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Thought you were about to say something else….

Just scrap it, was always going to happen. We need to stop thinking we have to compete with every other competition, we already have the greatest game.

Petty was never going to be the second coming of Neitz. Having just turned 26 last November he and Disco should be the two pillars of our back half for the foreseeable future.

I’m pleased Jeffo is seemingly progressing nicely but I’m not sure we should be playing 3 tall fwds plus Fritsch. Will be interested to see who makes the team come rd 1.

Pies 2023 umpire assisted. Lions should be going for 4 in a row.

Seems as though the MFC media department has picked up their game, been lots of footage coming through on the socials.

I commented last season about Collingwood (was using them purely as an example not the benchmark) their players make a lot of mistakes when they play fast footy, some due to player skill error and some due to the pressure applied by the opposition. But at times a teams defence succumbs to the pressure themselves of the constant bombardment of quick and at times unpredictable entries. A player running hard to create space and receive can make a average kick look good, and it also helps when both Elliot and Hill are firing as Elliot is an absolute star of the competition and Hill on his day is very dangerous. As mentioned by others having Latrelle frees up Kosi to spend more time in the middle but as Kosi showed last year he is still able to hit the scoreboards kicking 40 goals last year with 3 bags of 5. I think Fritsch and Melksham will thrive under Kings new gameplan and we will surprise quite a few teams. I think we will go alright defending the turnovers that will inevitably come, interesting to see how quickly our new players gel with the team.

Latrelle Pickett with natural forward craft, hoping he has a massive debut season.

So it’s not going to take years to learn the new game plan….

What did you pay for it?

What happened to the edit post function, has it been moved?

Looking forward to the I told you so from both games after every game depending on how he plays. Let’s lock this and revisit (if absolutely needed) after the Giants season is done and dusted for 2026

I think we can beat North, Eagles, Bombers, Tigers, Carlton, Saints, Pies & Port. I don’t buy into it takes multiple years to learn a gameplan but it does take time for new players to gel. Miohcheck, Steele, CJ and Latrelle are the ones most likely to debut early for us. I think once we get some continuity we are every chance to upset a team or two this season. Pass mark is finishing 8-10 on the ladder. Then we go into wildcard weekend with a nothing to lose approach.

At times last year we showed we could move the ball quickly and effectively but not often enough. The trading in of CJ and Miohcheck as well as drafting in Latrelle indicates where we’re heading.

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Sportsbet has us at $3.50 to make the 10 along with Carlton. Only Eagles, North, Tigers and Bombers outside that.

Reading this thread just strengthens what I’m already thinking, can’t wait for this season to start. Whilst I’m not expecting a top 4 finish I honestly think we can land somewhere between 8 - 10. In the Aiden Johnson thread many posters used the phrase “he won’t die wondering” and I think that can also be used to describe our season. I turned the tv off a few times this year mid game, not because we were losing but because we were so hard to watch. Really looking forward to playing with some freedom and backing in the natural talent of some of our players.

Thanks for taking this over after the efforts of @Lucifers Hero, sadly the number of players with a premiership cup next to their gets smaller by the year. Hopefully we can turn this around in the not too distant future.

Slow summer….

Petty is underrated.

There was a follow up post on the socials outlying the break down in different age groups. I think we had 20 players under 22. I probably got that slightly wrong but it was something like that. I actually think we’ve got a great balance of youth and experience and along with the other off field changes can get back to being competitive on a regular basis.

New coach and gameplan yes, team in transition yes but young team? Fwds : Miohcheck (flag) JVR, Fritsch (flag) Melksham, Chandler Mids : Gawn, Viney, Kosi, Rivers, Sparrow, Landgon (all flag) Steele, Windsor (3rd season) Def : Petty, Bowey, Salem, Lever, May, TMac (all flag), CJ, Turner Young players : Langford, XL, Pickett, Taylor, Mathew’s. And we’re running with the young team defence? Come on people…. We’ll be playing in the inaugural wildcard weekend.

I’ve been banging on about this from day one, I’m all for a team in Tassie but the competition must be capped at 18 teams for the foreseeable future. The AFLW are over 100 years behind the men’s competition in terms of existence and they expanded way too quickly and had become a joke in many ways. They should have stayed a one team in each of WA, SA, NSW, QLD and four in Melbourne for at least until the standard was at a high level across all clubs. The current administration can’t help them with Wildcard weekend, constant rule changes yet we can’t get the basics right, full time accountable umpires and a fair tribunal.

If it was that easy then there wouldn’t be teams in trouble now.

I think we can finish between 8-10.