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If he's been told to play more like Sam Taylor he's taking it far too literally.

Apologies, brain not in full flight this morning. Thought it was a Saturday arvo game.

Fullarton perhaps going to be held over as an emergency. Would like to see Schache go back where he's played before at the bulldogs. Leaves us with Brown, Jefferson and Kentfield forward with Brown used sparingly as a ruck chop out. Edit: ignore above, brain isn't braining today

I figured Lobb

Another single game for Laurie then straight out. Feel for the kid, never gets a run at it. Still, excited for Tholstrup and Brown.

Alot of water to go under the bridge obviously but even if they did bring back the ability to match bids back to 20+ we could still possibly end up in a Mac Andrew scenario.

181cm

Would be a good trade period for us. Moyle, Battle, Cumming and a depth mid like Parfitt or Brodie would be a good outcome. Or we try our luck with a young fringe 22 mid that may prove best 22 worthy. Angwin, Sheldrick etc.. Regardless, we should be going hard for Callaghan next year when he's out of contract.

Oscar Allen is a star and would be an incredible get, no way West Coast lets him go.

Would've been handy 3 years ago.

Brown, Schache, Jefferson, Fullarton and Kentfield all most likely playing. Someone surely goes to the backline.

In: Tholstrup, Tomlinson, Fullarton, McAdam Out: Petracca, Howes, Billings, Turner FB - McVee May McDonald HB - Rivers Tomlinson Bowey C - Windsor Oliver Langdon HF - Chandler Petty Sparrow FF - Fritsch JvR Pickett RR - Gawn Viney ANB Int - Salem, Tholstrup, Laurie, Fullarton Sub - McAdam Emergency - B Brown, Woewodin, Sestan Goody has more or less indicated Tholstrup and Tomlinson will come into the side. McAdam has had a few games under his belt now and can be a dynamic and impactful player, suitable for the Sub in my opinion. I think Turner would have benefited from being the third tall in defence to get more confidence in himself than being thrown forward where he is struggling. You could say the same for Petty but unlikely we're going to budge on him anytime soon. I feel we should be looking at Fullarton to take the ruck/fwd duties to give JvR and Petty 100% fwd roles. Give the kids more than one game before being the sacrificial lamb. If Sestan can have another excellent game at Casey then he may be a sneaky chance at a debut soon, don't think it happens just yet. Same for AMW who won't replace anyone out of our back 6 and hard to see him coming into the forward half despite our woes there.

Be curious to see where Taj Hotton gets picked up on draft night with his ACL. Looked a serious talent earlier in the year with explosive pace. Also keen to see Lalor in action.

Thoughts on Neil Erasmus @Pennant St Dee? Can't crack into freos midfield and contracted until 2025. Haven't seen him much since his draft year but remember he was quite highly rated.

Sounds like our form is going to be exposed.

Someone posted a tweet a while back from a journo suggesting we were into Ryan Angwin from GWS. Will watch him more closely now he's getting senior games but looks a tough competitor and can allegedly kick a footy. Vic boy and has had limited opportunities so far.

I hope we didn't plan to have no salary cap space for the next 5 years.

This is where I sit as well.

This part worries me. Do we go all out and recruit for another flag while Gawn and May still have some good footy in them in '25? If we don't get it right we might end up like West Coast but without access to the top end of the draft.

Gut feel is he is still playing injured. The importance of Lever to allow them both to play effectively can't be understated as well. But he has been poor and also made some uncharacteristic simple errors.

I'd like to give Laurie at least a run of 3-4 games. 1st full game since opening round and thought he wasn't in our bottom 4-6 players. I have hope for him, but not convinced he makes it either. But we're never going to find out if we drop him after a single game then bring him as a sub 6 weeks later. If we can afford to give McAdam, Billings, Chandler multiple games of sub par performance then how about we give the kid some confidence and back him in for a few games.

Depends how you see the rest of our season ending up. We currently have pick 9 and we always like to trade up.

Starting to feel that this is the year we fall back to renew our list for a push in 2025. Sort of like our 2019 or pies 2021. A year of learning tweaks to a game plan, a year of development for key players in JvR, Windsor, Jefferson, Tholstrup and Adams. A year to add to our group with a top end draft pick. A year where we might finally have some salary cap relief and be able to afford higher quality free agents, perhaps bringing in Battle, Moyle and some mid depth. The key problem. We're running out of time with a few of our players we're so reliant on in May, Gawn and Viney all getting on and, bar Gawn, showing a sign of decreasing performance. 2025 is perhaps the last time we can seriously challenge with the current list at our disposal. We need to start getting all our decisions right from here.

Not sure about the ins/outs, hopefully Petracca pulls up ok after the break. If Lever isn't ready I would put Turner down back and consider bringing Fullarton in for fwd/ruck duties. Tholstrup perhaps to get a recall. Does Casey have a game next week?

6. ANB 5. JvR 4. T-Mac 3. Gawn 2. Rivers 1. Langdon