chookrat

You had me until "Whiteboard Wednesday".

Jack Viney is too one dimensional at winning

I see Viney as a big game player. Look at when he came back early from his foot injury in 2017 and tore apart WCE, our finals campaign in 2018. I see him playing a dozen or so solid games, a few quieter ones and around five critical, hard matches where he absolutely rips the game open. We've got the talent where we don't need Jack in top gear all of the time, but able to up his beastmode when needed in a way that turns games.

I don't like this, first the Captaincy and now this. I don't think his knees will hold up to the weight of it all!

This makes perfect sense. Harmes played alot of time in the back half in the second half of last season and was very good. Also with the opposition's best mids often resting forward he can also nullify their impact.

I like the way Corey plays, he tackles hard, finds the ball in the HF, does nice things and is creative around goal.

I disagree, would prefer Jack and the rest of our list, coaches and back-office personnel to take a vow of silence to atone for last year, until such time that we hold premiership cup in the air.

I don't like that we have emergencies, would rather we just keep injured players out on the ground

I question how much influence the East Melbourne residents really have in this. Surely any local or state government would laugh at them, like they do the rest of us

I still think we pursue the Jolimont option. Throw in some 3 game memberships to the East Melbourne residents who want to walk their dog in the park as a sweetener - easy, problem solved! Get it done Dees!

I'm not convinced we should make Gawn captain on the basis that his knees may not be able to handle the weight of captaincy. Is this talk of Gawn as Captain and his knee injury a coincidence, maybe not? Regardless we cannot afford to take the risk that the two are connected.

You can add Gary Pert to the list with a shoulder. The CEO needs to be smarter and not engage in such reckless activity that could derail our season. He is old enough to know better and is the captain of the ship FFS.

Saty, is the fence ok?

There is no way that North have a better list than Carlton, and at that a significantly better midfield.

It might just be me, but I'm slowly warming to Peter Bell since his feather in cap moment in 2018. It gets lost sometimes with supporters that clubs generally go over and above when it comes to player welfare.

Get Rance!

The moment the club posted video of Topper Harley kicking goal from the boundary it was obvious we would sign him.

I find the delays due to closing Brunton Avenue for pedestrians to be most inconvenient. My driver, Alfred, now parks at the Pullman and I have a couple of Sherry's in the club lounge before the trip home.

Not pleased at this, we have praccy matches v Essendon and North in the second half of Feb and Gawn has to be in doubt for these.

Pruess has got this.

Great point Wrecker, we see it all the time where clubs help facilitate trades due to personal circumstances. Hogan showed enormous faith in us when all the club could sell was hope and the club made sure he got to Freo as long as a fair trade could be reached. Similarly with Bennell, if he's doing everything he can to get his body right then I expect the club to pick him even if he may not end up playing, as he will have earned another shot.

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Delicious ?

It was clear during the 2019 season how focussed Track was on the field and it showed in him having a solid and consistent year at HF after a slow start in the first 5 or so games. When reports of him wanting to play predominantly midfield arose during end of season reviews I was very pleased as it showed he was determined to do what was needed to succeed. Looking forward to his continued improvement in 2020.

Can a separate thread be created for all of the discussion that is not related to the 2020 Captiancy. I come in here expecting information, discussion and opinions on the Captiancy only to read about the 1960-2000's and other unrelated diatribe.