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Because the negative has to be stipulated otherwise the subject is assumed as positive. ‘If there is ‘no’ Bontompelli, there is ‘no’ bulldogs’ Vs. ‘If there is Bontompelli, there is (the) Bulldogs’

Hey I’m happy to be wrong, had seen a couple things and just assumed he was a bad kick. I’d much rather he succeeded and have a place in the team going forward. From what I’d seen of him up foward last year I really liked, I only caught the second half of the Casey game this week so couldn’t make my own judgement of him down back.

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No doubt in my mind that if Gus had been retired immediately post concussion then Harmes would never have been traded Excellent midfield depth for Footscray

Fair enough - but play a guy out of form and risk ruck domination when he rucks. I would rather that TC "gets a taste" soonish. The day will come (I hope not), and it could be this year, when we need a short term, full time replacement for Max. It has to be a ruck who "can do it all game". Isn't that why we brought TC in? And against West Coast would be a good time to trial it, rather than against Hawthorn, Brisbane, then Sydney.

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Tonight's game raised an interesting grammatical problem. "No Bontempelli; No Bulldogs." Is basically sound. Or at least accepted as a convention. But... "Yes Bontempelli; Yes Bulldogs." T'is a weird one.

We've been here before though with Grundy. I was hoping we'd sit Max behind the ball when Grundy rucked. We could do that with Campbell too, but we've shown we didn't want to do that. But I guess we could try the Max forward again. Campbell is a much cheaper Grundy, that's for sure. It's JVR or TC for me now. I suspect we'll go for JVR this week.

So Beveridge couldn’t win a friend last year ..supporters wanted him gone ..media said he was gone (multiple times) club hasn’t committed to a longer contract ..all of a sudden this year ..he’s a genius ..,parallels anyone 🤨.

Can someone please explain to me how brayshaw gets punched in the jaw and the player gets 1 week but young Archer from North goes for the ball and gets 3???

The players we’ve traded in have been a massive failure no doubt, but we traded out Harmes at the end of 2023 and if you look at player ratings that year, he was rated 30th out of a possible 34 players on our list.

That's it Adam, but Max doesn't have to sit on the pine when TC is rucking. Max's engine, plus his marking ability means we can keep the relatively short forward line we played last week and Max can push forward. He still needs his 6/7 minutes rest per quarter but if TC is rucking well, Max can spend some more time elsewhere. What we cannot afford is a second string ruck who gets mauled whilst Max rests, leading to momentum for the oppo, a la the last 12 minutes on Thursday night.

We have played one very good game, and two good games. It’s not a case of ‘one week at a time’ it is more ‘ask me how we look in one weeks time’…

Yeah, doubt Beveridge is going anywhere. He has them playing some great football atm.

If not for the umpires they’d have beaten the pies

I was at a prematch coterie dinner on Thursday night (not as a diner, but as a pleb selling raffle tickets 😅) and Ricky Lever was the guest speaker. Interestingly, he said despite being listed as 6-7 weeks away from a return, in reality it’s closer to four weeks, possibly even three.

Get him back! Agree

Not sure why we let harmes go and then replaced him with players like billings, hunter and sharp

Harmes 4 goals V GWS. Very pleased for him. He turned the '21 GF with his beautiful pass to Fritter in Q3.

If wishes were horse... i mean horses

Team & Player Ratings to Rnd 7, 2025 vs H&A Season 2024 Well well well fellow Minions. What do we have here! Team Rating now tracking at 2022 & 2023 levels AND..... up 3.2% on the 2021 Premiership Season Rating *Provided most of this crew stay on the park, we get Lever back mid season and Simon & Co. picks a team roughly within or close to our best 22 from below, i am super confident the Demon worm has turned! Don't book any holidays in for September, cancel any plans you may have in train... *WE ARE FINALS BOUND! * Played less than two full matches < Subbed out at least once or more > Subbed in at least once or more Stats courtesy of footwire.com & wheeloratings.com

Dogs got Cooper Hynes too. Would have loved him.

you just forgot to mention he only managed 9 games last year and has been dropped multiple times So banished to Casey and to the Dogs VFL team so maybe a Harmes issue

We also don’t have a Blicavs to reliably play any position we like on the ground alongside Max in the ruck.

I understand his trading was cultural, but still...