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West coast must be thankful they got rid of that pick. Sheezel and Reid in the midfield just wouldn’t work at all, would set them back years.

4 very good ins for the eagles and all the outs are omissions (not forced). Pearce especially is a big loss for us. I still expect Freo to win, but less confident than I was.

Martin a great player, but seriously GAJ was so much better. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either too young to have watched GAJ properly, a Richmond supporter or Geelong hater.

Freo’s midfield did alright this weekend too against a reasonable Sydney outfit. I know I’m biased but I reckon out midfield is being a bit underrated. (All the midfields look bloody good on paper mind you) Dewyyyyy

stoopid me, I assumed this thread was on the front page again due to new posts about flag chances of the 3 teams in the title.

Far out this goal kicking inaccuracy is killing me! We’d be scoring quite well if we converged anywhere near the normal rate I mean 9 goals 18 this week (and a couple oof), should easily have another 4-7 goals based on some of the misses. Oh well, maybe next week.

Michael Walters not looking great so far this year.

And you could see once we got to about 1.7 or 1.8 that it really sapped the energy out of them. Didn’t help that your boys just couldn’t miss either.

Sam Sturt

Great to see big crowds for the GC and GWS games. REALLY should have been a game on today - reckon that was a huge miss. Also don’t like that my team plays their first game against someone who’s already had a proper run - the 8 round 0 teams should be playing each other in round 1. But hey...

Horrible news for Brayshaw. Hope he’s ok

9th to 12th. i feel like we’re improving, but still way too young. unbiased I expect us to look poor in quite a few games, but start to gel as a team mid Season before fading due to youth. maybe 11 to 14th more realis

Lot more opponents in an 18 team comp, lot more new players each year to play against etc. pendles will move up a few spots if he plays out the year - presumable another 50 to 80 players?

Darcy jackson serong brayshaw young fyfe Johnson JOM chapman aish Brodie, Erasmus, hmm, still a way off top 5. with any luck they develop this year and are in the conversation next year

Great summary 👍

Be careful with FM and his selective use of stats. hey Freomaniac when is the last time Freo played the kangaroos at docklands given we haven’t beaten them there since 2017? What’s that? That was also the last time we played them there? Oh, ok that’s interesting.

Our forwards are still too young, and not clear who our wings are. and Overall the team is still very young and inexperienced. On that basis it’s tough to see us above 10th. GC could climb if they hit their straps quickly with the new coach. i expect both to be comfortably in the 8 in 2025.

Mihocek has carved out a great career for someone taken 2nd round of the rookie draft. Good on him and Collingwood. What a bargain. Rayner has not done as well relative to his draft position. Whether or not he’s top 20 in his draft year might be argued, but he definitely isn’t top 10, which...

Agree, I’d definitely take sic ahead of stewart these days. youve got to have a couple of tall forwards in - curnow had a rough finals series but he’s still in the top 20 for mine. from Freo I really hope Luke Jackson is in these conversations for 25 or 26. Not sure who else has the potential...

Clarkson, Beveridge - really needed 2 votes. dont have a problem with any of the others.

I’m expecting to see U Nicorn in everyone’s top 50 by the end of the year.

It’s actually welcoming anyone from outside that area to ‘country’ so it includes all races. Country refers to indigenous regions, not Australia. when you learn a little bit about their culture, it’s a really impressive one. so appreciative, calm, respectful. I love listening to a welcome to...

There’s some in built advantages for some clubs though. Eg Collingwood, Carlton, Richmond get to play in big games and have money around them, so players are more likely to want to join them. And often will be prepared to join for a little bit less money. there is more to fixture advantage than...

10 different winners in 22 years is actually pretty good I reckon. I’m more interested in how often teams make the finals. It feels like a couple of teams have made top 8 for ~80% of the last 15 years (Sydney, Geelong, wce until recently?) which means there are really only 5 or 6 spots up each...

Ashcroft 39 owens 33 Amiss 28 all 4 of them were top 4 by every judge. Bucks had owens ahead of sheezel. very deserved win imo. And as a docker, I’m very happy with amiss so far.

I’d add JUH to those names, bit younger but he’s really come along this year. I might be biased but Jye Amiss is looking very good for a second year KPP who barely played last year due to serious kidney injury. Averaging 1.8 gpg from 21 games. He definitely has the potential to be top few in...

Time for a change to 23 under 23 so we get the sub and they are actually UNDER 23 at the cutoff date.

They didn’t have one. Banked the money instead.

Midfield set for the next 12+ years

I think you’ll find the average height of the top players in all of those sports is above the average height of gen pop. Eg top 10 tennis avg is over 190cm. Brazil soccer team 180cm vs gen pop 173cm even rugby wingers are at least an inch taller than average top level soccer players about an...