Player Watch Josh Rachele - Re-Signed to End of 2029
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Rendell also said somewhere that he noted that Rachele was the best player that he had rated as a number six! Looking forward to seeing this guy play for us on a weekly basis.
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Rendell has also said
Sam Day and Jack Watts were both one in a generation players.
Lets not forget he often said that GWS and GC woukd win 10 straight premierships between them.
I personally don't put too much weight on what Rendell says
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I think out of the last few drafts we’ve had, I’m most excited for Rachele. I believe this kid is going be something special.
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Look I get the sentiment but we drafted Thrillthorpe last year. It’s a pretty exciting cohort we are putting together.
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Jeez that pillow would be so skanky by now
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Anyone else notice it specifically says midfielder on that article? I’m aware he’s a FWD/MID but is that saying we see him as more of a mid than a forward for us? Probably just reading to much into it tbf
Think he'll be forward at least for a few years. Looks like he has the game to be a mid, but not the tank. Could also just be valued more as a forward as he develops and that's where we want him to spend most of his time.
Pretty much. As he develops the ability to get to more contests, he’ll start to push up the ground more. It’ll come I think, but it won’t be immediate
Hold on, don’t conflate the two issues
1. you continually pot Rendell and others as being “past it” because it’s a way of elevating your own judgment
2. And you have a machine gun approach, where most players get a mention at some stage of the year.
Both are tactical approaches so save the “woe is me” stuff. Particularly given the hard on you’ve had for Rendell which is the point you knew very well I was making
They do have Sicily, Gunston and Day returning, but yeah I’d agree with that. Not a strong team across the ground
Collingwood not too far ahead of them
Gold Coast for me, they haven't improved their list, lost their inside grunt Midfield and half of their best youth are looking for a way out at the end of the season.
The talk all season will be about which Vic Club will Land Ben King and Which SA side will Nab Luko or Rankine. Maybe even speculate about what Anderson and Rowell will do.
Man, I appreciate the impact all of them made for the club but at each point in their careers, none of them were ‘stalwarts’. Ralphy writing some false narratives here
Our assessment is reasonable, but I don't think we finish bottom.Anyone agree with Jon Ralph's predicted 2022 Ladder?
18. Adelaide
The Crows are still only 39 games into a massive club-wide rebuild.
They won only three of their last 17 games after a Taylor Walker-inspired purple patch that saw him kick bags of five, six, six and three goals in a 3-1 first month for the Crows.
They must reintegrate Walker with all the challenges that come with that after his racist slur.
And despite the acquisition of Jordan Dawson, they have lost stalwarts including Jake Kelly, Daniel Talia, David Mackay and Tom Lynch.
Adelaide knows exactly where it is at – with the right coach, the right captain (Rory Sloane) the right list strategy, the patience to build methodically.
Early prediction: New acquisition Josh Rachele only takes weeks before fans wonder if they should name one of the Adelaide Oval forward pockets “Josh’s pocket”.
LOL
6. Essendon
Plenty of pre-season crystal balls will leave Essendon out of the top eight.
Consider this – of the nine games with a margin of 16 points or under, Essendon lost all but two, including nearly every nailbiter.
They lost by one point to Hawthorn, three and seven points to Sydney, two points to GWS, 11 points to Melbourne.
And still finished 11-11 before another Essendon-y type of finals performance, this time a 49-point loss to the Western Bulldogs.
The point is this: they are building something sustainable that still requires a key forward target.
But Ben Rutten’s ticks are culture, game plan, player buy-in, a stacked midfield and backline.
Flash in the pan? Not for me.
Prediction: Jake Kelly finishes top-five in the Essendon best-and-fairest as their lockdown specialist playing on all the dangerous smalls like Toby Greene and Liam Ryan.
Jake Kelly is hilarious. Jon Ralph obviously doesn't watch our games...
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A bigger deal out west.
Daniel Talia was absolutely a stalwart, and I wouldn't be against an argument that a Tom Lynch was either, considering the impact he had on our selections.
Mackay and Kelly are certainly being oversold in this regard.
‘At each point in their careers’. Talia didn’t play a game for us last year and was arguably on the downward before that. Lynch certainly wasn’t the player he was circa 2017
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