If _______ and _______ are All Australian this year, we make the top 4?

[Go_Dogs]

Hopefully self-explanatory.

It?s absolutely a team sport and we are hopefully better than the sum of our parts, however if you had to nominate two players who if they have All Australian calibre seasons it goes a long way to propelling us into the top 4, who are you nominating?

Because it?s my thread I get to go first.

I?m nominating Baz Smith and Naughton.

If Baz can elevate his game and consistency to that of an All Australian level it will make a huge difference given his running power (both speed and endurance) defensive capability and goal scoring. In this scenario I?m of course still having Bont land an AA jumper too.

Naughton and the club have made a huge commitment to each other and now?s his time to breakout and take over games in a dominant year. Hopefully he becomes a prominent forward and starts getting some of that preferred treatment others get to take him to a 55+ goal season.

Over to you WOOFers.

[Mofra]

Weightman and any outside midfielder.

Weightman is a 'do it all' forward that will never get the no 1 defender.

If we have a running mid (Baz/Treloar/any one of our 57 wingmen) in the AA squad it probably solves our transition issues. We were 16th in the comp for transition from D50 to F50, in a team with Dale & Richards.

[Go_Dogs]

Love the Weightman call (wish I’d thought of that). Forward pocket AA who can take a turn in the middle to add some different looks on top of his 40+ goal season?

[MrMahatma]

If J OD and Artie Jones are All Australians we make top 4. And we prob have a handful other AAs, and we win the flag.

[Jasper]

Simply speaking if Naughton and Ugle-Hagan have AA quality seasons then this would push us right to the top of the tree.
Can you imagine our main 2 key forwards kicking 60 plus goals in the season where that would place us?

[jazzadogs]

If J OD and Artie Jones are All Australians we make top 4. And we prob have a handful other AAs, and we win the flag.

If Artie Jones is an AA in 2024...well I can't even think of something crazy enough to bet! What position do you think he is in?

I know you said that you assume Bont is AA, but I think its worth reiterating - we don't make top 4 as a team without him being a top 5 player in the comp. My other picks would be whichever one of Naughton and Jamarra wins the Coleman, and Treloar or Baz as a hard running mids.

Interestingly, the top 4 sides last year had minimal representation in the aa side...
Pies: Moore CHB, Naicos and Jaicos MID
Lions: Charlie Cameron FP
Demons: Petracca HFF
Port: Butters MID, Rozee HFF, Houston HBF

[hujsh]

How about Coffield and B.Williams?

If we somehow found ourselves and elite interceptor and one of our wingmen when to another level then we'd have to be somewhere close to top 4 you'd think.

[Packaged]

Ugle-Hagan & Bont for mine. If JUH can get to AA contention then either he has kicked bags or set Astro and Weightman up. The Bont will continue doing Bont things and be the AA captain.

[Bulldog Joe]

Weightman and Naughton or Jamarra.

If we have 2 AA forwards we are scoring heavily and that means our rebound and delivery is working really, really well.

We would be looking at top 4 for a start.

[kickit2Koly]

Liam Jones and Naughton

[Bumper Bulldogs]

For mine it Jones and JUH. If they get AA we are a shoe in.

Bont, Libba, Naughts are automatic selection based on LY. Beverages talking up how fit we will be, so here to a great December dr among of our next flag.

[Bigdog]

Naughton and JUH are a good call.

if you have the best performing key forwards in the comp you will have kicked a lot of goals.

[jazzadogs]

Naughton and JUH are a good call.

if you have the best performing key forwards in the comp you will have kicked a lot of goals.

Nick Larkey was All Australian last year...so not a guarantee. Though I agree if you had the TWO AA key forwards you're doing something right.

[Dazza]

J'OD and Jones.

If we had the best 2 KPD's we'd win the grand final in a canter

[Bigdog]

Nick Larkey was All Australian last year...so not a guarantee. Though I agree if you had the TWO AA key forwards you're doing something right.

A poor team couldn't get the supply to have two key forwards in a AA Side. If we had both Naughton and Marra as AA forward we probably get 140 goals out of the 2.

140 goals would be like 55% of norths total score last year.

if we kick a lot of goals and have a competent defence we will be a good side next year.