Adam The God

Yep, we're already seeing the lengths the AFL will go to make North viable. We've seen the extraordinary draft, trade and list management concessions handed to the expansion clubs. That is absolutely the blueprint for the Tassie team too. We will and should be incredibly wary of Tasmanian prospects.

Naughton is excellent at ground level, but Fogarty is a beautiful kick.

Not sure he helps our groundball game and is a little undersized for a KPF.

Looking at the two videos of Viney and Petracca with their 3 vote games floating around on socials, they were both working really well with Grundy earlier in the year. It's a pity.

Imagine having him as your fund manager. There's not a more trustworthy bloke out there. 👌

Our backs have been flakey? Are you kidding me? The defensive part of our ground has been on the money since midway through 2020. As for Bassett, no, we can only go on results and one of the reasons they yo yo in and out of the 8 and true contention is their unsophisticated defensive system. Either he's not a good communicator or Ken/him aren't great with ideas. If you look at who they're targeting list wise, they haven't gone after an intercept partner for Aliir, which to me, is staggering.

I reckon picks will get it done if we want it to. We have a top 5-7 pick, another late first rounder, two seconds and a future first, that's enough capital, along with what North already have to revitalise their list. Larkey is 26, a long term deal with us gives him the chance to play finals.

Nope. Petty plays with Larkey.

Even fake accounts can strike gold sometimes. ;) What if we offered more than 6 years? We have draft capital to offer North and cap space to offer Larkey. We're in a rare position. Who knows.

Only thing is Bassett was responsible for the backs and forwards at various times at Port. Both ends of the ground have been hugely flakey over his tenure. I know we were previously interested, but I'd say it's unlikely now given his track record at Port.

The extra that would slide up to make a +1 at stoppage, usually off the back of stoppage.

Thoughts on the term "inside slider" mate? 😄

We might just have a trade play that entices more members out of the woodwork. Let's wait and see. As it stands though, no doubt some would be gunshy after how the last two years have ended.

And during that spell, Dunstan and Harmes played hardly a game between them, and JJ did very little. I'd much rather Rivers in place of JJ if there is a spot for him in the midfield mix. Meanwhile, we're freeing up cap space to attract players who will be best 22.

We have the best midfield in the game, we need a replacement for May, and more forward power/x factor and finishing forward of centre. I'm sure we'll target some mid replacements, but Harmes, JJ and Dunstan going isn't exactly a big hole given Gus is playing on. If we had three top 10 picks, that'd be different, but instead, we need to be more strategic about the most pressing needs here. We would hope Rivers and maybe even McVee and Bowey move into the midfield next year and then we have Howes coming in to replace them at half back/wing, so unless we have huge injuries which we'd never be able to cover sufficiently no matter who we add to our list, IMV, we're better going for improving areas we're not already elite in. With Petty forward, the second tall defender is no longer very good, we're relying on a questionable Tomlinson, an undersized Turner and a developing Adams. A key back that can play now is undoubtedly a key area of need and within 2 years, May will be gone, so we'll be left with Lever and that's it. Secondly, with McAdam on his way, we add him to Petty, JVR, Fritta, Kozzy. ANB will likely be in that forward mix too, so there's a spot there for another x factor forward. Chandler is okay, but he's not quick enough, nor does he have enough x factor IMO, so there's another area I'd be targeting list wise. A player to partner Kozzy and tag team out of stoppage and deep forward. If we could somehow land another top 10 pick, I'd love Watson. But the midfield as it stands is Oliver, Petracca, Viney, Sparrow, Brayshaw and likely Rivers and potentially McVee and Bowey. I'd much prefer we target a FA for our midfield in 2-3 years, and get either end of the ground sorted in the meantime. Each to their own though.

Mids are a dime a dozen. If they land in the top 2 or 3 picks I agree they're often more special than others, but KPPs are so much harder to pick outside of the first round. O'Sullivan every day of the week. If he gets picked by another club, then maybe a mid comes into the equation, but a Tassie mid is super dangerous. I agree with @old55. We're asking for trouble if we go there.

Max Gawn.

Haha, I meant I assume you know him through EY, but I guess you could know him through any channel.

How's work at EY?

He didn't want to play for us...

He definitely seems to have a good contest game, but has leg speed that we lack and seems to have excellent disposal. Does he fall to our second pick?

I hope we'll be able to do both. Good KPPs tend to (not always) go in the early first round.

Who said the midfield is fine? It's this sort of extreme that Jimmy laments too, and then frames all his arguments in exactly those terms. Black and white. Extremes. I said the midfield is great at winning contested ball, but their disposal isn't their strong suit. There are a number of factors for this, such as where and how they are winning it, and the forwardline that they're kicking into. That doesn't mean they don't choose the wrong option from time to time, but that's the point I've been making. Our personnel forward of the ball dictates how aggressive or conservative we are with our ball movement.

Which would make sense. And IMV speaks to the personnel issues we had forward of centre this year, which then has a flow on effect both strategically and ball movement wise. But nah, let's just look at a very broad stat to justify an argument here.

I'm coming around to this view, but I do think we need to improve our forward half personnel.