Absolutely love your Port insight Big Russ!! Keep it up mate. I'm sure many other SCS members appreciate your work. 
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Haha no worries mate, I sponge a lot of information from the regulars here it's only fitting to try and give back when you can. I'm pretty lucky in a lot of ways, I trained with the magpies as an u/18 so I still know a few admin type blokes around the club and get pretty good access to the players especially on these family days.
I watched Sammy pretty closely all game he played H2H with Boak basically the whole time. Hard to split them in the end I thought he maybe had the better of Boak too. Others had Boak on top but it's hard to tell without video. I love going to the footy but to actually watch games TV comes up trumps. Sam Was used quite a bit as the 2nd possession from stoppages and his hands were exceptional. I think he might be a good pick. He'll play all 3 NAB games I reckon so we'll get a better look at him over the next few weeks. It's almost certain I'll be starting either him of Westhoff.
Robbie is in my opinion one of the best 3 clearance players in the comp, especially from centre bounces. Too valuable to play forward for too long. He'll play 75/25 chopping out with Wingard I think. Makes it hard to fit Sam in to the rotation with Wines, Hartlett, Ebert etc. I have him ahead of Ebert at this point though. Like I said watch him in the NAB and more importantly who he lines up in the middle with and we'll get a good idea of where he stands.
Robbie is in my opinion one of the best 3 clearance players in the comp, especially from centre bounces. Too valuable to play forward for too long. He'll play 75/25 chopping out with Wingard I think. Makes it hard to fit Sam in to the rotation with Wines, Hartlett, Ebert etc. I have him ahead of Ebert at this point though. Like I said watch him in the NAB and more importantly who he lines up in the middle with and we'll get a good idea of where he stands.
Was that Robbie or Sam Gray you are talking about?
Also what was your opinion on Lobbe in the intra club match?
Also what was your opinion on Lobbe in the intra club match?
Lobbe was bloody terrible, was soundly beaten by a kid yet to debut. The most alarming thing was he just didn't look very interested. In a position where he knew he was the only ruck we had but Kenny doesn't take kindly to that sort of attitude. Dare say he'll have had a rocket put up him this week. If he puts up another performance like that through the NAB there's no way he'll be in my side.
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Both Wingard and Gray would be relying on injuries to the mids for more time on ball. I think Gray will be taking Monfries' spot - not based on anything solid, just a hunch. Would not take Gray just yet, as his role is a bit uncertain. If he plays as a more as a mid, probably a bargain. Wingard and Rioli are both wonderful small forwards. Think the Hawks are finally getting Rioli's training program right so I am expecting his durability to further improve this season. Cyril for me, could be a positive POD.
At this stage given you actually have names on option 1 I reckon that's the go. All 3 of those appear to be players we will need and I think it is better to get your head around the concept of expensive rookies earlier rather than later. Teams with all $100K rookies look great at this stage of the year but we know that rarely eventuates into reality.
I've been morphing my team into the Ashby/Currie/Wells/Trengove types the last few days and while it is a fairly different team staring at me I'd rather start working on it now rather than with one week to go.
I've been morphing my team into the Ashby/Currie/Wells/Trengove types the last few days and while it is a fairly different team staring at me I'd rather start working on it now rather than with one week to go.
