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Ross has obviously bought into JLo's plan to attack late after taking off the first quarter.

Sturt would just fit our team so well if he could reach his potential, I don't have a lot of hope any more though.

Sturt will be sub surely, with the plan to take Darcy out at 3/4 time if no injuries. Banfield will be forward, with Ras And JOM rotating across that forward flank and wing?

I like to think Justin is a measured and calm sort of guy. My boss fits this description perfectly, and while what I do is a very long way away from elite sport, he is very effective at getting effective performance from those that work under him.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1110567/collingwood-magpies-veteran-scott-pendlebury-passes-fitness-test-key-forward-dan-mcstay-flying I think we need to acknowledge what Collingwood has overcome with their trips to Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. McRae said the Magpies used the 13-day break...

I think there's a good chance we have a bit of a down week, and if Frederick doesn't make it up our forward mix is still sub-par, albeit tall forwards back to our desired set up. Freo by 23

Nah he's in the WAFL, technically a possibility to come in this weekend.

I'm a big Aish fan, thought he had quite a poor 2023 though. He's definitely showing his better side again this year, and has seamlessly moved back. He's not going to be better than a B grader but he's consistent, versatile and has some great moments. I still remember that incredible spoil...

I think if you're sampling comments on The West page you're getting a certain demographic, regardless of which club they support.

As per quite a few pages back, this. Basically the only way they take a KPD in the mid-season draft is if Cox and McDonald have setbacks and they truly believe this is the year we're likely to truly challenge for the premiership. There's lots of makeshift options on our list that we can get by...

The whinging about the umpires is a bit much. If anything the criticism for Razor is he gets too involved in games, but otherwise he's a pretty decent umpire.

Edwards is out with concussion, I expect Sheed will be back in. Sheed is not bad on a wing, but not a big defensive runner so hoping we could exploit that.

See the earlier media post that basically says various clubs think he could be gettable.

It's pretty clear what our priorities are as a list, we have some collateral to help us get there and it'll be interesting to see what happens. Perhaps they had a plan in mind for this year, which may or may not come to fruition. It did, and still does, feel like we may have been better off...

That could work, he's versatile and even if we got a mid injury Aish could shift if required.

The first one has to happen now, the second once they're confident Chapman can stand up to AFL loads which I suspect isn't yet. The others I don't see the rationale for. I'm not sure what JOM offers, but having seen Erasmus come on as sub and seen Brodie before I don't see how either would do...

Personally I think it's because Johnson is more suited to the available role at AFL level. Erasmus needs to build his strength and develop to be able to impact at AFL level, I struggle to think of more than one or two games he's done anything meaningful yet.

I bet that's not how he feels about it. Even if he's sub there's a chance he's activated early, and if not gets a quarter at AFL level when hopefully the whips are really cracking.

Typo! Meant to say wouldn't be surprised to see Erasmus as the sub.

It said Erasmus into the 23, I wouldn't be surprised to see Erasmus as the sub.

Operation get Rahilly? https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/geelong-cats/afl-2024-ollie-henry-on-exit-from-collingwood-magpies-trade-to-geelong-cats-40-start-to-the-season-surprise-premiership-contender-latest-news/news-story/db8d23512032123fbc299e31712e81f7

I mean I'm tipping Port too, there are some reasons to be optimistic but I'm more pessimistic on this than the Blues, although we did very well there.

Love the "it's filler". He's like I don't want to be doing this either haha.

I agree with the sentiment, we are lacking that finishing class. But for the record there is literally no one in the AFL who meets a '9 out of 10' test. 60-65% from setshots is elite, and from general play I'd expect similar. Walters hasn't had the best start to the year but he has been...

Love the optimism, Port do look very good though and we've never done well at Adelaide Oval. Having Darcy back in the team would be very helpful for our forward line. We won the middle last week and we'll need to again this week if we want to be in it. The tactics will be super interesting to see.

Oh we're not too worried about the Navy Blues, it's the green team we're terrified of 🤣

On the flip side if Darcy doesn't play it will be Soldo v Jackson and Treacy v Dixon. Not sure from a ruck POV how that turns out, although Jackson would be in amongst it once it hits the ground as always.

For me personally every time I travelled to Melbourne to watch the footy Carlton fans were always insufferable, even though their team was horrible. Collingwood fans in comparison were basically pleasant. Add to that some close losses (including that after the siren one), losing a couple of...

Yeah every team's supporters think they're hard done by the umpires, if you play well enough most of the time it does not materially influence the outcome of the game. It's a difficult game to umpire, and they will make mistakes, it doesn't have to be an agenda or 'corrupt'. Also the notion...