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That’s a shame, horrible injury. He won’t play this year.

Winning puts bums on seats. In the top 5 of the draft you take the best available. Simple as that.

I know that sounds lovely but we’re not spending top 5 picks to appease Harley. What we did with the Gillbee was reasonable. If Duursma earns the selection or if it’s 50/50 with another player then sure there’s merit to it but we aren’t formulating a top end draft plan based on a 19yo’s romance...

Duursma is a top 5 talent but Curtin and Lindsay are likely to be in the pick 10-20 range and would be a better defensive fit for our list as the best key defender and rebounder respectively. Sharp, Fred and then Greeves would be the players I’d be eyeing with our first pick if we hold it but a...

Spot on. They are absolutely the final team on the podium with the other two. Paul Roos destroyed football in the 2000s with his negative flooding and ugly stoppage approach and I’ve never forgotten it. Unlike the other two, I do however respect them as a well run football club that keeps their...

Like us, I admire the way your club ruthlessly goes about winning flags each decade and plays good, hard footy. No eternal mid table middling bullshit like the drug rats over at Essendon, whom I despise. I’ve also got a strong Tasmanian connection and despite the Hawks being paid handsomely for...

Second to having the flexibility of Sicily and Weddle moving further up the ground, the benefit to the development of Blanck, Serong and even Battle cannot be understated.

There was no insinuation there, just wasn’t clear which player you were talking about. If it was Barrass he’s a bit of a different cat but all class. You only need to watch his farewell speech at our B&F to see that he’s articulate and intelligent.

Don’t think you’ll hear anyone say a bad word about Oscar. Unless you meant Barrass.

Finn Allen with keeping gloves and pads on would have been a better option than Tye

Yep, I’m not saying Oscar is interested, I’m saying Hawthorn is. Will be an interesting watch to see how West Coast approach it. I doubt Oscar leaves, but he just missed the ‘18 flag and another one is his time at West Coast looks unlikely. Will depend on his motivation but yes, he’s a WA boy...

He is exceptional, helps having over a decade learning from one of the best intercept defenders of the modern era how to position and read the play. Will probably just need to adjust to Hokball by moving the ball quickly to your runners after a mark and shorter, less loopy kicks.

Good news from a FOMO point of view, still think we got it right.

HNY Hawks, only been saying that for the best part of 18 months, mainly to parts my own board and some salty Freo supporters that liked to inexplicably chime in on the Barrass trade thread. Have track watchers been happy with how he’s looked, came as advertised? Him and Battle have given you...

Ginbey vs Walter would be worth the price of admission alone but if Rowell, Anderson, Miller et al get off the leash and hit dart after dart into the f50 with no pressure then Walter and King are going to have a day out.

Van Es is more physically developed than Brock and is more aggressive. Watched him closely yesterday, missed a couple of kicks but looks more AFL ready as far as size goes. They are different players, Brock has a nice left foot but is slight and gets out bodied. Van Es hasn’t had a chance to...

Edwards and Jamo did SFA at training yesterday. Two very light laps then a bit of balance work and that’s it. Both look a mile off. Bazzo’s injury means he’s unlikely to be fit for round 1 as well. Brock and JVE aren’t even on the list yet so at this stage it’s looking pretty grim. Walter has...

Van Es really comes down to the state of his ankle. Athletic and strong, would be a great fit but body needs to hold up. Oscar may find himself as a KPD come round 1.

Great. Straight swap for any of your main list players aged 20 or under apart from Keeler or Said and you have a deal!

From a neutral perspective I wouldn’t consider Barrat a bolter. I watched every one of Bendigo’s games last year and he was fantastic at both ends. Superb interceptor and plays much taller than his height, would have loved him at the Eagles if Shanahan was off the board at pick 30. Him and Mraz...

https://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/news/1706914/rhett-bazzo-injury-update https://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/news/1702139/pre-season-injury-update In light of the above and the news James Van Es has joined Sandy Brock at training I thought this thread could do with a bit of a bump. Who starts...

Very, very unlikely unless it doesn’t heal. If there’s another setback with it before the MSD then I think LTI list follow by delist is a very real chance.

Wasn’t going to add anything else but is the view of the majority of the board that he was delisted too early, especially for a KPD?

Graham blowing up Ginbey in the modified beep test today was awesome. Great to have those two paired together and pushing each other, was a fantastic contest.

Cheers for the JVE feedback, even to the posters that think I’m a shit bloke because I support West Coast. Will be keeping a close eye on Tobie and Hugh, big fan of Jimmy Barrat too. Go well and someone remind the boys not to have a slash in public.

He plays for NSW.

Gotta be the first time in a while that a 2km time trial has been won by a set of steak knives.

Ran a 2.91s 20m that’s outstanding, especially for a big man. Pretty useless if you can’t use it on the field though.

He’ll fit in beautifully.

You could make that statement about fitness and form about any club in the comp. If the incumbents have both then the kids don’t play, sure nothing groundbreaking. Jake has played one class season out of eight and Oscar struggles to stay on the park and has issues moving forwards. Very confident...