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The way he judges the ball in the air and leaps is pretty rare for a young tall.

Yep but barring a great deal I’m not trading Salem if we’re bringing in Brodie/Parfitt types or kids. It’s got to be Peatling level guys. Possibly you can make a case for the guy we take at pick 5 to be a likely best 22 inclusion but it depends who it is.

Tried to trade up for Watson. Probably didn’t have the cash for Chol. Rather lose every week than have Ginnivan.

3 talls who offer nothing in attack is a worry. It’s why Tommy Mc was vital this year and partly why Petty stayed forward. May has lost his confidence to run but can still do more. Petty has the skills, just a matter if he has the mindset. Lever tried more this year, he was a great linking handballer when we got him but has always been prone to a shank by foot. I’d change Chaplin’s line role because I just don’t trust him to change. He was a slow ball user when he played. I’m the patron saint for trading Fritsch for similar reasons at the other end of the ground so I can’t be against trading Salo. But it comes down to return and options. And mostly whether they believe Salo can get fit and get his burst back. If Rivers can stay back then Riv, Judd, Bowey, Howes and if he gets fit AMW can be backed in to transform the backline. But we need at least 2 ready to play mids (or half backs) to make that viable. So I doubt it will. Whether we are aggressive with trades out or not we have to at least take some swings on hard running players. Billings, Fullarton and McAdam doesn’t look good right now they were all moves to attempt to fix certain deficiencies. Multi year deals and draft picks for McAdam both not ideal but we’ll have the list spots to try again.

Scache 🤣🤣🤣🤣 the problem was having him on the list, not not playing him

Yep that’s crazy. We have tweaks to make. Our wingers often just guard too much non dangerous grass and the handovers between wings, half forwards and half backs has been really poor at times. But the biggest factor is our mids and half back aren’t spreading to get in position quick enough. Our half forwards don’t drop outside 5 enough either. Plus a lack of energy and movement in the zone in general. Overall tho the Hawks are rolling out a very similar zone to us and doing it very well.

When the Hawks were up they messed around with Scully, Patton type guys. But they also got highly rated players for cheap in Impey and Scrimshaw and stashed them away until they were good again. What hurts is we went hard for Karl Amon and Lloyd Meek. I think we got really close to getting both of them. Chol got paid a fortune, I hope we wanted him but I understand if we couldn’t do the price. I hope we had a go at D’Ambrosio too, Essendon, what on earth!

That Wothers shot was worth a go, she’s got a goal in her today with a bit of luck

She operates under the wind

Taking the Pisano!

That’s a huge chase from Zanks

The Lions just have a better calibre of athletes than we do. As well as more midfield depth. We’ve defended fiercely but you need high impact forwards in these conditions.

Holding the ball became holding the woman!

That deal saved his bacon and I reckon he was lucky there was a crazy millionaire in Perth who decided he had to have them. Although basketball was a smart growth market to identify and he could use SEN to cross promote.

I posted some my thoughts on them in the finals thread which is mostly that they’re super fit, super organised and crack in hard. Skilled but not afraid to play contested footy. Especially with Day out their midfield has a big defensive tilt with Worpel, Nash and Ward all defensively focussed. Because they aren’t afraid to spread the ground they can use wings and flankers to do most of their ball movement. They have good kicks but they’re so rarely trying any high risk stuff, the speed of ball movement and running creates easy options and they take them. Aside from getting fit and training up ball movement patterns I think our list focus has to be on finding guys who run to receive and are confident kicking on the run. You could see the impact Langdon has on our side and hopefully Windsor (and Judd, Nibbler, others) and how we need that by in from 22.

I’m not sure CJ is a star, fun player when you’re rebuilding but be butchers it. To do this without Day is impressive, but he’s another mid who’s done his apprenticeship. I wonder if there’s something to having experience down back (although with Amon and Impey having more legs than our boys), a midfield that’s coming in to prime age/games played and mostly a young forward line. Chol plays like he’s 21, Dear plays like he’s 24 (crazy find), the smalls have the pace and exuberance of youth whilst also having big tanks. Moore gets his praise but MacDonald is so underrated, like a younger better ANB

I did. That’s list age. It’s a very young list with mostly kids at Box Hill. Their actual team tonight: Average age is 25 6 months. Average games is 100. 6 players under 50. Port last night. 25.10, 107, 6 under 50. No one was getting excited for the young Power (even before the result). For most of this year we had very similar numbers and often more guys under 50 games.

Nope. Adelaide

A few things with the Hawks: 1. They aren’t that young. They’ve got real experience in their midfield and backline especially. Watson’s ready made, Weddle is a beast. Dear is the one super young player and turns out he might be a freak? 2. They’re super fit. You can see they’re rarely tired and go up and down the ground. Richmond’s fitness coach was an incredible hire. They are in their defensive grid right away. Dogs haven’t got started with their ball movement. 3. They aren’t afraid to kick to a contest from a stoppage, inside 50 or out of their backline under pressure. That’s good finals footy and they win their share of contests. 4. They have a number of highly skilled players and a solid baseline of skills, but the main basis for their ball movement is coordinated run. They run in waves but they also run in well organised ways. Forwards come at the kicker and the big thing is that every one of their handballs goes a good distance because the runner is spaced a good distance.

Bevo’s made it abundantly clear what he thinks of Macrae

Of course he’s not picking purely runners in the midfield. Its the game style. Over reliance on uncontested possession from half back and flicking it around in the middle. And then they bomb inside 50 anyway. Chris Scott broke it down. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/geelong-cats/afl-2024-chris-scott-says-port-adelaide-can-be-vulnerable-behind-the-ball-geelong-win-over-power-in-qualifying-final-reactions-response-latest-news/news-story/beed90a6af210e35be714789607b2221

Yes. Because the longer you stay up the harder it is to keep filling holes. The big problem with Kenny is he’s always overvalued skills over toughness. Can take the boy out off the half back flank but can’t take the half back flanker out of the ball

Ken is Richo with a better list. Chris Davies does a fantastic job with Port’s list. Not withstanding the occasional misstep like going hard for Esava. Port take risks, rejuvenate, evolve the playing group. Maybe he has a understudy who could come in to our footy admin team.

Core business: Do we have a head of football and list manager making proactive decisions to improve the playing list, coaching and otherwise pursuing excellence? Other business: The tigers just promoted to the head of their leisure businesses to CEO. Having sold out pokies do the Dees even have any other business interests? Is our money just sitting in the bank? Brand: We’ve been kicked non stop in the media and are massively behind other clubs in connecting with fans and members.

Turns out she has to go because of term limits once she lost the presidency. Just please please go quietly Kate, your reputation will be enhanced if you do!