Diamond_Jim

Let the Practice Game begin TMac has kicked 3 at Casey in the first quarter BTW

Good game Up and down the corridor. Not the usual boundary hugging

Grundy opening ruck so the experiment is over

Welcome to the Irrelevant Round

Dogs lucky to still be in this game

2 goals 10 Now that's accuracy

I could like North but......

Hawks are a strange one. No problem ladder wise if they win yet they're losing to a team that has similarly no incentive

Just go through the Melbourne based VFL teams (AFL aligned) and you'll find a couple at least. A $50k pay rise for say 2 years will prise them free. Remember you're looking for a ruck not a number 1 mark around the ground player ie another Max

I'd forgotten Dunstan but you're right.. that's another as is Laurie.

Yes and the reality is that what we draft in from other clubs will probably be not as good but this is what happens when you have a relatively closed first 22/23. Not sure how it could be better handled but 4 cusp players leaving other than by retirement seems high. Throw in the possible retirement of Hibberd, BBB and even Melksham and TMac, you have big turnover

This is like a 2 week bye with all these irrelevant games. AFL are lucky they have no real competition other than B grade movies PS: Gil etc will be thinking... imagine the excitement if 9 and 10 if not 11 and 12 were eligible for wild card play offs

One Round too Many

They're only ins if they don't travel to Sydney as emergencies. My understanding is we will lose 3 players being the sub and two travelling emergencies Wonderful scheduling once again

My guess is that this is almost our finals line up. TMac v Smith and to a lesser degree Tomlinson v Turner are still open Laurie, Spargo, Smith with the outlier of Taj W fighting for the role of sub

Agree !

Thanks... No TMac ?

Will Collingwood play Jeremy Howe forward in finals ?

Sunday... 2:45pm

With Buddy gone what is the Swans tall forward make up like? Is there a role for Tomlinson?

Sam W to kick 12 against the Pies !!!

Tend to agree re Tomlinson simply because I don't see him playing against the Pies. If and when we play Brisbane... maybe Interesting that you have slotted in Smith in place of Turner. You are probably right but they may want to try Turner out pre finals

? Why so That would mean no Casey game which is the worst of both worlds

Goodwin admitted today that the Grundy experiment has not worked. You don't get a clearer.. "he's up for trade" than that “In terms of the way they function in the team together, from a forward-half perspective; I think it’s pretty clear ... that it hasn’t quite been the success that we were hoping for – and that certainly hasn’t been all on Brodie,” Goodwin said, a day after extending his tenure as coach to the end of 2026. “We were hoping for Max to play big time forward [time] as well, and between the two of them we haven’t quite had the impact that we would have liked throughout the year, and we’ve had to look down a different path to how we structure up the forward half of the ground. “At this point, that’s impacted Brodie’s ability to play in the team in the last five or six weeks, so I think from that perspective, we acknowledge that part of it hasn’t worked.

In 2021 we had 3x 2 week breaks in our finals campaign. Worked rather well I thought