Ted Lasso

Incredible story If Turner was the next captain given his pathway into the AFL, he’s had to be patient and now he is one of our better players

I miss Judd.

We could do a co captains model. max, kozzie and rivers or turner

Geez that’s horrible for Bowey given he had a career best year last year! The injury is no joke. They say 6 months but I’d be giving him 12, rebuilding slowly and no risking reoccurrence at all. We’re not likely to be in contention so better to look after one of our really good young players properly

He might be considering retirement? Probably keen to see what his family has been up to

I think this is just a little bit the nature of modern footy, guys are going to chase money or go home. He definitely could have handled it better and with a bit more class but he’s young and he will learn. I hope he plays well at freo just not against us

It sounds like windosr, Langford, Lindsay and culley are probably all likely to play a lot of midfield this year based on reports. Is that fair?

I’m always interested in new coaches and how they approach their early weeks at a club trying to establish their plan. Especially if the coach hasn’t had to do that before! It seems likely it’ll be a bit hit and miss for a while and maybe by the middle of next year we will have it totally nailed down

I would suggest you significantly underrate Alex Neal-Bullen. i mean he was a critical role player in a premiership and became vice captain of a team in premiership contention off the back of one pre-season, so i mean he goes okay. but yeah of course we hope he's the next Jamie Elliot and he kicks 60 goals a season

the new Nibbler.

I’m putting it out there but there are some comparisons with Adam Goodes…. This one feels like a Daniel turner level gem

Tall forwards are overrated

None apparently. This draft is wild. There has to be some off field concerns or something

If greeves, phillipou or Higgins-hargrave are available I’d have to imagine they’ll be too good to pass up.

I’m amazed he can walk up the stairs to the stage. He’s been in better shape

Completely agree, and i think the thing with this draft is it seems to be pretty even and open, i don't think the gap between the first 12 or so prospects is all that big and so getting two of them that we like and we're happy with is a good outcome, and then next year we get 2 more picks again

Move over Chris from Camberwell, here comes Nairn from Narrm

I disagree that it's a "bad investment" on balance i'd say it's a "terrible investment."

Jai Culley just seems like he's in for a great year.

Cal drops his late mail the morning the draft usually correct?

My guess would be the points don't quite align to suit the Blues needs. Ultimately that future first round pick would be compelling but the Blues moving 9 and 11 seems to be more about making sure they have their ducks in a row points wise

I don't think there will be any trading within the top 10 itself, clubs by this point have done a lot of work and have a pretty good idea who's going to be available. if any trades happen it'll be outside the top 10 to catch someone like Sharp, Schubert or Farrow if they happened to slide a bit.

Cals strike rate, especially with the first round is pretty incredible. The clubs do seem to have a really good relationship with him and probably it helps everyone to have some idea what the other sides are thinking on balance, i mean obviously if you think you're hiding a hidden gem it's different but that's less likely in the first round than it is on night 2.

No. But Langford imo would go pick 1 in this draft and Lindsay would probably be top 3.