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he'll certainly get far more opportunities in red and blue than in red petracca and pickett are the likely 'highly valuable' assets that we have, potentially mcvee if he doesn't sign on to stay on, and fritsch will be wanted by someone trade options, with some theoretical value: fritsch - second round pick from someone who needs a midsized forward (can see the bears for instance being very keen) mcvee - future first (hopefully) from meth coke petracca - future first from the filth pickett - two firsts over multiple years from flagmantle sparrow - maybe a 3rd round pick players we are stuck with: laurie - contracted til 2026 mcadam - contracted til 2026 delist: billings hore howes verrall woewodin retire: mcdonald melksham potential father / son and academy picks coming in: toby sinnema kalani white it all comes down to what value the top 5 can achieve for us it's got to happen this year tho, before the taswegian franchise comes in and sucks the life out of four or five drafts

Reckon dingley is even more gleeful - they hold the baggers’ 1st round pick

Worst we’ve looked in a long time No positives out of that result Fingers crossed Lindsay didn’t do his acl

They did have Naicos tho Can’t see Kalani White being a generational player like he is

Kicks straight when up forward - we desperately need that

contest and defence!

disco gone behind the ball to give some help to the defenders

riley bonner looks by some margin to be the best player in the casey side

yeah...nah based on our first two games, i can't see our mids stopping them from dominating stoppage and getting easy ball in their 50

naughton keeps working hard, gets the reward

baggers' ability to get goals called 'touched' is extraordinary

please touch the nearest piece of wood this has all the hallmarks of a 'dingley's four peat is all @roy11 's fault' written all over it

howes is playing for mfc, i believe? so the notion of sestan as a back flanker lasted a week?

one thing that would be great to bring back is - on chrome on desktop - when you finished typing a post when you pressed the <tab> button on keyboard it would move you to the 'submit reply' button, and then when you pressed 'enter' on keyboard it would trigger than functionality fairly standard message board functionality i think? now when you hit <tab> it just...well, tabs in space beyond the next word (to this area here)

he certainly wasn't the reason north's forwards got such good looks at the ball coming in to them

Presuming Lever is out

i love the newbies who join this site out of nowhere and deliberately poke the bear to try and engender debate, get told all the reasons why their idea ain't gonna happen, then completely disappear

super fancy

so we've gone from a trio of tall forwards in jvr / jefferson / turner to...one?

he gonna promise to play him forward?

harry mckay the latest player to take time off for 'personal reasons' it would seem that more and more players aren't coping with the sheer amount of scrutiny that they come under from external sources - i.e. not from their employer, but from those examining and reporting on their employee

but he's not going to get a short time contract at a nice price, is he? he'll get a long term contract either as a free agent or by sticking with the team of which he is currently skipper

double? quadruple!

the double blow for the rest of the competition - and the advantage it created for hawks and cats - was the doubling of free agency with the northern franchises coming in at the same time so teams like ours, aints, etc. not only didn't have access to high quality draft kids but also lost players consistently to free agency to the best clubs; we lost our key defensive pillars in rivers and frawley within two years of each other that's a hammer blow; imagine taking lever and may out of our side in two consecutive years

since 2000 i'd say there's been two consistently dominant teams: swans: 2003 to current (missed finals just 3 times! been in 7 grand finals for 2 premierships) cats: 2007 to current (missing finals just twice! been in 6 grand finals for 4 premierships) there's been two other teams who have had some incredible runs of success, albeit brisbane in two separate clutches: bears: 97-04 (missed finals once - when they finished last! - for 4 gf appearances, 3 premierships) bears: 2019 to current (6 straight finals, 2 gf appearances, 1 premiership) dingley: 2007-2018 (missed finals twice, 5 gf appearances, 4 premierships)