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Wouldn't you have one at FF and the other at CHF? Who else is even in the conversation? Tall forwards have been slow to get going this season.
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Matt Tabener or possibly Charlie Dixon would have to be in the conversation.
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The way they pick the team they might just stick JK in a forward pocket if they can't split him and Hawkins.
Conversation for least reliable set shot?
Conversation for most potential?
Conversation for biggest spud?
Media ****ing loves Dixon though
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The young fella is having a career year. That being said, Jack Darling probably has him covered this year.
Yep, current media love child.
Only had one bag of 6, against us of course and 3 against Adelaide and Carlton while the rest has been 3x 2 goals, 3x 1 goal and 2x donuts. 21 total.
Meanwhile over in the West we have Kennedy on,
1x bag of 7, 3x 4 goals, 1x 3 goals, 1x 2 goals, 3x 1 goal and 2x donuts. 27 total.
I know who I would prefer.
Oh and just out of interest big Charlie has taken one extra mark for the year.
Both played same amount of games as Dixon didn't play round 1.
Both played same amount of games as Dixon didn't play round 1.
Plus one is a flog, the other has a flag
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And the 2020 Charlie.
TBF footy media/fans love big key forward beasting oppo defenders and taking huge clunks. Jack darling 2018/19 was pretty similar.
His accuracy is also awful when it comes to easy goals.
Was it the Shuey after the siren final that Dixon kept up on it with poor kicking?
Honestly, if it meant Shepp got AA, I'd be content with no other WCE players even making the squad. Hell, I'll even throw in my firstborn.
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Id be happy for Shepp to never get an AA if he gets 1 flag
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It’s great that they sent West Coast champion Tim Watson to interview Mick after the game. Shame Tim couldn’t have been out there with his teammates
To be fair to Dixon, he’s been terrific this year now he is fully fit; Something special about a guy 200cm clunking marks he should have no right to take. It’s not just the goals he’s kicked, he’s been working hard to provide a contest. If he makes AA he deserves it.
Kennedy has bounced back from his quiet start, but has kicked goals against the top sides. If he plays the next 5-6 weeks in that form he makes it with Hawkins & Dixon on the bench.
Shep deserves an AA spot. He’s been So good playing on the oppositions best small to medium forwards, and conceded just about as many as he’s kicked. He’s got some competition in that area though.
Kennedy has bounced back from his quiet start, but has kicked goals against the top sides. If he plays the next 5-6 weeks in that form he makes it with Hawkins & Dixon on the bench.
Shep deserves an AA spot. He’s been So good playing on the oppositions best small to medium forwards, and conceded just about as many as he’s kicked. He’s got some competition in that area though.
Dixon is the barometer at Port. If he isn't playing well up front they dont look as good.
Mick Malthouse’s advice to AFL how to protect the integrity of finals in irregular season
Coaching legend Mick Malthouse wants the AFL to abolish same-day travel for finals and reward the higher-ranked teams with their choice of venue.
The finals picture is looking clearer with the Gabba firming as the Grand Final venue and Port Adelaide confident it will be allowed to host finals for the first three weeks.
That should deliver the AFL at least three venues – Adelaide Oval, the Gabba and Metricon Stadium – despite a women’s ODI between Australia and New Zealand at Metricon on October 10 remaining in the calendar.
The AFL’s official line is that all grounds are in play because it hasn’t decided whether the finals will be contained to one state. West Coast would require a lengthy break to host a final due to WA’s strict quarantine laws.
But inaugural Eagles premiership coach Malthouse urged the league to scrap the pre-finals bye and said any team sent to to Adelaide Oval needed the ability to train there the day before the final.
This season the AFL has forced clubs to travel on game day with Port Adelaide setting 4.30am alarms for their 5.20am bus and 6am flight to Brisbane before 1.05pm games against GWS and Carlton.
It was close to an 18-hour day as players and staff returned home at about 10pm.
The availability of Metricon Stadium will come as a relief for Richmond and Western Bulldogs, who are slated to play a combined 14 home-and-away matches at Gold Coast’s ground by the end of Round 17.
The Dogs are 3-2 and the Tigers 3-0 at Metricon this year.
Collingwood would probably prefer to play home finals at the Gabba – unless it is due to host Brisbane – given the Magpies have just started a streak of five-straight matches at the Lions’ fortress and are not due to visit Metricon in 2020.
