I can see why Victoria wouldn't want the Mutts.
Indeed. A very good facilty from when i was last there.
The players out there wont be wanting to lose but i doubt we will be worried about it to much.
I wonder if there'll be a requirement to play listed players. I googled but apparently today's announcement comes with details later.
Not expecting much nor should we. 1 maybe 2 if any best 22.
I think thats why there might be a crowd.
They need to promote it though. Very little so far. There just needs to be awareness especially in a place like Sydney that this thing is happening.
Very true.
To be honest after the horrors of injuries in 2017 I was hoping we would play academy and NeAFL players.
I get that sentiment, however if this concept is to be a success senior players need to play in order to garner interest and now that it looks like gws will field some prominent players other clubs may also follow suit. Besides, aflx replaces a jlt week so senior players would have been playing jlt anyway, with potentially less injury risk because aflx games are shorter.
One of the other coaches commented 'no talls'; so I agree that we'll see minimum talls & those in will be guys who have plenty of run. Will give an opportunity for an audition of sorts for players in the medium defender & small/medium forward categories. I also suspect we'll risk few of our experienced players, so your list above Fridgeman seems pretty good. I'm not sure where Bonar is in his recovery, so he may be one missing. Other options to go in would be Sproule - very mobile for a tall - and also Dylan Buckley. Perhaps Keeffe - who's got pretty good endurance for a tall - might play the ruck role & some time in defence. Jake Stein & Sam Reid would be others in the mix for me, especially the latter if we didn't send any (or few) senior best-22 players.
