Pennant St Dee

Welcome aboard Jai, hopefully the start to a great second phase of your career

Surface down there is good, like a lot of WA grounds not much give in them underfoot but far more easier on the body than Optus. Big ground with wide pockets which can cause some set shot inefficiencies

Unfortunately I’ve got family commitments and also seen I have a clash with coaching commitments on the Saturday night we play West Coast over here. Murphys law, get one Saturday night game for the season and it’s the Saturday Melbourne travel here So unless we play a final over here no live watch outside of Melbourne for me this year

Welcome aboard Jack (Hendo). Best of luck, earned your opportunity the hard way.

If he’s got the miles in his legs before the infection and gets back soon enough I think Windsor will be in B. Lever May Bowey HB. Salem Petty Windsor C. Langdon Viney Sharp HF. Fritsch Turner Langford F. Trac JVR. Henderson R. Gawn, Oliver, Rivers I/C Howes, Sparrow, Laurie, Johnson EMG. McDonald, Billings, Chandler

Kane Cornes the cheerleader for Hawthorn and how great they have been in turning their list around said the below leading into the 2023 season, he’s a moron Kane Cornes and Matthew Lloyd are both worried Hawthorn may be cutting too deep, with the potential to lose Tom Mitchell, Jaeger O’Meara, Jack Gunston, Ben McEvoy and Liam Shiels in one off-season. The moves would leave 31-year-old Luke Breust as the most senior player on the list, with Chad Wingard (29), Sam Frost (29) and James Sicily (27) the next oldest. They will have cut nine of their 13 oldest players from their 2021 list and Cornes believes it is exposing a young core that isn’t quite ready. “I think it’s about the balance for me. They’ve got these players leaving and yes they’re going to the draft, but they’re not going to the draft with anything significant from the Tom Mitchell trade, or the O’Meara trade,” he told AFL Trade Radio. “You can still go to the draft, keep the experienced players around you and the best example of it is what Collingwood did. “I mean, you’re giving yourself no chance next year. Collingwood finished 17th the previous year. They kept Taylor Adams, Darcy Moore, Scott Pendlebury, Mason Cox, Jeremy Howe, Steele Sidebottom, they kept the experience around them, but they also invested in youth and gave them opportunity. “What Hawthorn is essentially doing is saying ‘we’ve got no hope, we’re essentially tanking’. “I rate Sam Mitchell highly as a coach, but not many coaches survive three or four years of a hard rebuild. I can see it being ugly for two or three more years.” Matthew Lloyd believes the Hawks don’t yet have the elite core of young players to carry their future hopes. “I think the Hawks have some good young players, but they don’t have the cream of the crop. That’s where it’s going to be a really tough season next year,” Lloyd said. “I really like Will Day, he’s got to get a really good pre-season into him. He’s injured a lot, he needs to get stronger, he hasn’t got the muscle tone he probably needs, but I can see what he does. He’s going to be an elite player. “Josh Ward was pick seven, you hope he goes on. He’s a workmanlike player at this point, but you’d hope he can become like Andrew Brayshaw. Connor MacDonald was taken in the 20s, but it will be interesting to see how dire it is going to be for a year or two and I think they are cutting too thin.” Hawthorn hopes to add Fremantle ruckman Lloyd Meek before the end of the trade period, but will attempt to work out trades for both Mitchell and O’Meara.

Thanks for the report very much appreciated

You also named Billings at HFF and Interchange, but like your assessment always good to have good pre season or block of training to have a good season although I think it stands out more at the back end of the year if you have had a good run

Not sure on this, think they take up a list spot as clubs have been burnt in the past. Something like this happened when Castagna retired from Richmond half way through pre season

Big thanks to all the track watchers, very much appreciated

That’s not correct, Kings has on many occasions complimented us on our training intensity and professionalism in the way we’ve gone about things with a brutality that others need to match. When discussing Carlton training sessions pre season 2024 he mentioned they had gone up a level to a physical intensity he’d previously witnessed at Melbourne sessions. Whilst he’s a [censored] at times, got to acknowledge some positives he says

Repeated several times buyer beware, the knees are not good.

Read a stat today that only Hawthorn have won more premierships than us in the last 100 years. Everything can be used to show a positive light, politicians been doing it since the dawn of time. I actually believe our last 10 years has been similar to other clubs in similar builds over time. Yeah should have probably grabbed 1 more but we ain’t done yet

I think they won’t offer Brayshaw a massive amount. May be a long contract to spread money over a period of 6 to 7 years

Nah it had an impact but it was the lack of 2 way run, which killed him