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A fairly in depth article about Sam from the AFL site. Love that both his father and grandfather also made their finals debuts against the Cats. Nice time of the year to hit your best form of your life DISP MARKS CP UP CM MARKS IN 50 GOALS RATINGS 2016-17 AFL 8.1 2.7 3.8 4.7 0.5 0.9 0.6 4.0 2018 AFL (R5-15) 8.6 2.8 3.8 4.8 1.0 0.6 0.4 6.2 2018 VFL 14.5 5.7 7.2 7.4 1.9 2.4 2.5 N/A 2018 AFL (R22-23) 15.0 5.5 7.5 6.5 3.0 1.5 1.0 8.4

100 games, club best and fairest and one of those guys who are invaluable around the club when things aren’t going your way. Good on you Bernie.

My feelings exactly.

Nice bit of good news. Thanks

To be fair I don’t think the Lever to Melbourne thing last year was exactly a secret nor our interest in Gaff to be playing in the red and blue next year. Both have been telegraphed

That’s tragic And such a random stat that if the media get a hold of it that may prove they read Demonland

I don’t follow the Eagles closely. Is he actually as important to them as Oliver to us? If so my desire to have him in red and blue next year just cranked up a couple of notches.

And aside from the physical aspects of the Darwin trip the game itself is woeful to watch. Everyone talks about the importance of ‘brand’ and this game isn’t helping ours.

Austin has a younger brother (Jensen) who is 14 years old. If he is any good at football it’s about time he concentrated on basketball for a few years.

There was a photo on Demonland a while back of Mark Bradtke standing next to Max Gawn and it was the first time I’ve seen Max look ‘small’ in comparison to the the bloke standing next to him. Mark must be a huge man. I remember him being pretty mobile in his time too. Also very good to hear that Austin skills are already pretty good, that’s 80% of the battle with big blokes and given the athletic basketball background it’s not hard to get excited about him. An end of season taster debut Rnd 20, 2020?

Very athletic and very tall. Could be the draft bargain of the century but either way there is very little down side..

I don’t want him at Melbourne at all. But if he did come I’d want a camera trained on Tex the moment he is told that Lynch is buggering off to the Dees. Actually you may as well tell him about Sloane at the same time.

He is talking about the points system given to each draft number. Our first round pick last year (pick 10) plus our first round pick this year (say pick 11) minus the second rounder they give back to us = pick five. PS. I may have missed another piece PPS. I’m just happy they reckon we will have some salary cap space left!

Yep it is amazing. Last night on 360 Robbo went through Bombers’ tale of woe he almost implied Bomber had no choice but to end up where he is now. At one stage neither Robbo or Whately said anything at all and I thought they were having an impromptu minutes silence. If the guy is guilty I hope they lock him up.

Even after just one game it’s not hard picture Charlie Spargo in there with Viney in the future..

Even after just one game it’s not hard picture Charlie Spargo in there with Viney in the future..

Just watched the replay and saw Spargo having a go at Goddard again in the context of the match. Whatever you think of Goddard he is a 300 gamer, former captain of his club and dual All Australian player. For Spargo, the smallest bloke on the field but, more importantly, a first gamer to push Jones aside so he could get a better purchase on Goddard I found extraordinary. The kid has chutzpah. It made me laugh..

And at some stage during that meeting Oscar’s manager will say "so Lever’s on $800,000”.....

@praha one more to cross off in the opening post. Finals next

I am against pokies but I am for a strong and stable cashflow for the Club. Makes me concerned how they will replace the lost revenue

Top speed maybe, I don’t know, but he has an awesome first couple of steps

You would think most players would want at the start of their careers to finish as one club players. Most humans are loyal (long term, paid up MFC members being ‘elite’ examples) and would rather have success with the club that chose them as a 17 y.o. Of course it doesn’t always work out. Twelve of our 44 players started at different clubs meaning a tick over 70% are one clubbers. I have no idea what the league average is but 70% feels about right. Lets hope the core of our young group stay with us. Let’s face it there aren’t too many reasons to leave.

Coming into the 2019 season Viney and Wines will be just 24 y.o, Petracca 23 and Oliver 21. Seven years of fearsomeness to follow.

The thing I find interesting is that I haven’t seen this thread for many months but now that I have I find my dislike for Essendon is as strong as ever.

Thought this maybe an opportune time for a happy bump Harrison Petty. Strengths:Intercept markingReads the flight of the ball earlyTakes marks at highest pointClean at ground levelEffective ball userComposure with ball in handRate of improvementStrong performances from limited exposure I am very much looking forward to seeing how this guy develops. Big upside