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AFLW 2024 - Round 4 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
A couple of thoughts come straight up when I read this. 1) big men take longer to progress in this game. 2) Hampson did not play AFL as a junior.
Now I can see that your point about his marking however IMO he is still developing as a forward. Lets give him a season under Mick before we sakc him.
Time will tell, hope to see him out there against Bitchmond.Why didn't Bell get much of a gig this preseason? Can only assume MM rates others before him?
This is another possiblity. Mick did say he played blokes he wanted to have a look. Maybe Bell has already shown enough. Would have thought he still would have wanted more of a look though.My slight hope is that Mick had seen enough from Bell and will name him as the sub so was happy to give him full games in the VFL and have a look at other possibles in the NAB cup.
Seeing him run Laidler in the VFL so he could have a look at White, Duigan, Tuohy and BOOOOTS gave me a little bit of hope.This is another possiblity. Mick did say he played blokes he wanted to have a look. Maybe Bell has already shown enough. Would have thought he still would have wanted more of a look though.
Guess we will see soon enough.
Seeing him run Laidler in the VFL so he could have a look at White, Duigan, Tuohy and BOOOOTS gave me a little bit of hope.
Great post, Hampson is an absolute liability as you suggest for that exact reason. He's been on our list for six non performing years. It baffles me why people would want him in our team for round one and amazes me how people think his seventh year will provide any more than his previous six. You give young players up to four possibly five years in extenuating cicumstances to show their stuff. After six years, history is by far the greater guide as to what a player will offer in the future. In his case some flashy stuff here and there but overall will offer SFA to club, teammates and supporters.
What are people's thoughts on a positional swap between Walker and Yarran?
Fair point. I guess I was thinking along the lines of Walker responding to the extra discipline required and conversely, Yarran having that extra bit of freedom in the forward line. But I guess it might not be addressing the team's needs.Not for me.
Can't see us playing our back 6 together for the best part of the pre-season just to dismantle it on the back of an ordinary NAB Cup game.
Maybe North should throw the towel in after losing to a side that hadn't have won a pre-season match until the weekend.
Don't think you can read too much into that game after we left two stoppers in Curnow and Joseph off the ground. We could have thrown them onto Rich and Zorko, but we didn't really any decisive moves. We just let them play without putting one of our best runners in Curnow on Rich.Seeing him run Laidler in the VFL so he could have a look at White, Duigan, Tuohy and BOOOOTS gave me a little bit of hope.
All true, but what's that got to do with my post?Don't think you can read too much into that game after we left two stoppers in Curnow and Joseph off the ground. We could have thrown them onto Rich and Zorko, but we didn't really any decisive moves. We just let them play without putting one of our best runners in Curnow on Rich.
You like every other member of the Hampson-hate brigande simply refuse to see whats in front of you.