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These compo picks are well out of hand. I thought band 1 was meant to be for players who were being paid in like the top 10% of the AFL. Surely Josh Battle is not that.

Looks like the forward line from a Goodwin dream team

Can we just fast forward to the draft. Need to know who my new great white hope is. Would like to see us trade into another first round pick so 2 players can share the load of my expectations, not sure if the late 2nd and two 3rds will offer an OK points trade to make something happen for...

Whoever we take at 5 needs to be a modern day mid. Someone who moves well and kicks better, not another big ass midfielder who can jump on the ball but then is equally as likely to give it to the oppo as to a teammate. Have enough of those

Not sure what dizzying heights he reached on the pecking order to fall from, but giving him away for nothing would be good for us. Frees a list spot for someone who at least may turn out to be good.

We have far too many holes to fill to trade our first for anyone. I think we need 2 years of hitting the draft and then another year after that lost to development before we are serious again. Unfortunate but it is where we are at.

Why don't we just throw Tomlinson in the ruck? Decent fitness and won't look immobile when playing on a ruckman. At least may be somewhat handy around the ground even if he doesn't win a single hit out.

Probably put in more effort than just about any other player on our team last week and dropped. Should have been named captain / coach instead.

I always worried that he could be better if he cleaned up his kicking and added some burst to his game. Now I would just take him getting his natural game back on track, win contested footy and handball it. Don't need anything else, just for him to stop being shit at everything.

If we want to trade in a key forward from another club then we are looking at the wrong end of the ground. Chase someone like Aliir Aliir to play forward, our mids have years of experience hitting him on the chest.

Peaked in R0 and has looked nowhere near it since. Disappointing coming off the best season of his career

Probably the best prep they can have for playing for the seniors to be honest.

Theoretically possible we win this year, but feels exceptionally unlikely. I don't think any team looks dominant at this stage, but we would need everything to fall perfectly for us as we just aren't good enough to push through a bump or two in the road.

Found some form and aren't I happy for it.

It was a shank. His pass to JVR was much better as an example of putting the ball to a forwards advantage.

You would think they are not relying to heavily on McAdam. Great if he finds form and fitness but otherwise he is probably medically retired at the end of next year.

Don't lose heart, Goody often starts the year looking good. Guarantee you the board comes barnstorming home in the back half of the year.

They got the month and the year right though. I am impressed, this could be the only time they have gotten 2 out of 3.

Only half time but Travis Boak is putting his case forward at the ripe old age of 73.

Any positives to be taken away?

About the only way I could actually see this happening is if the stars all aligned perfectly and we had a situation where Crows finish around 11th/12th, we finish around 4th/5th and Welsh is rated as a top 5 pick. Then we could offer Petty, and our first this year for Crows first this year and...

Very disappointing. K.Brown and young woey seem like next cabs off the rank for us, but they should be taking VFL by the scruff of the neck. Hell, doesn't matter if the team is shit, they two should be playing in the middle and you can still put a dominant game in when you are playing in the...

Has been needing to lift and he did today. Forgetting stats, he had some really impactful moments. Hopefully gives him a benchmark for the rest of the season

Just discovered this thread, never had a se one team before but they are great to watch. One thing I noticed on the weekend is that Hogan actually looks in really good shape to kick this year off. Will be interesting to see if he can finally meet some of the crazy early expectations on him.

I always thought the AFLPA had an insurance policy for players who were forced to retire early due to injury. Could be wrong though, maybe that is just to cover ongoing medical costs

Usually the VFL starts up a couple of weeks into the AFL season. Would it be worth playing him as sub for a game or two, get him a quarter / quarter and a half of game time?

It is hard to pick, Viney I think just had his best season of his career, even if he was disappointing for the finals, but he has been injury prone his whole career. May looked mortal for the first time this year, such a good reader and distributer back there but has relied on a ridiculous...

Silly argument really. Rivers is far taller than both, has a much greater leap than both and would be more useful in the centre square than both. The argument I was making was that at least Rivers would bring some upside over playing someone purely because they were tall. At 188cm and with his...

I would use Rivers to give Gawn a chop out in the ruck. Gets him some midfield time and would at least be a weapon for us when the ball is on the ground in the middle. Kid has a leap on him as well, just tell him to hold off the ruck contests around the ground a bit and he can keep jumping into...

Right, I was trying to find this the other day and thought he wasn't in there. Must have missed his name instead. Good to know, I have hope that we will get a superstar F/S before they shut the rule down.