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Anyone know why Essendon pulled the pin and wanted to go shorter quarters? Too hot, maybe? Club Twitter says that we played a further ten minutes against themselves. Not exactly ideal.

Hard to get much out of that, but it was interesting to see what the midfield mix would be if Touk doesn't play. I would've liked to have seen Flanders more in the midfield rather than putting Swallow in there. We know Dave can play there. Put Flanders in for more minutes! Other than that...

Was thinking the same thing.

The Casboult mention is a good point. IMO we got lucky with the Casboult hit, as that could have easily gone the other way. I hope GC isn't looking at how successful that acquisition was and now trying to be smart for the sake of smart. Can't deny that he had a good run post his surgery in...

I'd have Hanners over McLennan/Murtagh/etc.

Surely he wouldn't move his whole family for that sort of deal, though? Not arguing btw, but if he's considering something it's got to be more than one year you'd think.

Rookie at best. Surely. Otherwise:

Beware the highlight vids. Mac Willis looked like a star in his. ;)

We just need to use him sparingly. Think his final game of the year was the first time I’ve seen him play late in the season with no strapping. And it showed with 3 votes. Need to be perhaps giving him more time and less of Rowelly in there to help protect both of them.

The Bowes narrative reaching unprecedented levels. Rolling AA? wtf. He was never in that conversation that I can remember, even by his most staunch supporters on here. Sooner this gets done, the better.

I've always liked Jed Anderson - I was keen for the Suns to draft him. It's no surprise that North seriously struggled in the midfield when he didn't play this year. He adds a lot of hardness and grunt. Would he play in our midfield if everyone is fit? Probably not - but he'd be great backup to...

Rando armchair experts writing articles on a website doesn't make it any better than BigFooty posts tbqh.

Given Collingwood's game style with how they power out of the stoppage and cover so much territory so fast, I've always found their interest in guys like Fiorini & Mitchell weird. Those guys, to me as an outsider, are the antithesis of how they function. I'd have Crisp, DeGoey, Lipinski and the...

I watched a bit of young Hollands in the Country vs. Metro game. I can see where the comparisons to Langdon come from. His top speed didn't look electric, but he just cruised up and down the ground all game with a lengthy stride. We're still on the hunt for a winger, too. Ellis is coming to the...

Slow inside mid that is elite at that part of the game, and average to below-average anywhere else. Unbelievable in-tight, but struggles on the spread. So yeah, feeds the runners. You wouldn't have him and Tom Mitchell in the same side. They're essentially the same player in that regard.

Another back flanker? :/

Bowes isn't desperate enough to go to North. He wants to be involved with success. I imagine that's why the Cats appeal. I'd be stunned if he went to another small club - particularly one in North's current position.

No, honestly, I don't think so. He's got two years left to run on a contract. Clubs (including ours) have kept contracted players in similar positions.

Tarryn would be a good get IMO. A bit risky maybe, but impossible to judge him after the year that North have just had. I'd be stunned if North let him go with JHF potentially walking out though.

Cameron said so much in his interview on the club website - we have difference makers now talking to us for the first time in club history. But in order to accomodate them, we need to get our cap in a position so that we don't have guys running around in the VFL on 600k+. We have money invested...

Dangerfield is finally coming!

New details, Bowes owed 800k+ over each of the next two years - so over 1.6mil.

I don't care as much about Bowes as I do about Sharp. The narrative around that seems to have shifted to something along the lines of him definitely ending up at Fremantle. I thought he was progressing reasonably well and that he'd be key to how we play, but obviously not. Club must have a lot...

This is a point I had thought about as well, but I guess the counter to that is that at the moment we, as a club, have a culture of not winning many games and never playing finals (much less winning them). We're looking to change our culture. It's all good supporting heart and soul players, but...

Honestly forgot about CCJ, but you get my point.

Thing with Burgess is I'm sure we'd love to keep him, but the reality is he's behind others in the starting 22 in our side. He might just leave for more opportunity, not too dissimilar in how Chol ended up with us. Think a few sides could do with him in the forward 50 (North, for EG).

Hampson is a beast. So satisfying getting that win against Port with the ex-Suns for them running around. We haven't been affected as much as I thought we'd be without those five playing for us. They didn't have a lot of influence on todays game either, which is nice.

Totally agree - given that Bowes and Fiorini are off, we need some guys to replace them there. Blakely ticks that box as a bargain-priced recruit. See: Constable.

Totally, this is still a very valid point. Ignoring that we don't know what pick seven could turn out to be and is more likely to not be those mentioned players, or that Bowes might not be a two-hundred gamer at our club, he's still an Academy product and a local, so it hurts. Ideally you'd want...