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  1. shintemaster

    Player Watch #22: Taylor Goad - #20 in '23 ND - the Unicorn

    And to be fair, we did somewhat have that problem with X - he tried to leave for more opportunity.
  2. shintemaster

    Player Watch #19: Griffin 'Gus the Goose-stepper’ Logue

    IMO one of the reasons we can go from barely winning a game to competitive in 2025. Was a huge, huge loss given our lack of options.
  3. shintemaster

    Player Watch #14: Luke 'Gav' Urquhart - selected with Pick 57 in the ND - Welcome to North Melbourne

    We had SuperGav already. Luke Urquhart = SuperDooperGav
  4. shintemaster

    Player Watch #14: Luke 'Gav' Urquhart - selected with Pick 57 in the ND - Welcome to North Melbourne

    None. Not a thesis - just talking about his role in the 23 as an example of where there is room for Luke in the not too distant future.
  5. shintemaster

    Player Watch #14: Luke 'Gav' Urquhart - selected with Pick 57 in the ND - Welcome to North Melbourne

    A bit to go but if in 1-2 years he's the bloke in Tucker's role for example I can see that going absolutely fine.
  6. shintemaster

    Training 2025 Pre-Season - Standards are currently being driven

    Just a friendly, casual, cold blooded assassination.
  7. shintemaster

    Training 2025 Pre-Season - Standards are currently being driven

    Wow. VFL team gonna be flying!
  8. shintemaster

    Training 2025 Pre-Season - Standards are currently being driven

    Great write up. FWIW I think there's a spot waiting there for RHJ and I hope he takes it with both hands and the club don't fluff around with players good enough to play elsewhere but squeezed to a forward pocket. This isn't the AA - we need a team that wins games and that team needs minimum...
  9. shintemaster

    Training 2025 Pre-Season - Standards are currently being driven

    McKercher will do mid time, nothing surer. We didn't get Daniel to keep McKercher back all year. I tend to agree, I'd probably say it turned a little earlier in 2023 where we started to see LDU doing more running for possession and actually picking up uncontested ball around the ground. I'm...
  10. shintemaster

    Training 2025 Pre-Season - Standards are currently being driven

    This is the big one and also the big bonus in bringing in Daniel, Parker & Darling. Group knows the gauntlet is down, no more excuses. FWIW I agree where we are at has now moved, finally.
  11. shintemaster

    Player Watch #14: Luke 'Gav' Urquhart - selected with Pick 57 in the ND - Welcome to North Melbourne

    That's very exciting. Honestly he just looks like a ready to go mature player, the fact that he has heaps of time and learning to do is amazing.
  12. shintemaster

    Player Watch #40: Eddie Ford - re-signed until end of 2025

    I think HHF into wing is his best chance from a skillset POV. Whether he can get the running power to do that I'm not sure and time will tell. I think he has a beautiful weighted kick on him and if he can find the tank and brain to work hard up and back in space he could be very useful. Tough to...
  13. shintemaster

    Player Watch #22: Taylor Goad - #20 in '23 ND - the Unicorn

    I know the big men take time thing is almost a joke at times, I think the age has reduced a touch for KPF's personally as the style of play is different into forward lines. But for Rucks it is still very much the case. Anything good you get out of a ruck before 25 is almost a bonus.
  14. shintemaster

    Player Watch #14: Luke 'Gav' Urquhart - selected with Pick 57 in the ND - Welcome to North Melbourne

    Did you lot watch the vid floating around NMFC media of this kid? Holy shit. If he can run he has player written all over him, has the build of a bloke with 4 pre seasons already, talks like he's been playing senior footy for years. Just very mature, if his athletic stuff is as reported he could...
  15. shintemaster

    Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

    That's the irony of nuance - arguably Arden St Station is less problematic.
  16. shintemaster

    News Vale Barry Cheatley

    What a magic moment that must have been after so long.
  17. shintemaster

    Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

    Stop being obtuse. The story - as much as it is clearly a fishing exercise - is about naming a train station on one of the largest infrastructure projects in decades after the bloke. I reckon that passes the reasonable person test to meet the definition of the word. Whether it was done out of...
  18. shintemaster

    Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

    He's dead. We don't have to continue to laude him. Life is unfair and he's not even alive.
  19. shintemaster

    Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

    The point is that it is irrelevant, no matter how much we "help ourselves" we will never get the run of others. That's the point. Personally I disagree entirely with the CBF rigged fixture system, it arguably had a place stabilising the league post 90's as it stabilised from the VFL - where a...
  20. shintemaster

    Training 2025 Pre-Season - Standards are currently being driven

    Good post. Agree pretty much with all. Our best last year was with him at his best, but he could only really keep it up for 10-12 games. I still think there's a case for him pushing forward a bit to rest / save himself from himself whilst building but otherwise agree. He's so dangerous in there...
  21. shintemaster

    AFLW #?: Eilish Sheerin - NM trade Pick 18 to Richmond for Eilish.

    Truly North are the only team not allowed to get better. If this was Collingwood or one of those other shit teams they'd be trumpeting about the dynasty unfolding. I understand what you're saying, but I don't think that's what this is. We have plenty of good young talent in the team still.
  22. shintemaster

    Training 2025 Pre-Season - Standards are currently being driven

    I think he could easily play forward as an impact small, high pressure, high intensity wrecking ball.
  23. shintemaster

    AFLW #?: Eilish Sheerin - NM trade Pick 18 to Richmond for Eilish.

    Exactly. First undefeated team. We should aim for another amazing record - first team to win 5 years in a row? First team to win a hatrick in mens and womens at the same time? More. More.
  24. shintemaster

    Fixture 2025 fixture

    I agree with all of this, except by a point and 15 goals.
  25. shintemaster

    Player Watch #24: Tom Powell - signed thru 2026 - finishes 5th in the 2024 SBM.

    I'd prefer him to stay obviously, but in all honesty if he is entering his prime in a year and good enough to be starting 4-6 mid at any club in the land that's actually a good thing for us.
  26. shintemaster

    AFLW #?: Eilish Sheerin - NM trade Pick 18 to Richmond for Eilish.

    Other clubs would hate this. We should have recruited Conti so the commentators could have had conniptions explaining why suddenly she's not a vote getter at North.
  27. shintemaster

    AFLW #?: Eilish Sheerin - NM trade Pick 18 to Richmond for Eilish.

    Gotta strike when hot. We were a juggernaut this year - time to make hay.
  28. shintemaster

    AFLW #?: Eilish Sheerin - NM trade Pick 18 to Richmond for Eilish.

    Dynasty setup? BTW I have no idea if she's any good as I only watch the good teams in AFLW (that's us).
  29. shintemaster

    Fixture 2025 fixture

    Dees away as well in WA for pre season. I think the praccie should be at Marvel or MCG personally to give home fans an accessible pre season game and match practice at a real venue.
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