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Screams 'breakout to me' ?

Maybe people are just hungry ?
I was purely focusing on the $ 300-400 k players , looks like I need to go lower still.

Townsend , Stengle , van den Berg , Ham , Bonar surely theirs no risk with all of them.

Don't think I am rich enough to eat that ham.
 
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Marsh 1 threw up some rookie forward for discussion (and to be watched)

Bonar *
Sparrow
Frampton
Kropenyeri-Pickett
Crocker
Georgiades

and a host of $ 123,900.00 or less

might end up with too many to select from at this rate ?
Bonar jury is still out. Thomas and LDU plus others in front of him, i cannot see a inside role for him. Needs to avg 80+ to be of any value.?
Thomas looks set for a Big Year.?

Sparrow NO.

Frampton is on the fringes of my squad of FWD Rooks but Himmelberg, Mc Adam and Stengle look to be the contenders for the FWD Spot left open from Eddie departure.

I like KKP, with the addition of Langdon and Tomlinson to the wings , and the usual suspect back in FWD Line, entry into the FWD 50 should be more precise this year. KKP Looks lively on his feet and could be picking up some crumbs. Currently sits at F5.

Crocker Not on the Radar.

Georglades only in a pinch for the bench spot.
 
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Bonar jury is still out. Thomas and LDU plus others in front of him, i cannot see a inside role for him. Needs to avg 80+ to be of any value.?
Thomas looks set for a Big Year.?

Sparrow NO.

Frampton is on the fringes of my squad of FWD Rooks but Himmelberg, Mc Adam and Stengle look to be the contenders for the FWD Spot left open from Eddie departure.

I like KKP, with the addition of Langdon and Tomlinson to the wings , and the usual suspect back in FWD Line, entry into the FWD 50 should be more precise this year. KKP Looks lively on his feet and could be picking up some crumbs. Currently sits at F5.

Crocker Not on the Radar.

Georglades only in a pinch for the bench spot.
Certainly be interesting to see what happens in their next games.

Jury still out in Bonar whether he is even Best 22 or not , but strange if not why they recruited him.

Massive fan of Thomas , either this year or next.

Need to see Melbourne with their full mids playing

Looks like the Crows will play either Frampton or Himmelberg ahead of Fog to assist ROB.

Crocker , Davies , McAdam , Stengle all in the mix , they have a U23 game against Port on Saturday.

Thinking I might just plonk King at F8.

Like most waiting to actually see Rankine play.

Brander watch tomorrow , then see what presents from the other games.

Xerri could be very interesting depending on Brown.
 
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Essendon best 22 players are also generally struggling with injury this preseason, seems like it will be a long season honestly...


I think Hibberd is still an outside chance for R1, guys like Heppell and Zaha have really struggled this preseason from what I’ve read
Pretty sure Zakka is completely fine, he absolutely dominated the Melbourne 2nd's last Friday.

As far as I'm aware Fantasia has been fine for a while now and Tippa is also recovered.

Hurley is also set to play tomorrow.

Bellchambers is guaranteed to miss round one and Hooker and Heppell are in danger of missing.

Ultimately we haven't had a great preseason but the whole thing has been exaggerated by the media because they wanted a story that would correlate with the Melbourne story from last season.
 
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Can you provide any updates on the Bombers tall forward Harrison. Could he be a bolster for RD1
Even without Daniher and Hooker etc, you'd think that Essendon would be more likely to go with McKernan and Stringer and then a combination of mid talks like Laverde.

I suspect even if Jones plays you might struggle to get any growth out of him, as there's a fair chance that by week 2 or 3 Essendon would be playing 2 rucks, or Hooker or Stewart is available.
 
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