Nascent

Sounds like Smith to be the sub with @picket fence reporting Hibberd is also at Casey. Unless there's drastic change to our team in the coming weeks then I think Smith has found his spot in our 23. The perfect sub.

Apart from Grundy I'm looking forward to seeing Jefferson back in action and hoping for a stellar game from Laurie. Edit: forgot Kynan Brown playing for Casey as well.

Looking forward to beating Richmond only for Barrett to anoint the Tigers as the 4th or 5th best side in the competition.

Would be nice to see roos [censored] the Eagles by 100+ and win one or two more. Would be bad optics for the afl to grant massive concessions.

Are there even any favourites in those games?

Brisbane must be kicking themselves. I love it.

Port are pretenders. 3 losses in a row and conceding 100+ points yet again. Would happily finish 3rd and face them at Adelaide oval.

Was it even 20minutes?

Now for swans and crows to finish a good Saturday.

Zorko tears.

Not the first to say this but Levi Casboult for free could've been a handy pick up for us.

Finish it off suns. Hoping for a swans and Adelaide win and we are doing pretty well for pick 4 and keep top 2 hopes alive.

Zorko really cracks the [censored] when he gets tackled. Hope Gold Coast kicks on and smashes them.

Still currently hold pick 4 but we need gold coast and Adelaide to win some games now

Hawks need to make up 2 games and 10% with 5 matches remaining to overtake freo. Unfortunately freo have West Coast We need hawks to do saints in then hope for an upset against Collingwood or bulldogs (hopefully not us). Hawks play freo in the final round which could decide pick 3 or 4. Much more likely if hawks had held on against Richmond last week.

These frees... wow

How happy was Markov getting a spoil on the ball there. Pies secret is happiness and playing for each other it seems. FMD.

Schache to play back perhaps? With D Turner out, one of our key talls surely has to play in defence. Can't fit all of BBB, Jefferson, Schache and Grundy into the forward line.

No jumper clash to see here.

Fair effort there. You can see how compromised this draft is and potentially can be. Makes me further keen on trading up for Reid. If North get pick 3 I reckon that opportunity shuts. If we opt out of the draft @Lord Travis I presume you mean with our later selections. We are unlikely to do better than pick 4 unless we can nab a future first off West Coast or North. Even then, bird in the hand and all that.

Think this is only true for Friday and Saturday games where the 22 are named with emergencies. Sunday we have an extended bench where the sub and emergencies will come from and Smith is a part of that.

Further to the Kangaroos compromising our draft hand discussion, one factor that hasn't been talked about much is that the roos have the right to match a bid for him due to his status as a RFA. Given logue has done his ACL, they are really short on Key defenders on their list. If they choose to not match a bid in favour of a high draft pick, they are essentially writing off the next few years waiting for junior development to come through while Corr and Young man the backline. They are in for a world of further short term pain. Why should the AFL encourage such stupid list management decisions. At least match the bid and force a trade like the mechanism is designed for.

Remember when we were denied a priority pick because the afl stated we had exciting talents such as Kennedy-Harris and Toumpas on our list. Good times.

The media hasn't referenced Brodie or his camp once when talking about a potential 3rd change of club. I find the whole thing quite disrespectful towards his character, who himself said he's a professional and will act as such when quizzed by a reporter at Casey.