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Agreed. Allen will do nicely.

Disagreed Bitter, except for the first quarter and patches of the third, Collingwood looked very ordinary

Controversial perhaps, but if I'm Tim Lamb, I'm offering pick 5 and Kozzie Pickett for Oscar Allen.

Gonna be tough to win the next game with a completely dysfunctional fwd line.

Geez if Collingwood win the flag something is wrong with the AFL, bog ordinary team. They were just lucky we brought out seasons worst tonight

Straight sets

Defence is slow. Hibberd ain't the right matchup for Elliot. Our gameplan is hydrophobic.

I agree. Giants used this strategy for years. Just grab as many top ender's as you can. If we nail the picks (eg Oliver), we laugh all the way to the bank If they want out after a couple seasons e.g. Jackson/Treloar/Hogan you trade them for more early picks. Rinse and repeat. We have a need for gun mids and a May understudy if we want to extend the premiership window.

Salem looks very droppable at the moment. Slow and ineffective. Players just brush past him.

Significant lisfranc...can't help but think of the Mitch Clark experience. Hope I'm wrong.

Agreed, surely Tmac is fresh and ready to go if he's fully fit. He'll be desperate to cement a spot in the best 22 (as will all potential Petty replacements).

As opposed to what in Melbourne....volunteer at the soup kitchen and broker world peace? With all due respect, what an inane post.

Off topic, I'll grant you, but 'cooked' perfectly describes James Harmes. My goodness he has declined as a player.

Is it just me, or does May look like he's treading water out there? Looks injured and very slow.

Surely we take the best midfielder available with our Jackson compo. We haven't drafted a 1st round mid since Oliver.

Agree, would surely be leading the Bluey right now.

Took the words out of my mouth Jontee. Terrible game. Cost us at least 3 goals directly from bad decision making and/or execution. Tomlinson - Played very well. Chandler - return to form Gus - second best on Viney - three Brownlow votes Brown - Drop for Grundy?

Agreed, it's an expansion of the finals games from 9 currently over a four week period to 13 games over a 5 week period. Ditch the pre- finals bye, add in a PF round before the GF (top 2 from each group qualify) and that's 15 games in 5 weeks. Broadcasters would love it. Not sure about the impact on the clubs that play the finals. Late starts to preseason and all that. Would certainly be more difficult to back up a flag tilt the following year after a gruelling 5 week finals season to finish the year.

Agree with this. Instead of your finals season idea though, I think they should stick with the current top 8 system with a minor tweak. Team finishing 1st who wins the QF gets to play the lowest ranked winner of the Semi Finals. As it currently stands, the team that finishes 2nd has a potentially easier path to the GF, most likely playing the side that finished 4th in the prelim, vs the top team who probably plays the 3rd team to get into the GF. Granted, the likelihood of games featuring the same opponents in the QFs and PFs is high, but it's finals, who cares? The potential for grudge rematches in the PFs would be epic.

The AFL are really flying close to the sun with these ideas. A real danger of ballsing thing up big time.

The only problem with these groupings is the bottom 6. What a bunch of meaningless games to end their season. And what if you are a team sitting in 13th like the Suns are now one game out of the 8? Come the end of round 17 it's season over?!?

Interesting. Couple of questions. In the finals season, where are the games played, who gets home ground advantage? And, as you say the incentive for finishing in the top 4 is diminished in your system, it seems that the team finishing 2nd has an easier road to the GF being matched up to teams 4+6+8 (=18) vs the top team who is matched against teams in positions 3+5+7 (=15). Perhaps the final season groupings could be 1,6,7,8 and 2,3,4,5 to really incentivise finishing top of the ladder.

Thank **** that's over! Well done Kozzy!

He is potentially one of the best players on our list. Hence the scrutiny. It's a major concern. Going back to Casey will be a tough call but, it seems like he's getting less effective week on week and his confidence is shot.

I've lost faith and would be playing Tomlinson or Schache instead of him.