Her skills are absolutely pinpoint. It’s so good to watch

Presume that st kilda bids on him pick 8. How many points do we need and how many do we have? I know we are guaranteed to get him but could we also grab nyugen?

AFLW Round 1: Essendon Bombers vs Richmond Tigers

Date: 26.10.2024
Venue: TIO Stadium, Darwin, Larrakia

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Hey Essendon Reddit,

Thanks for being a big supporter of what we do at Don The Stat. We're looking to do something fun over the off-season and we're going to do a 'Hot-Take' episode responding to your best afl Hot Takes.

These can be Essendon related or about the AFL in general and about things in the past, present or future. We'll take the best ones and have Jono respond to them on a Don The Stat episode in the coming week.

Let's hear your hottest of hot takes!

Anyone think Nik cox will find his feet in the forward line? Every single time he’s been there he has kicked a couple of bags, I think he will have a bit of a break out season next year if Brad Scott plays him half forward or full forward.

Looking at our outgoings this off season

• Weid is gone played defense all year in the VFL one game in the AFL
• Jake Kelly played 20 games mainly in defense
• Dyson Heppell helping out in the backline when we needed him as third tall defender
• Baldwin is gonesky no games this year could be training on but relying on him to play games for us is dicey
• Reid (1 game for 8 career games and 0 in 2023) and Ridley (9 games for 85 career games 17/23 in 2023) both are which are seeing specialists in Qatar this off season
• Leaves Laverde, McKay, Hayes (0 AFL games)
• Cox can play back but his best game for the club came up forward

Do we look at a stop gap for just a year or two?

Options can include

• Sam Durdin pretty injury prone from memory
• Nathan Kreuger pretty injury prone from memory
• Denver Grainger-Barras but pretty sure he is off to WCE
• Ethan Phillips was a gun in the VFL
• Adam Tomlinson Collingwood are apparently keen on him
• Bigoa Nyuon haven't seen enough of him to say either way
• Tom Clurey seems experienced enough could be a good option for a year
• Riley Bonner but seems more a rebounder from defence
• Josh Rotham who seems to be a worse Laverde

Just thinking we might need someone to help us in the VFL especially if Reid and Ridley don't get themselves right

Cox, Perkins, Reid

Hobbs, Davey

Tsatas

All high end draft talent. I don't think anyone could deny that none of them has so far developed in a manner commensurate with expectations (or hopes...)

What's going on? Have we consistently made poor choices at the draft? Or do we just wreck young players? Or both?

Some of the above might turn into decent players yet, but there's nothing to suggest any will be a star.

Perfectly done after a great period of success, hit bottom, reset, clean the slate, arm yourself with as many picks as possible and rebuild. My prediction if they choose well (plus a good coach of course) is they be knocking on the 8 and see success much faster than us. You can check back with me in 3 years

Our defence has been rubbish for so long… big job for Ben Jacob’s…

Parish, Merrett, Shiel, Tsatas, Hobbs, Perkins, Setterfield, Caldwell, Durham. How do we juggle this in 2025? Merrett, Caldwell & Durham looked great this year but Parish can’t really do anything else. Shiel was impressive in limited time but we need to start giving Tsatas, Perkins & Hobbs some time to see what they’re capable of.

Shiel & Setterfield probably move on after 2025 but even then that’s still too many. I’d personally try trade Parish but that’ll never happen.

What would you do next year to handle this?

I really feel this is under for a 40 goal kicker this year, but happy to get the attitude off our books.

Anyone else excited by this kid?

Looks pretty clean and fun to watch (the highlights) and Vietnamese to boot!

Reckon this is going to be a way to get the community behind him?

(My son is a young half viet boy and loves everything about both his countries - hoping to get him his # on his jumper if we sign him!)

before i say this i want to say, i dont expect us to do amazing next year, we’re (hopefully) starting what resembles a rebuild.

play the kids. we saw glimpses of this last year with caddy and roberts, but this upcoming year i want to play the kids who excel in the vfl (tsatas, el hawli etc) instead of playing players like perkins, who play average in the 2s. i get we need to development but caddy was ready long before we brought him in. i also dont want goldstein played over bryan AT ALL, unless we have an emergency (injury or illness). we need to develop bryan, which we towards the end of this year. finally, i hope we debut players who deserve it and have shown their capable (hayes, el hawli, possibly luamon)

let me know what you thinl !