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Sadly, we’ll throw this lead. Zero confidence at all.

A lot of low footy IQ’s at this club, I reckon.

Guerra’s comments on both Petracca and Oliver pregame were very interesting. A noticeable difference from Green’s verbatim last year and over the offseason.

Hope Langdon is a better cyclist than kicker.

Viney challenging Petracca for the best burger award. Bloke needs to understand soft hands is also a valid way of hitting a teammate.

I don’t usually complain about umpires, but this is insane. Momentum killers. Also Petracca doing his best to turn the ball over with every disposal.

Say what you want about the boy, Culley. The kid can damn-well take a mark!

Jake the snake!

It’s bizarre just how poor our ball movement is. Oliver, Petracca, Judd all look checked out, not to mentioned the poor quality disposal. Langford looks to be the shining light and as much as I knock Petty, that was a nice mark and goal. Some of the errors we make are coached out at an under 10s level. Embarrassingly juvenile stuff.

Me, less than 5 minutes into the first quarter.

Can this thread just be stickied so we don’t have the same thread started up every 12 months?

Culley, AMW, Mentha all announced as extending until the end of 2026. Damn boi.

It's bewildering that people are calling 2025 Petracca an A grader. Definitely some sunken cost bias or overconfidence bias in that I reckon. I'm probably leaning towards a preference for him staying, but I'm not certain he'll ever get back to the pre-injury form of last year and his 2020 - 2022 output. I don't think that's overly tied into his injury either, I'm slightly sceptical he wants to be at the Dees.

Cal Twomey on Gettable stating that Adelaide have previously held interest in Judd, and now that the NWM chase is effectively over, he's posed the question as to whether Adelaide visit this again and 'up the interest'. He's also framed this against the signs being that JM will stay with the Dees and that has been the indication all season.

Jackson will come back to Victoria, and you're correct it's likely he'll seek a trade. I think it's incredibly unlikely he'll get back here this offseason, but he will only request a trade back to the MFC. I would be watching this space over the next 12 months.

Ah yeah, it’s Nathan Jones (along with Radford)? I know who it is, and I stand by my comment. That’s the point of my comment. What’s your point? You’re satisfied with the way the midfield is performing? *edit: Jones is also responsible for stoppage work. Yet another area that’s gone backwards phenomenally quickly.

Burgess + Jennings = 👌

Hopefully Jones is next.

This is genuinely pretty exciting. It's obviously going to be a slow-burn with KW, but it's great to have a tall coming through who has a high ceiling and has shown moments of being able to match it with the big boys. He's raw, but his ability to leap at the contest combined with his agility makes him a mouth-watering prospect. He reminds me quite a bit of how Sam Darcy was looking coming through. Now I'm not for a second suggesting that he'll have same output as Darcy, SD is an absolute freak and will be one of the greats of his generation. But there are similarities, IMO in terms of build and ability to impact the contest, get around the ground and be a tall with a genuine ability to leap combined with great mobility. Can't wait to see him in the red and blue. It'll be interesting to see what we now do from a pick/draft value culmination.

Hey mate, were tackles in the F50 included here? Noting that you included D50 tackles, it would be interesting to see a comparison between the recorded metrics for both, year on year, as a direct comparison. It would also be interesting to see the stats for the rate of scoring against us from F50 opposition kick-ins and F50 ball-ups as at least to the eye, it seems we've struggled against this ball movement season on season since winning the flag. More spit balling here, that could be a bit of work to get that stuff, but it would be interesting to see nonetheless.

Me, noting you used a custom algorithm.

Dees by 7 points, with Kozzie kicking 5.3. Max to dominate Cameron and kick an ugly 1.3 with the goal coming on the run from outside 50. (I am in denial, more likely that we'll play Collingwood into form and they'll win the flag.)

If we can get back in by moving out a player (or two), I wouldn't necessarily be against it. But, I think we also need to bring in some much needed depth in that second - fourth round range, so if coming back in came at the cost of us packaging multiple picks I don't think we're in the right space to be doing those sort of movements. Granted as you rightfully pointed out, this year is both a weakened and compromised draft so potentially you could mount the argument that there is less impact in doing so, but I definitely wouldn't be moving future picks to do so given we could be looking at bottom four finishes in the next few years, coupled with the (potential) compromised Tasmanian drafts. I guess the TLDR; yes, if we're able to get capital via outgoing player movements; no - if we're packaging current/future picks to do so.