a starting 23 roster update
What does this mean?
I take it to mean all traded players are now on their new 2025 teams.
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Iād say rookies and traded players WILL be in the right teams, BUT the photos for the rookies will NOT be going along with it 
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@JNT_BA are you able to shed any more light on this?
Does this mean new draftees wonāt appear in the game yet? And if so, is the plan for them to be included and modelled correctly in the game at a later date? Cheers 
Sounds like theyāll be in the game but wonāt have any facescans
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Iād assume 2025 jumpers also will be added also @JNT_BA ??
As well as fixtures for management mode possibly?
Iād say
- only players who have been selected in the starting teams so far for 2025 will be added to team line ups
- No face scans
- Iād assume no commentary names
Still leaves more questions than answers though, everything is an assumption but seems like no extra effort will go into the game until a new title is released.
With Cricket 24 pro team, Rugby 25 updates and the new Rugby League title there isnāt enough resources to get it done the way theyād like.
the roster update is good but honestly it means nothing when the actual mode you use the rookies in doesnāt work, management needs an update and itās been preached 1000s of times, the comment about the AI Injury stuff^^^ is a great point to show how the fans could be a big help, wondering if that person would also know how they could fix the brownlow count, and if it would be really hard to change
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Thatās what Iām thinking. āStarting 23 roster updateā seems very deliberately and carefully worded.
What are everyoneās thoughts on this?
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@JNT_BA Wondering if we could get a slider to adjust the likeliness of a tackle while initiating a kick, just to make the snappy tackles while going for a kick stop happening
The more I think about this upcoming roster update I just donāt understand it, If they wanted to wait until Round 3 for team selections why not just add every player who is on the list and let the user adjust the team how they like.
With no face scans done this could easily be added in without any issues.
Iām sure there is no commentary names done for new names, so itās basically a generic character build, Rough stats per player and adding them to existing teams.
Itās more annoying by the wording that Richmond might not have Smillie, Hotton, Faul in game because they havenāt played yet.
Anyway is what it isā¦
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I do really hope itāll at least be like last year where they added all the rookies (not scanned) etc with updated rosters and as the season went on they slowly added more scans but who knows. Would love a bit of clarity around the wording if possible 
Pretty funny if they only add rookies who have played in the first 3 rounds 
They could have hired a 15yo kid who wouldāve made the rookies manually in their academy player creation quicker Anyway, still exciting to finally hear something about management modeā¦
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Hey everyone, does anyone know if you can now start leveling up your rookies or established player to get better over time? Or do they still just stay the same rating forever?
Is the announcement from big ant on twitter about them updating all team rosters too the 2025 ones true?
Yes it true but its a starting 23 update
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Howās everyone getting on with the Meta Breaker Champions?
I have 60 more possesions to get with Robbie Gray and Iāll have them all done. Been a great challenge that Iāve thoroughly enjoyed.
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What does that mean?
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Got the Robbie Gray one as my final one last night.
Lots of handballing into space and running onto it! Hahaha.
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