Well 2024 was a pretty fun year, unless you decided to watch the Dees play footy, but that's all behind us now. With summer only a month away from ending and Melbourne have the O Round bye, it's time to once again decide who in the squad makes up the Best 22 team. This'll mean that people will...
...Matt Whitlock (Shepparton/Murray Bushrangers)
DEPARTING: VFL: Ned Conway, Ben Davis (Montmorency), Kade De La Rue (Frankston), MitchHannan, Sam Hayes (Strathmore), Nick Hodgson (Coburg), Jamie Hope (Old Brighton), Sam Lowson (Southport Sharks), Hamish Murphy (Williamstown), Deakyn Smith...
...been searching for a stick out a few times and fast 190 wing/flanker who is good in the air, runs and kicks goals. We got close with MitchHannan but he lack consistency. Had F. Greene and others before.
We will also see Darcy, Sanders, Friejah become stars and JOD and Buss ensure we keep...
Hayes, Hannen, Davis and Hope are gone. Butler, Bath and Wynd are still there.
We had a list of 49 training with us pre Xmas and that's expected to be trimmed to 30 soon.
Unsure?: Louis Butler, Ben Davis, Hamish Murphy, Ben Bath, Jaime Hope, Tom Cappelari, Lachlan Wynd, Sam Hayes, MitchHannan, Nick Hodgson
From that list I did last year it looks like Davis and Cappelari have been training with the AFL side from time to time. So you’d assume they are staying...
A few young mids among flankers and a tall. Not complaining as some there is some real MSD potential among those names, but probably need a few back up talls outside Wynd and Cole.
...Nathaniel Sulzberger (Coates League), Sam Linden (Coates League), Jackson Grundy (Warrnambool League)
Retained: Connor Downie, Charlie Harrop, Ben Hopkins
Unsure?: Louis Butler, Ben Davis, Hamish Murphy, Ben Bath, Jaime Hope, Tom Cappelari, Lachlan Wynd, Sam Hayes, MitchHannan, Nick Hodgson
These guys aren’t all fails. Three of them played in a winning preliminary final for us. Schache, Martin and Hannan. Doug Hawkins, Chris Grant, Brad Joshson, Scott West etc couldn’t achieve this. Jed Adcock as a former Brisbane skipper was an invaluable leader through 2016 and played in our VFL...
...following didn’t take us very far:
Pat Vezspremi
Nathan Djerrkurra
Justin Sherman
Ed Barlow
Mark Austin
Nick Lower
Koby Stevens
Tom Young
Sam Darley
Jed Adcock
Travis Cloke
Josh Schache
Jackson Trengove
Billy Gowers
Sam Lloyd
MitchHannan
Stefan Martin
Tim O’Brien
Ryan...
...VFL level with the likes of Watkins, Lowson, Downie and co getting priority.
Have heard Lowson is on the fence as to whether to play VFL again or chase the $$$ in the local leagues.
Will also be interesting to see if Lienert goes around again or if MitchHannan and Sam Hayes stay on the list.
One star in Treloar one very good player at the end of his career in Jones and few handy players. In the period you have quoted we have lost Dunkley, Lipinski, Stringer, Smith, Macrae, Daniel, Dalhaus, Cordy, Hunter, Sweet from memory. I think like Australia we are in a trade deficit.
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