Adam The God

I think Hunt is more likely to come in than Jeffy for Hannan. Jayden offers more flexibility, can play at both ends of the ground if required and may well be needed to match up on a Collingwood small forward. We'll see. That said, I think the most likely outcome is what many are saying and that's Pedersen for Smith and Smith for Lever. I think they'll start Smith as the interceptor, but will rotate between he and Hibberd.

Basically, I agree. He might break out later this year, or it'll come next year, but if you compare his development with Gus' they're quite similar in terms of their trajectory. Gus has overtaken him at this point, but there's plenty of 2018 to go.

I want the best person available. If that comes from within, fantastic, but if it's an external appointment, so be it. It doesn't bother me at all that the AFL want to closely audit our progress. I don't have any trust in our football club not to [censored] it up again and neither should the AFL.

The worst thing about this news is that we get another terrible pun from Matt Burgan and Melbourne Media. "Tommy Gun Locked and Loaded"? You don't need puns for headlines anymore. We're in the 21st century. Other than that, great news.

He's probably right. Frost v Hunt for the rebound position. Both quick, poor kicks and poor decision makers. But at least Frost has the versatility of height. Hunt doesn't.

I'd mostly agree with this, although I've found Hunt slightly suspect one-on-one in the air and he'd certainly be placed in this position playing as third defender. We might be able to get away with it. Not sure if it works all year though.

The guy's a genius and one of the better football stories going around. Well done, Nev!

Yep and Collingwood still leaked goals at the end. Four in a row from memory. If we're on, the Scum don't stand a chance.

He's bald as well? Poor bugger. Lucky I didn't get my old man's hairline.

Let's go with incredibly unreliable and is less than a 50/50 chance. ?

It won't be that simple given the way we rotate talls through our forward system, however I expect Dunn and Howe (if fit) to rotate between them both.

I'd have Smith over Weideman at the moment, but not in the mid term or long term. Unless things really change.

Pedersen doesn't bring the ball to ground as consistently as Smith has. I'm on record as saying (I think) that I didn't think Smith would make it. He's so far proved me wrong, which is great. He's a role player and he and the coaches should be commended for carving out a role for him. It's making me hold out hope for Joel Smith too, who has shown (in an albeit ridiculously short amount of time) absolutely nothing at senior level. But the coaches seem to love him, by all reports (admittedly Demonland ), so we'll see.

I would have agreed in previous years and been worried, but if we bring our manic pressure, they'll turn it over all day.

No IMO, this is because Frosty (and I'm a relative fan) doesn't read the game as well as Jake. Therefore, he doesn't get into the same spots to receive as Lever does. Still, he's probably the first cab off the rank to replace Jake.

Fair. Let's meet back here and discuss next week. Let's hope you're right.

Who would you say would take his place? He's playing games on experience at the moment and a lack of back half depth for kickers. We're getting away with his iffy kicking and decision making under pressure, but I'm sure Goodwin would much prefer another Lewis.

I don't know what to say, Nash, except that the same could be applied to your post. But we shall try next week and see what happens.

Good luck with your recovery, Jake. I wonder if this changes our list strategy going forward with regards to who steps in to replace Lever.

That's game style though.

They sharked off Max all day. That's how they won the clearances. We're very aggressive at the stoppages and if Max doesn't win it, we tend to struggle on the inside. The pleasing thing was we murdered them on the outside yesterday, which has been a weakness of our for a few seasons. I thought we were very disorganised at the clearances anyway. Particularly, early on.

How was that check-sided kick of his off the Clarry back half clearance that opened up the ground under extreme frontal pressure. Pretty sure it resulted in a goal too. Thought he was really, really good again. Has been great since the Hawthorn/Richmond debacles, where he kept losing his feet and was out-positioned too often. Vince is mostly horrible. He's done.

At least, the Scum winning will ensure 85,000+ next week. Two teams flying. We should account for them easily, but how will we respond to Lever's injury? That's the big question. Watching Collingwood, it's likely watching 15 or so ANB's run around. They get a fair bit of it but turn it over under very little pressure. It'll be interesting to see how they go against our pressure if we bring it.

Agreed, except our current team have excelled recently by lowering their eyes and hitting short targets, but also being able to judge when to pull the trigger on the deeper kick too. Along with work rate and confidence, Hunt's kicking is the key thing keeping him out of the 22. Has he improved this area of his game in the 2's?

Agree with most of this, except for the point about Watts being traded for cap space. Jack was traded for game style and application.