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Shoutout to Pat, has been one of our better players this season and is in the top bracket of I50 kicks within our team. His goal sense from open play (think snap from 30m out) has always been there but he is consistently finding the ball in those areas this season. Has looked much improved in...

If you're not already overloaded would you be able to pm me the link to? Much appreciated!

A less glamorous one is Tom Langdon who was a very handy defender for the pies, and would have otherwise likely locked down a permanent role in a strong back six. Was one of the best players across the 2018 finals series but then only managed to play another handful of games before retiring due...

Would agree with your assessment if not for the fact that I think Ginni has shown he can grow into an Adams type role for us. Lipinksi often sits just outside a contest and takes up very aggressive positioning gambling on us winning it, so obviously Ginni wouldn't be suited to replicating that...

If you check the Pies board you'll see there's not many w that attitude, most are v excited. Remember him looking very damaging (without quite having a breakout game) despite a poor team performance against us in the 2022 semi final.

Agreed, chances are at least one of that group will be missing most games, then we have Lipinski to move to the HHF role. We'd only move Ginni on if we were certain he wasn't in long term planning and we wanted to take advantage of his current trade capital. Even then you're looking at having to...

For anyone who wanted to listen: Good reminder for everyone to vote, early voting is already open :thumbsu:

Please please please don't leave the thread just because you got Lipinski and Daicos confused, it's been three hours since your last post and I'm already bored

Or... Pies won it because of: 1. Deep squad; not only a talented bottom 6, but also coaching staff identified specific roles to suit 'fringe' players better than most 2. Focused game plan; tweaks made to system but fundamental concepts were extremely clear even to an outsider. Compare that to...

I know Pies fans have been preoccupied by who will replace McStay, and I'm especially worried about our ability to bring long kicks down the line to ground (though sounds like Brisbane is not quite as strong as Dees or GWS in defending this part of the ground). Brisbane fans what matchup/area...

Jump in to the thread to find 4 pages of Curnow and Neale, could have fooled me I was reading "best players in the game". Would be more interested to know everyone's opinion on a player from their respective team. Pies have more in the underrated or misunderstood camp than overrated. We've got...

Howe? WHE is the one who has played the role the most, Howe the one who had the most success playing it. Think I'm leaning towards Howe, but the loss of his disposal out of the back 6 is one too many factors for me to consider, so I give up. Either option and we allow for a player who has...

We used the last part of the season to explore different roles, going into a GF I can't see us utilising someone in a role that they haven't shown they can play unless we find ourselves in an injury crisis (3-4 players who play similar roles all out). Frampton has proved he can play 2nd ruck...

Kreuger has played only 2 games for 7 disposals this year, a working forward line is more important than the extra centimetres he gives us, and no matter how skilled he is or isn't he hasn't played enough games across his career to be certain he won't disrupt our structure. WHE has played a...

I've heard media singing the praises of GWS as they are an exciting team with a great Win/Loss in the second half of the season, but none of them said they were even tipping GWS. Kingy and Whateley for instance both still had Pies higher on their seedings segment and Kane outright said he...

Haven't watched much GWS this year, have heard people talk about the orange tsunami etc.. and obviously Kingsley is also a Dimma disciple. Sounds like their game is quite similar to ours, what are the main similarities and differences between how they play vs how we play? I imagine their...

Also thought Pendles had a few very impactful slaps and taps in traffic early on that wouldn't have been counted as disposals but which released our transition game. Not sure if he has got the kudos and I missed it but though Sidebottom was BOG at half time and still offered well in second half...

Weather is nice and warm, though starting to become more overcast

A few key aspects of the contest I have been thinking about: - Melbourne's inside 50 kicking, haven't watched them so much recently but when I do watch them tends to be a weakness of theirs, wet conditions might help them in this aspect as it reduces our intercepting strength - Our ability to...

Would prefer to see Maynard given Howe's superior intercept game, as Fritsch is near unstoppable 1v1 if he has good space to lead into. Will have to rely on players dropping off and intercepting to help nullify.

Brayden Maynard has attended 0.5% of centre bounces this year, but I'm 100% sure we'll win if he's there for the opening bounce.

Especially seeing as one of our biggest issues KB was run/possesion out of D50 which are both strenghts of Noble's. WHE/Markov much more likely to make way as sub depending on weather and Howe's position. I assume Howe plays D50 but could offer good aerial ability for transitioning ball down the...