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The rules will only apply to NGA academy picks. Its a complicated issue. The northern state academys have been in place for ages now and the clubs pump considerable amount of cash into them. This was rightly deemed unfair to the other clubs and therefore the NGA zones were setup to make it fairer. The only thing is that the clubs didnt actually pump money into the zones. Therefore, the Bulldogs picked up the best kid in the draft in JUH just because he happened to live in their zone and have at least one parent who wasn't born in Aus.

If a rival club bid on him with a pick within the top 20 then they will get him. We will have no option to match the bid. If a bid comes between 20-40 then the normal rules apply and we can use points to match (not sure if the discount is still applied). https://www.afl.com.au/news/583170/early-season-blitz-puts-ruckman-on-demons-nga-radar

Great steak knives.

And partly some posters got upset about different opinions.

Since its the bye round I thought some might want to watch the game in question that seems to have elevated Mac into the first round. Mac rucks in the last quarter (starts at 1:52:00) and features heavily due to the number of goals Geelong kick resulting in centre bounces. He is up against Darcy Fort who is 27 years old, 204cm and 99kg.

Anyone watch the pies v crows game last week? The way the pies played last week should have told us they were coming for us. Exactly the same. Pressure, win the contest, quick hands or short kick and then a flat kick into a forward. I thought the pies were great. Really disappointing that we didnt see it coming and have the boys fired up to respond early.

Really pathetic effort today. 4 handballs. 1 tackle. That's it.

Collingwood has watched the Adelaide game and perfected the weaknesses exposed. That combined with us being flat have resulted in this. It will be interesting to see what the coaching staff do from here.

3qtr time Dees 8.6 54 Pies 8.11 59

We are in front!

We have lifted. Cmon boys

Gawn starting to impose himself

Harmes has gone to De Goey

Big Max with a nice goal.

Half time. Dees 4 4 28 Pies 6 8 44 Shocking amount of turnovers so far from both teams. [censored] we needed that half time break.

"Hard to defend that low ball from Maynard" Yeah... cause it was [censored] out of bounds on the full

Wtf are you talking about? Most likely will be all Australian captain this year.

Yessssss.... Got our forward pressure zone going which results in a goal. Need to get it in there to give our defenders a chop out. Lever, May and Petty all blowing hard

Need our leaders to lift. Looking at you Gawny.

Collingwood are basically playing our own game plan. Interesting game

How was that not holding the ball? Brought him to the ground!

Not good enough really

Dees 2.2 14 Pies 1.4 10

No we dont.

Ffs. These turnovers are killing us