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Bill is perfect, shares the surname (pronounced the same anyway) and both have a big nose.
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Genuinely wouldn't recognise Laurie if I passed him in the street.
That’s why Laser works, if he did a trademark laser kick in front of you, then you would recognise him.
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Nup
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JvR - Agree, could have a good one
Windsor - Already shown his wares in 2024, so would have to be a big jump
Petty - I am skeptical
Tholstrupp - No chance missing half the season
McVee - See Windsor
Bowie - 50/50 call for me
AMW - Improvement yes, most improved no (for me).
Turner - Played one good match and got a run for the rest of the season, I am not confident
Jeffo - Hope so but don’t think he will be most improved. Improvement yes but not most improved.
Howes - Skeptical, panics a bit so needs that out of his game.
Brown - Hope he takes small forward role by palm of his hands but Goodie will **** him up and play him as sub or in misc positions
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If we are going by 24' form then we have about 10 blokes who can and will improve more than Laurie.
By just pure improvement... JVR, Rivers, Koz, McVee, Windsor, AMW, Howes. Prob throw Turner & Bowey ahead too.
Would have said Chandler and Tholstrup prior to injuries... prob still back them over Laurie.
McAdams if he stays injury free but that's unlikely. Jed Adams if they play him, same for Jeffo.
Reckon 'laser Laurie' might pip billings, sparrow and Hore in the list clogger improvement sweepstakes so he isn't the worst.
Proper Gander
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Fine, but which of these guys do you see Laurie eclipsing?
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Dogga Brown IMO. Coming off lower expectations of course, but he is absolutely tearing it up in the fitness and effort stakes apparently, and with ANB gone, Windsor to half back, and Kozzy out early there's a real opportunity for him there.
Dogga 100% has the capability to, last pre season he cleaned up as a small forward only for Goodie to not give him a solid run. Will come down to Goodie I think, has the capability though.
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Your a bloody idiot. Spargo is more a laser kick than plodder Laurie and if he is actually fit will be a vast improvement over him.
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I agree with what you are saying, but good sir, Hore is certainly not a list clogger.
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Topkent
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Glazing Laurie more like it 
Topkent
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Tldr or however you use that, everyone shits on goody for costing and rightly so. Percentage of that blame since the premiership goes to the players who haven't come in and given 100%
Goodys style has definitely cost us, but it's never gonna work without 100% commitment from the playing group either so in that sense Oliver and like I said not on his own, Smith and the other blokes that weren't taking it seriously are culpable as well
Making tk use big words now
I'm not even sure if he's on our rookie list or not. I don't think we can just plonk him on our list if we have injuries. I honestly have lost track on how that all works, but I know he showed huge promise early days at WCE and the fans were bummed to see him cut as his injuries were pretty bad. But by all reports he's moving well and showing signs he could actually make it back to senior footy. Still young and im sure if there's a spot midseason and he's playing well that we'll grab him. I vaguely remember him kicking 4 or 5 goals against Port 1 game a few years ago.
Surely Oliver and Petty will be most improved. They are coming from a low base.
As far as the younger players, hoping for Adams and Jeffe, but more likely JVR or Windsor.
As far as the younger players, hoping for Adams and Jeffe, but more likely JVR or Windsor.
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I'm super hyped on Lindsay though
But yeah, I don't want to go backwards and forwards on this. I want to be on good behaviour. I respect what you're saying re: Windsor. He had a good first season.
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I've had my moments liking him as an intercept defender in the team but man that last game of the year was an all-time stinker by him... It gave me Tom Gillies against Bombers vibes... I might be overreacting to one bad game in a pretty bad season for the whole club though.
Topkent
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I literally don't even remember who we played
Proper Gander
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Neither could I. It’s bizarre.
I had to look it up. We were apparently thumped by Collingwood. We scored all of 53 beautiful points.
The week before we apparently thumped GC and I don’t remember that either
Topkent
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Not gonna lie. That still doesn't trigger anything. Probably cause I'm just cooked at this stage of me life or they really did bore me to the stage of disassociation
