Preview R1: Changes for 2025

[Captain Furious]

Funny, all you seem to do is post rubbish and then you get defensive when it's called out.

Maybe the internet isn't for you

Maybe Pedlar not currently being part of our best side isn’t rubbish but merely an opinion, and one that is shared by many others. Maybe the internet doesn’t need to be about abusing people for having a difference of opinion. But hey, go for it, other internet stranger, if that’s how you get your kicks.

 

[Danger in Texas]

Pedlar 110% needs a big off-season to start the year in the 23. Same with Milera

As it stands, these are the players that are automatically ahead of each of them:
Pedlar: Rachele, Rankine, Keays, ANB
Milera: Hinge, Cumming, Michalanney, Nankervis

If it was up to me Milera would be ahead of Laird, but I don’t see the coaching staff thinking the same

 

[Golumless]

Thank you for making this abusive and personal. Have you considered that everything wrong in your life is of your own making, unhappy internet stranger?

I look forward to your explanation on how that was abusive and personal.

 

[Doctor B]

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I'm surprised we've jumped to 8th for average age in 2025.

 

[CharlieCrow]

I like some people's confidence that Murphy won't be selected. We all now that, up until now, he was an automatic selection along with Laird and Crouch. The new players should clearly replace all three but I think Nicks will find it hard to let them go, especially in one fell swoop.
I can live with Crouch being retained if he plays as well as he did when he came back into the side last year. He has a point of difference that I'd like to see in action with Draper and Peatling on the outside.
I think that Murphy is the most vulnerable and he is dispensable, and also easiest to cut, because he is not a club champion or match winner.
But ..... can you actually see Laird, our all-Australian and three time club champion, not being selected, at east at the start of the year? He absolutely deserves to be omitted, especially after some of those obvious soft plays widely circulated from last season, not to mention his lack of leadership in the Rachele issue. And his kicking has been terrible for years, only hidden by being an attacking defender. I know the club did it with club champion and all-Australian Scott Thompson but that was a different time with a different coach.
Look out for at least two of these chaps being in the selection conversation - like it or not.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Crouch is still part of our best midfield, particularly with quicker players around him.

Laird isn't, so I have named him as a defender.

But he’s a rubbish defender. We have better options. He can play SANFL.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Fit and “playing with full confidence” are two different things, especially in Milera’s case. If we can get him playing a consistent patch with confidence then he’s certainly best 22.

We’ve got talent on the list now. Now need to play a guy that is always injured and shirks contact,

 

[Burtonsgottago]

If the decision is Laird or Milera at half back I'm picking Milera.

Shouldn’t be either

 

[Carmo]

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I'm surprised we've jumped to 8th for average age in 2025.

Subtract out Tex from our list, average age drops by almost a year, avg games drop by 10.

Subtract out smith, do.the same again.

Basically we're Tex and Smith off being north and Richmond.

 

[1990crow]

Subtract out Tex from our list, average age drops by almost a year, avg games drop by 10.

Subtract out smith, do.the same again.

Basically we're Tex and Smith off being north and Richmond.

Wasting games on players who aren't any good has been a problem.

 

[FR0GGY]

Subtract out Tex from our list, average age drops by almost a year, avg games drop by 10.

Subtract out smith, do.the same again.

Basically we're Tex and Smith off being north and Richmond.

What if you drop all the clubs two oldest players?

