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Goodwin and Jennings watching on in the crowd

i still think the 'watts as media sacrificial lamb' narrative is misguided watts' vfl form warranted his selection from what i recall

billings for tyson? i think the saints have completely misused him, burying him deep in the forward line - no idea if it's for injury reasons or what have you, but he's a much better player than he's shown thus far in 2018

Do they name the final 22 on Friday at 5pm, as per Sunday games, or is it on Saturday that it’s decided?

Ah, good point I suppose it depends on when Round 1 begins - how often does Easter fall over the march 20-24 period?

if you take out jones we're left with viney, oliver, brayshaw, tyson, with harmes and petracca as rotation inside mids but jones should be fine to play for a minimum two, probably three, more years

i personally would like to always have round 1 as a home game against the cats at the mcg at 2.10pm start two oldest clubs in the competition playing against each other at a traditional time

Opportunity, of course But if you think yr good enough to be best 22 - and I think part of the confidence of players is such that they absolutely believe they are - then yes, yr preference would be to go to an emerging club as opposed to a lower level battler

Should easily be looking at $1.5m over three as a minimum Defenders as reliable as Nev are worth at least that Interesting that Harmes is OOC too - I actually thought we had him signed up til 2019 Harmes, Brayshaw and O Mac are all must-retain at this point

79 here, and Clayton Oliver and Jesse Hogan will end up alongside Stynes, Schwarz, Farmer, and Flower for me...and I only saw the tail end of the latter’s career

I have long favored that socialist model of gate sharing as being the only fair and equitable solution Sadly, there is simply no way that the ‘big clubs’ (I.e those that consistently draw 50k plus like Collingwood, Richmond) or those with incredible homeground advantage (Adelaide, Freo, Geelong, Port, meth coke) would go for it

barlett wants pies in round 1 friday night, queen's birthday, and anzac eve to be our blockbusters in 2019: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/afl/demons-demand-another-blockbuster-with-collingwood/news-story/a5d223adf2f8778a0e20ea39f918c6d4

What a super impressive fella

robbo was drafted, dropped off, then rookied, i seem to recall... junior > flash > russian of those that were 'only' rookie draft selections

Alternate from 2020 or split the gate

It should be a crackerjack game btw two of the four form teams of the competition I am leaning towards J Smith for Lever too, but I suspect Wagner may get the call up...I wish Hunt was in form and good to go Perhaps they’ll stick with Harmes as that seventh defender and bring in another mid - could Stretch or Tyson be the one? Other than that, only other likely change would be Weideman for T Smith if he’s crocked, given that Melksham is thankfully looking all g Jetta - O Mac Harmes - Lewis - Hibberd - Vince - Salem Gawn - Oliver - Brayshaw - Jones - Viney - Fritsch Petracca - T Mac - ANB Hogan - Melksham Bench: Spargo - Tyson - Hannan - T Smith

FWIW, Jetta and O Mac were ROBBED

Why can’t we have nice things?!??

Yep, looked like it shifted underneath him

Natural footballer He’s just so good watch as a wingman; he’s gone from a third option forward mid-sizer playing as a tall to an absolutely outstanding wingman

I believe the decision on lars vs full reco is to do with the how the injured joint has actually been effected But I’m not a doctor...just such a bummer for the kid

Lars may be an option?? Clutching at straws here...

The logical fit for Lever is one of Frost, Kielty, or J Smith, unless they go with a runner like Hunt Smith and Melksham are in doubt so you’d think Pedo or Weid for Smith and possibly Garlett or Balic for Milkshake... I’m going to go with Hunt, Weideman and Garlett if all three miss, and hopefully just Hunt for Lever Man it’s dee-pressing to lose Lever

i don't know if he is best 22, but he's definitely best 25 we lose one inside mid and i'd wager he'd be straight in, although it's great that the likes of stretch are now adding inside ball winning to their skills at vfl level i think he's worth more to us than he is in a trade - he's sort of like lambert was at tigers for a while, before he locked down a spot, and like how miles has been forced from that side he'd be starting midfield rotation at a succession of other clubs, and i'd personally rather have him as a player able to come in rather than losing him for anything outside of a top 25 pick, and if it was 20-25 i'd be pretty disappointed, as players who've played 80 odd games and are as young as he is are fairly valuable

If Don didn’t deliver a pick inside 25 I wouldn’t consider it Midfield depth is key to winning games of football