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North Melbourne and Hawthorn can merge to become the North Tasmanian Hawks. Gold Coast and their hideous jumper can fold and talent divided amongst the remaining clubs (we get dibs on King). Back to a 16 team competition and everyone is happy.

I do have to LOL at the fact the Kangas had another serious dip at Kelly and got rejected yet gain. So much schadenfreude joy from the kangas failed attempt at luring half decent players.

If so the question will be will do we look at Weideman one last time? Felt we were a tall short against West Coast.

Doubt we will debut any more players this close to the finals but could be wrong. I would expect Hibberd to come in with his pace and experience. Hope he has freshened up a bit because he looked way off the boil in his recent games. Perhaps Hibberd can play a lockdown role on opposition defenders like his game against dusty earlier in the year. Should free up Bowey for some more attacking plays and remove intensive defensive responsibilities.

Wouldn't have thought we'd lose too much pace with Bowey. Kid is quick.

Will be his penultimate game for the Crows but I believe he is still weighing up his options for 2022.

Josh Kelly has officially re-signed with the Giants for the next 8 years which has been estimated to be over 1mil per year on average. Would've been the ideal hard running inside/outside midfielder but we were never in the conversation for him at that price tag. Perhaps that will tighten the Giants salary cap somewhat and leave some young guns ripe for a trade.

FB. Bowey May Petty HB. Rivers Lever Salem C. Langdon Oliver Brayshaw HF. Spargo T-Mac ANB F. Fritsch B. Brown Pickett R. Gawn Petracca Harmes I/C Viney Jackson Jordon Hibberd Sub. Sparrow Emerg. Melksham Weideman Jones Chandler The next group. AvB Lockhart Smith Jetta Baker Bedford Injured Hunt? Thought about putting Sparrow into the starting 22 but feel it makes us a bit young with Bowey, Rivers, Jackson, Jordon and Pickett all young and relatively inexperienced. That's nearly a quarter of the squad already. Hibberd is clearly on his final legs but have him as a better contributor to Sparrow at this point and gives us another option off the half back, particularly with Hunt injured (?severity). Barring injury to a key forward, it's too late for another Weideman experiment and he will have to sit on the sidelines. Wouldn't mind seeing Jones in a sub role as well, would be a great sight to have him out on the ground during the finals. Not sure he can run out a full game though. Hopefully I haven't forgotten anyone.

Think he'll be a fan favourite for years to come. Someone with pace that can hit targets consistently is a rare commodity. Will find a home on the half back line but could settle into a wing role quite easily down the track.

Painful last 15 minutes but got the points. Top 4 locked away!!

Win and we go to the top of the ladder and guarantee a top 4 finish. Just get it done Dees.

Melksham hasn't played for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a finals audition of sorts. He's on the fringe of best 22 and the likes of Sparrow, Jordan, Hibberd, vdb etc would want to take their chances when they come or risk missing out on finals action.

You're right. His 20metre sprint time is 3.19sec so not quick at all. No idea why that got written on his bio. His agility/lateral movement + disposal and decision making are his strengths allegedly.

He's in our academy I believe

Would be keen but not sure we have the currency to get him. Although his value would certainly have dropped after two years in the system and regularly being overlooked. From memory @Yokozuna had mail that we were keen on him during his draft year. Haven't seen much of him since drafted but in his draft year he was reported to be a balanced midfielder with pace.

Mr Squiggle has us winning the flag? I have the patience of Blackboard.

So Salem did travel over. As well as Tomlinson?

We could have up to three forced changes it sounds like. Out: ? Viney (susp), ? Salem (inj), ? McDonald (inj) Jordon, Hibberd and Weideman the three most likely as like-for-like replacements I would suspect.

Can Gold Coast still pre-list their academy players with their draft concessions?

Not a great look on the first couple of playthroughs but I actually think Viney has a few arguments up his sleeve here. 1. After completing a solid tackle on Collins, you can see Viney has eyes for the next contest and is in the process of standing up and moving away. Collins then double grabs Viney and pulls him down on top of him. 2. Viney seems to be held into position by Collins with him still double grabbing Vineys jumper. 3. Viney again attempts to leave the encounter as shown by his legs attempting to stand up, Collins still maintains the rage with his double grabbing of the jumper and rolls Viney over and tries to push him into the ground. Not a great look on the whole and Viney should have tried to move his elbow off his head as soon as possible. Will get penalised for the length of time on his head more so than anything else. Still reckon Collins had a big part in instigating the whole incident though.

Hoping there will be a debut announcement video up soon. They're always heart-warming.

He's debuting

On half forward flankers we were linked to Sam Sturt from freo in his draft year. Has been quite injury prone so far and not entirely sure on his skillset due to limited exposure to him at AFL level. Maybe a WA demonlander can shed light on if he would be a suitable option.

How's this for an outlier. And look at the discrepancy between them and the next "best ranked" team.

Have the doggies ever lost a free kick count this year? How far in the positive are they now?