2025 VFL Games.

[Thunder Shaker]

Mills went off into the rooms in the third quarter. Nothing wrong with him, just "managed minutes".

[Kafka's Ghost]

Should change if Mills and Adams are healthy

Spot on. Lloyd and Florent in particular have been less than ordinary this season.

[crackedactor 01]

Snell's opponent just kicked 8 goals on him and he is suppose to be one of our best VFL players pushing for selection??? Our recruiting is starting to get poor. I have barely seen Bowman get a kick and they gave him an extension???

[Roadrunner]

Spot on. Lloyd and Florent in particular have been less than ordinary this season.

Trouble is our selectors are reluctant to drop these two, but realistically they would struggle to get into any other team bar the bottom two- and that’s a maybe! If Mills and Adams can come back next week, depending on what these two do in this game tonight, I would leave them out next week rather than two youngsters. And Wilbur is not far behind! Not so with the Dane, as he’s still better than average.

[Thunder Shaker]

My guess is Adams and Mills both come in to the seniors next week.

[Foreign Legion]

McLean and Buller can't really be judged on this game - was very wet and slippery after half time. Snell may be too small for a Key position but doesn't look too fast either.

Mills in next week and probably Adams - depends on how we go tonight. Getting a bit worried about Green but again, the conditions did not suit. Lloyd actually looks on the better ones but he isnt listed is he?

[Bay View]

Snell's opponent just kicked 8 goals on him and he is suppose to be one of our best VFL players pushing for selection??? Our recruiting is starting to get poor. I have barely seen Bowman get a kick and they gave him an extension???

Not a good night for Snell but he’s better than that and was pretty much on his own down back today. Adams in next week. Buller a chance. Let’s sign Ben Edwards mid year.

[BRS328]

McLean and Buller can't really be judged on this game - was very wet and slippery after half time. Snell may be too small for a Key position but doesn't look too fast either.

Mills in next week and probably Adams - depends on how we go tonight. Getting a bit worried about Green but again, the conditions did not suit. Lloyd actually looks on the better ones but he isnt listed is he?

Buller was marginally better than McLean but not much. A bit of a worry with McLean, he had no impact on the game even when he relieved in the ruck. He looked very slow against average opposition

[Thunder Shaker]

Report on the senior players here: Around the state leagues
* Mills played managed minutes, getting 19 disposals, 6 marks and a goal in two and a bit quarters of play.
* Adams had 29 disposals (15 contested)
* Paton had 28 disposals
* McLean was quiet with 8 disposals
* Buller had 11 disposals and one goal
* Also mentioned: Green, Kirk, Leidler, Snell.

I expect Adams will be recalled for McInerney with Mills getting one more week of managed minutes in the VFL. It could be Buller or Paton to replace Amartey.

[Mountain Man]

Mills as the Sub would make sense to me, given injuries permitting, to play limited minutes after the heat has reduced. Plus, he can genuinely cover multiple positions.

[Dow]

Report on the senior players here: Around the state leagues
* Mills played managed minutes, getting 19 disposals, 6 marks and a goal in two and a bit quarters of play.
* Adams had 29 disposals (15 contested)
* Paton had 28 disposals
* McLean was quiet with 8 disposals
* Buller had 11 disposals and one goal
* Also mentioned: Green, Kirk, Leidler, Snell.

I expect Adams will be recalled for McInerney with Mills getting one more week of managed minutes in the VFL. It could be Buller or Paton to replace Amartey.

Who’s replacing Francis ? You reckon they also bring McLean in and Hamling goes back ?

[liz]

Snell's opponent just kicked 8 goals on him and he is suppose to be one of our best VFL players pushing for selection??? Our recruiting is starting to get poor. I have barely seen Bowman get a kick and they gave him an extension???

Snell wasn't on Lemmey for most of the game. He seemed to be matched up against McMahon, who currently leads the VFL goal kicking, and was going ok on him until McMahon kicked three goals in about three minutes in (I think) the second quarter. I think Snell stayed on McMahon for most of the rest of the game, before switching to Lemmey in the final quarter. Tom Longmire was Lemmey's opponent for most of Lemmey's goals. I think Longmire has improved somewhat this season, but he didn't have the tools to deal with Lemmey, including a significant height disadvantage. It's also worth noting that a couple of Lemmey's goals involved a high degree of skill from Lemmey himself and few defenders would have been able to stop them.

Snell did also struggle on Lemmey - and also had a significant height disadvantage - when he moved on to him. Lemmey only kicked seven goals for the match, not eight, but he also missed a couple of shots much simpler than the ones he converted. These were while Snell was on him. So I'm not trying to argue that Snell had the better of Lemmey, or was able to quell him. Just putting the factual record straight.

[Thunder Shaker]

Who’s replacing Francis ? You reckon they also bring McLean in and Hamling goes back ?

I had forgotten that Francis was concussed (I wasn't following the game when that happened). It could be Buller AND Paton. McLean didn't show enough form to warrant a recall IMO.

[liz]

I had forgotten that Francis was concussed (I wasn't following the game when that happened). It could be Buller AND Paton. McLean didn't show enough form to warrant a recall IMO.

I'll be surprised if Paton is recalled after he was "tactically" subbed off at half-time last week. I don't think Cox was impressed. And while he found a decent amount of the ball in this week's VFL game, he didn't do anything particularly noteworthy or eye-catching with it.

I think they'd probably prefer to give Mills another game in the VFL - and they still might. But if he pulled up OK after his half on Friday, they might just bite the bullet and bring him back into the AFL team now. If they're worried about the volume of work he'd have to do as a midfielder, he could start as a medium defender to replace Francis. Maybe as a designated spare man, with Blakey taking a more opponent-responsible role. I know that's not ideal for Blakey as it stops his run somewhat. But his run can also be stopped if he is tagged in defence, so using him as a key defender (against a side whose tall attacking options aren't any more impressive than ours) might circumvent that tag.

[Thunder Shaker]

Holding jumper 49, but listed as number 50 is Ben Edwards, who did really well for our VFL side last season, after coming over from Claremont in WA. He's a tough inside mid, who wins plenty of the ball. Sometimes his disposals are a bit wayward, but if he could improve that, he could earn a promotion to the rookie list.

64 is small forward James Tidemann. He played some decent games in the VFL last year, after graduating from the academy.

Edwards and Tidemann have been included on the current list of nominees for this year's mid-year draft.