Little Richard

I think this is the team I'd like to see: FB: Tomlinson, May, McVee HB: Salem, McDonald, Rivers C: Langdon, Viney, Windsor HF: Neal-Bullen, Fullarton/Jefferson, Tholstrup FF: Pickett, Van Rooyen, Fritsch FL: Gawn, Oliver, Sparrow IC: Chandler, Moniz-Wakefield, Woewodin, Howes SUB: Sestan Midfield rotations to include Pickett, Salem, Rivers, McVee, ANB, maybe Tholstrup. Pretty inexperienced but these are all guys I believe are important going forward, so they do need more exposure at the top level. Also could have missed some important players here. Overall not actually confident this team would beat North.

Hopefully we see Sparrow get more time in the middle if Trac misses. It's make or break for him now so if the opportunity is there, he has to take it. I'd like to see Rivers and McVee roll through the middle too. Keen to see what McVee offers there, I think he has a lot of promise as a midfielder.

These are the kinds of dynamic selection decisions S Goodwin is renowned for. Genius.

I am seriously scared of how bad we could be in 2 years if something isn't done to improve our crop of younger players and plug some glaring gaps we have in development. This is starting to look so grim.

Every decent defender should be making their opponent feel it in a marking contest, it's exactly the same thing Maysie does whenever he gets the chance, and rightly so. It's just really unfortunate that Moore's knee caught Trac in the worst possible spot.

Calls to delist Spargs are nuts, when he's on he becomes one of our most important players. Just need him back fit and firing on all cylinders.

I don't think the powers that be have the minerals to sack a premiership coach.

Goodwin will see out his contract IMO and until then we'll be a solidly mediocre team, and then it will be up to whoever takes over to rebuild the list.

When looking at uncompetitive players this year tbh Bowey and McVee are two of the last I'd pick.

Absolute rubbish, Goodwin has lost the players, no doubt in my mind after today.

Don't mind ANB in the middle as he's having a great year for the most part, but at least one of Oliver or Tracc has to be in there with him. The Langdon one makes no sense though.

Pretty sure Spargs was the best kick inside 50 in the whole competition a couple of years ago. We need prime Spargo more than ever.

I reckon Trac is going to poll quite well. Umpires like him a lot and without Clarry for an extended period he'll score more votes than expected IMO.

Playing Warner in England is such a risk. If he doesn't perform in the first test (because of course they'll pick him) they have to drop him, but I'm not confident that they will.

I'm in mate!

Time for Disco to bust a few moves perhaps.

Not to mention Hibberd played pretty well later in the season.

I think they both played last season in the Northern yeah. I remember always checking the scores to see him kick at least 6 every single game, nuts. Kicked his 1000th NFNL/DVFL goal early last year in roughly 12(?) seasons!

Sounds like some strong parallels to Shane and Brent Harvey. End of the day, one of both sets of brothers had a fantastic AFL career and the other did not.

Tommy has a big future. Really knows how to use his size and his strength in the air is unreal for a midfielder!

He's got the head of a dominant key forward.

So what do we expect the ideal balance between Max and Grundy? I've not seen a lot of Grundy over the last few years to be honest, so not sure how he fares up forward. Maxy can obviously clunk a few marks but his kicking is suspect. Personally I thought Maxy and Jackson worked really well together when Max was floating back and intercepting pretty much everything that came his way. Will they try something like that?

History tells me that we tend to complete these trades for unders, only to end up with a net gain over the remainder of the trade period and through the draft. Fingers crossed that's the case again this year.

Disco has us sorted.