B: Andrew McGrath, Steven May, Jake Lever
HB: Trent Rivers, Jordan Ridley, Christian Salem
C: Ed Langdon, Christian Petracca, Kyle Langford
HF: Kysaiah Pickett, Tom McDonald, Jake Stringer
F: Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti, Ben Brown, Bayley Fritsch
FOLL: Max Gawn, Clayton Oliver, Darcy Parish
I/C: Luke Jackson, Jack Viney, Zach Merrett, Nick Hind
Emg: Angus Brayshaw, Dylan Shiel, Archie Perkins, Nik Cox, Jye Caldwell, Sam Draper
7-8 players Hind maybe a bit lucky, but he is versatile and fast
Langdon edges Langford as well, his running power is perfect for modern footy
Really? I would have Langford ahead of Brayshaw and Langdon. Maybe I overrate Langers…
I think Langford is the biggest stretch as well.
Hind is a good choice though. I think that lad is a beauty, and would love to have him in any side.
Might more a case of under rating Langdon and Brayshaw.
i agree with all of this, but we still have have a fatal flaw.
turning over the ball on the wing/hff with shtty handballs.
for mine it’s the major (maybe only) difference between now and top 4.
hot take: i’d put harry jones in over tom mcdonald.
mcdonald’s disposal is very ordinary. without looking it up i reckon he’d run at about 1 in 5 disposals being clangers.
Round 1 - Geelong - Lose
Round 2 - Bris - Win
Round 3 - Melbourne - Win
Round 4 - Ade - Win
Round 5 - Freo - Win
Round 6 - Pies - Win
Round 7 - WB - Win
Round 8 - Hawks - Win
Round 9 - Swans - Lose
Round 10 - Tigers - Win
Round 11 - Power - Loss
Round 12 - Bye
Round 13 - Blues - Lose
Round 14 - Saints - Win
Round 15 - Eagles - Win
Round 16 - Swans - Win
Round 17 - Lions - Loss
Round 18 - Suns - Win
Round 19 - Pies - Win
Round 20 - North - Win
Round 21 - Giants - Win
Round 22 - Power - Loss
Round 23 - Tigers - Win
Hmmmm, I think stringer and petracca are a better comparison.
We don’t have a forward to compare to Fritsch, McDonald or brown. And for so long as tippa is out we don’t have a small forward as good as pickett either.
Parish and Merrett a very different players to Oliver and Viney, smarter and more polished. Viney and Oliver are both brutes. Caldwell is probably closer in style from what I’ve seen.
Oh and none of our wing options have the runs on the board that Langdon and Brayshaw do
Geelong are notoriously slow starters.
My mate who is a Geelong supporter always jokes that he doesn’t pay attention until the mid season break.
We should be beating Geelong IMO.
I expect Geelong to defend well, and they have 2-3 good forwards, but our midfield should wipe them off the park, before Dangerfield and Selwood wake up whats happening.
all this talk of we are definitely top 6 worries me. i think we’re a good chance to do that but lets not forget we only beat one top 8 side last year, and got trounced in a final, again
i just hope the players dont start buying into their own hype. we are a team who have achieved nothing.
I don’t think Dangerfield has been at his peak performance level for the last couple of years. He’s still very good, but not the unstoppable force he used to be. Selwood must eventually drop off you’d think, but he’s been pretty consistent in the last few years.
I think it’s quite clear that they haven’t done/aren’t doing that.
We were pretty competitive in that final against an eventual Grand Finalist for ~3qtrs before the dam wall burst. Improvement might see us still make and lose a final but least push it deeper.
Improvement isn’t linear, but all signs point to improvement again and I expect we’ll be there abouts for a top ~6-8 spot in the run home to finals. We’ve got a very good fixture to start the season. Some tough matches no doubt, but 8 straight in Melbourne really is a bit of a dream start to set up the back half of the season and something that many on here have lamented not getting in years previous.
i hope you are correct
its very, very hard to trust we’ll be good 
No doubt. Big serve of “believe it when I see it”. But this rebuild and resurgence does “look and feel” vastly different to those previous.
We are as much chance to be bottom 4 as we are top 4 IMO.
I was pretty encouraged with the game plan and the buy in last year. I even saw Heppell kicking short to players last year instead of bombing long to an opposition player. That’s something I didn’t expect to see.
If Hurley gets a game this year, and kicks to an Essendon player, I’ll know everything has changed.
im not sure how you can come to that conclusion
our midfield will see us a chance in most games. i can see a world where we potentially finish 9-12 but not bottom 4