St Kilda and Melbourne went 2-0 at Adelaide Oval this year and could look to drag their opponents to South Australia if they secure a top-six finish and the AFL ticks off on Malthouse’s plan.
Geelong coach Chris Scott has unsuccessfully argued for years that teams should be allowed to choose where they play home finals.
The idea is under consideration at AFL headquarters this year and is in line with the home-and-away fixturing, which ensured Queensland clubs were not gifted away matches at their home grounds.
“If there’s three grounds available you should have the option. You’ve got to have advantages for finishing higher, otherwise why finish there?” Malthouse said.
“It’s a small cost (extra travel) when you look at the overall losses the AFL have mounted up, and to legitimize the finals system you’ve got to be seen to be giving the advantage to the sides who have earnt the advantage.
“You need (early travel) to settle down and get rid of the nerves for your preparation, so I think that’s grossly unfair (to travel on game day for a final).
“I’m opposed to a (pre-finals) break. That was all Ross Lyon’s doing and the league panicked and blinked first, which aided the fifth through to eighth sides.
“I’m very strongly in favour of no gap. It gives the top four the chance to say, ‘You know what, we’ve busted our guts to finish top four and we get the benefit (of a rest) if we win’.
“And if they don’t win they don’t get any benefit, but at least they get the chance for a benefit.”
Coaching legend Mick Malthouse wants the AFL to abolish same-day travel for finals and reward the higher-ranked teams with their choice of venue.
The finals picture is looking clearer with the Gabba firming as the Grand Final venue and Port Adelaide confident it will be allowed to host finals for the first three weeks.
That should deliver the AFL at least three venues – Adelaide Oval, the Gabba and Metricon Stadium – despite a women’s ODI between Australia and New Zealand at Metricon on October 10 remaining in the calendar.
The AFL’s official line is that all grounds are in play because it hasn’t decided whether the finals will be contained to one state. West Coast would require a lengthy break to host a final due to WA’s strict quarantine laws.
But inaugural Eagles premiership coach Malthouse urged the league to scrap the pre-finals bye and said any team sent to to Adelaide Oval needed the ability to train there the day before the final.
This season the AFL has forced clubs to travel on game day with Port Adelaide setting 4.30am alarms for their 5.20am bus and 6am flight to Brisbane before 1.05pm games against GWS and Carlton.
It was close to an 18-hour day as players and staff returned home at about 10pm.
The availability of Metricon Stadium will come as a relief for Richmond and Western Bulldogs, who are slated to play a combined 14 home-and-away matches at Gold Coast’s ground by the end of Round 17.
The Dogs are 3-2 and the Tigers 3-0 at Metricon this year.
Collingwood would probably prefer to play home finals at the Gabba – unless it is due to host Brisbane – given the Magpies have just started a streak of five-straight matches at the Lions’ fortress and are not due to visit Metricon in 2020.
St Kilda and Melbourne went 2-0 at Adelaide Oval this year and could look to drag their opponents to South Australia if they secure a top-six finish and the AFL ticks off on Malthouse’s plan.
Geelong coach Chris Scott has unsuccessfully argued for years that teams should be allowed to choose where they play home finals.
The idea is under consideration at AFL headquarters this year and is in line with the home-and-away fixturing, which ensured Queensland clubs were not gifted away matches at their home grounds.
“If there’s three grounds available you should have the option. You’ve got to have advantages for finishing higher, otherwise why finish there?” Malthouse said.
“It’s a small cost (extra travel) when you look at the overall losses the AFL have mounted up, and to legitimize the finals system you’ve got to be seen to be giving the advantage to the sides who have earnt the advantage.
“You need (early travel) to settle down and get rid of the nerves for your preparation, so I think that’s grossly unfair (to travel on game day for a final).
“I’m opposed to a (pre-finals) break. That was all Ross Lyon’s doing and the league panicked and blinked first, which aided the fifth through to eighth sides.
“I’m very strongly in favour of no gap. It gives the top four the chance to say, ‘You know what, we’ve busted our guts to finish top four and we get the benefit (of a rest) if we win’.
“And if they don’t win they don’t get any benefit, but at least they get the chance for a benefit.”
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I thought only WA people boo
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