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Mattaes Phillipou's first half yesterday (I only watched the first half) was out of this world. Best half I have seen from a kid this year easily. He just looked so far above anyone on the ground it was crazy. He was taking big marks in the wet completely cleanly. Dominant speed and power and...

Anyone go out last night to see the internal trial. Barnett was unbelievable. Probably the best mid on the ground and if your a 202 ruckman that's simply crazy. Moves every bit as well as Luke jackson just quite a bit bigger. Can play!

How can we re-watch it?

Interested in your assement of Daloia as more than just a centre clearance player. What other parts of his game did you like?

I just can't work it out. As someone who has been involved in recruitment I look at everything he has and I am stunned. All I can presume is that he didn't have this consistency of effort as a junior or matured late or both. 1. Elite speed 2. Elite endurance 3. Elite hands in the air and on the...

Once more I will point out take a long hard look at yourself if you criticise Parfitt on numbers alone. heck me is he tough. That last contest where he smothered ball, boot and all summed him up. Then wins the handball and saves there last attack all in the same play. He is seriously tough and...

There is nothing more frustrating than dominating a game and not getting it done. Still if there is almost as good as there is out there we are right there.

As far as Captain Obvious calls go this must be right up there. That list of smalls is absolutely elite. They will get heaps and heaps of teams this year.

Yeah he was just far too aggressive and obvious in doing it.

I want to follow up on Parfitt and just say by god he wins hard ball. I mean there are contested touches and hardball gets and then there are contested touches and hardball gets and he is always doing the grunt work. Always all his work is done under fierce pressure. As I said last week he is...

Add to that 202cm and serious athleticism and you get bona fide star. He moves like a 185cm player at ground level. It is something to watch when you pay close attention.

Kid is going to be a bona fide star. And every young KPP always has a long long way to go. Look at McDonald and Thilthorpe who are playing 2s as an example

If we win its the players and if we lose it is the coach. It's laughably predictable!

So you think Hocking has said to Scott I want youngsters played no matter what and Scott has ignored him or just doesn't care?

Definitely but also winning possessions that are hard to win vs just getting your numbers up makes such a difference.

Art you do realise it is quite important for anyone hoping to be taken even remotely seriously in their analysis of players to focus on more than possession numbers don't you?? I work with elite juniors and have to teach them not to do exactly what you do in assessing performance. This is a...

it's another ridiculous birth date name argument the one you were referring to. Evans clearly is not up to it at the moment. Has not looked at the level at all this year and was ordinary in the VFL. That's right the VFL! Some people on this board are so wedded to their arguments that they don't...

This is absolutely laughable unless you think the two men are on a completely different page and aren't regularly having robust discussion about the direction of the club and the team

I agree with this and doesn't have the size of a Tom Powell although not that much difference but there ability to just continually be where the ball is is uncanny. I believe the wanky modern term is "running patterns" but in the old school parlance Kobe just runs where the ball is. So so little...

Also I am pretty sure that if you think "dissent" was what I was railing against you have missed the point. That's ok though.

I'm confused but to clarify you thought that asking people to lay off Parfitt for 1 month was over the top considering how well he played?

So asking for idiots to stop bashing him for 1 month was reading too much into his performance for you?

This is the weirdest take from you. Literally every single coach and team will expect to improve a lot during the season. Scott said exactly the same thing about Geelong. Essendon aren't a bloody horse who aren't any good first up haha.

You only need to read any of the preseason reviews or indeed the essendon preview to find multiple people rubbishing him

Also where are all the people on here who have spent 5 years trashing a developing young guthrie. A wast of space, a list clogger and dud ect ect ect. You just never hear from them do you when their ridiculous assassination of young players turns out to be moronic drivel. It's always the same...

Can the absolute footy nuffies (you know who you are) who have been trashing Parfit shut up for at least a month now. Just keep the traps shut for a while unless you have some legitimate evidence (and that means more than just quoting numbers) and stop embarrassing yourself with you trashing of...

Clearly footy performance is more important than combine stuff. However depending on who you are and what you will be asked to do at the next level certain measurements can be very important. Arlo Draper is a brilliant example. He tested terribly for aerobic conditioning and as a result was...

You are don't worry and make sure you claim victory in a really over the top way once its confirmed hahaha. I would do that to my dad

Absolutely spot on. I have to identify talent for a living and he's what I call and 10 second junior. Takes ten seconds to know he can just play. How elite he becomes only time will tell but there is no question he is a long term quality AFL player.

Kolo does some things right but boy oh boy they have been waiting for him to iron out his "kinks" for a bloody long time. He is what he is and that's a decent lock down defender who can play on talls and small whilst also being an absolute liability