Adam The God

How good is Lindsay? 4 tackles and 14 from the first half. Playing wing and half back. Very clean in these conditions and when he burst off half back at one stage it was delicious. Long way to go, but if Lindsay can have a first season like Windsor did, and we play them both between half back and the wing, our ball use, cleanness and speed will go through the roof.

Geelong game we won last year was super slippery too.

Let's hope so mate. 🎉

Injuries permitting, we'll finish in the 8 this year. We could finish higher but it depends on that little bit of luck, and momentum. For me, it's really about how quickly we can master the new game style, and how straight we kick this year.

This thread is a cracker, thank you all for the updates and laughs. It's probably the last time for a few months we'll all be civil, jovial and vaguely happy. 🫠🤞

I still reckon he gave us a verbal prior to last year's draft. No intel, just a feeling.

I still tear up watching those 3 goals. Beautiful.

Haha, exactly what some said about LJ in 2022.

We've done a reset on the run post 2021. Or, you could call it simply replenishment, instead of relying on the FA market like Geelong and Hawthorn previously did, we've really hit the draft. We've kept our mature guns going (except for Clarry for a chunk of 23 and Trac 24) and brought in a strong new young core 18-21 (Bowey, JVR, McVee, Windsor, Kolt, AMW, Langford and Lindsay), underneath the strong 22-25 year old core that is developing (Rivers, Petty, Kozzy, Turner, Spargo, Sparrow, Chandler). If Howes, Henderson and Sharp can cement their places, that's 10 guys in that 22-25 core. We've managed to balance the age profile of the list really well with our guys in the peak of their careers between 26-30 being Clarry, Trac, Langdon, Salem, Fritta and Billings. Remember also, we lost Gus from that group. The list is primed for success IMO, injuries permitting, with our guns (Gawn, Trac, Clarry, Viney, Langdon, Lever, May and Kozzy) still firmly in their windows. Only May is getting close, and arguably Max, but didn't slow down last year. The only potential hole is that A+ class in the 22-25 core. I think Kozzy has that potential, but we're likely about to lose him. I'd be targeting a gun FA or 22-25 year old in the next 2-3 years. This bit is a watch though.

I reckon you've gotta play Viney and Henderson as small forwards/half forwards for significant chunks.

How long can a club that's never won a flag call themselves "Flagmantle"? If they were a Victorian club, there's no way other fans would let them get away with that [censored].

As SWYL said, I'd rather we fight to keep all our WA talent, and get LJ back as well. How we get LJ back without Kozzy, Rivers et al as part of the package I don't know, but maybe it's some future 1sts?

Thanks for the correction mate. I used to be a God, a nuffy mere mortal these days.

That's a solid team 👌

He'd be very handy. Why would he leave Brisbane? Former F/S too.

Everyone needs coaching. You don't stop learning.

It's all about kicking straight for me and taking chances early.

Never heard of this guy, but get him on the MFC socials I say...

I think we just need to get a greater spread of goalkickers than we did last year. Every team is different. You can't tell me Carlton will roll Curnow and McKay back to the square and their half forwards will become their leading goalkickers. 35-40 from JVR, 40-45 from Fritta, 35-40 from Kozzy, and then our mids and other forwards kicking 10-20 goals each and we're looking dangerous. All perfectly possible if we get our ball movement humming and our contest working.

Whatever the case, I find it funny that Freo now have a distraction, and over a player they stole from us. It's lovely.

They're getting the band back together. First Jones, now Jamar, it'll be Bernie next. 😉

This is pretty much where I sit.

I've come to the view that we only need one stay at home KPF and a KPF/second ruck, and I think AJ would give us a better contest in the ruck than Turner. I'd like to see us play the 2017 Richmond game, where your forwardline functions off a single KPF that can bring the ball to ground for smalls and dangerous mid sized players. I'm not convinced that's an archaic game style. I think we could overwhelm teams with forward entries from our mids.

I get it, I guess where we differ is I think we need to be just as attacking from the back as from the front. Speed and speed of ball movement is vital, right, so I'd be going for balance.

You're right, it's likely they'll go with Turner over AJ, can't see them playing Turner, AJ and JVR, but maybe they will? I would suggest that would be a bad move against a small, fast GWS, on a rainy Melbourne day...