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LukeParkerno1

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It is a cool hashtag though :( He is not far off! Amazing year. 22 disposals a game, lots of intercept marks, will be close to winning Suns best and fairest.
Hardly amazing. Look at who he is competing with. Look at Heath Shaw's stats for one. As I said he is competing in a position where there are a lot of KPD's and then you have a few HBF's who have had elite season. Kade has had a good year, but he is 12-24 months off. Winning GC's Best and Fairest...well someone has to. He is probably one of the few that has played the whole season.
 

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I think bigfooty tends not to rate players from struggling sides, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were underrated. They're also not household names either.
That doesn't apply to the Naitanui example.

I think bigfooty tends not to rate players from struggling sides, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were underrated. They're also not household names either.

As for Gaff, the reason why he's not in the AFL rankings team is because, unlike bigfooty, the AFL rankings treats the wings as just part of the midfield, so they just put the best ranked midfielder that they haven't put in the rover positions there. They had Priddis on the wing last round in their second team. Maybe their teams should stick to positions a bit more, but their rankings system seems fairly legitimate.
Even if you group him with all midfielders he still deserves to be there. It's not just Gaff, Sam Mitchell and Hannebery aren't in their first or second team.
 

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my 40 man squad
ade - laird, betts, walker, dangerfield
brl - martin
car
col - swan, pendlebury
ess - hurley
fre - mundy, fyfe
gcs
gee - enright
gws - shaw, cameron
haw - gibson, mitchell, gunston, breust, hodge, lewis
mel - mcdonald
nth - goldstein
pta - wingard, gray
ric - rance, deledio, martin, riewoldt
stk - armitage, steven
syd - kennedy, hannebery
wbd - wood, boyd, murphy, dahlhaus, stringer
wce - priddis, kennedy, naitanui, gaff

my final 22
fb - wood, rance, gibson
hb - shaw, hurley, hodge(c)
c - pendlebury(vc), priddis, hannebery
hf - martin, gunston, wingard
ff - betts, kennedy, stringer
r - goldstein, fyfe, dangerfield
i/c - naitanui, gaff, boyd, deledio
 
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Official AA 40 man squad: E Betts, P Dangerfield, R Laird, T Walker; S Pendlebury, D Swan; M Hurley;N Fyfe, S Hill, G Ibbotson, D Mundy, L Neale; J Cameron, H Shaw; S Burgoyne; J Gibson, J Gunston, J Lewis, S Mitchell, C Rioli;T Goldstein, S Higgins; R Gray, C Wingard; B Deledio, D Martin, A Rance, J Riewoldt; D Hannebery, J Kennedy (Swans);A Gaff, J Kennedy (Eagles), J McGovern, N Naitanui, M Priddis; M Boyd, L Dahlhaus, R Murphy, J Stringer, E Wood.
 

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Those who could be considered unlucky:
Sandilands (can't believe they didn't pick him)
Hodge
McPharlin
Armitage
Walters
Breust

Edit: and Talia and Bontempelli

And Brad Sheppard. Well not really, but a small part of me was hoping he'd somehow get in.
 
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How the hell did Sandilands not make the squad? A lot of people would've thought he was a lock for the final team. That's ridiculous.
 

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My crack at a team from the squad (what it will be not what it should be):

Shaw Hurley Gibson
Wood Rance Murphy
Mundy Priddis Gaff
Dangerfield Kennedy Wingard
Betts Stringer Gunston

Goldstein Fyfe Hannebery

Mitchell Kennedy Pendlebury Martin

Rest of squad:

Laird McGovern Ibbotson
Burgoyne n/a Boyd
Higgins Neale Hill
Swan Reiwoldt Deledio
Rioli Walker Cameron

Naitanui Lewis Gray

Dahlhaus* n/a n/a n/a

*not saying he is the worst in the squad, just lots of mid/forwards in there.
 
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