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It’s the Libba factor. Has there been another player that is so effective at causing opposition players to lose their minds? He not only drives them mad, he cuts them up with ball in hand. I wish he...

It matters less about who is rucking and more about what happens when the number #1 is resting. If you have enough height forward, even if you take one away to fulfil some ruck minutes, you’re left...

Can someone please ask Coons about Tullamarine’s spongy floors?

I’d be considering any low cost natural forwards. Haven’t seen enough of Honey to know if it’s worthwhile, but certainly the right type of player we should be seeking out.

If losing Dunks allows us to fill major holes with Lobb and Logue, when do we book Josh’s Uber to Tullamarine?

The article fails to even touch on the structural issues when taking forwards out of the F50 to fulfil makeshift ruck minutes and the flow on effect that has to their ability to score and retain the...

I’m a fan of Scott too. Those Mr Fixit gap fillers who can actually use the ball well are valuable. I think he’ll continue to improve over the next year or two and become a regular 20+ per game...

If McStay can get 600k for 5 years, Naughts is going to command 1.2M for 7 years.

If we somehow make the 8, it should mean we’re in decent shape.

How Timmy gets over this concussion will be a big factor. Even if he’s good to go next week, I think we’re just a little too off the...

If I ever had the chance, he is one player I would unashamedly fan boi over and tell him how thankful I am for all he did for the club (i.e. becoming superhuman at the exact moment we needed it and...

Because Essendon fans are delusional idiots and there are plenty of them.

It wouldn’t be a proper footy season without us trying to work out who needs to lose for us to scrape into a higher position on the ladder!

Weird that an Essendon stalwart and legend is headlining a Bulldogs function.

Well *!*!*!*!.

Going to need another big performance from Timmy. He’s quickly becoming our game changer. If he dominates, we’ll probably win. If he doesn’t, we’ll struggle. He’s that important now.

As long as we have all the cash we need to retain Naughts (which I’m sure we’re keeping a very close eye on). He’s one of only two players I would consider truly untouchable on our list (Bont the...

I didn’t realise that, they’re almost playing a different sport. Probably an insight into how the brains trust at the top levels see the game eventually developing.

If so, the game is cooked long...

This is one that would suit us. Timmy’s major weakness is positioning and body work at throw ins. Bevo playing the long game :D

Weird how Naughton goes ape shit when he actually has some structural support around him. Not to mention the flow on effect of Cody getting a mismatch as the opposition has to worry about the extra...

Cleary showed plenty and Crozier is just about cooked as a senior footballer.

Young will never be THE guy, but he can be A guy.

Pretty sure the JJ deal was signed at the Railway hotel on GF night after about 20 beers, we just didn’t announce it until later :D

Dale also seems like an absolute clean skin off field, unlike a few we’ve given big deals to in the past which have come back to hurt us (JJ, Hunter).

Long contract but the penny has dropped and I think we’ll get good value out of him over the deal, particularly if the trade off was less per year over a longer period.

He’s truly an elite half...

Of course he’s crap. No one any good wants to drink from that poisoned chalice.

Just about my favourite player to watch when he’s really sizzling. Love everything about him.

The names you’re mentioning are part of their long term issues: they haven’t had enough (any?) senior players (25+) leading the way over the last 5 years. They cut a lot of dead wood and were still...

It was a bonus but they earned it, clearly the best side throughout the year (and they were helped even further by the second best side imploding in the last month of the H&A).

And that finals...

We kind of went through small patches of it during 2002-2004 and 2013-2014 when it felt like we were headed for some long term pain and obscurity but this is next level. This is early year expansion...

Yeah, no one was beating Melbourne during the finals. They were the best side by quite a margin.

They lost to us by a point in a game that could have gone either way and would have smashed Port just like we did. They also would have put up a better fight in the GF.

It is a shame we have probably the best 2nd ruck/forward in the competition but he either doesn’t want to play there or we have no one better to take the main ruck role. We’re so close to figuring...

Wouldn’t surprise if one of them made it to the GF, but can’t see either winning it. Brisbane obviously a huge chance if they can avoid Melbourne.

It’s a shame we chose this year to be ****house.

How would any of us know? He’s had stuff all chance to settle in and show anything.

I just want someone on the list that we’ll actually play in the role of 2nd ruck/forward to partner with English. As long as they’re decent, I really don’t care if it’s Sweet or someone else. What is...

I think he’ll be worth more to us and have a bigger impact on our fortunes as a ruck/forward than a defender.

We need a ready made quality key defender during this year’s trade period. We also...

Agree. Key defender and ruck/forward are absolute necessities (have been for the last 2 years). Draft the best pure forwards, these types tend to come in and make an impact earlier anyway.

Timmy staying til end of 2024, Caleb until 2026.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/06/14/dogs-stars-ink-new-deals-at-the-kennel/

Time to get the big Chilli a proper ruck partner and make the...

I wouldn’t do that if I was Port’s list manager. Butters is a jet.