SSSSHHHHHHHHH!!! 
I’m not sure we will see him now. Possibly if the seniors drop a couple of games and finals are not possible he may get a look. But he looks to me like just getting through a vfl season (and hopefully VFL finals) is physically a good effort given how he plays.
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As much as we bemoan the lack of inside mids coming through (despite many younger prospects drafted recently), we’re still pretty light on for outside mids as well. Which may be Colyer’s saving grace at the moment.
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Stats are up. Team stats are very similar except Casey had 44 extra handballs (working their way into the wind) and we won hit-outs easily (58-30).
In Dreamteam order:
Bird 28 disposals and 9 tackles
Loony 39 hit-outs and 10 tackles
Hocking 25 and 8 tackles (and an angled set shot goal, utterly unworried by the wind)
Dea 17 and 9 tackles
Howlett 19 and 9 tackles
Langford 19 and 6 tackles
Merrett 13 and 1.3
Mutch 22
Redman 21
Stanton 15 (I’m confused)
Ambrose 16
Nobby 18
Francis 14 and 1 goal as a defender in three quarters
Ferry 15
Clarke 9 and 7 tackles
McKernan 12 and 1.2
Long 14 and 0.2 (that plus a further miss all in one minute of chaos)
Begley 8 and 1.0
Boyse 9 and 0.1
Draper 3 and 16 hit-outs
Hind 9 and 1.0
Morgan 7
The Traveller 7
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My feeling is that Begley needs to get more of the ball before playing seniors.
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The Morgan stats, if accurate, are fascinating. Basically, every possession must have stood out because he used his pace. He accumulated virtually nothing. There’s a lesson in there methinks - start using your strength very very soon or get delisted very very soon.
Bird is plug and play. You know what you’ll get at both levels and he’s reliable. Balancing up the senior side is the biggest issue for his future. Legit old school footballer. He’s the one most deserving of promotion on outright performance and imo would play seniors in several sides. But Jobe, Hepp, Myers etc are there.
Langers, if they insist on the midfield role (I’m in the 70/30 Forward camp fwiw, and reverse that for Lav) needs Diesel to watch his tapes and work on his stoppages positioning. Put himself in no-mans-land too often imo.
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