Fat Tony

Our draft strategy will depend if Mac Andrew slides (unlikely) and if we think Woewodin or Moniz-Wakefield are worth taking. We have not got any picks, so we would be better off holding current MFC players or picking up recycled players (on one year deals) than taking a bunch of late draft picks on two-year deals.

Richardson is likely a fan as well.

I am not sure there is much difference between the salaries of the rounds. I think it is more due to reducing the list size and overpaying existing players. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-afl-to-have-one-mid-season-rookie-draft-in-2021-20201201-p56jjx.html The top 20 picks will receive $90,000 base without the games-played incentive, picks 21-40 a base of $82,500 (down $7500), and $80,000 (down $5000) for those selected after 40 creating further room for clubs grappling with the drop in total player payments. But all players drafted will continue to receive match payments of $4000 per match for each senior game they play in 2021.

I think Dunstan would be a good pick up. I was amazed the Saints would just let him walk. I also hope we retain AVB if no other club takes him.

I thought they were trading picks out due to issues with the list size. How would trading picks help their salary cap?

Any chance we see The Jimmy Toumpas Thread re-emerge? Imagine Toumpas was a premiership Demon in 2022!!!

We actually have the easiest draw because we don't have to play Melbourne.

Didn't they (stupidly) sign Baker for two years.

We are in the premiership window. We would be better off using our draft capital to increase our chances of winning now. Andrew is 20kg off AFL. If he falls in our lap we take him but otherwise we should go for players that can play in 2022/23.

Small forwards and wingers are the biggest need.

I doubt it. We don’t need another ruck and we don’t get him for a discount if we draft him inside the top 20.

Goodwin is a genius to take a list with only one A Grader to the flag.

I loved Gus’s game but I have also really loved the emotion of his post match interviews. The selflessness and sacrifice of his game on the wing this year is one of the reasons we have gone from a team of champions to a champion team.

This was posted a year to the day before Flag 13. Apart from Weideman coming on (Brown hadn’t arrived yet) I was pretty close to the mark!

And the old final 5 gave the minor premiers a week off before the second semi and another potential week off.

There’s a lot of talk about targeting Gawn but I hope we are super aggressive on the Bont and English.

English and Gawn were both in 89/108 ruck contests. Schache was in 18.

While the premiership cup is won on grand final day, the premiership is won over the course of the season.

I would tag Libba at the clearances but not around the ground. Mostly with Harmes and try to get him on the spread. I wouldn’t push Salem up to stoppages but let ANB push up. This would mean Treloar or Smith will outnumber us, so we would need to set up defensively to prevent losing out the front of the clearances. I also like Max grabbing the ball out of the ruck because we can win clearances despite being outnumbered.

Shaun's quotes were pretty balanced Dazzle. Shaun was really just saying Joel would deserve to play given the effort he has put in. Joel likely would have played in the prelim if he did not get injured, so you can see where Shaun is coming from. Joel will need to train in the practice session to have any chance.

Keep posting Binman. You are providing the glass is half full view that we all need right now.

It’s based on scores. Yes Zac Dawson was full back in the greatest defence.

We lost the free kick count 11-25 as well and that would not be in the expected score.

The squiggle currently has us winning by 5 points. It aggregates all the models’ tips. The squiggle has our defensive rating higher than any previous premier in the system but below St Kilda in 2009.

They didn't "stretch" us really with only 6 marks inside 50. (We had 9.) Melbourne had 24 shots to WBD 21 but Melbourne kicked 9.8 to WBD 13.4 (excluding touched/rushed). The free kicks were 11-25. Our defence let goals over the back which was poor and we were badly beaten in stoppages 31-37 despite winning the hit outs 67-18.