spirit of norm smith

Yes he was slightly off v Vic country with some fumbles and miskicks. But I’d definitely take Smillie at the Dees. Big sized mid. Alas he is likely to go pick 3 or 4 to the Saints or Eagles.

Howes deliberate out of bounds. Ridiculous. Fumbles ball. It goes out. Frankston played appeals and ump gives it. Shows how BAD umpiring has become. Easily conned. Easily influenced. No idea of actually playing footy. Umps clearly favouring dolphins.

Casey getting killed in the midfield. in fact, apart from Mitch White and Roan Steele, most of the Casey listed players are suburban footballers. Poor recruiting getting exposed. Also the loss of Hustwaite and Leo Connolly really hurts, as they were the main off season recruits. They’ve missed 10 weeks of footy. No news at all on their possible returns.

Yes want to see Woey jnr have a full game this week. Needs to run after weeks of being the sub. Be interested to see our new cult hero Roy George. George Grey. Has been definitely missed by Casey this year. Had a great year at Frankston.

Ben Camporeale was SA MVP and agreed he was impressive through the championship. Top 30 absolutely. Top 20 yes. Probably rank him 12-15 imv. Blues getting to smokescreen him down the order?

5 injured unavailable Woey jnr - quad/managed- 1 week Max Gawn — ankle / test- 1 week Lachie Hunter — calf / 1 week Charlie Spargo — Achilles / season Christian Petracca — spleen / season 1 medical retirement Angus10 1 indefinite suspension JS29 3 travelling emergencies having a WA holiday break 🥤 11 available for Casey - Adams, Hore, Howes, Schache, BBB, Kentfield, McAdam, Sestan, Jefferson, Verrall, KBrown41

Billings back in. Hmmmm Hasn’t shown really anything when he has played. Lucky to be back in. Skills poor. Goalkicking poor. Tackling non existent. Laurie contracted though to end 2026 for some reason. Looks to slow and uncontested for AFL midfield role and we have plenty of small forwards already. He’s a VFL standard player. Tholstrup is the future. He’s going to be very very good.

JV7. He’s a legend. Definitely!!! One of our greatest ever players. Probably the toughest Demon ever. He and Barassi31 probably on level ranking for toughest ever.

Dees will likely be on the phone to the Dockers. AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS Dockers … can we have your 2024 1st round pick 10 for 2025 MFC future 1st round pick & 2024 MFC 3rd round pick 42. OR Dockers … can we have your 2024 1st round pick 14 for 2025 MFC future 1st round pick & 2025 MFC future 3rd round pick

It’s the same concept in practice as the NBA PLAYOFFS

Worst concept floated in a long time It’s just trying to copy the NBA (USA basketball model). Nothing like innovation through trying to copy the USA!!! Leave the current finals as is …

Definitely Dees overshoot on emergencies. Freo took an extra emergency last week v hawks. 24 in squad. Not sure why we are so cautious especially as I can’t recall in the last 25 years of any event where two players pulled out prior to the game. Let alone 3!!!!!

Dees will need to have Fullarton this week. Darcy and Jackson will destroy us. Hoping he debuts in the west.

Agreed. 6/10 in the draft. I had Will Hamill (Crows) and Bailey Williams (Eagles) as highly rated youngsters , both from the Dandenong Stingrays. Hamill has suffered injury concerns yet shown his ability when fit. Williams is developing into a good young ruckman now. Not surprised we picked Sparrow but was when we called out JJ.

Cumming 👍🏻

I’d suggest calling the club to see what and when tickets are available.

Agree. I think Dees will a) try to use the two third round picks in a package points type deal to push up and get another pick in the 2nd round. b) trade out the 2025 future 1st round to get a 2024 first round. Maybe with the Suns who have a few picks to attract. Aim is to look to get access to 2 x high quality mids such as Lindsay and Moraes.

I agree. I think he’s a very good player and would be drafted around pick 15-20 if available. Maybe the Blues are watering down the expectations and the points they will need to use.

It’s a YES from me. Excellent skills and has pace and run. Would add to our team and allow Riv to move more into the midfielder role.

Xavier Lindsay. Captain of Gippsland. Think Josh Kelly style. Class and skill and footy IQ. He is as good as any of the top 5 players. Can hit a target or kick it 50+. Good on the tackle. He’s one player that I am sure JT would be marking in bold and highlighting. Patrick Retschko. Think Hugh McCluggage style. He plays half back or midfield and has excellent decision making and skills. Can play defensive role as well. See AFL quality in his style. Archer Day-Wicks. Takes the game on and likes to run. Saw him take good aerial contest to make him more dangerous across half forward. Excellent skills, quality left footer and kicks a nice goal. Keighton Matofai-Forbes. Captain of Western Jets. Plays like Mitchito Owens. Forward utility with an aggressive style of play. Left footer with booming kick and determined at the contest. whilst I think we might look at taller players like Noah Mraz or Kayle Gerryn as other draft options.

