Opinion The Evolution of Your Best 23 for 2025

[Imhotep]

these dumb wrtiers really think that joe richards isnt good enough for our 22
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Your club's best 22 in 2025: New roles, bolters and fresh faces

Our reporters have their say on who makes the cut for your team's best line-up for the 2025 season

www.afl.com.au

Travis Boak the obvious one to drop.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Might have found him today in Finlayson.

Finlayson's issue has never been talent, he just struggles to stay involved in the game long enough as a KPF. As a KPD, that's taken out of your hands. I know it's only St Kilda in a preseason game but I think it was proof of concept that he can play a Bishop style 3rd KPD role. He's tall, quick, good skills, and his intercepting today was brilliant.

I'm not prepared to say Finlayson is that player yet. Bish was a smart and reliable footballer. Not sure i can apply those 2 words to Jezza.

 

[GoPorts]

these dumb wrtiers really think that joe richards isnt good enough for our 22
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Your club's best 22 in 2025: New roles, bolters and fresh faces

Our reporters have their say on who makes the cut for your team's best line-up for the 2025 season

www.afl.com.au

BZTs memorial to be held next week

 

[MALTSY]

B: Bergman, Zerk-Thatcher, Farrell
HB: Evans, Aliir Aliir, Finlayson
C: Burgoyne, Drew, Richards
HF: Berry, Lukosius, Horne-Francis
F: Rioli, Georgiades, Lord
Foll: Sweet, Butters, Rozee
I/C: Jones, Wines, Powell-Pepper, Byrne-Jones
Sub: Sinn

Emerg: Williams, Lorenz, Boak, Ratugolea

 

[SureBuddy]

I'm preparing myself for Hinkley picking both Sweet and Soldo.

 

[GremioPower]

From R1 to R7 (although R7 is still to be played), 30 players have been selected to play.

There is a triple tie in 22nd, so we have 24 men in the top-23 ranking for most games played.

This is the full list:

 

[GremioPower]

The sections in which the players have been listed:

 

[GremioPower]

These are the 23 players that have been most in the line-up so far this season:



The oddity is that they have actually played together once, in R4 (loss v. STK).
[In that game, the positions were switched between Wines/Richards and between Berry/Moraes.]

In green: the nine players that haven't missed a game this season.

 

[RossFC]

Port Adelaide POWER - Season Over
F: Whitlock - Georgiades - Rioli
HF: Byrne-Jones - Lord - Richards
C: Moraes - Drew - Boak
HB: Farrell - Aliir - Berry
B: Ramm - Zerk-Thatcher - Jones
R: Sweet - Butters - Rozee (C)
INT: McEntee - Mead - Mackinlay - Liddy
SUB: Atkins
EMERG: Finlayson - Lai - Lorenz

Port Adelaide MAGPIES - Round 19 vs Norwood
F: Moore (C) - D.Williams - Charleson
HF: Anastasopoulos - Linke - Chamberlain
C: Atkins - Watkins - Evans
HB: McLennan - Weidemann - R.Burgoyne
B: Lai - Moss - Roberts
R: Finlayson - Jackson - Lorenz
INT: Harris - Carnelly - O'Reilly - Couroupis
EMERG: Turner - Carter - O'Brien
OTHER: Calvett - H.Williams - Bowman - Growden - Launer - Ferrari

Unavailable:
AFL:
Powell-Pepper (Knee, Season + 12 weeks in 2026)
Wines (Suspended, Season + 2 weeks in 2026)
Walsh (Shoulder, Season)
Marshall (Achilles, Season)
Cochrane (Foot, Season)
Ratugolea (Hamstring, Season)
Visentini (Knee, Season)
Horne-Francis (Foot, Season)
Bergman (Shoulder, Season)
J.Burgoyne (Season, Season)
Lukosius (Calf, Season)
Burton (Knee, Season)
Sinn (Corked Calf, Season)
Barrett (Ankle, 1 week)
Soldo (Concussion, ?)
SANFL:
Francou (Back, Season)
Byrne (Knee, TBC)