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brb editing my post to say 'potential premiers'

Would expect them to be right up there this year but it also isn't unreasonable to say they've mortgaged their future. Sure, you can say they'll pull a rabbit out of the hat again but until we actually see what they do you can't argue otherwise.

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Surely freo walk in a finals appearance and potentially top 4? They've got an exceptional list even with their over investment into the ruck division.

If Windsor goes to HBF I think that'd signal Rivers as a full time mid, but who knows with Goody lol

Language is pretty tame tbh, wait to see if anything comes of it.

Yeah, not a ton in that article indicates them actually doing anything wrong. Will wait for further comments from players/club/police, but the language is pretty tame.

I don't think it is ALL on the pressure part, but it definitely contributes. Goodwin being obsessed with playing a tall F50 certainly doesn't help.

Desperately need the Indian cricket team to come out and publicly endorse the Australian Labour Party if we want Topkent to support Aus here I think.

Reckon the last two might as well have a crack here, give yourself 45 min at India before stumps.

Cummins having to carry us with the bat again is ridiculous but I think they've already put a total on the board that India won't just walk in. Every run from here is gold.

How much we think we need to be in with a real shot? 250?

Great test match tbh

Plenty of things to criticize in our list management recently but I don't have 'things that didn't happen' very high on the list.

Yeah club is weird with Spargo, they've been so quiet about his injuries. In reality if we fall apart in 2025 I could see us delisting 7-8 guys.

Geez delistings will be easy in 10 months time. Billings/Fullarton a lock to go, Spargo/Howes/Woewodin/TMac/Campbell/Melksham playing for their careers.

Sorry, I'm not sure what this post is trying to say? If we have to wait for 2025 results before we can talk about who we think will contend then we might as well shut down any discussion and go only off hindsight.

Is it really an argument that Carlton is a contender in 2025? Like the definition of 'contender' is pretty loose. I'd call the following clubs a 'contender' in 2025: Lions Swans GWS Blues Pies Freo Dogs Geelong The competition is so even these days, you don't have to have a...

Outside players are actually better at defending than inside players anyway, the running power matters a lot more than winning a random contest.

To be fair most gun mids are pretty shit defensively, especially the inside ones.

Power isn't something that goes hand in hand with speed though Dan, I'm not saying he should be playing straight away but I feel you need to be a bit more patient with Langford. Cripps I'd say is a very powerful player but he is very slow, Trac is extremely powerful but his sprint isn't much...

Yep, his marking stood out on the highlight videos.

Hopefully they'll make finals

If he's replacing Sparrow I'm perfectly fine with it.

Think you're over estimating Carlton a bit tbh, a lot of the problems we had they are now encountering with the way they play. I think they'll finish above us for sure but really doubt they'll push for the flag.

Jeff has been a bit weird for all this IMO

I'm happy we drafted mids, but if they're rolling out Oliver/Trac/Viney for the majority of the time in 2025 we are absolutely cooked.

I know DL is always overly optimistic but I find it funny how the discourse on there is 'we will improve next year and push for top 4'. Do these people watch any games outside of ours? Do they even watch ours? I agree we 'should' be in the finals mix but so many people are so confident we will...