whatwhat say what

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?

cows missing jacobs favours the puddy tatts for mine our game, toss of the coin, least worst wins, which i fear will be them you'd think cola should get over carltank without charlie curnow gw$ should be too good for rance / riewoldt less tiggas the filth over meth coke in the gf rematch bears-pear could be the game of the round, i favour the former on their home turf footscray should continue their strong start to the season over gc17 i like the future tasmania over the soon to be former tasmania, without shiel and burgoyne jokers should be too good at home for the aints

4-6 is likely you'd think - three to de-load, three to re-load

we're playing friday night football, desperately trying to resurrect ourselves as a club that can draw big crowds, and people don't want us to promote ourselves that would be a backwards way of going forwards i'm all for the promo that they've done this week in the lead-up to a very important game elliott got door-stopped and said 'nah' which happens ALL the time...but cos it was blown up by the media it BECAME the story, and a joking one at that guaranteed the spin on, say, melksham doing the same would've been very different - "dee refuses interview" cue garry lyon saying the players and clubs need to be more accessible, blah, blah, blah

no it's not players must speak to media and get messaging out there anyone who thinks the cone of silence is a preferred method of operation in this age of over-information is living in the distant past