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Breust is a freak / absolute superstar. But doesn’t mean he wasn’t slowing down last year. When you have footy iq off the charts you can still kick goals. His effiency is underrated - only needs a few half chances to score. Look at Gunston - his body seems cooked but give him the right...

. Yep. Membrey and Owens far too mobile for Philips on a big ground. Serong also bog at BH so deserved the call up.

Will we show up with the same intensity? Both the Roos and dogs wins came after big losses where we seemed fired up and cracked in. The saints good outside users may be an issue on the bigger Tassie ground. We also managed to push extra bodies around the contest vs the dogs to win the ground...

For someone with supposed elite skills he butchers it a lot. Kicking at 46.5% vs Moore at 70.7%. Career average of 55% by foot.

Just seems to have footy smarts - knows when to lead and find space but also attacks the contest. Dunno how he lasted to a pick in the 50s.

Let’s hope it’s just first year yips. But was probably expecting he’d be a low possession sharpshooter at afl level. But he’s getting a decent amount of the ball (which is a good thing) but not executing (a composure issue?)

He’s currently doing the work of a role player (eg Morrison) As a top 10 pick you’d hope for more upside/impact. Let’s see how the year pans out but seems a fair bit off getting a decent look as an inside mid.

Nick Holland played 3 games in afl in 2005. He didn’t support buddy/rough at all. If we traded Lewis and got two top end tall talents is an interesting question of if we could get by in the following 12-24 months. Ramsden will have another preseason in him, Chol will be 28. Gunston probably...

Anyone know what happened to HH? (Ie why he didn’t play after half time)

Let’s see what we put out tomorrow (and if it works) but does feel at times like we may be trying too many things for a relatively young and inexperienced group.

Which at this stage looks like a very good mid with pick 2. Which then makes the need to trade a F1 for smith less a priority (other than it being well overs) given our kpp issues.

Interesting to see how we manage the combo of chad, Breust, Gunston over rest of year. Arguably playing all 3 isn’t helping our development. Just no chance chad plays this week - we are conservative in recovery. Will need to get through a full BH game to even be considered.

Anything we get out of from now seems like a bit of a bonus given he’s struggled/underwhelmed to date. If he has put on size interesting to see how his contested work goes as historically has had a habit of overcommitting to contest and giving away silly frees.

Need to get more out of Ward, McDonald and butler (obv now injured). Reckon croc should be trialed off hbf (prob at bh first) - he’s just a naturally attacking player with ball in hand. His defensive side is an issue - if Amon can learn then he should be too. But also harder to hide your...

Feels like Ward should be trailed in a high hff role (as would maximise his strengths - run, workrate, clean skills). His stoppage craft doesn’t seem quite there and doesn’t seem quite suited to the wing.