List Mgmt. Best side for start of 2025

[Mr north man]

Had plenty to drink and thought I’d rewatch our Round 14/15 games-Coll/ Melb just for a bit of feel good hits of summer. Organic growth and veteran recruits will definitely help but it’s the bottom 6 improvement that will define us I think. Dylan Stephens, Eddie Ford, Luke MacDonald, Zac Fisher, Darcy Tucker and and Toby Pink are largely ineffectual players. You could substitute Fisher for Teakle perhaps. If Parker, Daniel and Darling all start then 3 of these miss out straight away. I’m a big fan of Will Dawson and you’d think FOS plays plenty as well. I’d be inclined to keep WiPhi in the team. LMac and Ford are the head scratchers. They either find another level or they’re VFL bound. Sorry, Makers Mark was on special this week

Hay nothing wrong yesterday with having a drink especially no cricket to watch

 

[DuckYeah]

We are in for a good year

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice? **** it, hook that shit into my veins

 

[zoomba23]

Had plenty to drink and thought I’d rewatch our Round 14/15 games-Coll/ Melb just for a bit of feel good hits of summer.

You sick bastard

 

[DuckYeah]

No Jy and no Happy Meal.

I swear thats not me but it makes me happy that im not alone in this world

 

[Junk yard]

Had plenty to drink and thought I’d rewatch our Round 14/15 games-Coll/ Melb just for a bit of feel good hits of summer. Organic growth and veteran recruits will definitely help but it’s the bottom 6 improvement that will define us I think. Dylan Stephens, Eddie Ford, Luke MacDonald, Zac Fisher, Darcy Tucker and and Toby Pink are largely ineffectual players. You could substitute Fisher for Teakle perhaps. If Parker, Daniel and Darling all start then 3 of these miss out straight away. I’m a big fan of Will Dawson and you’d think FOS plays plenty as well. I’d be inclined to keep WiPhi in the team. LMac and Ford are the head scratchers. They either find another level or they’re VFL bound. Sorry, Makers Mark was on special this week

Please explain to me your reasoning for thinking Phillips would be in our best team? 15, 16 and 12 possessions in his last three games and averaging 5 kicks across his career. Is it because he tugged his jumper once when he kicked a goal? He'll be starting in the VFL again.

 

[DuckYeah]

Please explain to me your reasoning for thinking Phillips would be in our best team? 15, 16 and 12 possessions in his last three games and averaging 5 kicks across his career. Is it because he tugged his jumper once when he kicked a goal? He'll be starting in the VFL again.

Unless he has consecutive blinders in the community series. But yes, probably starts in the scoobs.

 

[year of the roo]

No Jy and no Happy Meal.

I swear thats not me but it makes me happy that im not alone in this world

Well he put Jy on the bench, and fair enough. As much as I'd like him to be right about Hardeman, I'm not sure what he has done aside from being selected in the first round to warrant being selected in front of McDonald, Tucker, Goater, even Fisher at this stage. And this guy seems to think Brayden George is a small forward for some reason. Weird.

 

[DuckYeah]

Well he put Jy on the bench, and fair enough. As much as I'd like him to be right about Hardeman, I'm not sure what he has done aside from being selected in the first round to warrant being selected in front of McDonald, Tucker, Goater, even Fisher at this stage. And this guy seems to think Brayden George is a small forward for some reason. Weird.

Yeh not my team, im working on a team. I would have things very different. His forward line is a too slow

 

[Mr north man]

Yeh not my team, im working on a team. I would have things very different. His forward line is a too slow

Well like everyone who selects a best side in 2025 you have got to remember a few things.
1:McDonald plays every week.
2:McDonald will be Captain as the players vote on it .
3:Clarkson and Coaching Staff won’t drop a Captain if his poor it’s already be proven.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Well like everyone who selects a best side in 2025 you have got to remember a few things.
1:McDonald plays every week.
2:McDonald will be Captain as the players vote on it .
3:Clarkson and Coaching Staff won’t drop a Captain if his poor it’s already be proven.

You think McDonald was "poor" last year?

 

[Mr north man]

You think McDonald was "poor" last year?

Yes in some games yes in fact how he made the Top 10 of the North B&F I still can’t believe.but not as bad as the year before in 2023.
As a club thought we played better without him in 2023.
But look at as long as Clarkson gives the green light to the players on who should be captain the players will vote for him every time.
It’s very hard to drop a Captain from your side.

 

[FAILTOSUCCEED]

you are missing a player on the bench
teakle in as the second ruck/third tall forward

May have to play Teakle you are right, i dont think he is up to it but we dont have a back up ruck.

 

[FAILTOSUCCEED]

You think McDonald was "poor" last year?

Yes

 

[Mr north man]

May have to play Teakle you are right, i dont think he is up to it but we dont have a back up ruck.

Teakle needs to play off the bench until W.Dawson is capable of doing it.
As CCJ is not up to it.
Pink will try but not up to.
Goad is a long way off.
Whitlock needs a season in the VFL.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Teakle needs to play off the bench until W.Dawson is capable of doing it.
As CCJ is not up to it.
Pink will try but not up to.
Goad is a long way off.
Whitlock needs a season in the VFL.

Finnbar will challenge for that role later in the year imo

But yes teakle’s role to begin with

 

[FAILTOSUCCEED]

Teakle needs to play off the bench until W.Dawson is capable of doing it.
As CCJ is not up to it.
Pink will try but not up to.
Goad is a long way off.
Whitlock needs a season in the VFL.

Agree except don’t think W Dawson can play back up ruck.

 

[Mr north man]

Agree except don’t think W Dawson can play back up ruck.

Think his got upside to a just and only way CCJ Pink will play AFL is if we have a massive run of injuries.
Just hope W.Dawson can develop into that role in the VFL to start with in 2025 or Maley steps up again.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Yes

I was being facetious. The poster I was replying to constantly heaps it on LMac.

 

[Arthur Cloke]

I was being facetious. The poster I was replying to constantly heaps it on LMac.

From all reports, Lucky Macs skin folds are the lowest they've been in years. I'm tipping a breakout year for the stall wart.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

From all reports, Lucky Macs skin folds are the lowest they've been in years. I'm tipping a breakout year for the stall wart.

If he can get back to his intercepting Syd days then I'll cut him some slack.

 

[Chadwiko]

B: Archer - Logue - Corr
HB: Hardeman - Comben - C. Daniel
C: McKercher - Sheezel - B. Scott
HF: Zurhaar - Larkey - Simpkin
F: Curtis - Darling - Duursma
R: Xerri - LDU - Wardlaw
INT: Parker, Powell, Ford, Fisher
Sub: (From) Phillips, Stephens, Konstanty, Pink

On the cusp: Goater, Maley, O'Sullivan, McDonald, Goad

 

[buttox]

We are finally on the mend.
I expect a big jump in wins.
Top 8 is a chance.
I love draft picks they have been good to us. But I agree with the team experience is the most important thing.
I can't wait for round 1

 

[speedy]

I hope we get back to the days when a Shane Clayton calibre player is the worst player in the 23.

McHappy Luke not fit enough to tie Shane’s boot laces.

 

[Topparoo]

I hope we get back to the days when a Shane Clayton calibre player is the worst player in the 23.

McHappy Luke not fit enough to tie Shane’s boot laces.

Clayton was a very underrated player by the supporter base.

 

[speedy]

Clayton was a very underrated player by the supporter base.

Oh, he would have been a massive favourite in these parts in this age.

Favourite whipping boy that is….. by the length of the Flemington straight.