My thoughts on our list and depth, few thoughts:

• Green are locks for rd1, everyone else is speculative
• There’s a list of high likely rd1 players: bramble, freijah, west, Williams etc. I won’t be surprised if any of those are missing though. Bevo loves to experiment early in the season.
• JJ’s last season I sense, hope he can get some continuity in his body, he provides another dimension to our team when fit.
• Garcia and Sanders must play, particularly after signing Garcia despite speculation he was gone, way too good for vfl.
• I suspect Buss may take JODs spot at some point, a lot of competition for that 3rd KPD. He’s ready I reckon. Can easily see a scenario where Buss gets in and plays 90% of season, he fits the 3rd tall role better as an interceptor as opposed to JOD who is stockier and more lockdown. Gardner is purely injury insurance & Croft is still raw (can play fwd/back)
• Preseason in defence for Lobb could be ridiculous for us, could easily be #1 intercept defence for 2025, only 2nd preseason for Pratt as well
• After first season I’m not sure if I’m a fan of Coffield, not big enough to be KP, not quick enough to be HBF, too clunky for BP. Not a great ball user and pretty injury prone, give him another year but could be a list clogger
• Williams pretty likely a lock for the wing but I tried to be strict with the locks
• West should 150% be in our best 22 all year but never know with Bevo, I think our biggest list gap is small forwards. If you look at our non-KP fwd depth, none of those are quality. Weightman, then West fair way behind, then the Flemington straight before Vands, McNeil and the rest still a fair bit off Vands even though he’s not great. Was a massive fan of Vands few years back but slowly has eroded my confidence, can go missing and proving to be a bit injury prone
• Garcia MUST play every game, we moved on 3 mids so no excuse now. Get him in and give him mid minutes, starts at HFF though and rotates in, he’s ahead of Gags, Sanders by a lot
• preseason for Richards in the midfield will be a difference maker, if he turns himself into a consistent 25-30d per game player, we’ll have best midfield in the league
• Hynes probably fits in the medium fwds more than midfield, Dolan I think is most likely to play early given the lack of quality small fwds.

So who takes the last bench spot and sub? Personally think it should be 2x small fwds, but I suspect it’ll be M.Kennedy and Vands/McNeil.

Bevo contract year, must make top 6. No excuses now, commentary on us having best list is debatable. My opinion is we do when looking to the future but on game day we lack fwd ground game, too much reliance on mids to kick crumbing goals. Weightman hardly a crumbing fwd which leaves us with West, Vands and McNeil. A jones not ready and Clarke gone, high hopes for Dolan.

Biggest factor in everything is the extent of organic growth — Darcy, JUH, Naughton, Richards, Buss, JOD, Lobb learning backline, English could return to AA, Freijah, etc.

Departures don’t concern me, all correct financial decisions and Baz leaving was accounted for all season.

9th in w awards 3 year contract extension Probably gonna romp it in our bnf

She's a big bodied athletic left footed number 4. Where we seen that before?

what do we think of this move and should we sign him up?

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Great kick off both feet and a power runner.

https://preview.redd.it/3r0lb05pv82e1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b889059029d563d81caf77f7ff0f24fce6671dcb

VFL best young player for 2024, can slot in on a half-forward flank in round 1.

he’s apparently fast which is very good to know hopefully can save us from vdm soon

how do we feel about adding a new defender?

how do we like this pick?

What a ripper! Link in the video to go vote! I am morally opposed to the concept of port Adelaide so simply can't let Gemma Houghton win

https://youtu.be/GvGHAdjxt1w?si=PtaCsXl3rRX0Jx6h

https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1692957

https://youtu.be/nV00W7rQPbs?si=9uUJDOnWapIy-Exg

Great interview here with Aaron Naughton worth a watch. Any other suggestions to fill the off-season void?

Does anyone have contacts with Sam Power? Just tell him to hurry up and sign them on. Surely we don't lose anyone important next year.

I just want bulldogs fans to be there for Macraes 250th. That is all.