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Maybe we could give him the defensive role? Tell Rayner or Tunstill to go win it and put Neale out back where Dunks is to cover a loss. I’m not sure where else we’d put him. Half forward? Wing?

Okay come on Dunstall was extraordinary and an all time great but the game has changed and he spent most of the game with only 4-6 players in the forward fifty playing one on one. Nowadays to get an open leading mark like that you need to do a lot more right or rely on the opposition defence...

Yep he played like doo doo and out of all our players it was clear that he was the most unprepared to play in the wet. He was sprinting at the ball and it always slipped past him and it sucked and it was frustrating. Doesn’t change the fact that he was playing like he did early last year...

I’d say Neale is the only one that shouldn’t be leaving the inside midfield since it’s the only position he’s really suitable to play. Dunkley spent years forward and Clugs is a good high half forward as well. There’s not reason they can see more time in those secondary positions while others...

I’d like to see: Fort out and O in. Expected really. Gardiner out and Ryan in. Ah Chee out and Sharp in. Sharp, Fletcher and Berry on the wings running hard is the biggest need. Want Answerth to go half forward and Zorko to go half back again. Need Lohmann and Answerth to gut running in...

I turned it off at three quarter time since it was past my bedtime but here’s my thoughts. Good: - Harris and Payne did well in the aerial contests. - Charlie at least found some of the football and kicked a couple. - Fletcher and McCarthy had some sexy goals. Neutral: - Joe had five...

He has been our most accurate kick for goal this season.

Smithcels seething, Fortchads glad.

I’m always on the Sunny or Giants bandwagon.

It’d be more complete if we saw how many point we have scored and the percentage of scores that makes up as well. You could be the best team at preventing red time scores but wouldn’t matter if the opposition outscores you and vice versa.

Have to wonder whether our supposed fitness issues and good five year stretch for injuries (especially soft tissue) are due to the same fitness program. If you train more you can build fitness but you also risk a higher chance of injuries due to less rest. If you rest more to ensure adequate...

I may have forgotten other ones but that was our first at home since 2018 against Sydney. Though that game was a much lighter consistent drizzle than on Saturday. Dizzy played a great game against Buddy that game. Went to a friend’s birthday dinner afterwards ecstatic that we only lost by three...

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Someone is trying to snuff out the big big sound… permanently

We made a bloody grand final last year, lost by four points and have every player from that side available this year bar Coleman but also get Ashcroft back. It’s a list well primed to win a premiership. There have been teams with primed lists that also never win one.

Bit of a tangent but does anyone think Zorko can reach 300 games? Hit 250 during the grand final and if he stays healthy this year will be on around 273. If he stays healthy with this output he could make the AA squad and would definitely want to go again next year. Then he’d be around 290-296...

Puts some good perspective on it. I’m gonna see if I can name the ten players I think he’d be alongside in the top 25%. Neale McCluggage Dunkley Andrews Doedee Daniher Cameron Hipwood Coleman McInerney

Literally none of them play wing.

We have Fort? Also which ruck from the leagues is ready made to come in that we missed? We drafted Oscar when he was 23 and it still took him years of games to develop behind Martin. Matt Flynn? Tom Hickey? Ivan Soldo? Sam Naismith? All worse than Oscar and the best of them were being offered a...

I don’t blame Payne for that first goal since the whole reason he was in the position is Zorko making the horrible decision to try a lace out kick near the corridor which unsurprisingly resulted in a turnover and heading straight back to goal. Other times though he was probably one of the...

McCluggage and Berry play that link up role a lot of the time. Clugs will always be looking for a running handball when our half forwards mark it and he gets it because he hits the target every time. McCarthy is incredibly good on the link up. Both Hipwood and Daniher are also very good at...

We have very good half forwards in my opinion with McCarthy, Lohmann, Bailey and Ah Chee.

That’s fair. What is interesting is how touch and go the first overall pick has been from 2017 and before. 2010: Swallow (220 games) 2011: Patton (95 games) 2012: Whitfield (209 games) 2013: Boyd (61 games) 2014: McCartin (63 games) 2015: Weitering (150 games) 2016: McGrath (133 games) 2017...

In those first couple years I’d definitely agree. It was documented that he and Witherden weren’t exactly 100% committed to fitness especially when it came to diet. Witherden was pushed out and Cam switched on but then did his ACL that preseason. 2022 was his first year back and then we got...

I mean we got McCluggage with pick three while Essendon struggle with McGrath not living up to potential. s**t happens. JHF literally left the club that drafted him first overall. I’d stop looking at players through the lens of where they are drafted after 4-5 years and start looking at the...

Hogan should definitely get the week but unsure whether Greene will.

Ah Chee struggles with being so versatile. He’s meant to be playing half forward and rotate through the wing but had moved everywhere due to injuries. Went to the wing and halfback are Coleman went down in the opening round. Did the exact same when McKenna got hurt in round one. Then had to...

Just wait until he’s in the over 50’s clique, will be the most mature runner ever and people will still shout him down.

Weird place to suggest we move during the Gabba rebuild. Might have to run a few specialised bus routes to make it work for us but not against it.

Glad Lyons got over being 31 now as well!