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Club have released a video of his VFL highlights last week, often done before a player is included. I reckon he plays this week.

Was trying to work out his selection, but that could be the plan..... if he can give Max a chop out for 5m a quarter, give a contest up forward, and keep JVR out of the ruck, may well be an astute pick.

Highlights and descriptions of him sound similar to Hayden Young at the same age. Would be awesome if he became anywhere nearly as good as him!

Lions mate says he has an huge engine, but pretty ordinary kick....

Agreed, which is why he shouldn't have played.

Did nothing the whole game except fumble. Needs to come out for Spargo next week. Hopefully the kid makes it, but not ready currently.

Dislike both teams, but the qualifying final was an awesome game, wouldn't mind watching them go head to head again.

He's actually had plenty of games where he's been the 2nd or even 3rd key forward and it makes no difference. He just doesn't have the competitiveness to be a decent AFL player unfortunately.

Yes, great team goal starting with a big switch from Mitch Brown after taking a strong mark at half back. Tidy finish by Laurie.

Sounds silly, but I was only 11 at the time, and that 1992 game hurt almost as much as the 87 prelim and more than the 88 GF!

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Andy, good advertising, just ordered a slab for the weekend.... my neighbour is a beer journalist (still can't believe it's a job) and will give him a few leftovers....

I’m in London too, (south east) but will be watching at home with my 8 year old son who I’ve somehow managed to raise to love the dees as much as I do, despite growing up over here. 5yo daughter is less interested, although she does love big Max! Very tempted to go to a pub, but 8yo is desperate to watch so have decided to stay home. Like everyone, will be bittersweet if we do get over the line not being there with friends and family I grew up going to the footy with, but will be able to celebrate with the kids here and maybe go out for a special family dinner if we win.

Surely the Wiz!

Noticed this too. Lot of behind the ground vision against the Dogs and you could see when we were going long down the line he was just ambling towards the contest. No leading, or running one way them doubling back etc to get some separation. I think simple answer is he's just not working hard enough so he's often in a big pack situation where it's more difficult to hold on.

They gave up their first next year for 24 & 30, we did it for 18/19? They got lucky with Reef, but your post makes no sense.....

Agreed, I'm not saying we will give him away for nothing, hopefully we get fair compensation, but very little gained keeping him if he's made his mind up he wants the opportunity to be #1 elsewhere.

All those saying we hold all the power as he's contracted and it will be a bidding war, forget how it works. He'll nominate a club and we'll get him there at a fair price. In recent years there's only been the odd case (papley/daniher) where the player hasn't got to where they want, contracted or not, but can't see us standing in his way here.

This makes no sense. They have a great young spine as you say, so they don’t need to invest there, hence they’re investing in other areas. Jones/Weitering/Cripps/Curnow/McKay is a top 6 spine. They just have a lot of ordinary players still getting a game. Adding Williams and Saad improves then immediately...

Would have thought this isn't the year to do this there's virtually no exposed form so there will undoubtedly end up being value with the later picks. Usually you have to throw in a later pick due to the uncertainty of the future pick, so would think it makes more sense to save the pick till next year.

Very good point this... Spent most of the game on Butler, so no reason he can't handle Papley. Shows how much faith they must have in the kid. Presumably he'll get first crack.

Check again.... he made some absolute howlers in that time and was absolute rubbish. Was just lucky he had 3 of the best defenders in the world in front of him...

Noticed this about Langdon too, was so infuriating!

Might just be me, but much prefer Smith on Riewoldt than Omac. Despite what's been said here, Smith has been good defensively with his closing speed on the lead and physically seems an ideal match-up for Riewoldt. Oscar doesn't have the pace for Riewoldt or the size for Lynch so can't see why they would play him.

Sounds like it. He's pulled out of the draft, so signed by someone!