Teams 2025 Rate My Pre-Season Team

[A Bit Dusty]

Just a heads up kents if you didn't know you can copy & paste you team in one go clicking on this.

 

[JDWCE]

There are so many good midfielders in Sydney they are giving them away for a dozen Krispy Cremes.

Mills is just giving me the first fall of Fyfe feelings.

Looking great in preseason talk, etc.

Some injuries take that spark out of a player, even after good rehab and training harder then ever, they lose something. That used to make them great, like they are driving a trailer with the brake left on.

Sydney needed him to be able to be a bull on GF day vs the brissy Bears.

I think new coach and some guys who have been on the list for a while may get just as much a chance of Midfield rotation as Mills does.
Maybe Sheldrick and a few others who have been close to starting 22.

Does Sydney go and put Heeney back Fwd after how he played last year.

Then there is Warner and Gulden.

If Mills gets it back to his 2022 form then I will just adjust team to get him after his bye. Otherwise he is a pass from me.

I am also thinking about skipping another two guys in my side currently in Gawn and Oliver. It’s just a feeling here on these two that maybe “the needles broken and the damage done”!!

I can hear the commentators now “gawn taps it straight down Viney’a throat who handpasses it to Trac and watch him go to the fifty and kick a great goal, Hey did anyone else notice oliver was wide open in that passage but both gawn and viney both chose to not get the ball to him.
Maybe he is being played as a decoy, dont you mean scarecrow. He was left open in the middle of the field waving his arms out to the side like can you guys even see me here. Thats the 3rd time this quarter they have not passed the ball to an open Oliver, I have never seen that happen so many times over his whole career. “

Back to Mills. Wait and see where he lines up and what role BIG COX’y has for him. Think I may wait until after Sydney’s bye for him.

Mills is only 27. I think he’s a fair way off the gradual fall of Fyfe levels

My biggest query is where he lines up. They’d be mad to move Roberts after what he showed last year. So leads me to believe midfield. I’ve seen a fair few on swans board say he will see wing time and rotate inside

 

[South of the Yarra]

Getting edgy to see some footy. Can't wait to see the rooks and roles of players such as Mills.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Not sold on Coleman yet. Want to see when he hits the field.

 

[dabombers]

Mills is only 27. I think he’s a fair way off the gradual fall of Fyfe levels

My biggest query is where he lines up. They’d be mad to move Roberts after what he showed last year. So leads me to believe midfield. I’ve seen a fair few on swans board say he will see wing time and rotate inside

Age is a bit irrelevant.
Talk to any AFL/VFL ex-player and ask them about their bodies and the toll injuries takes on how they live now.

Some are held together with masking tape and pins and needles.

This is more so for the guys who tackle and do do more in the pack work taking bone shaking hits each week multiple times year in year out.

Some I have talked to seem to tell a similar story about how they were never the same after the injury in their 5th season. I just lost something and couldn’t get back to the same level.
And I was lucky enough to meet some of the greatest players when I worked in the Corporate boxes at the MCG and knew a few well enough to chat to well.
Like having Kevin Sheedy play jokes on me, never will forget him saying to be wary of blondes while sitting in between two of them.
Also met the Aussie cricket team and Steve Waugh when captain was an absolute arrogant Spanker. But starts with a W!!!
The best and saddest moment was walking into a box and seeing Mohamed Ali and seeing the great man shake uncontrollably. That really taught me the story about the tolls on our bodies sports can take.

It was also how I opened some conversations with some footy players to then ask them about how they felt while playing and after retirement.

Also I have an Uncle that taught me how to fish, that played in the 60’s and 70’s for the Pies who made their 100 best for 100 years list.

That is also why the average amount of games played for all listed AFL/VFL players ever is somewhere below 20 games, it is also why we celebrate milestones like 50 games, 100, 200 and hold in such high esteem the guys who make the 300 club.
Thats 300 battles to the death in the Gladiator stadium.

Having watched footy with this knowledge for 20 something years and knowing these stories.
You can or I can just see when a player is cooked, or will never be the same as they were before an injury. And it could be a major one like an ACL etc or seeing a family I grew up with Son/s who suffered from Osteitis Pubis and had to retire early. Or it could be just re-occurring hamstring/groin/shoulder injuries. Even with better medical procedures and rehabilitation programs. Some guys like Humpty Dumpty can’t be put back together again.

While others are just rubber men who bounce back like nothing ever happened. These are the lucky ones.

Is this Mills or other Midpricers like Kiddy Coleman etc. I guess we will wait and see.

 

[VainGlorious]

There are so many good midfielders in Sydney they are giving them away for a dozen Krispy Cremes.

Mills is just giving me the first fall of Fyfe feelings.

Looking great in preseason talk, etc.

Some injuries take that spark out of a player, even after good rehab and training harder then ever, they lose something. That used to make them great, like they are driving a trailer with the brake left on.

Sydney needed him to be able to be a bull on GF day vs the brissy Bears.

I think new coach and some guys who have been on the list for a while may get just as much a chance of Midfield rotation as Mills does.
Maybe Sheldrick and a few others who have been close to starting 22.

Does Sydney go and put Heeney back Fwd after how he played last year.

Then there is Warner and Gulden.

If Mills gets it back to his 2022 form then I will just adjust team to get him after his bye. Otherwise he is a pass from me.

I am also thinking about skipping another two guys in my side currently in Gawn and Oliver. It’s just a feeling here on these two that maybe “the needles broken and the damage done”!!

I can hear the commentators now “gawn taps it straight down Viney’s throat who handpasses it to Trac and watch him go to the fifty and kick a great goal, Hey did anyone else notice oliver was wide open in that passage but both gawn and viney both chose to not get the ball to him.
Maybe he is being played as a decoy, dont you mean scarecrow. He was left open in the middle of the field waving his arms out to the side like can you guys even see me here. Thats the 3rd time this quarter they have not passed the ball to an open Oliver, I have never seen that happen so many times over his whole career. “

Back to Mills. Wait and see where he lines up and what role BIG COX’y has for him. Think I may wait until after Sydney’s bye for him.

Interesting point you make about their stacked midfield.

These 4 took the lions share of CBA’s:

Grundy - 583
Heeney - 495
Rowbottom - 489
Warner - 452

Supported by

Gulden - 266
Adams - 154
McLean - 137
Parker - 95
Papley - 95
Mcinninninerny - 83



In 2021 he averaged 112.4 SC points from 18 matches attending 66% of CBA’s - 325 in total.

In 2022 he averaged 116.7 SC points from 22 matches attending 56% of CBA’s - 388 in total.

In 2023 his CBA’s were slashed (played def more?) and his output fell dramatically, only attending 209 CBA’s for the entire season. 87.7 SC average.

If he stays fit and gets into that first midfield rotation then he’s a lockity lock for mine.

Round 0 is a perfect time to get a good look at what Coxy has planned for him.