Mock Draft 2024 run #1 ROUND ONE 1 Richmond. Finn O'Sullivan - Oakleigh 2 North Melbourne. Luke Trainor - Sandringham 3 West Coast. Josh Smillie - Eastern ***Brisbane match bid. Levi Ashcroft Father son. 4 St Kilda. Jagga Smith - Oakleigh 5 Adelaide. Sid Draper - Sth Adel ***Suns match bid (Academy ) Leonardo Lombard 6 Hawthorn. Christian Moraes - Eastern 7 Fremantle (tied to Collingwood), Sam Lalor- GWV 8 Gold Coast. Murphy Reid - Sandringham 9 Gold Coast (tied to Western Bulldogs). points used 10 Fremantle (tied to Port Adelaide). Tom Gross - Oakleigh 11 Melbourne. Xavier Lindsay - Gippsland 12 GWS. Taj Hotton - Sandringham ***Blues match bid. Father son. Ben Camporeale - Glenelg SA 13 Essendon. Jonty Faull - GWV ***Brisbane match bid - Sam Marshall - academy 14 Fremantle. Harvey Langford - Dandenong 15 Brisbane. Points used xx 16 Geelong. Bo Allan - WA ***Crows match bid. Father son. Tyler Welsh - WWT 17 Carlton. Tobie Travaglia - Bendigo 18 Sydney. Harry O'Farrell END OF ROUND ONE 19 Sydney (tied to North Melbourne assistance package) Jobe Shanahan - Bendigo (NSW) 20 Gold Coast (tied to North Melbourne) Joe Berry - Murray ROUND TWO 24 *****Essendon - Isaac Kako - Calder (Ess NGA) 25 Richmond. Alex Dodson- SA 22 North Melbourne. Jack Whitlock - Murray 23 West Coast. Harrison Oliver - Sandringham 24 Fremantle (tied to St Kilda) . Harry Armstrong - Sandringham 25 St Kilda (tied to Adelaide). Cooper Hynes - Dandenong 26 Collingwood (tied to Hawthorn). Matt Whitlock- Murray 27 Hawthorn (tied to Collingwood). Nathaniel Sulzberger - Sandringham *** Port match bid. NGA .Benny Barrett - Sth Adel 28 Gold Coast. Thomas Sims - Northern ***Blues match bid. Father son. Luke Camporeale - Glenelg SA 29 Western Bulldogs. Zak Johnson- Northern 30 Port Adelaide. Nash King - Calder 31 Adelaide (tied to Melbourne). Kade Herbert - SA 32 GWS. Josh Murphy - Murray 33 Essendon. Damon Hollow - Calder 34 Richmond (tied to Fremantle). Lachie Jacques - Geelong 35 Gold Coast (tied to Brisbane) . Hamish Davis - Claremont WA 36 Geelong. Noah Mraz - Dandenong 37 Carlton. Lucas McInerney - Northern 38.Melbourne (tied to Sydney). Patrick Retschko - Oakleigh ROUND THREE 39 Richmond. Kayle Gerryn - West Perth 40 North Melbourne. Phoenix Hargrave - Sth Adel 41 Richmond (tied to West Coast). Sam Davidson - RICHMOND VFL 42 Melbourne (tied to St Kilda). Archer Day-Wicks - Bendigo 43 Adelaide. Ned Bowman - Norwood SA **** Port Adelaide match bid. Father son. Louis Montgomery - Nth Adel 44 Collingwood (tied to Hawthorn). Jesse Dattoli - Northern 45 Collingwood. Malakai Champion - Subiaco 46 Western Bulldogs (tied to Gold Coast). Cody Anderson - Eastern 47 Melbourne (tied to Western Bulldogs)- Keighton Matofai-Forbes - Western 48 Port Adelaide. Charlie Nicholls - Central District SA 49 St Kilda (tied to Melbourne) Oliver Depaoli-Kubank - Tassie 50 GWS. Luke Urquhart WA

I know there will be shifts and trades and moves and swaps and twisting and turns before picks are finalised. But I tried to rank players and look at current ladder positions. Here is run number 1 up to 50 live picks excluding the academy and father sons.

Xavier Lindsay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ absolutely starred in the finale for Vic Country. Plays like ? Josh Kelly. He’s good in the inside and tackles well. He can run and spread and use his elite left foot for passes or kicks 50+ metres.

It’s a quirky list. Lots of strong top 30 players left out !!!! SA trio of the Camporeale twins (Carlton F-S) and Welsh (Adelaide F-S) are all genuinely top 30.

Definitely getting Brownlow votes v bombers. McVee has the footy IQ, skill and competitive edge to even improve more. A rookie gem. JT 👏👏👏👏