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as you might be able to guess, the top8 odds pretty match match the premiership odds order exactly meaning we are third last at 11.00 which is actually a drop of three ladder places from last year absolute garbage I won't be betting though as I think we will win 10-11 and finish around 11th on the ladder

I really don't get it, all bias aside. Our only real losses are Cross and Howe, the latter of which is questionable. We have by my count 8 new additions (including 4 who missed most/all of last year) that will be amongst the best 22. If nothing else this is a massive increase in our depth and competition for spots. Then when you look at the list you could pretty much say that perhaps everyone bar jones, vince and dunn has a higher level to take their game to compared to what they contributed last year, either due to inexperience and/or form. Our first-to-third year group of talent is surely as good as anyone in the competition. Then you realise it's the third year of a rebuild that can be proven to be on an upwards trajectory (see my signature). I don't see the logic in suggesting we will not improve. PS As I noted recently in another thread, our fixture shows 13 matches against teams we beat last year and/or finished higher than.

It is 5% slower. 3km is running goalline to goal on the MCG 20 times. If he chased his 'elite' 10th place-getting opponent the ength of the ground and back he would be 3 seconds behind. Who cares. It is footy not track and field. God it really is ridiculous in this day age with people getting sports science data online and pretending that it means something on an AFL field The formula is agilty test/skinfolds+white blood cell count=brownlow votes fmd

about 2 days before the draft she was prior to that she was naming Parish like the rest of them

Johnny-come-lately to this thread.. but I was looking at the fixture and I reckon it's pretty good. Sides shown in green are teams we beat last year, while orange denotes a side we didn't beat, but finished below us. That's 13 of the 22 we should be in with a likelihood of winning. The first 9 weeks is a dream run when viewed like this. I'll be surprised if we don't win 10 or 11 total. MELB v GWS ESS v MELB NMFC v MELB COLL v MELB MELB v RICH MELB v STK GCFC v MELB MELB v WB MELB v BL MELB v PORT HAW v MELB MELB v COLL SYD v MELB MELB v ADEL MELB v FRE STK v MELB WCE v MELB MELB v GCFC MELB v HAW PORT v MELB CARL v MELB GEEL v MELB

Collingwood's first pick was #32! No chance they were ever getting anywhere near the Weed

Me too. Every new recruit should be made to sit down and watch tape of Vince vs Dangerfield and Viney vs Selwood. Marquee players just about reduced to tears from sheer brutality. That's the type of midfield I would like to see us bring with every player every week.

are you saying this hasn't been demonstrated by Brayshaw, Salem, Hogan, Viney and Tyson? and to a lesser extent Harmes, Kent, Stretch and ANB?

OK, this is about the 10th time in the last day I have read somebody use the example of Jimmy Toumpas to nullify any point that is being made about young guns and the draft. We all KNOW for a fact that the top 10 of the draft yields the most AFL superstars. It just does. SOME of them are complete duds like Toumpas and Morton etc BUT it is more LIKELY that a top10 pick will end up being good. The existence of Jimmy Toumpas has precisely ZERO to do with Clayton Oliver.

and Jack Trengove re-debuting

just to reiterate the obvious: next year's inclusions to the side are Melksham, Kennedy, Bugg, Oliver, Weideman, Petracca and Trengove not too shabby seriously, how good is this midfield group? jones vince viney trengove tyson vandenberg salem brayshaw petracca oliver

They don't know where he's going, and even if they do, they can't impede him enough to stop him doing what he was going to do in the first place. Love it.

one of the things about Jack Viney that had him rated as a top5-10 pick (lucky we get a nice 20 pick discount there) was that bloodlust at the contest. Some worried (and it was fair enough) that this point of difference might not translate into a weapon at AFL level. Lo and behold, it translated like hell and you could generally claim that JV is one of the hardest bodies around the ball already, and it's precisely what makes him such an asset. I expect the same for Oliver.

life ban please

not exactly glowing

good call

hair of the dog that bit us

Seems pretty simple doesn't it? Tall bloke with good hands and a straight set shot. Plonk him inside 50 and you pretty much can't go wrong. That's a sincere comment BTW

would have been gone, dons were taking whoever we didn't take out of Clayton and Parish IMO

please let me fix it for you so his head isn't cropped out

I like to think he is a super-jordie tough

and Jones, Vince and Brayshaw eat it

Yep. Unlike when we got Morton, Watts, Scully and Trengove, our team has plenty of spotlight-grabbers like Hogan, Viney and Brayshaw and these new guys get to just work they way into it like what happens at proper clubs.

Love it. He's just got that maniacal attack on the pill and the man and he's a solid unmovable object. It's looking like when you come against him, Jones, Viney, Petracca, Brayshaw and Vandenberg in the middle.. you are going to feel it, and the phrase 'bruise-free footy' will be just a memory

aren't you enjoying the endless parade of boofheads spouting cliches, careful not to give any real information whatsoever?