Training 2023 Pre Season
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I foresee us getting a few more shite injuries to key players, being forced to play a bunch of promising but green players who overperform on expectations snagging wins where they shouldn't and then setting up well when our big guns come back to find some now experienced depth have maintained a winning record for them.
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No idea about the other options to be honest, but as you allude to the main question is the opportunity cost of that list spot. Either way and generally speaking if someone is going poorly on the track it makes zero sense to dance around it. Let's hope he can cop on at some stage.
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Totally agree, Jones and Dmac in particular repeatedly sidelined is frustrating.
Mission has a full plate.
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Don’t stress..still a couple of months until round 1.
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The worry is they really need to be ready before round one. Our depth is ordinary as it is and he named maybe 2 or 3 players who may not play. Leaves little depth if they don’t play.
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Injuries are a fact of life…that’s why quality depth is vital!
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We don't have quality depth, hence why the amount of injuries or players having interrupted pre seasons is worrying.
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I gotta be honest
Jones being injured does not bother me
Jones being injured does not bother me
Windy 18 games and Nasiah 17 games each. So both are not eligible for the Rising Star in 2023.
Owens on 7 games is.
To be eligible for nomination, the player must be under the age of 21 at 1 January that year, and have played ten or fewer AFL games as of the start of the season.
I’m on the Mitchito train!
No wonder as at present:
- Marshall is our one and only ruck option that you would want playing No 1 ruck each week.
- Campbell is a capable back up, but you would not want him No1 more than few games.
- Heath is too raw, and physically is also not fit enough.
- Keeler has talent, but is not a No1 ruck this year (ultimately appears to be a forward ruck.
- Anyone else who might ruck, will be doing so only as a chop-out only. ie Hayes, Battle etc Certainly do not want htem rucking for most of a game.
We are super reliant on Marshall this year. If he misses for a more than a few games we will be in trouble.
However for me it is all about 2024 on. If we do well in 2023 I will take that as a bonus.
Our midfield now bats deeper, but ruck, key forwards and key backs we are still very thin in.
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Not sure we are likely to look at a like for like (tall) replacement for King to start the season. Will probably largely depend on whether Hayes gets up for round 1.
Personally I’d look at putting Owens, Higgins and Windy in the vicinity with Sharman as a leading target and Members deep.
Personally I’d look at putting Owens, Higgins and Windy in the vicinity with Sharman as a leading target and Members deep.
So have we delisted Cordy and won the flag with Owens, Windhager and Phillipou as our starting midfielders yet?
There is some god awful garbage posted on this forum 3 months out from the season.
There is some god awful garbage posted on this forum 3 months out from the season.
Really well, won the 3k time trial, leads every repeat 400 at training and thinks that the rest of the list is unfit and wouldn't last 5 seconds under Bevo's regime.
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Goal a game and 20 possessions I reckon. 5+ tackles too
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Campbell is a bit better than that. He's no world beater but should be a handy fill in if we need him. At the end of the day if we get wrecked by injury and have to put games into Heath, it might be a fast tracking the future. Injury sucks but if something goes really wrong we can always load up at the midseason draft too.
I think Campbell is a very adequate backup and we'd actually probably make do with him for a whole year if we needed to.
The issue is Campbell is out until March by the sounds of it and after that the stocks completely fall away. And I can't remember the last time Marshall got through a season uninjured.
Having said that most sides would struggle with two rucks out. It's hard to imagine Hayes being a main ruck after coming back from the ACL so let's just hope for some luck and that Roma stays injury free.
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We cant keep saying this year after year
It like whats it matter he is only taking 1 list spot and only there as back up, we say it to often for to many players
No more excuses
There's a good chance if he can stake a claim while Max is out. I can see him rotating with Steele.
Me too.
