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Glad your work circumstances have changed to allow you to cover training again Saty. A win for we less fortunates!

one certainly wonders what a different structure and culture could have done for some of those players. #18 was no captain but at the same time you had some really promising youngsters coming through that needed the sort of help the club is now, 7 years later, able to provide. I always had a softspot for young Tapscott.

Sadly for the Saints, they didn't get an elite gorilla tamer with Kent as part of the deal.

Complacency is our biggest opponent this year; I would hate to think our guys thought they had achieved anything last season. Lewis will earn his pay this off season I reckon

Brayshaw+Viney-Hogan=Flag perhaps?

What a game! so many parts of the Northey era present in this match.

32 only 32! Just too young. I was just working my life out at that age. Vale Colin

I was thinking the same thing Mono, with 55 years on the clock and minimal AFL under my belt there is still hope that I could become a 100 gamer?

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Yes, you make a great point MD but the thing that is interesting at this time of year is that we are looking at 80 of the top young players in the ND but also the largely also rans with DFAs (with some exceptions no doubt)

Nice work TPF39, thanks!!

AS an observation, DFAs represent the 430-500th best players on AFL lists. I base that on the fact that they must sit outside each of their team's top 24 (24 x 18 =432) From that basis they all must have deficiencies of some sort or another making selecting any of them a bit of a lottery. Interesting to see how many of them really work out. There is probably a thread that could be put together just for that: Most games played at a second club by DFAs. My mate was rapt that Norf picked up Hartung last year..nuff said

We would go from having a surplus of Jacks to having a surplus of Jakes

Even then ( I had to stand behind him in the Holiday Hub reception while he extremely politely dealt with an issue relating to his camp site. I remember thinking "this guy with a funny voice sure has a cute girlfriend"!)

Interestingly, I shared several waves with Jacko at Pambula Beach in January 1981. He rode a longboard.

look out No T$ no BS thread, we're coming for you!

Not to mention the spring too!

Great outcome for the club; some really good deals done when looked at them all together.

Very true DJ but it is of course how soccer teams have played for years and I can see a real benefit to it when the list is strong enough. We will see...

Pole

I feel like Jesse (as much as I loved having him on the team) was the last of our wantaway players on the list. It seems like they all want to be there pulling in the same direction. Go Dees! End of an era and beginning of a new one

We are entering the era of Squad footy I reckon. I strongly believe that with our depth and spread of talent each week will bring a different best 22. In the case of opponents like the Weagles we will inevitably play tall utilizing the likes of Preuss and Frost whilst other weeks against shorter pacier teams we will be using the likes of Fritch and Hannan as well as Spargo. It gives us the opportunity to play as necessary as well as keeping list rotation a reality allowing for greater freshness at the business end of the season. Exciting times

my Kangas fan mate reckons we have the steal of the trade period with Preuss. His words:"better than Max in 2 years" which I strongly doubt but even as good would be huge for us.

Considering we finished 4th, 23 is not so far off what would have been our first round pick.

Yep, not a bad deal iMHO.