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How can you judge him if you're not giving him any game time?

I'm so happy for him. Good luck for Saturday. Persistence pays off in the end.

I don't think that is quite right. He played a brilliant final against Port Adelaide in Adelaide one year which won us the match. Forward is the hardest position to play in finals because the pressure is so much greater. I think Leon was mostly a good finals player until his body started to give...

Similar thoughts. I feel so sorry for him and his family he has to put up with compromising snapshots of himself that are five years old. I'm glad it's all resolved now and the moral is just not to post on social media (at least not until your football career is over).

Got no choice now if Mason doesn’t get up next week. we have to play Steene.

I agree over the distance Reef will prove to be the better player, but what I noticed watching him against Carlton (I was too busy watching Collingwood players against Geelong to notice Olli Henry) is that Chris Scott has Henry running both ways. Good luck to Henry having a successful career at...

This isn't a knock on Grundy, but when he played the first few games of the season last year we were losing and when Cox came into the side to support Cameron we were winning. I'll take winning over losing and I don't care what the statistics say.

Frampton is an improvement on Madgen, only in so far he is taller and stronger than Madgen. He has a long way to go to demonstrate that he can negate his opponent better than Madgen and defense is about beating your opponent.

I think of all our new recruits, he’s the one who’s the most worry. His spilled mark and subsequent Hawthorn goal is not where you want him to be on the eve of the season proper. He’s there to stop his opponent. If he can’t do that he doesn’t belong in the team. Murphy offers better value.

I'm really impressed by him. He's really only going to get better and better as he settles down into the team. He has all the skills, is good kicking goals and works hard defensively, all you want in a small forward.

Think you’re totally misreading the situation. McStay gives us structure in the forward line. If you view his recruitment purely in terms of how many goals he’s going to kick, then of course you’re going to be disappointed. Like the criticism of Leigh Brown’s recruitment in 2010. You need the...

You can colour it any way you like, but AJ was clearly our worst player against Sydney and would have been dropped had we made the grand final. That's not to say he won't be in our starting 22 for our first game of this season, but he needs to play a lot better than he did in the preliminary...

Naming a best 23 is a bit easier than a best 22 so here goes: B: Quaynor, Frampton, Howe HB: Crisp, Moore, Maynard C: J.Daicos, Adams, Sidebottom HF: Hill, McStay, Ginnivan F: Elliott, Mihocek, McCreery FOLL: Cox, Mitchell, Lipinski INTER: Cameron, Pendles, WHE, N.Daicos, DeGoey In: Frampton...

That's the way I see it. Cox is predominantly a first ruckman. We spent five years convincing him to be a full forward who could cover for Grundy in the ruck. Apart from cameo roles such as the 2018 preliminary final it never really worked. Whenever Cox when back into the VFL you could see he...

All is forgiven. Thought you were talking about a kick from Billy from full back in the match sim that went straight to a forward and back for a goal. Agree with you about the volleyballer. Looks a very raw prospect. Think the club would have better luck with some of the Sudenese players going...

That's actually a pretty ridiculous thing to say after one field mishap. He can kick the ball at least 60m and is still learning his teammates. Lots of his other kicks hit teammates. What he is is a replacement at full back for Jordan Roughead. He marks the ball if anything better than Roughead...

Ok he might not get to us but I like the credentials of Josh Weddle. He's everything we need (apart from maybe another tall forward).

I think the problem is a lot of Collingwood supporters have overestimated the contribution Lipinski has made to the side, which has been exacerbated by Craig McRae talking him up. It's not a physique issue. His physique is fine. More an age and experience issue. His two way running needs a lot...

The issue with Noble in my view is simply one of his size. There was nothing wrong with his game on Saturday. The entire backline played well. His skill set is ok and he has good pace. Players of his size usually don't play AFL football. I assume that's the reason he fell through the main draft...

We accept coaches and players have their ups and downs. Why not the recruiters? Personally I think Derek Hine has done his finest work in the last two years. Obviously the jury is still out but I can't think of a bad player amongst them that I can see. And going back further Bianco was a steal...

I can't see Pendlebury playing off half back. What I think will happen is there will be more rotations through the middle this year than in previous years because we have a more even spread of midfielders now than before and players when they aren't coming off the ground, will be spending time...

Yep and I wasn't saying that all our weaknesses would be addressed immediately. But if we can't recruit ready made players what would you like the club to do about it when we're constricted by our current player payments? Kreuger and Lipinski address needs but obviously if we wanted a more...

I'm sorry we have addressed it. If you mean to say we haven't recruited a Tom Lynch or Jeremy Cameron type KPP with 200 games experience at another club, or a Paddy Dangerfield type mid with 200 games experience at another club, then you're right, we haven't done that. The reasons are well...

If you want to persist with the fallacy that Poulter is slow and one-paced that's your business and posting on Big Footy the same to others is their business for reading and believing. However I'm saying to you that's he's anything but one-paced and invite you to go down to training any time and...

It's definitely relevant but it's whenever the test was done. How was the player at the time. How fit was was and what age was he. It's a diagnostic tool. That's all it is. The measure of how fast a footy player is the way he moves up and down a football field. Also it's relevant the different...

"Threatens to break matches open". That's his profile description from the Collingwood website. I have no idea where you got the words "but not a line breaker either". This describes a player who has ground speed. And then to say our midfield is one paced ignores our recruiting over the last two...

I don't care what time he ran the 20m dash. The guy is lightening quick. How about you actually watch him run down a field before you read it from some book and decide he's not quick? For the record these are the guys who are quickest at the club - Poulter, McInnes, Hoskin-Elliot, Quaynor...

Are you saying he's slow? He's actually lightening quick. I don't know which Poulter you've been watching?

Unlike you I didn’t see him before he was drafted. I watched him the first weeks of training at Holden Center and my impression was similar to yours. I thought he was at most a speculative rookie choice and wondered why Hine called out his name before Bianco. Maybe the club was spooked into...

Chugg was injured part of the year, then wasn’t able to play much VFL footy because most of the season was suspended. Otherwise he probably would have debuted In the senior team. Unlike Rantall Chugg is extremely agile, fast on his feet and a vastly better kick than Rantall. If you have to...