Josh

It's not too late to call them back. We need all the help we can get

This actually seems legit to me. Someone forgot to carry the "y" and it didn't add up. Maybe I'm to young and naive?

Good point, Goodwin might be saving a rookie downgrade for us. Maybe he plays supercoach?

Just signed with Albury in the O&M

Any thoughts why Rivers hasn't been given a go. Going to ruin my supercoach backline

Kozzy personal reasons? MFCSS or harmless

Agreed, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Essendon have a better list IMHO

I had a few drinks (was very excited) but from what I could tell he's ruck work was sub par, in fact horrible. Did I have to much to drink or is that a fair assessment? To me Weird is a lead up full forward exactly like Tom Hawkins or nothing. Harsh?

I wonder if Weideman will get a chance to play forward. Seems unfair to play him out of position all pre season and judge him on that. I guess we don't have too many other ootions

Pickett getting into some VERY dangerous positions. For a bloke in his first practice match it looks good to my eyes

Petracca ???

God I love seeing these topics I'll be playing cricket (fresh if a man of the match 2/3, 2 clutch catches and a 13* to steer the innings home) but can't wait to watch the replay

I believe Pidge opened the bowling for a while and Jones may of course to refer to the most famous Jones in Australia, Nathan... the wrestler

And it's 80% ball work, they are getting fitter using footballs. Crazy idea...

Gus Brayshaw play in the middle. Not the wing, not the flanks, on the ball. He (and he's mate Petracca for that matter) were drafted as the best midfielders in their draft, play them there.

I live in North East Victoria and have been breathing nothing but smoke for the last 3 weeks, you get used to it. Although at one point I couldn't see the end of 50m long pig shed so I guess you wouldn't see a footy coming.

Got me too... Didn't green have a promising career with cricket Australia and Manchester United?

At one point half the Sydney starting 11 were co captains Edit: Starting 18, bloody cricket season

I think I remember Goodwin wanted Viney AND Jones as he thought the younger players connected with Viney better, he felt Viney would represent the views of the younger generation a bit better? In terms of game day I think most sides have forward mid and back leaders. Captain to me is more about setting the standard outside the 2 hours on a Saturday. First to training, last to leave. At the end of the day for 5 days a week these football clubs are work places. Some live for it, some can't wait to get out.

Melbourne finish 3rd Gawn Oliver Petracca May Lever AA Gawn Oliver tie BnF Weideman 50+ goals Oliver top 3 Brownlow GWS premiers Lachie Neale Brownlow Tom Lynch Coleman Ken Hinkley first coach sacked Gold Coast don't win a game

Petracca looks in ripping nick

Hahah me too, I could think of nothing worse than trying to play in someone else's shadow. I grew up in the same town as a young man who was drafted to the Hawks last year by the name of Matthew Walker. Fantastic young indigenous man who has worked his [censored] off and sacrificed an enormous amount compared to other young men from the country and he was given Cyril Rioli's number 33. I've always felt that was the the biggest vote of confidence you can be given as a player, given the number of a newly retired champion, but you can't sense it comes with a certain amount of pressure? I guess at the end of the day every number has a history when your club goes back over 150 years, but I would certainly prefer to make my own number famous.

This is valid, admin feel like it needs it's own thread/poll???

Yeah we should definitely go after blokes like Sam Blease who had a fantastic burst of speed and measures well. Unlike silly Hawthorn who took that Sam Mitchell guy who couldn't test well in anything and had to play VFL. I get that for every 1 Sam Mitchell there is 100 that don't make it but it's not all about testing. There is 100's of examples of this