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    Autopsy Party time - JD300

    I love listening to the best club song in the AFL. After the showings by both clubs last week I thought we'd get thumped, so I couldn't be happier and more surprised, especially with two of our best defenders missing. X schooled Gawn, Powell and Curtis were great, Chom was very good and if it...
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    Player Watch #6: George Wardlaw - club has opened contract talks with GW - J.Ralph says GW will sign 2yr extension, has told NM he's staying + loves the club

    I had a lot of hamstring problems/tears/strains in both of my legs back when I was still actively involved in sport. The way it was explained to me is that the tear never fully heals and that you have to build up the muscle around the damaged area to protect it. That is why I had concerns about...
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    Training 2025 Training Updates | Standards are… TBC

    I like this. I always thought that, purely based on his very good draft combine testing results and height, Goad could initially ease his way into the VFL and later the AFL as a forward/2nd ruck before making the transition to full time ruck, which is a tough caper. Admittedly I've never seen...
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    Poll: How did you get into supporting North?

    I came to Australia from Holland in 1972 by ship. It was actually on the ship between Melbourne and Sydney that I saw my first game of Australian Rules football in grainy black and white pictures that faded in and out on a small tele. Until then I hadn't even heard of Aussie Rules, but I was...
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    Review 2024 National Draft Thread Part Deux - Welcome FOS, M.Whitlock, L.Urquhart & River Stevens

    I was relieved when Richmond used their original pick 11 thinking that North wouldn't trade its F1. I was absolutely certain we would have it for next year when we neared the end of R1, but Brady decided that he had to prove that was capable of stuffing up the unstuffable. WTF is the club's...
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    Review 2024 National Draft Thread Part Deux - Welcome FOS, M.Whitlock, L.Urquhart & River Stevens

    Who wants to form a lynch mob for Brady right now? This is the dumbest draft move in history!
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    Review 2024 National Draft Thread Part Deux - Welcome FOS, M.Whitlock, L.Urquhart & River Stevens

    It is crazy. The reigning Premiers have the luck of having priority access to the best player in the draft and then according to this article get to pick him at the huge discount of pick 5 even before the ridiculous 20% father-son discount is applied. They are practically getting him for free...
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    Review 2024 National Draft Thread Part Deux - Welcome FOS, M.Whitlock, L.Urquhart & River Stevens

    Without focussing on specific positions, generally speaking the weaknesses that North needs to address through acquisitions are legspeed, foot skills and defensive ability in the midfield and F50. That leaves out a few highly rated prospects including Tauru who I was never overly keen on. If he...
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    Review 2024 National Draft Thread Part Deux - Welcome FOS, M.Whitlock, L.Urquhart & River Stevens

    I know it is a few weeks old, but it was still good for a laugh. I don't know if @stickers_bown is a BF member, but good on him/her for sticking it up the author by telling him that he wouldn't have a farking clue about what's happening behind the scenes. Poster Rick thought that we would...
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    Review 2024 National Draft Thread Part Deux - Welcome FOS, M.Whitlock, L.Urquhart & River Stevens

    I really don't understand why so many North supporters would be so willing to trade our F1 for not much more than a bag of chips. I'm confident we'll improve significantly next year, but 8 wins from a challenging fixture list probably still only lands us 16th position because I suspect the Crows...
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    Review 2024 National Draft Thread Part Deux - Welcome FOS, M.Whitlock, L.Urquhart & River Stevens

    You obviously follow under age footy very closely. Could you please post your detailed analysis of next year's top 24 draft prospects to substantiate how you have come to this conclusion? Looking forward to reading your response as I'm always hoping to learn from people who are more...
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    List Mgmt. 2024 Trade & List Management Thread - Part 3

    Either 3 or 4 for me. The difference between Viking and Armstrong is negligible and pure guesswork as to who will turn out to be the better player. Both players could well still be available at #7 (8). 15 over 18 should provide more options that would be of interest to North. The #7 and Saints...
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    Preview 2024 National Draft Preview Thread

    At first I thought the Saints were a good option to split #2 with by also using our F2, but I've since read that they currently only have 30 on their senior list and need to get to the minimum 36 with only 4 draft picks available. Undoubtedly they have their eyes on some delisted players...
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    Preview 2024 National Draft Preview Thread

    I hope we can split #2, but only strictly on our terms. Some Richmond supporters clearly don't understand how important #2 would be to them to fully control who they get out of this year's supposed elite talents. I've even seen posts where they say that any of their picks 6, 10 and 11 shouldn't...
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    List Mgmt. 2024 Trade & List Management Thread - Part 3

    It now looks like Richmond is the only remaining candidate available for us to split our #2 with for a minimum of two picks in this year's first round considering they will hold 1, 6, 10, 11, 18 20, 23 and 24. That puts them in a position of strength, although I'm sure they would be more than...
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