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Balanced, strong, aggressive - what is there not to love about this gem from Esperance? He sounds as if he loves the club and having JV7 as his early mentor has him on a very solid grounding. Looking forward to many more exciting moments from the Kolt - can see him as a powerful mid in due course. His set shot kicking looked confident and controlled. Has he been watching JVR?

First time I have seen him play live - very impressed with hi pace and most of his disposal and intercepting. But we really need a pithy short name for him - AMW is trite, and Moniz-Wakefield is a mouthful to yell out in a crowd. Moniz? Monz could encounter censorship issues. Mono TM is patented by me.

The stats say 9 kicks, 0 HB, 9 marks, 2 goals 1 behind, 2 goal assists and 7 score involvements. I was pretty sure I saw him getting at least one kick that wasn't from a mark, ie in general play, but it seems that I am wrong. According to training reports he has been in full running training for many weeks, and will have been 'body building' in the gym for months. Really starting a new season in mid season. Looking forward to this refreshment of the team. you left out McAdam and Fullarton. Interesting that nearly all of these were recruited as NQRs from other clubs.

Funk and Wagnall was I believe made popular by frequent references in Rowan and Martin's Laugh In

6 Rivers - looks at home in the midfield 5 JVR - at last several confident aggressive contested marks - pith that his sharp shooting wasn't his usual 4 Windsor - cool calm and collected and love his disposal 3 TMcD 2 McVee 1 Kolt So many after #3 that there will be a lot of apologies

So, maybe 4 ½ minutes away then? (Not up to date with average time for a mile these days) That rally is telling - Fullarton himself will no doubt be bitterly disappointed in that he was prpbably told he would be next man in if a tall forward, who cam relieve in the ruck, was needed. Roost - I reckon he will get a game or two late in the season only if finals are out oof contention. Otherwise we can look forward to a stronger, hungrier Jeff round 1 (or round zero, maybe minus 1?) 2025 Sounds like a lot of women I know - isn't it complaints from AFLW that lead to them no longer listing weight in player stats?

Far better news than originally widely speculated - he has retained his spleen, or most of it, which is great immunologically. He has also avoided abdominal surgery which means he will be able to get back to the 'body building' aspects of training pretty soon, and running gradually. Presumably he will be told to avoid contact for a few months but he would be expected to be fully fit by preseason. PS uncomplicated appendicitis treated by keyhole surgery shouldn't be a real setback. On the bright side it at least didn't happen in season.

Jesse Hogan would be pretty handy right now - though he is getting A+ rather than D- delivery much of the time

Can the umpires get CFC over the line? Only need 2+ goals in 3 minutes Ignored a clear HTB against CFC with 2 minutes to go

Not a problem. Always good to have this farce of a feeder / development competition shown up. and no goal reviews going against us?? Not just evidence - further evidence My prep granddaughter does a far better job than these do It does, but remember we started the season with 2 gone for the year, and have lost a third for the season

There is a challenge for Andy, binman and George - get Goody on as a mid season guest 🙂

Or maybe not so long before - "MFC have an elite junior at Dandenong this year" "Just change the rules to allow free bidding, for this year only" "Fixed" Just about everything else in the AFL is fixed, so why not this?

Won’t look quite so good when a couple of holdover emergencies don’t play because they are stuck in Melbourne. Like some were stuck in Brisbane last week, or maybe played after a rushed late flight from Brisbane

Great question. The lack of liaison means both competitions suffer, especially the novelly named VFL. Hold over emergencies miss weeks of football development because the AFL and the VFL just don’t seem to care.

I guess they may - and guess which team will be the test bunny?

Or .... obvious player I refuse to name Actually 16 other clubs - EssUndone have done it and Collingwood won't.

Surely you need some "good ordinary"players on the list, although of course it would be great to have 30 stars on the list - however there would be a lot of friction were that the case. Tommo has given us great service and was really very unlucky to have done his ACL in 2021 when he did - could well have been a premiership player.

And remember Melksham has about a decade of preseasons and experience over Ashcroft.

Ahhh. Just love the "support / feeder competition" organisation. Pathetic. 👀🪡 Surely, in the context, you should be saying "isn't he special"? Good luck in your recovery. Have a chat to TMc and Petty.🙄 Fullarton?? Tholstrupp would be very stiff to be dropped. Maybe sub?? Deemania - where do we send the application form for MFC Kicking Coach?? Cpt Darling: I say, listen - our guns have stopped Lt George: You don't think .... Pte Baldrick: Perhaps the war is over. Perhaps its peace Cpt Darling: Thank God. We lived through it. The Great War, 1914 - 1917. Hip Hip hooray

Michael Tuck says hi. Was it 3 years in Hawthorn Reserves then a record holder at the Hawks for total senior games? https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/7fea7526-918f-44e2-9afe-c79ccd8bd242

Maybe Moore didn't set out to do damage, but maybe he didn't really care if he did.

I doubt if anyone here looks at Collingwood practice sessions - but I suspect that Moore doesn't attempt to spoil his team mates in such a reckless manner. FCS I recall someone (in the immediate aftermath) trying to even criticise Goody for allowing Trac to be playing in the forward line It appeared to even be acceptable earlier this year when Max received a knee to the back of the head in a ruck contest by de Koenig I think - "PLAY ON"!!! But of cause the sanctimonious hypocrites in charge say "the head is sacrosanct".😡

Well obviously not unthinkable, BBO - many here seem to think he can come straight back. Might have been the original plan, thinking we may have been sitting fairly comfortably right now, but now maybe we can't afford to "hold him back for finals" as we really need to start winning consistently right now.

Sorry and may be seen as nitpicking - the game is Australian Rules Football: the AFL is the body in whose avaricious, conflicted and hypocritical hands it is being destroyed as an enjoyable contest.

In fact too predictable that a thread with this title would come out sometime.