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Stuart McKenzie's avatar

Thanks HI, that's a terrific article and a great deal of work has gone into preparing that piece.

In the absence of good trades put to us for VFL standouts such as Reeves, Serong, Hustwaite, Mitchell, and Ramsden, given the lack of quality in this year's draft, and the age / experience of this group, it seems preferable to retain them, rather than accept picks in the 40-60 range. It is only genuine opportunity that these players are lacking and, as Butler and Ward have shown this season, you just never know when that opportunity will arise.

The interesting watch is James Worpel, who despite having a contract offer, is yet to sign. If we are confident that Will Day's foot injury is not career threatening, this is an area of the ground where we do have some depth - Ward, Mackenzie, Butler, Nash, Newcombe and Day. If Worps was to depart, his departure is something we can manage and would open up one of the three list spots required.

Watching North play yesterday, this weekend's game will be a real challenge. They have a high-quality group of mid-sized players, two good book ends in Comben and Larkey, possibly the All Australian ruckman and two high quality medium forwards in Curtis and Zurhaar. Clarko will no doubt have the Kangas revved up and we'll need to be on our game. It's going to be a very stressful nine weeks!

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Paddo's avatar

Last weeks ESPN podcast had an interesting discussion on injuries. Although we have lost relatively few total games compared to others, a very high proportion of them have been to best 22 players (based on rolling -2 mths ranking points). Indeed I think they said we were the 2nd most impacted team overall.

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