Ronke should be one of the recruits of the season given he played 44 senior games with Sydney, famously kicking a bag of seven goals against Hawthorn in 2018. Lachlan Swaney and Zavier Maher will be co-vice captains of a squad strengthened by former Swan Ben Ronke and ex-Magpie Liam McMahon. They’ll be captained this year by Ben Crocker, who kicked 38 goals last season to back up his best-and-fairest 2021. The Blues’ “twos’’ had a strong 2022, knocking over Collingwood in the elimination finals and pushing Brisbane all the way in the semis. State of play: Like most other clubs, the Blues have had a change of coach since last season, installing former Brisbane champion Luke Power to replace Dan O’Keefe. Picture: Morgan Hancock/AFL Photos via Getty Images Tahj Abberley, Harry Arnold, Wylie Buzza, Wilson Barry, Riley Greene, Bruce Reville and Jackson Hille have returned, and father-son prospect Levi Ashcroft has been placed on the development list. Derksen, a forward, is a goalkicker recruited from Wilston Grange. Lockie Rayner, a ruckman/forward, spent time with Essendon VFL last year. Kyle Dunkley had a brief taste of the AFL with Melbourne and will slip into a strong midfield. Dunkley has followed his brother Josh to Brisbane and Rayner has done the same with his brother, Cameron. The Lions have three standout inclusions for the new season in Kyle Dunkley, Lockie Rayner and Zack Derksen. Ben Hudson is Brisbane’s new coach and he has a keen appreciation of the VFL: He was drafted from Werribee (and went on to 168 AFL games). The word out of the Sharks camp was that they were “very impressive’’. State of play: Preliminary finalists last season, the Lions rounded out their preparation for 2023 with a six-goal victory over a Southport side about four players short of its best line-up. Brisbaneĭarryl McDowell-White joined the Lions as a category B rookie. He knows a bit about success and so does Box Hill: since 2000, it has missed the finals only four times, finishing in the top-four on 10 occasions, playing in six grand finals and winning three premierships. The Hawks have a first-year coach in North Launceston premiership coach Zane Littlejohn, who arrived at the City Oval after six years with the Brisbane Lions. And there will be interest around Liam Serong, from Gippsland Power and the brother of Caleb and Jai. Tristen Waack (Morwell) and Ethan Stanley (Frankston YCW) are less experienced but came to notice. The injuries took some of the sparkle out of a pre-season that included the recruitment of AFL pair Callum Brown and Patrick Naish and Joel Trudgeon from Carlton VFL.

After finishing up with the Western Bulldogs and joining the Hawks, Cavarra was captain of the VFL team of the year in 2022, reward for kicking 41 goals. Their other Ben, recruit Ben De Bolfo, had sustained the same injury months earlier. State of play: The Hawks’ build-up to Round 1 took a fierce blow when their popular little man Ben Cavarra suffered an ACL injury. Picture: Graham Denholm/AFL Photos/Getty Images Blatant misinformation.Box Hill Hawks’ new VFL coach Zane Littlejohn won a premiership with North Launceston. Which as we know is simply impossible to do in the game. He complains about the way the storage system works, and says that 'PvE players will be forced to switch to the strongest faction every 120 days' to use interconnected storages. And from that he comes to the conclusion that ALL SETTLEMENTS AND ALL ZONES LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME. He shows that the WW and Mourningdale settlements are similar in design, which they are. The mass report abuse is a thing, I will give him that.

Faction missions are like daily quests - you only do them repeatedly in order to grind for something specific, which is a process that doesn't require story depth. 'Faction quests are repeating themselves and provide no story context'.

Oh you mean LITERALLY the first person you interact in the tutorial and the first tough enemy you meet? If you completely ignore VOICED OVER quest dialogs you have no right to criticise the story. 'There is no story or substance, like who the hell even is the guy from the cover'. I usually enjoy his videos but this one made me legit mad.

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