 

[Scorpus]

New numbers confirmed:

Nick Murray - 9

Tyler Welsh - 17

James Peatling - 25

Alex Neal-Bullen

28

Alex Neal-bullen

Age

28

Ht

182cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.3

4star

K

8.7

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

4.1

5star

G

0.8

4star

D

10.5

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

4.5

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

1.5

2star

G

1.5

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

5.0

4star

M

1.4

2star

T

2.0

4star

G

1.0

4star

28

Sid Draper - 34

Isaac Cumming

44

Isaac Cumming

Age

26

Ht

188cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.2

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

5.2

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.3

4star

MG

158.0

2star

D

9.5

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

4.5

3star

M

1.5

2star

T

2.5

3star

MG

158.0

3star

D

10.6

3star

K

5.6

3star

HB

5.0

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.6

4star

- 44

 

[1990crow]

New numbers confirmed:

Nick Murray - 9

Tyler Welsh - 17

James Peatling - 25

Alex Neal-Bullen 28

Sid Draper - 34

Isaac Cumming - 44

Nick Murray to be our big bodied mid?
Cumming to 44 is a bit odd.
Hopefully Draper moves into number 4 soon.

 

[Scorpus]

Nick Murray to be our big bodied mid?
Cumming to 44 is a bit odd.
Hopefully Draper moves into number 4 soon.

Lachlan Murphy is only 25 years old, so he'll be waiting a while

 

[1990crow]

What if you drop all the clubs two oldest players?

It's true though, going to take a few more years for the list to mature and get into that top 6 bracket where you generally become a contender.

 

[1990crow]

Lachlan Murphy is only 25 years old, so he'll be waiting a while

Maybe Berry when his deal is up.

 

[1990crow]

What number does NWM get in 2026?
18?

 

[Cromulant]

What number does NWM get in 2026?
18?

18

 

[dogs105]

Nick Murray to be our big bodied mid?
Cumming to 44 is a bit odd.
Hopefully Draper moves into number 4 soon.

Good to see the Bruce Lindner, Tony Hall number going back to a bigger guy...

(though Tony Hall is actually the same height as Rory Sloane...)

 

[Eddie Murphy]

Nick Murray to be our big bodied mid?
Cumming to 44 is a bit odd.
Hopefully Draper moves into number 4 soon.

This surely confirms Cumming will take 13 once Tex retires.

 

[MsTopG]

If the decision is Laird or Milera at half back I'm picking Milera.

Laird has never been a half back. He was a back pocket when he played in the defence. Milera should have been traded years ago. He will be delisted when ooc.

 

[crows dude]

Good to see the Bruce Lindner, Tony Hall number going back to a bigger guy...

(though Tony Hall is actually the same height as Rory Sloane...)

Neither Hall nor Linda were big.

Linder was same hiehgt as Sloane as was Hall

 

[crows dude]

Laird has never been a half back. He was a back pocket when he played in the defence. Milera should have been traded years ago. He will be delisted when ooc.

in 2015-19 he was half back racking up 30 plus touches a week

 

[The Shapeshifter]

Subtract out Tex from our list, average age drops by almost a year, avg games drop by 10.

Subtract out smith, do.the same again.

Basically we're Tex and Smith off being north and Richmond.

In terms of average age, if you do that for every other team, about the same thing happens. The average age of each teams oldest 2 players is 33.25 years, ours is 33.5 years, which makes us equal 7th and 8th with hawks. Below us are clubs 9-12 averaging half a year less. What's actually important isn't the raw numbers, it's reliance on the older players. Our 3 oldest, Laird is 3rd, probably won't contribute a whole lot more to our best 23 than their replacements. Tex might if he's physically good to go and we don't wear him out, but Smith shouldn't be auto selected anymore and Laird wouldn't be too far ahead of next man up.

 

[The Shapeshifter]

What if you drop all the clubs two oldest players?

Just to follow up on my other post, as I forgot to include Freo. Our oldest 2 players is equal 7th-9th with Freo and Hawks at 33.5 years old average. Places 10-13 average 33 years. If we removed the 2 oldest players from every club, we would be 9th youngest, 0.1 year younger than Suns and 0.1 year older than Port. There would be 6 clubs within 0.3 of a year above and below us, Carlton 6th at 24.6, us 9th at 24.3 and Freo 12th at 24.0.

Really a kind of nothing analysis. I'm surprised it got likes, I'd have thought them harder to come across.