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Despite out highly touted inside mids its become apparent to me that we rarely win the clearence count. We are -13 differential so far this year and have only won the clearence count in one game (geelong by 1). While we have faced 3/4 top teams we should be at least matching it with them. On...

Its pretty clear to me that a lot of collingwoods success this year has come from malthouse realising that some of the 'old guard' in Fraser, Davis etc aren't going to win him a flag and replacing them with younger players who have added pace, enthusiasm and intensity to the pies side. Over...

Despite our injury toll, slow start etc, one thing that has clearly stood out is that AC is continually looking to improve this team, and build upon structural and gameplan weaknesses. Things that has stood out so far include: 1) Ability to shut-down opposition key midfielder. We have...

What really stood out for me today was our lack of linebreakers - it seemed players where waiting for a bateman or crawford to run past and take players on - instead we kept going round in circles with our handpasses/kicks and lost all momentum. It says a lot when a kid in his 4th(?) game in...

This season we saw players like campbell and sewell step up from being fringe players to amongst our best. Excluding the 2005 draftees and the obvious ones such as buddy, roughie and lewis which players do you think will step and surprise in 2007? A list of possible candiates: Ladson...

While a lot has been made of the bulldogs lack of kpps, do we actually have the worst kpp depth in the league? Up fwd buddy, roughie and dowler seemed to be penciled in as our kpp fwds but who else do we have developing or for depth if injuries strike? Boyle? Furthermore dowler's played 3...

After seeing smiths better form late in the season moved into the middle, reading some of the Tuesday with Todd comments, it seems smith will be played more as a midfielder next season. My question is would be he a good tagger/defensive mid? Has decent pace and should have a decent engine...

With the circus of trade week going on Ive read a few snippets here and there of trades in previous years where for example a player wanting to return home but will only agree if their club is adequately compensated. I think this was the case with Josh Carr - wanted to return to Freo but...

From todays Herald Sun: Pelchen said the club's developing batch of talls meant it was well-placed despite struggling for a legitimate full-back this year. "We recruited (Lance) Franklin, (Jarrad) Roughead, (Beau) Dowler, (Beau) Muston and (Max) Bailey in the last two years, and there are...

Just thinking about over the last few weeks how paul roos has continually reinforced to his players almost as a mantra that they are not as talented as other teams and thus need to work together and be super disciplined. IMO sydney are one of the most highly skilled teams by foot in the comp...

With no game for the hawks this weekend thought it would be interesting to get peoples thoughts on who they reckon will/or needs to step up a level in the 2nd half of the season. This is not about players who have been playin well or at the limits of their abilities but rather players who u...

Looking at our midfield at the moment clarke is really the only midfielder who can play accountable or put on a tag. As hodge gets tagged himself, mitchell and lewis focus on winning their own ball, bateman plays loose etc. Only other person would be vanders whos out suspended. Most teams i...

While I understand what AC is trying to do with the zone defence etc style of gameplan which should allow a free man to be found to link up through the middle against sydney this style of play was shown up against more accountable opposition. With a young team wouldnt it be better to try an...

HAWTHORN B: Jacobs, Dawson, Sewell HB: Smith, Roughead, Guerra C: Bateman, Mitchell, Vandenberg HF: Clarke, Boyle, Brown F: Dixon, Williams, Miller FOLL: Everitt, Hodge, Crawford I/C: Campbell, Birchall, Kane, Ladson EMG: Ries, Taylor, Lewis IN: Crawford, Jacobs OUT: Lewis, Young...

With the good form and promise showed by birchall in the first 2 rounds and then in the vfl on the weekend, what does this mean for players such as murphy, brennan and thurgood as all seem to be atm aiming for the same hbf/utility spot? Brennan with his poor kicking seems to be on thin ice...

It appears both are touted as possibly the best KPP in draft. Ryder appears more a ruck option and clarke seems to have some questions on pace agility, attitude and also part-time ruck. ie kennedy and dowler appear best pure KPP forwards. In comparison on various attributes (just going off...

From what ive read on these forums McEntee appears the 2nd best or best ruck prospect(ie ryder possibly too small) and some posters here seem to rate him very highly. It is also appears generally predicted that the top 5 will be some combination of murphy, ellis, kennedy, ryder, hurn thereabouts...