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Sorry to hear that, it is indeed an awful thing if you’ve got it bad. Do you eat a lot of dairy? I not only had asthma back then but also chronic catarrh (which I’d had for about 4 years) and that also cleared up completely with the changes I made, in particular taking the immune stimulating...

Lol what!? Daicos would have walked in the Brownlow in his second season had he not missed all those games at the end of that year. On no planet was Sheezel “comfortably better” than a Brownlow quality season this year. Absurdly preposterous claim.

Sounds like we’re due for a good run with injury then, like say the one we got in 2020 (the last time we were really close to full strength), so that would be nice! We wouldn’t know ourselves if we were at full strength. Not sure we’ll get good luck with the draw though, if the fact Robbo...

The Dees will be a fascinating watch next year. Started the year 6-2, with some very good wins, then a 1 point loss to Carlton, followed by a 6 goal loss to West Coast in Perth (when they were very up-and-about), then a comfortable win over us- so a very good first 11 weeks- but then that...

I had asthma for the first 17 years of my life, something that I think pretty much everyone else in my immediate family also had. Sometimes had it so badly that I had to go on the pump. Then I got CFS, radically changed my diet- to eliminate things like almost all dairy and sugar, etc- and I...

There will always be things that a team could have done better (even if you’re winning you could go through a game with a fine tooth comb and find things you could have done better), but if you weren’t missing all those key personnel, it probably wouldn’t have come down to all those little...

I would have thought that anyone with the slightest sense of intelligence who isn’t taking the ultimate piss would give Carlton a huge amount of slack for how their season ended. Winning when you’re missing that many of your best team and in particular that many of your best and most important...

I take it you mean they either won, or lost by a goal or less, 15 times. Saints exactly the same. Plus 8 and 10 point losses to Geelong at Geelong and Port in Adelaide. The only one of St Kilda’s 6 losses by 10 points or less that wasn’t to a team who made the 2nd week of finals at a minimum...

Cheers, much appreciated. I guess with Tauru he’s had a lot of injuries and has apparently grown 10cm in 18 months (and possibly hasn’t stopped yet), so we’ve really only seen him put it all together very briefly, so it’s probably just a big punt on what he could be, if he does indeed put it all...

While it’s definitely true that we weren’t smacked to oblivion with injuries, like Carlton and Richmond were, we were still hit extremely hard by them early in the season. We went into R1 missing IMO 8 of our expected best 23 or so- which is a serious number- and then during that game we lost...

What were your thoughts on the Saints haul, in particular Travaglia, Tauru and Dodson- who some of those who have seen him training so far reckon could be playing as soon as his second season?

Keeler another one who would have gone a lot higher if it was just all about talent.

Two years ago our rehab group was as long as your arm at this sort of time, then we went into R1 missing about 8 of our expected best 23, then last year it was a lot shorter at this sort of time, but then we had a heap of guys go down in the weeks leading into R1, to again go into R1 missing...

In the first half of the season we were smashed by injuries (missing in my estimation 8 of our best 23 or 24 in R1, then we lost Crouch half way through that game, and Wood and Henry for extended periods the following week- which I’d say was the “straw that broke the camels back”, from an...

FWIW, there are a few positional things there that aren’t likely to be the case. For one, Hunter Clark has played the last two years almost exclusively in the midfield, so he won’t be playing back pocket. Henry played almost exclusively forward this year (with spells in the guts), so he’s...

Sounds like we wouldn’t have picked Smillie even if he was available.

I liked Richmond’s strategy as it looked like an absolutely ideal draft to load up on “talls”, in the 20’s and 30’s in particular. I said pre draft that I wouldn’t have minded if we’d split pick 8 (which became 10) for say 3 picks in the 20’s or so, and gone tall with those picks. As much as I...

Yeah Dow might as well not even gone around this year almost. He played one game where he got in the coaches votes, but outside of that he was well short of what he was doing at Carlton last year. Will be really interesting what they do with him and Jones this year, given they’re presumably...

Curnow is said to have a huge tank though, whereas that seems to be a big weakness for Max. I wonder if we’ve given up on the idea of him having the tank to be able to push up the ground a lot more, and now just want him to stay close to goal and have the strength to be able to outmuscle...

The midfield for mine is the area that has the most scope for huge improvement. Not only have we added a Crouch-like ball-magnet in Macrae, but Pou is potentially like an even bigger “new recruit” in there. Because we only got 4 games of “good Pou” this year, and only two of them were in the...

Molier I think.

We could have gotten one of the all-time great steals in Dodson. Would he have been the best performed in the ruck in the U18’s since Jackson? And I think he was still playing basketball for Australia this year!

Just in case this hasn’t been mentioned or linked elsewhere, here is the recent Unpluggered podcast, with Shifter as the guest, going through all the guys we picked up in the draft.

And a lot of those guys were cooked well before they turned 30yo. Back in the day the same happened with the likes of Ball, Goose, X, Penny, Brooks etc, but with them being even younger still. We haven’t had a lot of luck this century.

That’s a pretty bizarre thing to do, lumping us in with those 3 teams, who won less games between the 3 of them this year than we did by ourselves (10 v 11). And who all had percentages which were at least 30 less than ours. We won more games in just the last 8 weeks than any of them won all...

Speaking of Tomlinson, I’m stunned that no club has picked him up. Especially us, given what a thorn he was in our side when we played them this year. That game was about as good as any Battle played, and they’re almost identical players. I’d rather him back there than Cordy, that’s for sure.

Did you take into account the fact that in the Collingwood game he played just 18% game time (for just 3 disposals and 1 mark) which affected his stats? The year before he played 80% or more of all games bar 1, where he played 70%. Take out that R3 game and his disposal average gets within 2 on...

Wouldn’t have thought that Mason regressed. In fact watching him take all those strong marks at the highest point and do beautiful left foot passes was one of the very few things that I looked forward to, when going to watch us play during that really bleak period in the early/mid part of the...

That’s good to hear, will be interesting to see how he goes from here.