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The silence around Davies is a bit odd. The way Noah and Rowell are attacking the centre bounce this year, Davies to me is the ideal anchor in there to play sweeper and let them free. Takes up a ton of space in the contest, gives Rowell a bit of a break and puts less load on the 2nd year Graham...

Call it an overreaction, but I think we need to move King out of full forward and play Walter in the square. He is too skilled (and well paid) to have these 4 kick, 1-2 goal games we see far too often when we aren’t dominating. He doesn’t really command lead to a dangerous area, isn’t great at...

Easy to forgive the basic skill errors and defensive efforts etc. being pre-season, but we look like we have gone alarmingly backwards on our biggest issue from last year. That’s not a skill error fix, that was a team still having no idea where to kick the ball mixed with a forward line that...

We’ve lost our heads in a practice match. The cherry on top of this waste of an evening. Yeah the umpiring is sh*thouse but this is embarrassing.

Hard to read too much into the backline with Ballard/Mac down, but Rioli is going to be a real boost with some game time under his belt, especially for games that aren’t played in the early evening swamp. Midfield starting to warm up. Still far too offensive and still need to learn how to...

Throw that yellow logo on it with yellow waves and it’s a real winner. But yeah, it looks exactly how everyone expected it to look on tele.

Winning the inside 50s but can’t do anything with it, team cuts us up the other way, poor skills, dumb errors. Feels like we’re in mid-season form.

Ok, Weller in the guts has me feeling things.

We just went the length of the field via kicks without a single drop punt executed. Thank god it’s pre-season.

Well this is going about as well as a practice match possibly can. :drunk:

Wow, Sydney are just so incredibly organised and well drilled as a team compared to us.

Groin tightness I believe? Although we do need to see what our forward structure will look like without him as well I guess. Our forward definitely still sticks out as the weak point in the line-up to me. Not overly confident in our ability to kick a winning score unless we really clean up our...

With the amount of injuries piling up around the league, I wouldn’t have minded putting our guys on ice. But I guess they would’ve only had half a hit out before an Essendon team that looks primed to play their best footy to start the year (aka the Suns of 2011-current).

If Touk/Flanders aren’t 100%, I wouldn’t risk playing them both opening round. It’s a long season if we want to play finals and the last thing we need is Touk jogging back and forth for weeks until he is confident in the knee, especially when we have Graham, Humphrey, Rogers begging to be...

Could’ve just popped out and straight back in, or an AC joint. They’ll wait on more tests to see the full extent of surrounding ligament/bone damage and the likelihood of natural recovery to the point of playing, versus taking him out for most of the season with surgery.

Our dreams of a best 22 of tall, gangly unicorns still alive and well I see. Seriously though, good on us for giving it a go. I can’t see our offer being more than a bargaining chip against Geelong and Carlton (with those totally legal benefits thrown in).

Don’t care that it’s a low pressure game mode, loved seeing Rowell find a bit of space up forward. If we can get him comfortable up there and keep him a bit fresher to run the year out than look out. That and our next level of midfield depth has a bit of something are the only real take away I...

Seems pretty best 22-y, but then again hard to tell with this top of bleachers camera angle. Kid looks alright though.

Also, only these Brisbane w*nkers would get chirpy and pushy in a practice session.

Don’t know if we are going best 22 to start, but Gulbin out there early?

Sounds like the teams will be holding training sessions out the back before/during/after their 2 games as well. The whole thing is essentially just a training session against different opponents to get the lungs and legs firing anyway. The only one you could maybe take anything out of is...

Shame Davies is out. I was looking forward to seeing him push for a spot and seeing some young Davies/Graham/Humphrey/Rogers/Lombard/Moyle combos with Miller and Flanders out and Rowell and Noah probably on lower minutes.

Will absolutely be copping a few of those hoodies for the family. Reckon we’ll be seeing a lot of this range right around the country too. It’s a great move.

The part where they are talking about the differences under Hardwick, and how different the level of detail he goes to for every single role is to the team is still interesting to hear. It really just was ‘f*ck it, Touk, Noah and Rowell got this, everyone clear out’ under Dew. Also, hopefully...

Would’ve preferred the all-black, but it’s a fun themed round option. Not like we could’ve done much to alter the red on red design for a theme jersey anyway. A black cap with pink logo (or reversed) would go off sales wise.

Also, could be completely nothing, but Touk with the knee sleeve is never not going to make me a bit worried.

Wow that’s out of nowhere. Hopefully Noah’s the type of bloke to go up a gear with the added official responsibility and drags the team with him. Big responsibility now for all of them - Noz, Rowell, King, Powell, Ainsworth, Ballard, etc. They’re no longer ‘the future’ or ‘the up-and-comers’...

Absolutely. Last year we had 6 blokes kick more than 0.9 goals per game, and we just shipped 2 of them off, while a third isn’t looking best 22. This is despite having the 7th most inside 50s in the comp. I know the gameplan is based around field possession, turnovers and creating...

Not that it’s set in stone or anything, but disappointing to see Rosas in the Yellow jumper. Needed a big summer from him and looks like he’s still down the pecking order. Hopefully Lombard is actually a crafty little crumber, otherwise a lot will be left on Long, who is more of a lead up...