I agree, if we had taken Dear as a top 10 pick we would be pretty happy I would say. Love watching him play - extremely competitive, great defensive efforts and second efforts, great contested mark.
Its funny how this time last year all of the discussion/hysteria with Hawthorn was about the midfield not being able to perform with the loss of O'Meara and Mitchell. Its amazing how quickly that has turned around, zero mention of it now.
I like James Blanck as a player, see his potential, but...
If you are see the Herald Sun article on who plays round one it won’t tell you anything you won’t have read in Bigfooty and some of the article predictably seems way off with what I read here - “At the other end, Sam Frost remains most likely to pair James Sicily, given Denver Grainer-Barras has...
I feel like our forward pressure has improved a lot this year. At the beginning of the year it was bouncing straight out a lot and ironically we are playing taller now (3 legit talls now vs 1 resting ruck and 1 VFL tall in Greene). Am I reading this wrong? Any theories? I do see a real...
I was at the game tonight and focused on the forward line by moving ends each quarter.
Yes we are kicking high balls into the forward line too much but I felt the cause wasn’t as simple as not lowering the eyes. There was great pressure from the Giants and a lack of forward line cohesion...
Interesting listen to Sam on SEN just now.
Good to hear that Frosty is in the gun and needs to stop his offensive clangers or he will lose his spot. Please just handball to a player next to you Frosty ala Andrew Dunkley, Barry Round etc.
Was hoping last week that Weddle could hold Curnow -...
Sam just now on SEN - likes DGB's competitiveness, we have struggled to kick goals and lock it in. So obviously DBG will play forward and creating defensive pressure a key part of what he is looking for. Could this be the week of the scape goat comes good? Mitch Marsh scores a ton, DGB kicks 13?
Probably also getting some more confidence in his body after coming back from his shoulder surgery. I do notice that he often starts well and fades in the second half, feel like fitness is still an issue. Looking forward to see him continue to develop.
I was at the game yesterday and I have been going to the Swans Hawks at the SCG for the last 20 years. In that time we have always been a very well structured team. Yesterday we looked like a rabble. We also had no intensity. My Swans loving sister was complaining about our lack of...
They are about the same, I think wikipedia is out of date, on the cfc site JS is at 1.94
https://www.carltonfc.com.au/players/766/jack-silvagni
Paul Dear used to chop out in the ruck and he was 1.88!
Absolutely, Newc is way ahead of him at the same age, I am comparing Newc to Petracca now although obviously Newc is not as consistent just yet, it is so great to have a bull in the middle.
I am super intrigued to see if we get any improvement in our clearances and especially as to who lines up at the first centre bounce. I would be happy to see it as named - Lynch, Mitchell, Wingard and Newcombe. I expect us to start well and then fade as usual as I think all of those 4 have...
Happy to accept that he has an injury or health issue but my biggest frustration with him is that he often tries to do too much and gets caught with the ball or when he does dispose it is often poorly executed or a poor choice. You need to have a strong awareness of what you are capable of...
Such an enjoyable game to watch. The backs were awesome, I was wondering whether we were going to have too many intercepting defenders at the start of the season with Sicily coming back along side Scrim, CJ and DGB but they are making it work beautifully and are such an offensive weapon even...
I feel like Phillips is our Chris Mayne when he came to the Pies, soon turned into a highly paid VFL player. Good depth, experience though. Morrison and Howe have been raised positively in training reports etc far more and a very good chance for round 1 given the interrupted pre season of Day...
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