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Pick 53: Jack Graham

Averages 10 disposals per game.

2012: 11 games, 8 disposals per game.
2013: 8 games, 11.6 disposals per game.
2014: 8 games, 10.5 disposals per game.
2015: 1 game, 22 disposals.
2016: 4 games, 13.8 disposals per game.

Started as a mid, failed as mid. Won a flag as a forward. Next game will be for Keilor.

Graham only averages 15 disposals. The role does not require high disposal counts. It's a defensive midfielder, opportunist goal kicking role.

We could give it to a bloke who has already stood up on the biggest stage, or a 19 year old.
 
Folks are forgetting that we can shuffle. Doesn’t have to be like for like.

Cotchin has been protected to an extent this year. I’d rotate him and Prestia to have one at every stoppage.

Edwards and Dusty on the outside.

This allows the selection of a more offensive, in-form weapon - one Marlion Pickett.

We can shuffle. Do we want to?

Also, Pickett is still miles off AFL.
 
Feel for the lad, but it was highly unlikely to be any other way.

Well done to the club for not putting the lad through the wringer only to miss out.

Stops all the conjecture and talk, and allows for the player coming in to integrate to the unit straight away.

Deserves every accolade and more that he can be afforded especially if we take the Flag, but nothing will ease his heartbreak of missing out.

A RICHMOND MAN , and already leader at his tender years and early point of his career.
 
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Folks are forgetting that we can shuffle. Doesn’t have to be like for like.

Cotchin has been protected to an extent this year. I’d rotate him and Prestia to have one at every stoppage.

Edwards and Dusty on the outside.

This allows the selection of a more offensive, in-form weapon - one Marlion Pickett.

Nice points there Baron
 
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Folks are forgetting that we can shuffle. Doesn’t have to be like for like.

Cotchin has been protected to an extent this year. I’d rotate him and Prestia to have one at every stoppage.

Edwards and Dusty on the outside.

This allows the selection of a more offensive, in-form weapon - one Marlion Pickett.

Be an unbelievable story Baron if one M Picketss name is read out.
 
Ross will not run out 4 qtrs of intense footy. Has missed to much football.
Head is saying KMac, heart is saying Pickett. Stack no chance. Looked poppy on Sunday and limped off during game. Too much of a risk.
 
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He played mid on the weekend, tackling hard, then floating forward.

He actually played Graham's role.

I wouldn't be upset to see Ross there on Saturday. But I reckon Towner gives the least disruption to the side.

Towner had 3 disposals in his last AFL game. He can't run all day which is why he doesn't play a lot of midfield time even in the reserves. Townsend is zero chance. There's a reason Ross and Kmac were pulled out of the VFL GF. It's one of those two. I prefer Ross for Graham.
 
All hail The Fridge for his selflessness for the Richmond Cause.
GWS have been banging on about how proud they are of Coniglio pulling out today in the best interests of the team.
He was never a chance to play in the Big Dance but his club is trying to put a positive spin on his non-selection.
Two badly injured/poorly prepared players (Davis and Whitfield) are more than enough to create dramas for GWS
 
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How good was he in the prelim with his pressure. Tackling beast. Super unlucky for him.
 
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Really feel for Graham.

In hindsight he and his grandmother could have played and we still would have destroyed GWS.
 
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JackG deservedly with a Premiership medal, at least for a little while.
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