All Australian - 40 man squad on page 89

[AG]

wat

no

Yes it is. In the current era anyway. Mids rest in the forward line and forward of centre enough these days. Rather Dangerfield than Jetta/Betts.

 

[Flawed Genius]

The best ruckman of the last 25 years is now the AA forward pocket

 

[Bluelegs]

Dean Cox the best ruckman in the comp is put in the pocket.

 

[saintsrfreak]

People disagreeing with Dempster have no idea

 

[Rob]

Dangerfield, Franklin and Rioli for Half Forward line.

People will say Rioli doesn't deserve a spot, but I'd take him over Milne or Betts if I had to choose one.

Maybe, but his year (with the exception of about half a dozen games before he got injured) has been ordinary. His first half of the season consisted entirely of games where he went completely AWOL for long periods.

Milne is interesting - if only for the fact that he finished 12th in St Kilda's best and fairest.

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

Don't let Bartlett talk FFS.

 

[Quinz]

Milne was the best forward pocket. Good selection.

Squeezing Cox into a pocket was expected by a lot of us, trying to fit two of the Javobs/NN/Maric trio in as ruck and interchange perhaps?

 

[PTizzle]

The afl.com.au live chat is hilarious, nobody has any concept of a ruckman resting forward.

 

[BallerO]

Dean Cox in full forward? What?

 

[brendan84]

It will be Nic Nat.

 

[Dickie Greenleaf]

Dempster, give me a break. Jason Blake must be due next year.

Gerard Healy's done his job there.

Don't underestimate the mental giant that is Glen Jakovich.

 

[SM]

God the selectors get exposed as morons when they try and justify their selections.

 

[The King!]

Whilst i would go jetta, people are hard on rioli sayng he is undeserving though, look at his stats good year

 

[JimmySwanny]

My god, hawkins ahead of riewoldt and pavlich. The media lovechild is hawkins, if he didn't kick that goal after the siren he wouldn't be in the team. What a horrible choice.

 

[kaiserchief13]

LMFAO Naitanui ruckman!!! hahahaha

 

[placebo]

Cue meltdown.

 

[Magma]

LMAO LMAO LMAO nick nat starting ruck.

utter joke. joke joke joke.

 

[Gibbsy]

Nic Nat in - cue shitstorm. Oh the fawning!

 

[Catswin12]

I remember saying that Rioli was the smart choice, and obviously the AA selectors have done their homework.

He is now going down as the most overrated player to ever play the game. He is living off the Rioli name. He is not even half the player Maurice Rioli was.

 

[Jcpdragonx]

nic nat...

je

sus

christ

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

Nic Nat, please, now they are taking the piss.

Maric and Jacobs were clearly better

 

[The King!]

Natanui ahead of jacobs and maric , hmm not sure on that

 

[chrstphrwnstn]

Nic Nat? ._.

 

[Quinz]

Naitanui starting ruck.

Best call of the night so far, he's been the best ruckman this season, yes better than Cox. Output has been great this year.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Heh. Here we go.