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I reckon it’ll be an unchanged lineup. Wicks was sub a few weeks in a row so I suspect given the side played three good quarters and Longmire was generally pretty happy with things, no changes will be made. Fox to stay in defence and Wicks to stay up forward. What happens next week if Rampe and...

My list was by no means extensive or complete, Goodes certainly fits in the group

Oh easily. He’s the best player I’ve ever seen play personally so for me he goes without saying. I was thinking about guys who are at a lower level to compete with Martin

I think about his career a lot. At his peak, people were very quickly saying he is one of the best handful players of all time which always seemed to me to be, for want of a better term, very American, “count the rings” type of argument that didn’t stand up to scrutiny. Rather than year upon...

Parker is a necessary player who will help this team. He’s not quite at his best anymore, but we need him in the side for contested ball winning, experience in big games, leadership, and I think he has a lot of value to give as a forward as well as an on-baller. His role won’t be what it was...

It’s funny because I think actually he has tended to be a primary marketing tool of the club for the last 5 years but it seems to me that in the last 12-18 months they’ve moved to really pushing Errol, Chad, and Blakey as our biggest stars taking over from Bud and Heeney. You hear the club talk...

I agree with all of this but I do think it was the right time for a circuit breaker for him. He’s got those qualities and therefore he should be capable of more than he’s giving. I still hold the view that it’s the mental part of the game that hasn’t quite dropped yet. He seems to me like he...

You just don't see this very often where a player spends most of his time playing out of the midfield for almost 10 years at senior level only for him to become a top line midfielder. Not just a top liner, in fact, but genuinely the best player in the comp for 6 rounds now, showing no signs of...

I know who I'd trust more at this stage in a big game and it's not Campbell. Campbell would do well with some midfield minutes in the reserves to build his confidence back. He got some late minutes on Touk Miller when he came on, stood him at three centre bounces so maybe that'll lead to more...

Agreed, thought this was Lloyd's best game as a wingman so far. Looked the most comfortable out there that I've seen in his adjustment to the position. I loved that they didn't just stick him at HB again because Rampe is out of the side too and they stuck with him on a wing. That's where he's...

I'm remaining bullish on Will Edwards. I like how he moves and I think his defensive play is improving steadily. I hope he continues getting game time on the top VFL forwards from here like Sam Day and Levi Casboult yesterday because I reckon he could be a seniors defender in the next 18 months...

Looked to me he was playing a close checking role on Noah Anderson - was that what others saw? If so, Anderson had no real influence on the game so Jordon did a quality job.

5. Nick Blakey 4. Isaac Heeney 3. Brodie Grundy 2. Taylor Adams 1. Joel Amartey YPOTY: Matt Roberts

Said it a few weeks ago when he laid a cheap shot on Cunningham, but I genuinely can’t think of a more overrated, overhyped player in the league than Sam Draper.

Blakey playing on a young 200cm ruck suits me fine. Read is a very good runner but Blakey playing on him will allow him to run off and create at will. Need Fox and Wicks playing forward imo.

In the spirit of reflecting on Goodes, I met him once at a nightclub when I was around 21 and he was there with some mates. I was terrified to approach him but eventually I went up to him whilst he was waiting for a drink at the bar, told him how much of a fan I was all my life. He shook my...

And it's an appeasement based on bleating from Victorian clubs about unfair advantages as if Victorian clubs haven't won 15 of the past 17 premierships. If the Northern Academies are such an unfair advantage, it sure shows itself in a funny way.

Suns are in good form and are one of the best pressure sides in the league. They’ve played well historically at the SCG against us and their midfield stacks up about as well as ours. I won’t be surprised at all if we lose this because I think the Suns are a good team on the rise but I’m...

Funny, I thought Amartey was OK on the weekend. He's not a star and I'd love to have an upgrade over him on the list (I do think if Buller was fully fit he'd be breathing down his neck), but I actually thought he got to quite a few contests and was OK in terms of competing in the air.

If I had my way, based purely on what I've seen with Chad and no personal knowledge, I'd be exploring how he stays active in the game when things aren't going his way. There are times where it seems like he seems to hold his mistakes with him during the game and gets down on himself but in a way...

And we will always have injuries through the year - if we had a fully fit list come finals and everyone was match fit, I could see him being the sub given the need to fit everyone in and his versatility but it’s pretty unlikely to have a fully fit list come week one of the finals. I’m expecting...

Wouldn’t have expected to say this to start the year, but without any of the three captains from last year playing I want Heeney as captain this week.

Agreed. The defensive unit without Rampe and with those three isn’t gonna cut it imo. Rampe’s absence is always very keenly felt for me and it was so again today. Interesting that McInerney and Fox ended up down back too in the 2nd half. McInerney only had 1 CBA this week too so indicates a...

5. Isaac Heeney 4. Errol Gulden 3. Brodie Grundy 2. James Rowbottom 1. Will Hayward YPOTY: Logan McDonald

My guess at our 23: Florent - Melican - Cunningham Blakey - McCartin - Roberts Gulden - Rowbottom - Jordon Fox - McDonald - McInerney Papley - McLean - Hayward Grundy - Heeney - Warner Lloyd - Adams - Amartey - Campbell Wicks Ladhams - Francis - Mitchell

I'd say they can both fit. Jordon takes wing/inside midfield/HF minutes and Lloyd a traditional wing who basically just stays there.

Yeh it's looking this way. Lloyd has been a wonderful servant and an excellent player for us but his style of play doesn't appear to be suiting how we want to move the ball from defence anymore. Particularly with his lack of pace to break lines or tackles or his relativley shorter...

Longmire said he’s “not going into that” when asked in the post match about the situation and that he picked the side that he thought would give the best opportunity to win. Seems an odd PR strategy that begs more questions. I suspect if we were a WA/SA/Vic club there’d be a lot more chat about...

Wouldn’t imagine Adams comes in normally on the back of little training and one half of a VFL game. But wouldn’t you know it, VFL side doesn’t play this week as they have a bye. So will be very interesting to see what they do - maybe they bring him in but I suspect they’ll be conservative given...

Did a few things that looked like he belonged with respect to how he approached contested situations. As a 19yo on the G against more senior players like McIntosh he used his body to win the ball a few times and got it moving for us, encouraging performance without being extraordinary.