintain current position i imagine we'll be all over rowell like a cheap suit - all the draft experts have been raving about him for a couple of years now, since his u/16s year at least

i was at this game it was fantastically exciting

the biggest issue is that the likes of preuss and garlett need game time to press their claims having a short break means that you need them to play minimum a half of footy...and is that enough? i'm also not sure what benefit there is in having preuss play predominantly ruck in the vfl when, if picked for the afl, he'll primarily play forward and relief ruck it's why you'd have to assume kielty or perhaps even tim smith would be ahead of him in the pecking order currently

guaranteed he does himself a mischief tomorrow in the vfl, then

appallingly, morton was a more accomplished footballer at the same stage as kk

he makes cale morton look hard

Pending any injuries out of the vfl hit out... OUT: KK, T Mac, O Mac, ANB IN: Spargo, Petty, Garlett, Keilty jones and frost both deserve to be dropped, hibberd and fritsch borderline the same, trac was better this week than last week but could probably still go...unfortunately there's really not much to come in KK looks like the second coming of Cale Morton B: Jetta - Frost - J Wagner HB: Salem - Petty - Hibberd ? Fritsch - Brayshaw - Harmes HF: Petracca - Weideman - C Wagner F: Spargo - Melksham - Hunt Foll: Gawn - Oliver - Viney I/c: Jones - Stretch - Garlett - Keilty Emerg: Preuss - Hore - Sparrow - Jordon

6: brayshaw (and he butchered it all night long) 5: gawn (we're going to run him into the ground early this year) 4: harmes (three goals from midfield) 2: oliver (and he butchered it every time he kicked) 1: hunt (three goals in first game as a small forward) it was ugly this evening

forget finals, the real battle is going to be not 'winning' the wooden spoon

he's not solely responsible, but i don't know what's happened to our defence

It’s nowhere near as congested as I was expecting it to be T Mac being forced off actually created space i50 - putting him on the wing upon return kept that forward line open Now keep going Dees

Less grunt on inside, more run on outside

Beginning to feel ill with anticipation

correction: morton, grimes, watts, maric, blease, strauss, $cully, trengove, gysberts, tapscott ten top 30 picks in three years - not a genuine star among em!

This is more about Warner hating Gil and the afl than it is us tanking

Quality timing... https://bit.ly/2FNgq9T

we're gonna run rings around em, perhaps?