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Ack.

I guess it was only a matter of time until the segment of perennial victims on ‘land found a new reason for victimhood status.

We’re crying out for small forwards as it is and have sufficient depth off the HBF. Although the injury to AMW is less than ideal, I wouldn’t be taking Chandler from the forward line when we’ll already be missing Pickett and ANB (although we may find Sharp is able to assist - but I’ll need more exposed form than his game against Norf, as impressive as it was).

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Outside of the potentially deviating result to AMW, I actually thought this was a pretty impressive result given our omissions against an almost full strength North. Sharp was really impressive and I thought AJ did a lot right when he was on. Campbell is a great addition as a ready to go depth player, and St Francis and Langford could be two of our most important additions since we brought in Petracca and Gus together.

Potentially horrible result for AMW. Absolute shame as he was looking in ripping form for R1. Fingers crossed it’s a more fortuitous result for the young man.

That last goal was crazy! He’s looking in very, very good form.

Howes gets his legs taken out with contact below the knees and it’s a free against. Wot?

Burnt beans.

Plus the compounding issue of Pickett missing the first three.

Agreed on this.

I haven't ruled out anybody, and I haven't faulted any of the players. I've merely pointed out that with the exception of Petracca, expecting any of the other listed players to have the output that Pickett has (and I say this is a someone who is often critical of Pickett), is pretty fanciful. I mean, Langford hasn't even played a game for us and Spargo isn't in the same league as Pickett. No reason any of the players you've mentioned shouldn't be given an opportunity, but let's have some sense of reasonableness with our expectations.

That's a very big call to make on a bunch of players that have played 6 games (AMW). 2 games (KB), and zero games (Langford), or have never won us a game via individual performance and likely won't even be playing (Spargo). The only one there I'd give credence to is Trac.

Thanks, mate. Appreciated.

I believe we have three days, including today. I suspect there's a chance we'll have two spots available, with LK and McAdam moved to the inactive list in which case we'll add Culley and a small forward.